Todays episode of USA is wild:

Two weeks after 19-year-old Edward Coristine was viciously assaulted during a carjacking in Washington D.C., the White House says it would consider giving the administration official a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his bravery.

A 15-year-old girl and 15-year-old boy were subsequently arrested and remain in juvenile jail as the investigation continues.

Nice plot twist by the writers 10/10. Excited for the next episodes of the series.

Sounds like something that a real person would never do.

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

The website is actually hosted on GitHub pages.

Just type in a random non-existing path and it shows the GitHub pages 404 path.

I’m having no problems with donating to OSS projects, yet what always prevents me from doing so is when such projects are not transparent where my donation money actually goes.

Yet, the average donations we receive are around 100 euros per month. A sum that doesn’t even cover server costs or the resources we use.

Well, I see no linked explanation where this money goes or why the server costs are so high, which is immediately a red flag for me.

under Wikipedia’s entry for Secure boot

What’s the first thing under the “Secure boot” section? The section that it automatically scrolls to when clicking my link?

Well the website (and the guy maintaing it) is pretty old. I think the blog posts reach back till Windows Vista. The guy itself wrote some books about Win95 so he has some experience.

The site is quite popular in Germany and the information is usually good summarized and helpful IMHO.

Anyway as always I recommend an adblocker when using the internet.

It’s so secure that the first thing under Wikipedia’s entry for Secure boot is Secure boot criticism

Yes this is a real, I’m not joking.

You’re in linuxmemes did you not expect a meme? xD

Also: Yes it’s a meme based on a true story (see the other comments for more details)

The meme itself is based on https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/historical-battle-shitposts-decisive-victory

AFAIK a new battery + entering the Bitlocker recovery key fixed the problems.

Usually these batteries hold for years. I have a 15+ year old laptop where I had to replace the battery after ~10 years.

However the affected laptops are now a few years old, aren’t designed properly (I heard weird stuff happening like adding additional RAM somehow causes the display to fail) and somehow just have a CR2016 battery installed, not a bigger CR2032. And yes these are buisness-laptops designed for companies -.-

Yes, multiple of our Windows laptops today couldn’t boot and displayed a BitLocker error message and all affected laptops somehow had an empty BIOS battery…

So I just had a look at your robots.txt:

User-Agent: *
  Disallow: /login
  Disallow: /login_reset
  Disallow: /settings
  Disallow: /create_community
  Disallow: /create_post
  Disallow: /create_private_message
  Disallow: /inbox
  Disallow: /setup
  Disallow: /admin
  Disallow: /password_change
  Disallow: /search/
  Disallow: /modlog
  Crawl-delay: 60

You explicitly allow searching your content by bots… That’s likely one of the reasons why you get bot traffic.

Lemmy is open source, so feel free to go back to Reddit

Just keep using Remote Desktop Connection aka mstsc.exe?

It’s even recommended by Microsoft:

Although replacements have been released, as of the release of the Windows App, Remote Desktop Client is still recommended for use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Remote_Desktop_Protocol_clients

IP based blocking is complicated once you are big enough

It’s literally as simple as importing an ipset into iptables and refreshing it from time to time. There is even predefined tools for that.

While AI crawlers are a problem I’m also kind of astonished why so many projects don’t use tools like ratelimiters or IP-blocklists. These are pretty simple to setup, cause no/very little additional load and don’t cause collateral damage for legitimate users that just happend to use a different browser.

because it takes a like 3 or 4 minutes to boot

What kind of PC is this? Does it have an SSD?

There are some more privacy friendly forks of “Firefox for Android”, which have sponsored shortcuts disabled or minimized by default. For example:

• https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild
• https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox

Feel free to give them a try :)

The same apps that have access to more of your data (because they’re not sandboxed in a browser), use electron (ships a browser) and include trackers that one can’t simply block with an extension?