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NaibofTabr

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Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99...

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Agile development.

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Do not assemble this step with one eye closed.

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KDE has a really nice suite of applications and utilities. No other desktop environment really compares on that level (and Amarok is back!).

XFCE &etc are also good if you are running lightweight hardware (not just old hardware) but still want a desktop environment.

CLI is best for servers and remotely managed/headless systems.

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Development was dead for years, so dead that it wasn't included in new release repositories

Clementine was a fork that was pretty good, but I think had more ambitions than active developers.

Strawberry later forked from Clementine and is still being developed, and they're doing well, but they aren't building on the KDE framework.

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I plan to RAID1 them and use them as boot drives

This will not work unless the mainboard is handling the RAID control in firmware. If you are doing software RAID then the OS must boot before the array can be accessed.

If you just want to set up a NAS, you can get a used PowerEdge tower for very little money, and it will work a lot better than what you have planned.

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Their track record isn't safer than a human driver... because their system is a mechanical turk.

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but it literally says it will update outside of active hours.

Yeah, but it lies.

And the privacy toggles are set when you install the OS. You can untick all of them the last time I checked.

But a future Windows update will reset them without informing the user.

Microsoft respects user choice about as well as Republicans respect voting rights.

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"Authorized" in the sense that even if I set all these options to No, a future Windows update will reset them and not tell me.

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Has it been proven to happen on Windows 11? Not that I can point to specifically. 11 hasn't been in general use long enough to see a real pattern of behavior.

I was a mixed Windows and Linux user through the full life cycle of the Cortana implementation. The number of times they changed or moved Cortana related settings through the years was just ridiculous. It finally came down to having to manually change registry settings to keep it from scanning your files and messing with basic local search, and even if you did that you had to make sure the registry values were still set after version updates because they would get unset without warning.

I have no trust left for Microsoft, only suspicion.

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Chrome is scary

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So sad that it should come to this

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When? Under Stalin?

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How else would you say /etc ?

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https://media.tenor.com/pWQeAWBblmYAAAAC/nobody-got-time-for-that-a-intnobody-got-time-for-that.gif

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Just use TightVNC.

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Well, yes, but the skit is also making fun of the anarchists. When Denis tries to explain their overcomplicated beureacracy, the point is that their commune is functionally broken and incapable of accomplishing anything as a community, which is why they live their lives digging in the mud.

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"When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town, and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world."

Start with self-love friends, and then extend that love to the people closest to you.

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Political violence comes from the desire to change the world, but caring for yourself and others close to you will bring a more effective and worthwhile change than violence.

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The CEO also claims that users' Signal messages have popped up in court cases or in the media, and implies that this has happened because the app's encryption isn't completely secure. However, Durov cites "important people I've spoken to" and doesn't mention any specific instance of this happening.

[...]

The Register could not find public reports of Signal messages leaking due to faulty encryption.

Claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Durov's entire criticism seems to be based on implications and have no actual evidence of any technical problems with Signal. He's basically just throwing shade at a competing business, which amounts to whining.

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Like it or not, commercial computing is primarily Microsoft environments. Businesses are moving to Azure/O365, but there's still a lot of on-prem AD out there, and a lot of businesses that are stuck in between with some form of hybrid hodge-podge. It's definitely more difficult to do admin tasks for individual Windows endpoints vs. Linux, but on the other hand there is no FOSS equivalent for AD forest management. In a corporate environment, the ability to manage large numbers of endpoints at scale is more important.

You probably shouldn't be using iPerf3 on Windows, but instead use the native nttcp.

tracert is included with Windows by default, no need to install a separate utility.
robocopy is also included with Windows and can be used to do incremental backups if that's your use case.

If you have to manage Windows systems you should learn about Windows-native tools, rather than trying to drag the Linux-native tools you're used to onto Windows just for the sake of familiarity.

That said, installing (and updating) software on Windows is absolutely a pain compared to the relative simplicity of a Linux package manager and I'm 100% with you on that. I highly recommend chocolatey, which attempts to work as a package manager for Windows. All of the software that you install with chocolatey can be updated with a single command, similar to running updates in a package manager on Linux. If you can implement this on the Windows systems that you have to manage, it will make things easier.

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Wake up kids, we got the dreamer's disease...

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The Wells Fargo model.

Regulators said Tolstedt and the bank’s former CEO, John Stumpf, bragged to investors about the scale of the community bank’s open accounts, despite the fact that millions of accounts were fabricated by employees trying to meet unrealistic sales goals set by management.

