Very interesting technique to get the widths of the glyphs uniform without them looking ugly in most cases. OK, one can make it look bad if you know the “pain points” of the system, but in normal flowing texts, the fonts do look good.
The sane choice would be to leave.
Then it is high time to change this. It won’t get any better - it will get worse.
Well, your decision to finally leave that hellhole is overdue then.
Of course, no backdoor is secure, but among them, there are the just plain bad and the even worse.
If the disks are of the same type, check their serial numbers.
Once I set up a RAID with four 120GB disks. Back then, they were basically close to cutting edge technology as a 16TB drive would be today, and expensive as f-ck. Within a week, two disks failed, bringing the raid down. One failed in the evening, the other in the morning. When I called about warranty, I noticed that all four disks were within ±20 in their serial numbers, and got suspicious. I got the two drives replaced (with different, wide spread serial numbers), set up the RAID again, only to have a fail within less than ten days again - another one of the original set dead. This time I asked not only for a replacement of the next dead one, but also of the fourth, which was declined. I cut my losses and set up a way smaller RAID with only three disks. The fourth is in a drawer somewhere, wit a big red warning sticker.
Both shitty, yes, but an unsecure backdoor is opening the door to every hacker on the planet, not just one group.
And spyware for free, and I would not be surprised if they included an insecure backdoor at no extra cost.
Well, they already left the EU, now they want to leave the internet, too.
Snaps and Flatpaks auto updates automatically
Nope. Firefox does not, because either Firefox is running, or the PC is down or sleeping. So I have to close Firefox, open a shell, update that snap shit, and restart Firefox. Which pisses me off to no end, apart from the point that snaps are a waste of resources and a bad idea in general.
What a joke:
go to Preferences | Settings | Cartridges | RAM Expansion Module, enable it and select the file reufile.linux, and make sure to select the correct size (16MiB)
So this only works if one adds a f-ing 16MB RAM cartridge to the system?
This is not “Linux running on a C64”. This is Linux running on a platform that marginally includes some C64.
I’ve read the documentation on that feature, and still don’t get over it. How can anyone with knowledge of computers be so dumb to even consider such an idea, lest implement it?
This feature is just a BIG flag waving “AbUsE mE!”
Ah, ok. that clarifies it.
Quoting from memory: “Remember the times when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?”
The article is quite vague on how this is implemented. Does it require JS to be activated to work? That would be a big NO for anyone really looking into privacy, but could work for those who use TOR basically as a free VPN to escape stupid geoblocking rules.
And what will prevent DDOSers from just creating dummy requests without the intention to ever wanting to solve any PoWs? It will still allocate resources on the other side.
“all those COBOL developer jobs” nowadays probably fit in one bus. That’s why every company that can afford it moves away from COBOL.
Not much at the moment. Trying to find out how to the table saw fixed before I can actually do something useful.
You are preaching to the choir here. I use Linux since Kernel 0.97.something.
For many it is simply frustrating because it is not Windows. Just think about how many people have a hard time already to get the most simple things done on Windows. Can you imagine those people to switch to another platform? Those people who cannot find their banking app anymore when something moved the icon on the desktop to another position?
But that would miss out the large amount of government control over the masses! Think of the kids, not of your rights being trampled on! /s