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The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.

  • Sanders, Warren Help Form Senate Democratic ‘Fight Club’ Challenging Schumer’s Leadership

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  • That image is simultaneously awesome and horrific. 10 of 10, great work!

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    YSK you need to resist digital ID

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  • I think it unlikely that the United States will have a National Digital ID system anytime "soon". We may eventually end up with one but I'd be shocked if it doesn't take at least two decades. As an example the Real ID Act was passed in 2005 and multiple states were still fighting in 2025. It doesn't even completely take effect until 2027!

  • In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

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  • Didn't GIMP release an entire UI overhaul earlier this year?

  • Linux comes for Windows at 40 — and gaming can't save it

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  • I wonder what must happen to roll out more Linux in the public sector.

    Endpoint (device) management is mostly a solved a problem, the challenge lies in integrated systems that allow secured, controlled, and constant access to data in a way that is manageable at scale by hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of users.

    That is where it gets wicked difficult and is what @Alaknar@sopuli.xyz is referencing. To my knowledge there is no real F/OSS equivalent to the tooling that MS Entra provides for IAM, DLP and MDM. You can maybe get close with a full deployment of NextCloud but that's really only replicating M365 functionality from 15 years ago.

    Is it ultimately possible if you piece enough packages and systems together? Probably but it would be a massive plate of spaghetti that only a team of highly experienced *nix managers could hope to properly support.

    You can definitely use a full F/OSS stack to replicate the functionality of a Windows Active Directory network but that's so last century. Today's organizations, no matter their type or size, demand more and they won't move to F/OSS unless they can get it.

  • People using Cloudflare, are you still happy with it? Would you consider any self-hosted alternative?

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  • Same here.

  • Magic word

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  • Why are you not using the shiny new sudo-rs? You some kind of luddite? Get with the times Grandpa!

  • Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog

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  • Sure but as @ApeNo1@lemmy.world noted MS is ending support for EWS in M365 in less than 12 months! So it took them 18 years to release something that still doesn't fully work (no Calendaring support, WTF?) and won't even be usable by this time next year.

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    If it only supported outdated Exchange servers that would be one thing

    The only Exchange server that ISN'T outdated at this point is the 4 month old Exchange Server Subscription Edition. All other versions are now EoL and have no support. So unless you have a very particular need to keep your EX environment On-Prem then you may as well migrate to EXO.

    If you are already using EXO then Thunderbird's new EWS support will stop working next October.

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • I have a Win11 PC sitting here with a Core i5 8500t, 16G of RAM, 1T M.2 SATA NVME, attached to a three position KVM. Hooked to that KVM are three monitors (2 x DP, 1 x HDMI), wireless keyboard & mouse, Creative USB T60 speakers, and a USB WebCam (logi 970e). Since it's a PC I use for work it's Entra joined and InTune managed running Managed AV, MDR, and a DNS Filtering Agent. Oh, and the drive is encrypted with BitLocker.

    So I basically have as much USB attached crap as you do, sans hard drives, and it's going through the USB Hub that's built into my KVM.

    Time from power off to usable desktop for that machine is under 40 seconds.

    Your external hard drives are a likely culprit. I'd guess that they are either on an older interface or your PC is set to do a full AV scan of attached drives at boot.

    Don't get it twisted, Microsoft and their products piss me off on a daily basis. I'm not defending them.

  • Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog

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  • I'm glad they have it but adding EWS support at the end of 2025 is nothing to brag about. EWS came with Exchange 2007, almost 20 years ago!

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

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  • I literally don’t turn my computer off because even with an SSD windows takes so long to boot up properly.

    I admin several hundred Windows PCs so I'm pretty confident in saying that your computer is either a moldy potato, something is wrong with your hardware, or you have a very unusual software load. A modern Windows 10/11 desktop should go from power off to logon screen in < 30 seconds and from logon to desktop in < 30 seconds. Even an 8th Gen Core i5 with 8GB of RAM, a SATA SSD, and a full stack of security software will be ready to use in 60 seconds or less.

    Whatever your problem is it ain't "windows"...and I'm typing this comment from my home PC running Linux.

  • The Great Firewall: Massive data leak reveals the inner workings of China's censorship regime

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  • The GFW is about logging, mining, and controlling Internet traffic and data but your comment is about phone calls. These two things are only loosely related.

    The article purports that the GFW is able to track electronic documents so closely that it can tie them to an actual individual. Assuming that's true it positively refutes the notion that the GFW is "futile". If the article and data leak are accurate then we also have proof that the GFW has the capability to detect many kinds of VPN despite strong obfuscation efforts and potentially decrypt the data streams. That is not "futile", it's scary AF.

    Specific to phone calls you and your Aunties can chatter about whatever you like but there's a strong possibility that those calls are being recorded, transcribed, and reviewed by automated systems for potential real world action. We know that the American NSA has this capability so it's a near certainty that the Chinese Government does as well.

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  • But I’m not seeing any of this in the guts of the article.

    It's a 3 part series so presumably that kind of content will be coming in either Parts 2 or 3.

  • Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica

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  • I'm glad the lawsuits didn't kill them but what Kahle tried to do with "Open Library" and "Project 78" was truly insane. Admirable but insane. They absolutely had to know right from the outset that the Media Companies weren't going to allow it to continue post-COVID.

  • Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell &ndash; and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar

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  • Reolink for the cameras and deny them internet access. You can tell them to record to internal SD Card and / or setup an NVR like Frigate. If you don't want "roll your own" headaches and have the money for it then use gear from Ubiquiti and UniFi Protect.

  • Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell &ndash; and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar

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  • Which means they have to run and maintain servers.

    I'd bet money that it works just like similar devices from Reolink. Local recording to SD Card or NVR. If you want cloud recording then you're paying a monthly subscription.

    This device from Aldi is at a very low pricepoint but it's specs are garbage. 480p recording? In 2025? C'mon...

  • Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues

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  • This is why Home Assistant exists.

  • Commodore offers Windows 10 users an alternative with Linux-based Vision OS

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    Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models

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  • First one to build the unconnected EV where the purchaser has admin rights (and no one else), wins the race.

    Here in the United States a person can already build new or convert existing gasoline vehicles to be "unconnected" and in every way except possibly the battery management doing it with an EV would actually be easier.

    It does cost money and take some time but probably less of both than you may think.

  • WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration

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  • I'll probably play with this over the weekend but it appears to be a lot of effort for not much reward. The only advantage I see over a Windows VM is that you get Windows Applications listed in your Linux Program Menu. I guess the "shared folder" thing but you can replicate that on your own pretty easily.

    From a resource perspective it's identical to a Win11VM because the docker container still has to run a complete Windows instance for the apps to work. It's just that you interface with the apps directly (mostly) via fancy RDP instead of firing up the VM and doing everything through Windows Desktop.

    You could probably accomplish the same thing by running a Windows RDS server in a VM, publishing the installed apps, and using Remmina to access them.