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  • IPFire Linux Firewall Preps for Wi-Fi 7, Adopts Post-Quantum Cryptography

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  • Imma be honest, kinda forgot this exists. It must be 20 years or close to that since I last used (or tried to use) it. Will look into what it does these days though.

  • Microsoft open-sourced a Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown

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  • It might also be somewhere, but nobody knows where.

  • All the other brands went along

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  • If you got that kind of money to spend on a laptop, sure. I really don't.

    Edit: to be clear, I know this is a stack of Mac's in OPs picture, but the development that the entry models have basically no ports at all is a more recent development. Having to pick the pro just to be able to connect your stuff without dongles or hubs is a bit insane considering the price (and price difference).

  • When RTX 5090 is realesed...

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  • A wildly overpowered PSU will also use more power at low loads, as that's outside the efficiency range. The ratings (like gold or platinum) also usually don't apply, as loads like that are not part of the certification process.

    This may be irrelevant to you of course, depending on your electricity prices.

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  • Germany looks like a dead straight line, yet the text says it could see a large drop by 2030. Sure, it could also see a large rise in arable land, no reason or context is given.

  • Americans when they visit Germany the first time

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  • Ah you're right. The limit is probably still not in effect, given the light conditions, but that's just guess work.

    Edit: like like the dashboard clock says 18:27, so it's probably fine.

  • Americans when they visit Germany the first time

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  • The signs below the speed limit (probably, cause pixels) say "bei Nässe", which means "only when wet". So assuming this is an Autobahn, and it does look like one, it's probably fine.

  • Setting up a new laptop - How do I get around needing a Microsoft account?

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  • I would recommend "Sophia script". It is a highly customizable debloat script for Windows 10 & 11.

  • SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market

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  • While I fully agree with the SSD side, you seem to ignore that HDDs are also getting cheaper per TB (always have, and usually quite noticeably). Also the reliability of large to huge SSDs remains to be seen as well. Obviously a breakthrough in HDD technology would have an influence as well, as you mentioned.

    I'm not saying SSDs aren't here to take over, they surely will eventually (preferably sooner), but I think it'll be a few more years until we got actual price parity per TB. Even when ignoring other aspects like reliability.

  • Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2

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  • I've used windows since the 90s. Not once have I intentionally used WordPad.

    It did open by default for some file types for a long time (.doc), usually mangling the content cause it couldn't actually handle them properly. I think it was also the default for .txt files at some point, causing many curse words when editing plain text files, that invisibly weren't so plain any more after... Programs expecting a configuration fine really don't like that sort of thing.

    So: I'm very ok with this. Just install LibreOffice or something if you needa Word-like experience. Install notepad++ for anything "plain".

  • Is this a 2230 M.2 Slot?

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  • Scroll down a bit in this article. There's a list of what each of the available keys are required to provide. A "key" in this context is basically a notch in a certain location, which then defines the meaning of the various pins of the connector. Some devices have multiple keys, as some of the specifications have a common subset. Like key A+E is common, because E provides almost everything that A does, so a device that only requires the common interfaces can work in both. Cars that rely on one of the exclusive interfaces will have the specific key of course. This A+E communication is often used for WiFi cards.

    Sockets always only have one key though, for obvious reasons.

    Edit: correction/clarification

  • Can somebody solve this puzzle?

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  • Any password manager should be able to "type in" the password. Or be a browser plugin that doesn't rely on copy pasting, but use other mechanisms to inject it directly into the field.

    But yes, if that's their online portal, I am not kidding I would change banks.

  • Spotify wins case over 'billions' of Eminem streams

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  • That story is genuinely hilarious. And from the judges summary judgement it really does sound like the license holder of the disputed songs did some legal juggling just to be able to play the victim and sue Spotify. What an odd business plan...

  • Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen

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  • Well I thought this was kinda obvious what I meant, but I guess not. What you say is a requirement (sms recovery of a cloud account) is just one of many solutions to your specific problem. I'll just list off a few solutions below that involve neither SMS (the most insecure communication method in common use today) and only optionally a cloud account. For cimplicity sake I'll stick to Aegis, where you can create password-protected local backups you can then put wherever you want. This password needs to be very strong for obvious reasons: I would recommend a long sentence (40 characters or more) that you can just remember, like a quote from a movie/tv show/book/poem or something, including normal punctuation as a sentence for example.

    Solution 0: This is more of a trivial solution I wouldn't actually recommend. You can allow account recovery via eMail and have your eMail not use 2fa, but a long/good password so you can login from memory (see above). This is probably more secure than SMS for the recovery-case, but less secure for the everyday use case of eMail, therefore "not recommended".

    Solution 1: USB Sticks are tiny, as in the size of a USB port (slightly longer but slimmer for USB-C). If you want to have a backup "on you", I'm sure you can find a place where it wouldn't get robbed with the phone/wallet. A tiny pocket somewhere, a string around your ankle, make a compartment in your shoe, or just have it with your luggage at the hotel. I'm sure you get the point. You get your new phone, you plug in the USB, you install Aegis and restore the backup.

    Solution 2a: Dedicated "online" storage. This can be self hosted, or a free account of any cloud provider, but the important part is that it does NOT require 2FA and you do NOT use it for anything else. You have the backup in there. It also needs a very secure password (again: long, but easy to remember, no garbled letter nonsense), but obviously not the same as the Aegis-Backup. So you now need to remember 2 long passwords. You get your new phone, you log in, get the backup and proceed as usual.

    Solution 2b: If not having 2FA is not an option for the solution above, you can have a friend/family store the 2FA on his phone. To log in, you go to the login page and enter your password (which your friend doesn't need to know), and you ask him over the phone for the current 2FA-Code, which he tells you and you can log in, download the backup and proceed as above. I assume such a high security isn't that critical, since you have been using something involving SMS. Restore then goes as per usual.

    Solution 3: Store the whole backup with a friend and when you need it he just temporarily puts it somwhere you can access, and removes it again after. Since the backup is protected by a monster of a password, and the accessibility is temporary anyway, this isn't security critical.

    Solution 4: If you absolutely must, you can find a cloud-provider for 2FA, and use it only as the "first stage". The only 2FA code in there is the one you need to get access to your main online storage/account where you then have your real Aegis-Backup and/or other files. Obviously this service would need to allow you to login without 2FA, and the usual password rules resulting fom that apply. You can just add the 2FA of your primary service to more than 1 app or service, or if it allows for this, you can generate multiple authenticators so you can also revoke them serperately if needed.

  • Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen

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  • The point is you physically and locally back up the database. Put it on your computer, or a flash drive or whatever. You can set a different, longer password for backups, and I would recommend you do that. When you get your new phone, you just copy the database into it and load it into a freshly installed Aegis. You don't even need to self host anything, there is nothing to host.

    Not everything needs to be "in the cloud". I think this event illustrates nicely why.

  • Suggestions for file sync / android backup / sharing software (nextcloud alternative)

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  • Nextcloud can't do two-way sync on Android. At all. That's like core functionality for the product IMHO and there's a feature request open I think. When I found that out, I basically spit out my coffee. It's fine if you just want to upload photos you take, that kinda works (but my god is it fragile).

    Nextcloud is pretty good at quite a few things, including extensibility, but having some omissions in functionality that boggle the mind.