Not cheers, no. But it increased my problem-solving reputation within the company and it made Linux more appealing to key people in the company.
What's wrong with that? What's your butthurt? Are you bitter about something?
It's been known for years that SMS-based 2FA is terrible, terrible security. The sites that use them have no interest in their users' accounts' security: all they're interested in is harvesting their phone numbers.
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That's the state of computing in 2023: a browser disguised as a native app running 15 layers of Javascript is used as a friggin terminal. And nobody bats an eyelids, as if the utter insanity of it made any sense.
And the installer is 117M compressed. That's MEGABYTES... For a terminal!
The mind boggles...
I'll tell you what it highlights: giant companies like Google, Microsoft and all the others making billions using free software a few dudes maintain for them for free on their own time. Instead of speaking of the vulnerability of open source software, the profiteers should pay them to ensure they have the time and resources to secure their supply chain.
Paid apps: no problem. If it's good, I'll pay.
Subscription: maybe, if it's worth it.
Ads: F-Droid can fuck right off. If they do that, they'd be a miserable bunch of sellouts.
As a Linux user of almost 30 years, compiling hundreds of kernels over the years has given me a great appreciation of pre-build kernels, and a profound gratitude for those who package them up into convenient distros that work out of the box and let me get on with the rest of my life.
I don't know. I didn't do the printing. The law firm did it. But I remember our lawyer mentioning that they fedexed over 20 cartons of printing paper. Assuming 500 sheets per ream and 5 reams per carton, that would be 50,000 sheets, or 100,000 pages since it was printed on both sides to be even more annoying.
From TFA:
moderator u/Mcgillby. On-chain data reveals that this moderator transferred more than 100,000 MOON over two different transactions on the Arbitrum Nova blockchain, turning it into more than $23,000
If there's a dollar sign, it's not play money anymore and the FTC should get involved.
I hope they did. Now that you mention it, it would have been an amusing twist :)
Because I'm not interested in being sued for defamation. Even if I'm totally right and they're totally wrong, they'll bury me in legal fees. I'm not rich enough to afford the law.
No idea. That company folded before it could even respond. It was a typical dot-com with a completely ridiculous business model. That's why our lawyer decided to fight the suit: he figured they'd collapse soon anyway, so we might as well milk the lawsuit for the publicity.
This was in Utah. I'm no lawyer. Maybe it wasn't legal. What's what our lawyer said he did.
My work machine isn't too unusual, apart that it has 52 USB devices connected. And here's something you may not know: Linux can't enumerate more than 16 USB ports if the root is configured as USB3, so I had to force all the ports to run in USB2 mode - which is fine in this case, since most of them are serial ports.
Isn't not buying anything on Black Friday generally a good advice?
This boggles the mind on two levels:
If that was the only issue with Reddit...
I don't know what it is, but people there seem to be turning nastier and nastier. Like for instance, I posted some technical question on an electronics subreddit earlier, and something in my post - not sure what - landed me a -15 score, and people replying that if I didn't like it I could fuck off. All I said was that some component wasn't placed in a terribly convenient location in the new design, and the people who posted angry and rude comments weren't even the designers. I mean what the actual fuck...
It seems a lot of subreddits I used to enjoy participating in are now full of people in a really antagonistic mood, and I often hesitate to post anything there now because I know it has a 50% change of turning nasty. And so instead, whenever possible, I post in the equivalent Lemmy community because even though they have a hundred times fewer users, it's a much less frustrating experience.
I come interact on Reddit or Lemmy to have a good time, not to pick up a fight and get insulted by passive-aggressive internet lusers with frayed nerves.
It's time to stop thinking phones are anything but commodity hardware with variable degrees of shittiness. There are no such things as premium phones, just premium prices.
I gave $20 to the friendly wino who lives in the dumpster down my street. He's reported a income growth of 1000% for today.
Windows is best run in a VM in Linux. Who knows what the hell it does when it's running on bare metal. Do you trust Microsoft not to poke around in your Linux disks when you boot into Windows? I don't.
Sure why not.
But there's notthing spectacular or out of the ordinary here: it's just a boring-ass, bog-standard i3 installation. What I spent time configuring isn't visible - stuff like keyboard bindings, how it starts, how it handles multiple monitors... things like that.
Thanks! I'll do that if my last-ditch effort to knock some sense into them doesn't work.
Wow... The land of the free is really starting to fell like 1933 Germany now...
Wow... If even Best Buy figured out those repair programs are designed to appease the regulators who ask for the right to repair but never actually be used, it should tell you how unappealing they are.
Just what I always wanted: letting Google listen in on my phone calls.
