Just some guy saying some things
I recognize a lot of frequent posters, as well as a few people from some more niche communities. It’s nice that the platform is small enough for that to actually happen. I wouldn’t really expect anyone to recognize me, as I don’t comment a whole lot and haven’t made any posts.
They’re based in Canada, and given their privacy-focused approach I can’t imagine they’d implement such a feature.
Wouldn’t this just be unenforceable for any Linux distros not directly owned/maintained by a US-based corporation? I don’t really see how they could force a distro to comply, unless they start going after individual maintainers who live in the US.
I don’t see it as necessary. I have full disk encryption set up, which is sufficient to protect my data at rest. Even if I had secure boot set up, a sufficiently skilled agent could physically install a USB sniffer in my keyboard, flash a malicious BIOS to my motherboard, or just install a hidden camera to watch me type my password. And many TPMs have vulnerabilities that I’m sure government agencies are able to exploit.
This is definitely AI, but AI is such a vaguely defined term that it’s basically meaningless. Too many people these days mistake it for meaning “a computer that can think like a human” even though it encompasses everything from LLMs to chess playing algorithms to something like Minecraft zombie pathfinding.
That would make sense.
I don’t use Play Services and still get push notifications from Signal, so they’re clearly using an alternative implementation.
Mint does have a graphical app store. Steam also has a .deb package on their website to download, which opens by default in the GUI installer when you double click it. Using the CLI is fine, but it’s definitely not necessary.
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It’s your phone, it’s your app store, it’s your browser, it’s your email, it’s your storage, it’s your search, it’s your maps, it’s your music, it’s your news, it’s your credit card, it’s your password manager
Google is so deeply integrated into most people’s lives that they can’t imagine going without it.
It’s a sure sign of a healthy non-bubble economy when a random Substack post can cause a stock market crash.
Felt kinda sad about it, but I feel sad most days so it’s not really any different. Hung out with a friend which was nice.
The copyright doesn’t apply to the event of Vance being booed itself, it applies to that specific video recording of it. Sure the video creator is a dick for getting it taken down, but they’re within their legal rights to.
The next line implicates the de.mschae23.grindenchantments mod; seems like a pretty clear starting point for troubleshooting.
Your own email domain + an account at a privacy respecting email service is more than worth it. Avoids the privacy nightmare that is using Google/Microsoft for your email, and gives you the flexibility to change email providers on a whim if your current one starts doing anything you don’t like.
Online backups should be an absolute last resort in the case of something catastrophic like a house fire, not your only copy of important data. Losing them should just mean a little less redundancy in that regard.
DNS based ad blocking does not block YouTube advertisements.
Sort your data into stuff you absolutely need to keep (personal files and such) and stuff you’d be okay with losing (less important files, device backups, downloads you can redownload, etc). Then only back up the former. As for backup medium, ServerPartDeals often has some pretty good deals on storage; they were selling refurbished 12TB drives for $80 a pop a while back.
Most people aren’t choosing to enable OneDrive; it’s enabled by default, and not obvious how to disable.
I’m very skeptical of this. High energy radiation on photographic film generally causes a speckle pattern, where each individual particle that hits the film exposes a small spot. The distribution of speckles should also be relatively uniform across the image. This looks more like a small amount of light made it through the packaging and caused patterns as the film spun around.