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  • This is how much sugar you are [possibly] eating.

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  • Remember when those were called image macros?

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  • What about 7?

  • Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year

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  • The joke being that he didn't actually say it, same as Microsoft never stating 10 being the last version of Windows ever

  • Matrix 2.0 Is Here!

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  • What would be the utility for someone, who cares about privacy and currently uses Signal and email for communication?

    Your organization can't host a federated Signal server, and email isn't private.

    Is Matrix anything good already, or is it something with potential that's still fully in development?

    My previous organization has used it for over 4 years without issues, however mostly limited to text.

    How tech savvy does one need to be to use Matrix?

    Simply using? Not very much, basically like Lemmy.

  • Have you heard about Blue Screen syndrome?

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  • Blue screens were much more common back in the day, I guess nowadays they're equally stable. Windows current issues are the deliberate choices Microsoft makes

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  • Believe it or not, even the thugs beating down protests enjoy western luxuries... Or not having 20% inflation.

    Plus, enforcing your government's policies becomes a whole lot less attractive if all your neighbors dislike your employer. It all trickles down eventually.

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  • And I don't know if you noticed or not, unfortunately, the sanctions aren't working that well... Maybe the answer is more sanctions? idk

    I'm in favor of more of them, but I don't think the current ones aren't working. It was clear from the beginning that they'd be escalating so that Russia has a way out. They're not using it so sanctions get worse.

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  • Sure... Their anger will be directed at Putin, not at who actually imposed those sanctions.

    I am worried that these sanctions will make them band together and support Putin even more.

    And then what? They'll go to war even harder? And if Putin is such a good leader, why doesn't he just have Russia produce alternatives to the goods and services under sanctions?

    The old status quo without sanctions got the world into the current situation. Why would keeping it the same fix it?

    One could also make the opposite case for your logic: I am worried that without sanctions, people will see Putin as a strong leader, and as such hand together and support him even more.

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  • We are entering the era of cyber-warfare, nation-state counter hacking, software and hardware sabotage, underground black and grey markets for both hardware and software.

    We have entered that territory at least 10 years ago.

    The rest I agree with. But I also think this is in fact the right move: you need to create pressure that hurts both the leadership and the people.

  • REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets

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  • Qualcomm paying as much as other licensees should be preferable to Qualcomm than bankruptcy.

    Not saying this is wrong, but where do you get it from? The article just states that ARM considers Qualcomm's acquisition of Nuvia a breach of license. Both companies held ARM licenses before. What's the issue with such a purchase?

  • Smith: Home renovator

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  • From memory: Convert text to path, then have it redrawn.

  • What Would It Take To Recreate Bell Labs?

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  • What that monopoly got us: The C programming language, UNIX, UTF-8, among others

    What the current tech monopolies yielded: yachts for the upper management

  • Free Hotdogs

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  • Normally, those are 10 bob

  • In China, there has been an increasing number of indiscriminate attacks on people recently, which is heartbreaking. Why do these individuals target innocent people?

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  • Welcome to Lemmy!

    Unfortunately, I think most of the users here have no insight into every day Chinese life - myself included... in fact if not from your post, I would have had no idea this is a thing.

    Anyhow, this is disgusting behavior, and I can't really rationalize it.

    Though for a lot of people, the source of grievance is pretty abstract. They could be victims of the system, and taking it revenge in that is difficult.

  • OBS cuts the cord on Kepler GPU NVENC support — version 31.0.0 Beta 1 no longer works with GTX 600 and GTX 700 GPU hardware encoders

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  • These cards are over 10 years so this is understandable

  • Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate

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  • At this point, Prime doesn't make sense if you want to save on shipping. It made sense because it included a lot of good stuff (video before ads, some music, shipping, games) but just for shipping, there were better options.

    I basically overpaid but didn't care out of convenience - partner sometimes watched prime, I ordered occasionally, played some included games. But the changes to video were so shady that I cancelled it.

  • Sometimes, it's backwards

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  • I worked in software certification under Common Criteria, and while I do know that it creates a lot of work, there were cases where security has been improved measurably - in the hardware department, it even happened that a developer / manufacturer had a breach that affected almost the whole company really badly (design files etc stolen by a probably state sponsored attacker), but not the CC certified part because the attackers used a vector of attack that was caught there and rectified.

    It seemingly was not fixed everywhere for whatever reason... but it's not that CC certification is just some academic exercise that gives you nothing but a lot of work.

    Is it the right approach for every product? Probably not because of the huge overhead power certified version. But for important pillars of a security model, it makes sense in my opinion.

    Though it needs to be said that the scheme under which I certified is very thorough and strict, so YMMV.

  • NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules

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  • Salt the hash with something unique to that specific user so identical passwords have different hashes

    Isn't that... the very definition of a Salt? A user-specific known string? Though my understanding is that the salt gets appended to the user-provided password, hashed and then checked against the record, so I wouldn't say that the hash is salted, but rather the password.

    Also using a pepper is good practice in addition to a salt, though the latter is more important.

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  • No, there is nothing, and any investigation by copyright holders wouldn't lead to anything. Trying to get anything out of usenet today is futile.