I block CNN by not visiting their website.
The only CNN worth anything is CNN International, and that still works fine with all ad blockers raised. But even CNN International started pulling the same stunt, it's not remotely good enough that I would miss it either.
We havent "lost" F-Droid. But it's going through a crisis.
TLDR: two third of the board has resigned over Hans-Christoph Steiner taking controversial decisions unilaterally.
All the details here: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/447
I'm not sure it's a kernel limitation or a hardware limitation. But it does throw an error in syslog when you connect the 17th device. Not as USB2 though.
In case you haven't followed the recent developments with Simple Mobile Tools: the entire set of apps was forked by Naveen Singh and is now called FossifyX - at least for now, there is a debate going on for which final name to adopt.
In other words, stick to the F-Droid version of Simple Mobile Tools until F-Droid picks up the FossifyX branch, and continue from there. With any luck, you won't have to change any of the tools you're currently using.
It's behind a firewall. The only thing exposed to the outside is port 22 - and only pubkey login too.
And gee dude... It's been running for 18 years without being pwned 🙂
This would not be needed if the stupid Android security model didn't prevent people from running their OWN phone with full rights and doing full backups and restores easily.
Hint: the Android security model isn't for your security, but the security of the data that third-party apps put on YOUR phone - that is, consequently, not truly yours.
A lot of restaurants tone down their food for that reason
Here's a little anecdote:
I used to work for a company in Utah that had a subsidiary in London. One day, two of our UK colleagues came to visit us. In the evening, we invited them to the local Indian restaurant, because they said they liked a good curry.
We sat down at the table, and our colleagues kept quipping about how US Indian food is bland compared to what can be found in London, that the best curries in the world can only be found in London, and yada yada.
The waiters arrived, took our orders, and asked each of us how spicy. Feeling cocky, the Brits said "Nuclear!".
The waiters paused a bit, then said "Are you sure?"
"Yeah yeah! Bring it on!"
"Okay then..." and they disappeared into the kitchen.
We asked why they asked that, and they said it would probably end up mildly spicy here.
Then our orders came : the two waiters served us, then served the Brits, then they simply stood there and waited. They didn't go, they just waited, with absolute deadpan composure.
Uh oh... The Brits had a worried look on their faces all of the sudden...
Long story short, they got exactly what they wanted. We had trouble not laughing out loud 🙂
Aah yes, appimage, flatpak, snaps, progressive web apps, electron apps... The cross-compatibility of the lazy 21st century developer, where a simple IRC-like chat client comes with an entire operating system or an entire browser (which itself is an entire operating system too nowadays), takes up half a gig of disk space, and starts up in over 10 seconds with a multi-gigahertz multicore CPU.
Just perfect...
Google Play Services
I can't really say because it would make it obvious which debugging tool I'm talking about and that would out me. And then the company could put 2 and 2 together and find out who my employer is and... you know, our orders might become slow or mishandled, that sort of things. My company's entire business depends on that one supplier, so it wouldn't be good.
Call me boring, but I really like the Gnome terminal.
There was one terminal that blew my mind in terms of speed and features, and it was Kitty: it's properly fast and it's packed with fantastic features, such as the ability to display images and play videos in the terminal itself.
However, I uninstalled it because it did one thing that really, REALLY rubbed me the wrong way: by default, it phones home to find updates.
Any software that phones home behind my back, even with good intentions, and particularly something as essential as a terminal in which you type all sorts of passwords, gets a hard pass from me. But if you don't mind, I highly recommend it.
I've been running Linux Mint Cinnamon for years. It's the stablest, most dependable distro I've ever run. I've installed it, updated it and major-version-upgraded it many times on many machines and it never broke.
It's basically Ubuntu with the features that make Ubuntu shite removed (basically Unity and snaps) and a no-nonsense, GTK-based Win95-like desktop environment tacked on.
Totally agree! I can't wait to put that granite-cased phone with wood-backed PCBs in my pocket.
I learned something today. Thanks!
I'm slightly disappointed that this isn't about open source amphetamine.
Well I'm sure they have very good reason and I'm not questioning them. I'm just talking from a user's standpoint (and I'm a very poor Windows users): whenever I try to port any of our tools to Windows, wham the damn antivirus kicks in and puts my stuff in quarantine. If I use an engineering application that talks to some device on an unusual port - and I'm talking outgoing traffic, not incoming, wham it's blocked. And unblocking it requires making a formal request to IT, that whitelists the application, until WithSecure updates itself and forgets about it, and here we go again.
It's just a complete PITA. You constantly feel like you're fighting an algorithm with stupidity built in just to get normal, honest-to-goodness work done.