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gomp,

I’m not sure how newsworthy this whole topic is

It’s right there in the first paragraph:

Apple will now require […] in a shift from the previous practice of accepting a subpoena to hand over data.

gomp,

A subpeana is a court order so that’s clear as mud.

www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/…/index.html

Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)

In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...

gomp,

Governments (and the public sector in general) are treated way worse by companies than private customers who can far more easily switch to a competitor or influence others to do so

gomp,

Wow! This is almost as useful as neofetch ;-)

Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup?

Well I’ve joined the “accidentally trashing your system with rm -rf” club! Luckily I didn’t delete my home directory with all the things I care about, but I did delete /boot and /usr, and maybe /var (long story, boils down to me trying to delete non-system directories named those but reflexively adding the slash in front...

gomp, (edited )

Just reinstall :)

Copying back the files to the right partition/directory works, but if you didn’t backup the owner and permissions for each file it’s gonna be a pain to restore those.

After reinstalling, you can compare your new system with your backup to see what changes/configs you had made

gomp,

You are 100% right: netflix not being open is less than ideal, both from a freedom standpoint and for the privacy implications of it.

However, my 70+yo relative does not care about FOSS or even about their own privacy for that matter… since I, however, do care about their privacy, I’d like to pragmatically find something that may be better than a chromecast privacy-wise, while not being so much worse (or radically different) from it that they’ll ask me to “put the old thingy back - I can’t use this nerdy shit” :)

gomp,

It’s closed-source AFAIK (also, not sure how it is privacy-wise)

gomp,

As much as I dislike Google spying on my relatives, I’d rather them be spied by Google than by some Chinese entity (BTW: their spying would probably not be on top of Google’s)

gomp,

That’s a great tip! I didn’t know lineage supported Android TV on SBCs

As for Netflix on Lineage: it does work (at least w/ microg - I just tried on my phone), but you won’t find the app in aurora store so you’ll have to source it on apkmirror or the like.

gomp,

You should be able to run Lineage on the shield (double check the specific model)… maybe you can try that and re-flash the stock OS if it doesn’t work for you.

gomp,

Wow: they also go to great lengths to piss off their paying customers.

Anyway, I have no idea if it’s 1080p or not: I can say it looks ok on my phone’s screen, but IDK how to check what the video resolution is

gomp,

Death warrant? Maybe, but I expect companies (maybe not the EU, but - let’s be frank - probably the EU too) to go back into X as soon as they feel they are done cashing in this virtue signaling.

There were plenty of reasons to leave twitter before this idiotic tweet from Musk (reasons due to twitter’s action as a company, and not just Musk’s drunken posts) and they were all happily tweeting and advertising.

Is this drop that breaks the camel’s back? Maybe, but I wouldn’t be holding my breath.

gomp,

TBH it’s not just reddit or social media: Internet’s per-view ad revenue is exactly what ruined traditional newspapers (ok, some where shit to begin with)

gomp,

I registered on their site (you can self-host too) and it looked promising, but then when I logged in in the app the workouts I had setup didn’t show up

gomp,

Thanks: I tried it today and it works great!

gomp,

Didn’t you know? Disabling ad blockers ensures free speech and apparently may also peacefully end the current crisis in the middle east… oh, did I mention it helps with world hunger too?

gomp,

Move to the EU :)

gomp,

Yes, but you only really need one (the one that unlocks your password manager) and you’ll quickly learn to type that relatively fast.

gomp,

“You Know How To Scare Me Shitless” is 33 characters and a decent passphrase on its own.

Base64 brings the length to 44 characters, but you might be better off by just using a longer passwphrase (eg. “You know how to scare me shitless and you do it every day, dear student of mine!” is 80 characters long, not much more difficult to remember that the 33-char one and way easier to type than the 44-char base64 one).

All in all, IMHO base64 is not the best idea.

gomp, (edited )

I wasn’t recommending OP to switch to an 80-character passphrase (see the very first sentence in my comment)… I was just showing that passphrases are about length and not about (real or perceived) randomness how difficult they are to memorize or type.

Also, if I may, one shouldn’t throw terms like “unbreakable” around: security is a game where you trade usability for resilience to attacks and what how much security is enough security depends on your specific circumstances and risk profile… absolute terms like “unbreakable” picture security as something different than the compromise it is and should be left to marketing people.

edit: (see correction above)

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Another day, another product joining the Google graveyard. On the upside, this time it's not a messaging app.

From The Verge:

"You might remember Google had a $5,000 Jamboard whiteboarding meeting room display — well, that’s also discontinued. The Jamboard hardware will no longer receive software updates on September 30th, 2024, and its license subscriptions will expire the same day.

"Then users will have until December 31st, 2024, to back up Jam their files, and on that date, Google will cut off access and begin permanently deleting files."

Pity the schools, universities, and businesses that paid Google $5000 for a "smart" whiteboard, only to now be told their files will be deleted.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23894509/google-jamboard-whiteboarding-app-graveyard

@technology

gomp,

Mhhh… does it run linux?

gomp,

Whataboutism is the name of the game

gomp,

The really important sosftware gets ported to all the platforms

gomp,

State troopers who found the father-of-two’s body in his truck said there were no barriers or warning signs near the bridge.

