You’re mostly right, but I disagree about the bit about paid software and vetted developers. Open source like Linux is also mostly developed by programmers hired by companies, so there’s no difference there. Proprietary software has also had problems with malicious developers and there’s less transparency there.

Desktop Linux so far was meant to be a fun general purpose computing experience for geeks. Throwing extra security layers on it evidently spoils some of that fun, you can see how Linux nerds react to things like Polkit, SELinux, Wayland or Flatpak. But PCs in general suck at security, they’re based on legacy tech from an era when cybersecurity wasn’t even a concept.

Huh, I’ve been following “This Week in GNOME”, didn’t realise KDE is doing the same thing. Thanks for sharing, I’m gonna follow both, it’s nice to see progress in Linux desktop, even if it’s not my personal choice of software.

None of the articles I’ve read about this explains how the GDID gets mapped onto the user’s activity.

“Windows device carrying GDID g:6755467234350028 had visited the ngrok signup page”

So does it mean that Windows monitors your activity outwith just Microsoft services and sends all data to their servers? Is it maybe MS Edge history sync?

Can anyone break even AES-128 without years of supercomputer time?

Never use things like yay, just read the PKGBUILD and run makepkg. AUR wasn’t meant to be automated. But it’s better to use Flatpak, because it provides sandboxing (not for every app, but it can be reviewed before installation).

Security

When you use X11, you allow any program running on your computer to access anything on your screen and clipboard, collect your keystrokes and type. It’s trivial to implement a keylogger, for example. Do not buy into the whole “no viruses on Linux” thing, it’s not true and likely to become even less and less true, as desktop Linux is becoming popular.

Wayland at least tries to put some barriers in place against this.

They’re talking about the Republic of Chad in central Africa. The Romanian flag happens to look the same.

Pretty art, but this meme is really getting boring. I think people are just regurgitating “GNOME bad” because they heard it from some tech youtuber instead of actually trying GNOME for themselves. IMHO GNOME is awesome. It’s a bit different, but very comfortable when you get used to it. And definitely reliable.

I often see people using some h4x0r i3wm setup scrolling through workspaces and windows for literal minutes trying to find some app they were using earlier, while on GNOME you can just see everything spatially organised in the activities view. They think they have it “tailored for their needs”, but they end up with an unmanageable config file with bits copy-pasted from the internet that is getting harder to understand over time and keeps breaking. I know it from my own experience too, I got tired of it and came back to GNOME.

But if you wanna go down that route, GNOME is also highly customisable. There’s lots of extensions that let you change every aspect of it. If you know some JavaScript, you can make your own, there’s a decent community and documentation. Things like Niri or Cosmic actually started off as GNOME extensions.

thank mr skeltal

Huh. I learnt that 两 is for counting everything. Er is only used if you spell out a number. Like you can’t say “erge ren”, must be “liangge ren”. Maybe you’re confusing it with another liang character, the measure for cars?

Sorry, I might be wrong, my Chinese isn’t the best.

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There’s a difference to having plumbing and having useless shit like holiday houses, private swimming pools, luxury cars, gold tat etc. And a multi-millionaire like Gabe Newell can even buy all of that and still have a lot of spare money to pay off anyone for any reason. Why would any single person be entitled to that?

All rich people are evil, it’s obvious. If you end up with a lot of money and you’re somehow not evil, you’ll give it away instead of becoming rich.

I get months of uptime on a ZFS NAS, though I’m not using Proxmox. I don’t think it’s the filesystem’s fault, you might have some hardware issue tbh. Do you have any logs?

Wtf has zionism to do with mass surveillance outside of Palestine?