According to them, the platform does not collect names, addresses, or precise GPS coordinates from its users. Instead, it uses anonymized polar coordinate calculations based on ZIP codes to trigger location-based alerts.
The evidence that there is compromised data comes from screenshots on Reddit that are claimed to be of a chatroom where someone is posting something that looks like personal data which contains information that the site says they do not collect. This isn't exactly a smoking gun.
Given that they are the target of a cyber attack, likely one that is politically motivated, I would assume that the attackers are not above spreading disinformation on social media.
This doesn't seem like this is an attack that should work.
How did this bypass signature verification, sure you can send a malicious update... but unless you have the package maintainer's private keys you can't sign it so it would be thrown out by the package manager?
Yes, a program like this wouldn't have unlimited funding and could be overloaded so there would have to be practical limits set.
Ideally, in a system with a working government, the usage/funding would be monitored to ensure that immigration is being handled safely and at levels where there are not multi-year wait time or lottery.
In my opinion, the goal is to create a system where we can screen for border security issues while not hampering people who want to come here, work and pay taxes. This same service should also provide immigrant services to help them with their relocation by providing education and information in order to ease the process.
Open borders is more like 'Come to the window, take an application, open to anybody' and not 'Only for people with corporate sponsors (H-1B)' or 'Willing to work in terrible conditions for shit pay and abuse, then go back home (H-2B)' or 'Be Rich (EB-5)'
There is still control over entry, but anybody who can pass screening and meets minimum requirements (has money to support themselves or has a sponsor/job waiting) will be allowed entry and a path to citizenship.
We're a country of immigrants, it is hypocritical to attack the very system that is responsible for most of us being here.
Thanks for the explanation. So it works similar to the system partition on windows.
Yeah, same bit. Just put everything on another drive/partition and then mount that on /home (so you get /home/user) and that's it.
I somehow struggle a little to understand the role of distribution. When researching how to install Linux, it seemed like an important choice with lots of differences between the various distributions. Some are based on arch, some fedora or ubuntu. It seems like all need different types of packages to install software. And so on. A little ironic, that this is less a problem when running Windows executables through a compatibility layer like wine.
Distributions are essentially just a selection of the basic software required to make a system work. Things like, what version of the kernel you will start with, what init system (systemd is the current popular choice, but sysvinit is still widely used). Then there is the package manager, which is responsible for installing/updating all software on your system (you can install software without the package manager, but here there be dragons) and often a distro will include a Desktop Environment (which is, itself, another package of various software maintained by another group) like KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, XFCE, etc and some default software packages (like, LibreOffice, Firefox, or Steam).
There's a ton of little differences between distros in how they do things. Like one distro may release a full system update periodically and that update will have been in testing for months to ensure stability (Debian). While another strives to ensure the most current version of all software is available (Arch).
Often, groups will like how one system works, let's say Arch, but want to try something else, like adding a graphical installer, and adding some additional software and they'll create a new distro that is built on top of the work done by the Arch distro. This is why you see them described as Arch-based(EndeavourOS) or Fedora-based(Nobara).
That being said, there is no major differences between KDE Plasma that was installed on top of Mint and KDE Plasma installed on Arch. They may have different versions which are available in their respective package repositories, but it's the same software. Mint may not be on the same Kernel version as Nobara but they're all using some version of the same underlying Linux kernel code. Systemd is Systemd on Bazzite, Mint or Debian, etcetc.
I'm glossing over quite a bit and there are exceptions to almost everything I've said but I'm just trying to give you the broad strokes.
Part of the draw of Linux is the ability to swap all of these different components around as you will. Distros are simply popular configurations/design ideas that have a community built around them.
Invest all of your money to build a business with the goal of becoming a monopoly or fail spectacularly enough to pull down the whole economy so you'll get a bailout.
Yes, well Mr. Smartypants, did you consider that maybe Mr. Freeze and his family were living in Ferney-Voltaire instead of your 'technically correct' explanation?!
You can keep your steam library across distros. Games are usually Windows executables, which run through WINE so they're completely independent of the distro.
A common recommendation is to make a partition for your home directory and another for your system directory (they can be on different disks too if that's easier). That way, if you decide to try a different distro then you will still have all of your data/games/settings/etc. If you do this, then everything will move between distros because you only need to overwrite the information on the system partition.
If you just want to keep the Steam stuff, it is typically in /.local/share/steam (/ means your home directory, if you didn't know). If you move it into that same location on your new distro then Steam will see all of your installed games.
The evidence that there is compromised data comes from screenshots on Reddit that are claimed to be of a chatroom where someone is posting something that looks like personal data which contains information that the site says they do not collect. This isn't exactly a smoking gun.
Given that they are the target of a cyber attack, likely one that is politically motivated, I would assume that the attackers are not above spreading disinformation on social media.