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This is what auditors are for.

If it were up to me there would be a government office specifically to audit businesses in such cases. When a court deems it necessary, a team of auditors would be attached to a company and have access to all of their financial records, for the express purpose of determining how much of their revenue was gained through the illegal activity. The company would be responsible for paying all of the expenses of the audit team for as long as the audit takes (if the company drags their feet in giving access to records, it costs them).

For the same time period, a government representative would be given a seat on the company executive board and be privy to all board meetings. As long as the company is under audit they are also under operational observation.

At the conclusion of the audit, all revenue determined to proceed from the illegal activity is forfeit, and a fine is issued for each violation.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

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You will own nothing and like it have no recourse.

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If "works" means "sets your house on fire", this works perfectly.

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No, not caused by, it just feeds the confirmation bias of people who are already on that mental path.

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Qubes - an OS that compartmentalizes system functions (including userspace) into separate VMs, with the intent of keeping them secure from each other. Kind of an internal zero-trust approach. Complicated to use.

Alpine Linux - stripped down to create a reduced attack surface, with the intent to provide only packages which have been vetted for security. Fairly straightforward.

Redox OS - a Unix-like OS written in Rust (not actually Linux). Limited, still kind of a prototype.

Damn Small Linux has been revived with a new version recently, which is nice to see.

HoloISO - a community built reimplementation of the Steam Deck OS.

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This is already at the point where we can replace an intern or one of the less good junior engineers.

This is a bad thing.

Not just because it will put the people you're talking about out of work in the short term, but because it will prevent the next generation of developers from getting that low-level experience. They're not "idiots", they're inexperienced. They need to get experience. They won't if they're replaced by automation.

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Stackoverflow has a thoughtcrimes department now?

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I need to start paywalling my comments.

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Plus the smaller chips (like the CPU) are designed for lower voltage and current. They can't handle dialing up the power, they'll melt.

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This video gives a good look at what's involved in building a stone retaining wall like this:

Essential Craftsman: How to stack a boulder wall

There's a fair amount of practical expertise, like picking specific sizes/shapes for specific areas and arranging the rocks so they won't move later (he talks about the long-term safety implications around 12:30). It's a very involved moment-to-moment decision making process.

Just because the robot can fit the rocks together in a way that stands up now doesn't mean it's done so in a way that will be safe and stable five years from now, especially with the pressure of tons of dirt behind it, probably with a building on top of that.

Automation can replace human labor but it can't replace human attention.

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I am Builder.

Insert boulder.

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No kidding, I hadn't seen that one. If I understand correctly, the rocks were stable but the angle was putting too much pressure on the concrete wall which made it crack.

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Twitch plays wall building.

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Paddle your keɪnəʊ gently down the stream.

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That writing is amazingly flat for being written on a curved slide.

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Hmm, they do have a union. It wouldn't surprise me if they push to put some rules in place about requiring a driver in the cab for safety.

Which wouldn't even be a stretch, really. Heavy loads are dangerous, and I don't think people have a lot of faith in autonomous vehicles right now.

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New Lemmy server?

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Oh look, it's just fascism again.

Why is it that when these whackos start describing their fascist plans for society, there are people who respond like it's a groundbreaking concept, some bold new vision of the future? None of this is new, it's the same old tired goosestepping shit.

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There have been fascist psychopaths arround as long as humans exist.

Well yeah, that's kind of my point. Why does anyone hear this shit and respond like it's something new?

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It's depressing that we need laws like this in "the land of the free".

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The problem with these "settings" is that Windows updates don't respect them. They frequently get reset or superseded by new updates. This happened constantly if you tried to disable Cortana in Windows 10 - even if you changed the registry settings manually, they would get overwritten during updates. I don't trust Microsoft to respect user choice, they have a demonstrated track record of ignoring it.

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I'm curious about the practicality. IP addresses only roughly correlate to geographic location. Are they going to geofence their app?

Obviously the app can be removed from the US app stores, but I doubt they can prevent sideloading or just using a VPN to get access to a different country's app store. And what about all the devices that already have it installed? It's not like it will auto-delete.

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I feel like reaching into individual people's phones and uninstalling software without their permission would be lawsuit bait.

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The whole concept of a private company operating a service that bypasses normal security operations bothers me. Their service is for sale.

Plus, this company is now holding a massive database of biometric information, which you know they're monetizing on the side.

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Yeah, you could also use this method to protect high-value assets all the time, not just for recovery. Require a minimum number of personnel to login by default. It's always a question of balancing security needs vs. ease of use.

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