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Blemgo

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  • I'm not the one who you asked, but I'd still give some feedback of my own. Musk as a person is a difficult character. I would even go as far as calling him narcissistic.

    • He got thrown out of PayPal for his incessant micromanagement and disruptions to the flow of the company
    • he bought himself into Tesla to replace the CEO with himself
    • he tends to depict himself as one of the greatest tech geniuses out there, yet often the plans he presents to the public are often poorly thought out and serve no other purpose than to show his "talents"
    • when his proposal to build a tiny submarine for the Than Luang cave rescue was shot down and a British diver was chosen instead he resorted to call the diver a "pedo guy"
    • his latest attempts in politics, especially concerning DOGE feel completely half baked and, again, how he presents himself in his position feels more like an ego trip than something more reasonable
    • he publicly had talks with the controversial German political party "Alternative für Deutschland", which are currently legally considered "assured right-wing extremists" and have had a history of having Nazis and Nazi sympathisers in their ranks

    I generally can't trust someone who seems to put himself first at everything to handle anything related to security when the role allows him to exploit it for his own gains. And I do not trust someone who supports political groups known for trying to oppress minorities to defend actual rights for free speech.

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  • The question is whether this actually is E2EE, as it's easy to fake by using a man in the middle attack and hard to prove. The only real way to prove it for sure is to run a third party security audit, like Signal does.

    Taking down the old system doesn't inspire confidence either, as this downtime could easily been used to interrupt old conversations in order to implement a way to decrypt the messages on the servers before passing it on to the actual recipient, as all keys would have to be re-issued.

  • Every god damn time

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  • I do like the hooks on Display Port, honestly. There were quite a few times where HDMI cables came loose while adjusting my screen due to the cable being tied together with other cables for organisational purposes. Putting it back in always a chore then.

    I don't think it is even much of a hassle when unplugging it from a machine, such as a PC. I do agree it's a pain for monitors however, as the ports usually are in a more indented position.

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  • Honestly, Telegramm always seemed to me a bit shifty since I learnt E2EE for chats was opt-in.

  • Googles neue Video-KI Veo3 sorgt für Hype im Internet – und Angst vor täuschend echten Fakes

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  • Ich Stimme zu, dass das "einfachste" Indiz bei den Beispielen die Stimme ist. Hier kommt es oft zu Stimmverzerrungen, die stark nach Dekodierfehler klingen, aber nur die Stimme betreffen.

    Was auch auffällt sind Hintergrundcharakter. Ein gutes Beispiel ist die falsche Autoexpo. Wenn man die Szenen mit dem Mann mit dem Kinderwagen genauer ansieht, sind die Posen vom Mann und Kinderwagen immer sehr ähnlich. Des weiteren verhält sich der Mann sehr ungewöhnlich. Menschen verhalten sich sehr eigenartig wenn sie wissen, dass sie gefilmt werden, und man merkt dass sie oftmals achtsam die Kamera ignorieren während sie dennoch Aufmerksamkeit der Kamera geben. Teilweise schnelle Bewegungen durch die Anspannung, was die KI immer noch schlecht imitieren kann.

    Generell ist die beste Strategie skeptisch zu Medien zu sein und die Inhalte zu hinterfragen.

  • Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers

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  • You are forgetting targeted attacks. A blind attack would pretty much not have much of an effect indeed, however if the attacker knows the machine, then it's easy for the attackers to exploit these vulnerability if left "out in the open", and cause havoc, possibly create a lot of damages or leech informations pumped into those machines via old Windows installations.

  • Emergency Data & Login Nuke Tool (Bugfish-Nuke)

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  • Quick question about the overwrite passes: is it overwritten with random numbers or is there a sequence of passes?

  • Emergency Data & Login Nuke Tool (Bugfish-Nuke)

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  • Is there a benefit from this over the inbuilt Secure Erase functionality in most SSDs/NVMEs? To my knowledge, it instantly dumps the current from all cells, emptying the data on it.

    Furthermore, another issue with SSDs/NVMEs is that it automatically excludes bad blocks, meaning that classic read/write operations can't even reach those blocks anyways. Theoretically that feature could also be used against you to preserve the data on the disk by marking all blocks as bad, rendering them as inaccessible by the file system.

    Of course there's also the issue of Secure Erase not being implemented properly in some drives, leading to the bad blocks not being touched by the hardware chip during that procedure.

  • How do we put a stop to road violence and curb excessive car use? Look at how we dealt with guns

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  • I mean, the reason why cars are so bulky is that the government makes it cheaper for automile manufacturers to produce SUVs than any other car. If we really want to make the streets safer, we should tackle that issue first, rather than planning on adding taking away one's driver's licence as punishment.

