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Cake day: January 17th, 2026
  • FrederikNJS@piefed.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.world•Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoorEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Well… That depends entirely on your threat model…

    In my setup, the backup is encrypted locally, and then uploaded to Backblaze. If I leak my encryption key, then yes, Backblaze and any state actor that can compel Backblaze, might be able to read my backup (and the same goes for an encryption vulnerability). But since the connection to access the backup is also authenticated, the rest of the public would not be able to read my backup. If I leak my access credentials, then everyone could get my encrypted backup data, but not be able to decrypt it. Of course if I leak both the access credentials and the encryption key, then yes anyone that obtains both can read my backup.

    Many regular people use Microsoft Onedrive or Google Drive, which offers even less protection, but it’s certainly sufficient and well enough protected to keep your dissertation protected.

    In most backup services you have the option to choose what gets backed up, and what does not. But sure, it entirely depends on who you want to protect yourself from.

    If your main concern is state actors, then yeah… You probably shouldn’t use something like Backblaze. You should keep everything on your own hardware. And convince a friend or some family to have a NAS sitting somewhere that can host your backup destination.

    For my case I’m mostly concerned about data continuity (not losing data). But privacy is certainly also a concern, and here I have chosen to believe that the encryption is sound enough, and that my ability to keep my encryption key safe, is sufficient for the data it protects.

  • FrederikNJS@piefed.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What if your marriage is reverse of typical? She's the unavailable oneEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Just because the stereotype doesn’t quite fit your life doesn’t mean that there isn’t any help. Any psychotherapist or psychiatrist worth their salt would be just as capable of helping a man as they would be at helping a woman.

    My wife went regularly to a therapist. At some point she convinced me to join, eventhough I thought I had no need for therapy… My wife is smart, she knew I would have use for therapy, and convinced me by asking whether I could join “to help her with her therapy.”

    After very few sessions I realized that I definitely had some stuff to work through… And I can now say with certainty that going to therapy has been one of the best things I have done for myself and my wife.

    There’s a lot of stigma around therapy, and especially couples therapy. Everyone we talked to immediately jumped to the conclusion that we had trouble in our marriage and that was why we went to therapy, even though that wasn’t the case. We quickly learned to say something like “oh, no no, it’s not because of each other. We go to therapy to learn to deal with the people who should actually be in therapy.” and that quickly shut people up.

    People will probably have a similar stigma for your situation, because of the stereotype you mention. But it’s so worth it.

    I would suggest starting some therapy yourself, but after a bit, try to invite your wife to join you. You can grow together.

    Apparently a lot of couples where only one of them go to therapy end up splitting up… Because the person in the therapy grows, while the other is stagnant, it can lead to a lot of friction and frustration, to the point where one of them give up on the relationship.

    Therefore I can only recommend going to therapy together. If you experience any stigma, talk to your therapist about it. They likely have some tricks up their sleeve you can use.

    EDIT: Accidentally deleted an entire paragraph, which I have now rewritten.

  • FrederikNJS@piefed.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about?English
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    20 days ago

    Sure, building your own breadboard computer is much better than playing with some website… However transistors and relays are kind of similar in function, they both gate whether current flows.

    If you are already familiar with transistors, then I agree those are a simpler introduction, however most regular people don’t know anything about a transistor, and they seem a little bit magical.

    A relay however can be grasped by most people just by looking at it in operation. Magnet attracts… Electromagnets only attracts when powered… wire doesn’t conduct when not connected… Wire does conduct when connected… Electromagnet can pull or push wire to either connect or disconnect…

    If you want the solution for the first task (building a nand gate with relays), you can see my solution here:

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  • FrederikNJS@piefed.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    1 month ago

    To me it’s definitely worth it. Many of my favorite creators are already on there. I get exclusives and early releases, high definition, and no ads. And the nice fuzzy feeling of knowing that my views result in the creator receiving some actual money.

    I still use YouTube quite a lot… But I find that I’m using Nebula more and more as time goes by.