Exactly this. I keep reading all of the stuff posted about this and I have yet to see evidence. And in fact, while i’m not a security expert, I am a hosting expert, and I can tell you: That is not how they operate. They obfuscate their origin as much as possible, else it would be trivial to filter them and block them.
I respect Ukraine and Zelenskyy, but I think this claim is untrue.
Author’s bullshit that passwords are inherently insecure is, well, bullshit. WEAK passwords are weak, yes.
Meanwhile, anything that can fail if I lose my device (or it gets stolen or broken) means it’s just a matter of time before I’m permanently locked out.
I know how to secure my passwords. We need to train people how to generare secure passwords and manage them effectively.
only works in Australia
The internet is older than the world wide web, and that’s just one service that exists.
Having a server directly behind the domain like example.com originally wasn’t common. Back in the days, you might want to make an FTP connection or a pop3 connection, or telnet or gopher, which would typically use like ftp.example.com, mail.example.com, telnet.example.com, gopher.example.com. None of these examples are web servers. You wouldn’t get a webpage back from them.
So when the world wide web became a thing, it was common to set up www.example.com and serve webpages from that subdomain.
The thing that changed in the mid 90s as the internet started to become more popular was that the world wide web quickly took over as the main thing people used when connecting to sites for information or data, so after a while it became common to have the web server respond to requests sent to the bare domain itself. (We’re ignoring ports for the sake of simplicity)
Although that change meant that you could go to example.com for most sites, or www.example.com for most sites, people had already learned that “www dot something dot com” meant a website, and so many people typed www even if it wasn’t necessary. And because there was no harm in having this set up, the tradition continues to this day to set up that subdomain and typically point it to the main web server.
But there’s no reason you have to. You can set things up so that requests to example.com get a different website than www.example.com. But it will confuse your visitors, so most people don’t.
So to answer your question: We stopped needing to say “www” in front of websites URLs by the mid 90s for the most part, but it stuck in the ‘common knowledge’ and is still around today because most people have no clue how it all works. In other words, your question is partly wrong, but the part that’s right has been true for almost all of the public internet’s history. :)
These are all domain names and DNS servers are used to resolve these to different IPs.
These are all subdomain names. And subdomains can point to a different IP, or they can point to the same IP. They can also use a CNAME record to point to another [sub]domain name, and it’s probably most common to have an A record on the main domain with the IP and just use a CNAME on the www subdomain so that it always points to the same place the main domain points.
DNS does not know anything about http or https or any other protocal like that. It just resolves the domain name to an IP/set of IPs. The only thing it can do is point www.microsoft.com and microsoft.com to the same location so that you can use either to get to the webservers.
CNAME is the record that is used to point e.g. www.microsoft.com to microsoft.com. They could use an A record for www.microsoft.com and use the same IP as the A record for microsoft.com, which would accomplish the same thing, but would have to be updated when the IP for microsoft.com changes.
Most websites have a CNAME for “www” pointing to the main domain. Certainly all the webhosting panels I know of do it automatically, because there’s no great reason not to. Some people will use “www” and so if it fails, that’s a silly thing to have fail.
Bacteria in your gut is life, so when you take anti-biotics, you are a murderer by your own stupid logic.
True, although the corollary:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.
99% of people using office products daily will die
True.
Exactly this - I spend too much time out here; you spend a more appropriate amount of time. :)
I assume most people browse all communities on Lemmy like I do since it’s default. Everything gets posted to mulitple communities, it’s just a thing. I see the most common stuff hit Lemmy like a dozen times.
Nothing particularly wrong with that, it’s just how things work.
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You are correct. Although, in this particular instance, they are also correct. lol
Well, this is the first article I really feel has some plausible things that I find pretty troubling. Definitely some of those things I’d like to see outlawed.
That said, in GENERAL, if I’m at Walmart, I am there to buy stuff I need. I have noticed since being able to shop online that some things are much easier to find online because they’ll pop up in a search for something else, and I’ll be like “ooh, thing exists? Let’s try thing!” and especially with my ADHD, shopping in-store… there is a LOT of the shelves. So frankly, and I know I’ll get hate for this - if they wouldn’t fucking sell my data… if they want to use some data to try and figure out what I might be interested in buying, I sort of have an xkcd-type reaction of “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” - I hate ads mostly because they are almost always completely uninteresting to me. IF you want to market something I want… I mean, that’s not so bad. AGain, a lot of the listed things are really really bad shit, so I’m just saying part of it and as a general idea. I still don’t want them tracking me generally. I’m just saying I think a nuanced take is not sucking Walmart’s dick here. heh
What I REALLY wish, though, is that other stores would set up delivery the same - in-store prices instead of the like 20% added cost PLUS delivery fees on top. Especially if Aldi were to pull that off. Walmart has done an amazing job - especially the InHome service, which as a wheelchair users is fantastic for me. If you have a house and can install a special lock, they can bring groceries in and put in your fridge/freezer. I don’t have that, but still, they bring them inside for me - I just have them set them on the floor. So I don’t have to go up and down my steep ramp where it’s difficult to get stuff in. It’s like $150/yr but also means no delivery fees and you do not even have the ability to tip, which makes that price absolutely worth it. And the online shoipping experience with Walmart is sitll ahead of everyone else I’ve tried.
I WANT to give someone else my money… it’s just that I can’t afford the other “name brand” stores’ prices, much less prices + instacart delivery.
There is so much I hate about Walmart, but I have to mostly shop there because the preponderance of the attributes mean they still win. Dammit. Someone do better! (I do get some stuff from Prime’s grocery delivery, but cost, selection, shopping experience are less good, and they deliver outside my door so I have to manage to get it all up the ramp (in my lap as I’m pitched forward going up the ramp backward) and inside…)
I’ve seen that go both ways. As a wheelchair user, I typically get groceries delivered from Walmart, but also do some Amazon shopping, so I sometimes check both places. Amazon feels better for… Aazon-y purchases? Like Walmart’s alright for stuff they carry in-store, most of the time I’ve checked that sort of stuff, prices have seemed similar. But for the odd-ball stuff where it’s a third-party company anyway, Amazon’s seems less shitty than Walmart.
Which is not to deny your experience at all. And frankly, both are shitty companies in their own special way. heh
Why are those poor shift workers rotating? They’re gonna get seasick!
no dumaas u cant look into curtains CURTAINS BLOCK THE VIEW it is teh pont of them
;-)
“It’s curtains for the city council, see?”
;-)
Most of the software mentioned in the article runs on most devices.
lol, the link got translated as well and points to https://lemmy.world/post/53047256/ɯoɔ˙ǝldɯɐxǝ˙ɯɯɯ//:dʇʇɥ
Ah, well, it’s less amusing being encoded. oof.
And it doesn’t work in NZ because 1) doesn’t exist (evidence: maps) and 2) no dropbears there :)