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  • We want to inhibit when running stuff like pacman, wget, cp or mv

    There is already a separate systemd-inhibit command that does exactly what you need. Trust your users, they are capable of googling it (most of the time).

    Only pacman and wget will benefit from suspend inhibition, because it will prevent breaking network connections. cp and mv will resume working just fine even when you hibernated your laptop while cp was executing. And in that case it's less bug-prone to scan your system for active TCP connections to external addresses instead of adding a hack wakelock inside your terminal or inside wget.

    It is also a poor idea to mess up with system-wide settings from some command when the user does not expect it, you'll likely to get a thousand invalid bug reports that sleep mode is broken when some service randomly decides to use wget to continuously read from local Unix socket.

  • Yup. Now we have long-range WiFi filling that niche.

    • They split off from Google.
    • They are not using satellites, they shine a lazer from one fixed tower to another, with range about 20 km.
  • No Wayland forwarding support.

  • That's because the article that started the whole argument tried very hard to present an expected behavior for embedded chips as a security hole.

  • Fingerprinting fear is eh. The server only receives what the browser sends to it, plus your IP address. The browser fully controls what it sends, and it only sends identifying data because advertisement companies pay browser vendors to add this data. There is no technical reason why fingerprinting is even possible. Everything - your OS version, your cookies, your mouse movement - can be faked or anonymozed.

  • All that's going to achieve is that every browser on the planet will identify itself as Chrome in the user-agent string.

  • Should have used three spreadsheets. Excel tends to run slowly when a spreadsheet has more than a million cells in it.

  • There was no mention of over-the-air exploit, so eh.

  • Anyway, having direct unprivileged R/W access to platform memory is indeed a security hole, no matter the vendor.

    It is not. ESP32 is an embedded chip with less than one megabyte of RAM. It cannot run apps or load websites with any malicious code, it only runs the firmware that you flash on it, nothing else, and of course your firmware has full access to every chip feature. If your firmware has a security hole, it's not the chip's fault.

  • I bet with 60 GBb RAM it could run Android Studio with almost no lag.

  • Nope, the whole ${variable/regex/replacement} syntax

  • You are assuming they got the empathy in the first place. How do you think they became successful? They just stop pretending to have it when public opinion cannot impact their profits anymore.

  • Use the power of AI

  • Meh, DNS failure strikes yet again. If you're an embedded developer, make a habit of using C-Ares library.

  • Array index starts from $-1$ and must be a string.

  • The most lumberjack-y tartans are Iowa (8% forests), Nevada (15% forests), Washington (52% forests), and Wisconsin (48% forests).

  • Techbro brosplaining databases and getting corrected by an actual expert.