    Furthermore, there is a need for cars, as public transportation in some areas just isn't good enough. Taking away one's ability to legally drive a car is then not just an inconvenience, but might make it nigh impossible for some people to live.

  • Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI | The Verge

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  • I can also recommend Pimsleur. A bit more expensive, but features more traditional style courses, while offering a lot of what Duolingo has. Plus actual topics with grammar, not just random words!

  • Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to

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  • My guess is that the wires/tracks could get stuck in sewage, and it might make it harder to examine the floor better due to how small the drone might be.

    I had the idea of a monorail system, but I guess it would have a similar issue in case the surface the rail was attached to got faulty. Might've been cool looking though.

  • Remember the Nega-Wojak.

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  • First of all, when learning about helping those with suicidal thoughts, one of the first thngs you learn is that trying to tell them that their departure will hurt those around you will drive them even more into suicide due to the added pressure.

    Secondly, by not hearing someone fully out, all you do is cementing yours and the other's opinions. If you really want to change things, listen to the other and try to reason with the other on why their reasoning is faulty.

    I do apologize if my post was a bit emotionally loaded, since it is a topic that hits very close to home, as someone with a past of suicidal thoughts. And I know how much it hurts to lose someone. Yes one has to remember that someone suffering from depression does not think sane. The main thing one should always do is make the other feel heard, because they will think that no one does. Show them that they are not alone against their own thoughts, because they will think they are. Signal to them that you are an ally for them, as they will think everyone is a threat.

  • Remember the Nega-Wojak.

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  • I disagree and cannot condone this statement, as it inevitably harms those you are trying to save. It denies them of their feelings in favor or preserving the status quo, which brought them to that situation in the first place. It is selfish at best and manipulative cult-like behaviour at worst.

    Suicide has been labeled wrong because it harms the society the individual lives in. The surrounding community will lose one contributing member and gain only pain from the loss.

    However one has no right to decide over the lives of others, and there are fates worse than a quick death. If you want to help, accept that people have those thoughts, because they are natural, as we can only bear torment for a certain amount of time. Don't punish them for wanting to have peace, help them to get peace in some other way, if possible.

    Suicide is bad, but not wrong. What is wrong is not helping others who are hurting in any way one can.

  • Come to the dark side no seriously we have cookies

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  • Generally during the mounting process, which is pretty early on at the OS boot process.

  • Come to the dark side no seriously we have cookies

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  • Yeah, that's a risk. However you'll always risk having leftovers from programs, even when continuing to use an OS, simply because you might switch programs, the developer rethinks where they store the config files, etc..

    In most cases these files are relatively small and won't be very noticeable in the long run. However if that still bothers you have no other choice but to cleanup your config files regardless.

    Also, those config files are generally only for your own user, i.e. user-related configurations, not program-dependent ones. System configs are generally stored outside the user profiles.

  • Come to the dark side no seriously we have cookies

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  • Honestly, I'd argue it depends on the use case. A lightweight distro meant for basic tasks will never consume as much as a gaming one. Factoring in that your snapshots will naturally grow over time (and thus disk space) will mean that repartitioning, and getting bigger hard drives, is always a thing.

    I'd still just trust the general installation guide, if it offers automatic partition allocation. Just only do partitions for /boot, / and /home, I've never found much use for /var /log and such as a separate partition, at least as a home user.

    And when in doubt: use LVM with ext4 for dynamic partitions. BTRFS has a similar feature, but it's still experimental, and thus potentially unstable.

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  • I recommend making your /home a separate partition. It makes switching distros easier and also allows you to not encrypt your installation and only your own files, saving you from the headache in the case LUKS doesn't work properly anymore.

  • The German university KIT provides almost 30 free and open-source privacy-friendly Android apps. Example: A QR Scanner

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  • Honestly, Sailfish is only worth it if you have a license, as there are very few native apps and the android compatibility layer is the only way to have a proper daily driver phone. I did try it with the Sony Xperia X II a 1-2 years ago, and honestly, it was still very buggy.

  • The German university KIT provides almost 30 free and open-source privacy-friendly Android apps. Example: A QR Scanner

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  • Generally, GrapheneOS ia pretty much the best privacy-focused android version you can have, as it will strip away anything that's related to google while focusing on a small amount of supported devices to ensure that not many vulnerabilities are possible on the devices.

    LimeageOS are less focused on privacy and more about availability. /e/OS is pretty much a downstream of LineageOS focused on Fairphones. Generally a good choice if you want android without google services.