AWD cars can drive through anything! I can't tell you how many times I was glad to have my WRX in snow and ice storms as people all around me were stuck spinning in snow. (and 4x4 vs AWD are different .. I do own one of each 😅) ... but I get what you're saying.
I think a better analogy are all the modern safety features: blind spot alerts, lane departure beeps, emergency auto-breaks, adaptive cruise control ... too many people browse their phones while driving and depend on all that crap .. which makes me think we'll see way more wrecks in 10 years when all the sensors start failing.
People should just assume everything the post is public .. but I also don't think a lot of people are ready for distributed social networks. Most people have no fucking clue how e-mail or websites work.
Mastodon entirely removed OStatus support (and Pleroma did too, maybe a year later?). There were some forks of GNU Social that supported Activity Pub ... I think some are still online, but I don't think any are very big.
I saw a talk at Kiwicon yonks ago where a guy broke a Cisco switch. The thing was crazy. The switch ran a Linux kernel, but the shell/system barely had anything except for once massive 500MB binary. If you ran ip a, it only showed one Ethernet adapter, because the binary connected to the PCI bus and the other adapters using user-mode PCIe (which is a thing).
He didn’t say it in the talk, but I think what happened was Cisco use to make their own OS. As time went on, it was just easier to use Linux since it supported like all the SoCs at the time .. so they’d use a tiny thin layer of Linux + shims to connect to the binary which use to be the entire OS, but is now just an iOS blob running on Linux.
Yea a lot of home admins aren't going to setup a DMZ with a different network range and firewalls. I need to do that myself for some of my servers, but I also don't host anything public from my house, and the only incoming connection allowed is wireguard.
I do have all my CCTV cameras on a different physical network which can't connect to the Internet, so .. that's a start.
or physically separate networks. Also can't you get past vlan protections if you have root access on a box and can just tag your packets however you want?
I don't think so. I've never bought any downloadable content, never paid for PS-online. I'm signed in to an account to track trophies, but if the account gets banned, I should be able to copy my save games to USB, reset the PS4/5, copy the saves back over and reinstall the disc with it disconnected from the Internet and be totally fine.
Sony will survive this I'm sure. Remember that massive hack that took the PS3 network offline for over a month way back in like .. 2011 or 2012?