[…]

The lawsuit adds that Google had previously been notified about the collapse and several attempts had been made for the route information to be updated.

People should get their priorities right

gomp,

Yeah… people should rewrite post titles for the context of this community, rather than reusing article titles verbatim

gomp,

Faster than current planes? Past planes that have been retired because they weren’t as efficient

gomp,

I’m curious what the ofgicial definition of “social media” is. Is lemmy social media? What about github or stackoverflow?

gomp,

You can store attachments and, I think, more sharing feature? Honestly, I too pay to support them.

gomp,

In case you wonder, this story is from Finland

gomp,

Guys, please rewrite post titles for the context of this community (eg. indicating what nation we are talking about) rather than reporting the news article verbatim.

gomp,

I use firefox on arch, btw

gomp,

Interest based ads that everyone who has connected to the same wifi as you will now see

Oh shit

gomp,

I’m shocked! …that so far they were using whatsapp.

gomp,

Absolutely! /s

TBH, the mods should change the sidebar from “News from around the world!” to something like “News that have international relevance”… otherwise we can’t really scold people who post curiosity stories.

I hope this is the right place to put this..I want to use pi-hole

I want to use pi-hole and it comes highly recommended to use raspberry pi to cover the house and have an always on capability. I started looking at just starter packages at Amazon and they don’t come with a monitor, which it looks like you need. How do I do this? I want a raspberry pi to run pi-hole to protect my house....

gomp,

Rasperry PIs have micro-HDMI outputs, so you can use those (with an appropriate cable/adapter) to hook the PI to any monitor (or to your TV) for the initial setup (you’ll also need a keyboard and - possibly - a mouse). After that, you can unplug everything and use the raspberry pi without keyboard/monitor/mouse (pi hole has a web interface).

Note that you don’t strictly need a raspberry pi to run pi hole: any old x86 PC or a cheap thin client bought on ebay will do just as well (actually, they will most probably perform better).

gomp,

He said “Well thats what it says in the textbook so I have to mark it wrong”

The mark of a great teacher. It’s nice however that he had the patience to wait for your experiment (or maybe he was expecting it to fail miserably?): no prof of mine would have went along with something like that (not to mention, I’m pretty sure we couldn’t take apart the lab PCs at our leisure).

gomp,

your pro-consumer laws

Don’t those actually come from the EU?

gomp,

Well, the simplest way to go if you want opensuse-like rollbacka would be to just run opensuse… if you need ubuntu-specific stuff (you don’t) there’s distrobox.

BTW I’ve been running tumbleweed for a few years now and didn’t roll back once… IDK if the craze about rollbacks and immutable distros (arguments in favour of which often boil down to “easy rollbacks”) is justfied or not.

gomp,

Besides snapper itself, you’ll have to setup triggers to automatically take snapshots before/after running dnf, generate the appropriate boot menu options and reorganize your btrfs subvolumes so that everything that should not be rolled back (eg /var, /root, /srv, …) is in a different subvolume than /…

Honestly, if I were you I’d just give opensuse a try instead: I came to tumbleweed from fedora, and it’s basically the same, solid thing (only, without the new version drama twice a year).

gomp,

Don’t you mean a markdown editor?

Chances are, your favorite text editor can handle markdown well enough… unless you want WYSIWYG, in which case your text editor would still be good enough for the job and you would be wrong :-)

gomp,

There are a pletora of markown editors that have a split view w/ live preview (I used various - the one I currently have installed is Ghostwriter), but you can most probably get the same with your programmer’s text editor (well, unless your text editing is done in the terminal) and, one way or another, you are not guaranteed that what you see is what will be displayed in github/gitlab/…

Hello, I’m going to be getting a new computer soon and have thought about linux. Questions inside

With the new computer and the newer Microsoft Windows updates they have really jam packed their OS with bloat and spyware. That being said I have no idea what I’m doing with Linux, need help with where to start.? What are some general tips? I understand there’s a lot of prebuilt Linux distributions or something what are some...

gomp,

I’d say install virtualbox on your windows, download a few isos and check them out; once you’ve made your mind on which one seems a decent one (don’t worry too much: it’s not like you can’t change distro later on) and have found out replacements for all the apps you use (well, some of them will have a linux version too) save your windows data somewhere, format and reinstall.

I’d say to stay away from dual booting if you can: honestly, it’s a pain. Ah, check that your hardware works well on linux before switching!

gomp,

RHEL ultimately comes from Fedora (plus Redhat has a great say in where Fedora is headed), so… RHEL won’t become sort of an AIX or HPUX anytime soon.

That said, Redhat’s move opens up the position of “enterprise-like distro for scientific/technical shops and other people who do their own support” (think, from CERN to small software houses) that so was the reign of RHEL clones (together with Ubuntu, of course).

Those are people who will probably never buy RHEL licenses for all their machines no matter what, so in a sense it stands to reason that RH doesn’t care about them (if you think their move is about money rather than falling for the “value to the community” PR spin), but those same people are also trend setters whose choices, in time, trickle down to universities and then companies, and to me it looks like there’s a huge opportunity there (and that Alma is currently in the best position to harvest from it in the long run).

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