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Alaknár

@ Alaknar @sopuli.xyz

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  • ænyøne with me?

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  • I'm almost certain that earlier versions of iOS exposed the comma on the main keyboard and hid the period under the symbols button, because double-tapping space added it.

    Which meant that, depending on version, you'd sometimes need to tap 6 times to write "..." (to enter the symbols keyboard mode after every period, since it would go back to the primary set every time), and only 3 to write "".

    But I might be wrong.

  • Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years

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  • I never understood the scale of this bullshit until I had a user request his script packaged. Now, Intune doesn't like executing random python scripts, so I gave him several options for 8 KB, 50-lines-of-code script.

    He disregarded them and wrapped it all in Electron.

    I received a 380 MB zip file.

    But, well, it had an .exe inside so I could work with that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’

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  • I know it’d be expensive, but I wonder if it’d be worth it to valve to start producing ram.

    There's a reason why there's only, like, three RAM manufacturers. It's horrifically expensive to start production.

  • Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month

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  • but it won’t make the money people happy

    "The money people" is Google which is bankrolling Firefox so that it won't have to divest Chrome under monopoly laws.

  • Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month

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  • opt-out

    Not two months ago I was downvoted to oblivion on this community when arguing with someone who claimed that any feature being opt-out is bloat and dark patterns.

  • Users of Arch-based distros, why don't you use pure Arch?

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  • When I was younger, I'd be all over that stuff, and it's great to hear people still do this.

    Now? I'm too tired after fixing broken IT shit at work all day, man, I just want to get home, press the power button, watch some funny videos and play some games.

    Garuda gives me that experience from the moment of installation to OS maintenance.

  • Users of Arch-based distros, why don't you use pure Arch?

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  • In my case - 90% of Linux issues eventually lead to an Arch Wiki article any way. Might as well give it a go, but I'm too lazy and too much a noob to try the real deal.

  • Users of Arch-based distros, why don't you use pure Arch?

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  • Using Garuda Linux.

    I'm a lazy newb who enjoys QOL features and Gardua has a bunch of those. For instance - suggests which gaming apps to install during the initial set up, and comes with a "Garuda Toolbox" which helps take care of OS maintenance.

  • Nintendo reportedly has “zero chance” against current Palworld after major lawsuit change it is now targeting older versions of the game instead

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  • Heh, good one. Just think about it for a second - what would then Nintendo do with their whole office building full of lawyers?

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  • If you get rid of the capitalist leeches, yes, you have more workers left over because there’s no more demand for yachts and other shit

    Yeah, you can't think like that.

    The "demand for yachts" means a lot of employment in very specialised, expensive areas. That means high tax revenue. Yes, the capitalist leeches should be eliminated, but eliminating "the demand for yachts" doesn't suddenly usher the age of prosperity, it might actually lower the tax revenue.

    But yeah, in terms of literally freeing hands to instead do plumbing, that is correct.

    Otherwise - fully agree!

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  • There are only three solutions to this problem:

    1. UBI + UBP, like I mentioned.
    2. Throw so much work at the young that they literally cannot do anything else but work.
    3. Completely restructure how the retirement system works on a fundamental level.

    1 is impossible because Capitalism.

    2 ends in an even bigger disaster than we have now.

    3 is inconceivable. Would probably require some form of "communism for old people" where everything is provided without money being required and they get a relatively small amount of cash in case they want to travel. Won't ever happen because greed exists.

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  • I would agree with you if we went all in on UBI, including Universal Basic Pension. Because without that, population decline means slowly starving out the elderly, or throwing so much work on the younger generations, that they reproduce even less.

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  • We are producing enough food (and clothes, and appliances, etc., etc.) for 10 billion people, and the planet is burning. It is not sustainable long term. And, by "long term", I don't mean "the next 20 years", I mean "the next 100-200 years".

    And the "manufactured crisis" of population decline hits really hard if you're 12 and have no clue how the retirement system works.

    They arrive at the right conclusion (capitalism is currently the cause of all suffering), but through completely stupid reasoning.

  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • If you actually read his github you would know that there is a different version of the responsible component between the recovery environment and an installation. Only the RE has the issue.

    I know. It was mentioned in the article. It's precisely why I said:

    Another possibility is that they have two separate builds fro BitLocker, and the one used in WinRE is vulnerable which they missed.

  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • Microsoft is the developer of the vulnerable bitlocker package and the ones who chose to ship it.

    ... one guy claims.

    Another possibility is that they have two separate builds fro BitLocker, and the one used in WinRE is vulnerable which they missed.

    We don't have enough information to clearly state that they did this on purpose.

    We can know for FOSS software. You are treating uknownable as being less than the known bugs in Foss software. That’s dishonest, lad.

    Again, read up about the XZ Utils vulnerability. We technically can know, but we don't know, which was a statement by the guy responsible for package. It's not dishonest, it's a statement of fact.

  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • I wish you all the luck in regaining a bit of happiness in life, so that you can stop with this insane "us vs them" bullshit. It's unhealthy, mate.

  • A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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  • Microsoft shipping a vulnerable version of the recovery environment. It is the ‘exploit’.

    Red Hat and Canonical shipped a vulnerable version of SSH, the thing was caught basically hours before hitting all devices around the world.

    Should Red Hat and Canonical be now considered hostile as much as MS is?

    You select people who will remain complicit till they have a grievance against you. Even if they don’t and talked for moral reasons do you think they would not been fired for it?

    I can only answer by saying this: I wish you luck in the job market and hope you'll eventually find an employer you don't assume to be a hostile entity towards you.

    Who knows. How many more went through at closed source software a limited amount of people can test in the same way?

    This is the equivalent of "prove that God doesn't exist". We can't know because they haven't been found, mate.

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  • Yeah, that's kind of the exact opposite of the point I was making, but you do you.

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  • At least one of them only needs a remote session and access to any account on the device.

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  • Of course there are! The only truly secure computer system is one that's not powered up, after all.

  • Linux @programming.dev
    Alaknár @sopuli.xyz

    Linus: [bcachefs is] now a DKMS module

    git.kernel.org /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/