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Lfrith

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  • A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad

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  • That looks like a nightmare.

    Windows 11 ltsc is interesting in that its like a time capsule. More like Windows 7 than 10. Has no Microsoft store, no onedrive, no game bar. And has old Microsoft paint, calculator, and notepad from Windows 10 with no tabs.

    There's not really anything to uninstall. And it just gets security updates. Its a bare bones OS that feels closer to Linux because of that without the crap that even Windows 10 had showing tiktok and meta in the start menu to remove.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • I think social media for profit played a large role in getting a new generation of ad acceptance, since most use the official app with third party apps generally dead.

    So they are going to get exposed to ads using it on their phones, and then there's the users themselves seeing social as something to try to use to make money so you got human being like living ads too.

  • A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad

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  • Windows 11 ltsc comes with old Notepad. Looks like the same one from Windows 10.

  • What desktop operating system would you recommend to the average user?

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  • Even Windows users don't like Windows. Unless someone is setting up LTSC to avoid feature updates to not get AI crap and ads I would avoid Windows for the average consumer.

  • Discord walks back age verification fears for most users

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  • Chat control was one of the most notable signs that this is an issue around the world with it still popping up over and over in the EU. This is a global fight.

  • Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face

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  • Its not restrictions that is the issue but the attempt to normalize handing out ID and face scans. It would have been more acceptable for them to flat out disallow restricted content than moving towards normalizing this type of entrustment of sensitive data.

  • YouTube star MrBeast buys youth-focused financial services app Step

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  • I don't get it either. I see millions of followers but their streams don't give off a vibe of someone with charisma worthy of that type of obsession.

    Most of them come off of as really obnoxious loud people ranting into a mic. Well...maybe it does make sense seeing the type of people society has rallied around to hold positions of power.

  • Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face

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  • Companies get away with nothing but a small fine that is far less than the money they make from breaking privacy laws, and you are still naive enough to trust things handed over to them is actually private when there is zero transparency on what is going on with their app to perform an independent audit?

  • Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face

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  • Good luck convincing the masses to follow your line of thinking.

    People like us aren't the majority of the population. The only control we have is to either opt in or opt out of what other people are doing.

    We are being dragged along by their decisions.

  • Lawyers set to argue that Instagram and YouTube intentionally addicted and harmed teen in landmark social media trial

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  • Bet they going to try to use it as an excuse to require age verification. They want to collect everyone's selfies and IDs for online accounts.

  • Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users: Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"

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  • No. That is just the nature of public social media. It comes down what you choose to share when it comes to risk, so the same amount as reddit.

    But, userbases who behave more like old school forums are more likely to not share personal stuff like other social media such as facebook, Instagram, tiktok, etc which have drawn people who want to publicly catalog their personal lives.

    For actual privacy that's better left to encrypted private messaging like signal and so on. Social media isn't the place to expect privacy.

  • GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams

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  • Ironic to argue that trying to stop AI is a waste of energy given how much energy is wasted to use AI. Could have used better phrasing in your quest to get people to stop being negative towards AI.

  • Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine

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  • Yeah, making something portable tends to cost more. If it wasn't for tariffs and sudden ram price hike Steam Machine would have been priced cheap with the specs not being anything crazy over powered for a desktop PC.

    If Valve had been able to move up their release by just a couple months they could have pushed out some reasonably priced Steam Machines out before ram prices went out of hand.

    That couple months made a huge difference.

  • Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers

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  • Yeah, when I updated my controller I did it on another device I have windows dual booted on with nothing important on it just for that purpose.

  • Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers

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  • Linux has been good about getting hardware working.

    My wonder was more what is their level of native program support for Linux. Like 8bitdo to update firmware and set up extra profiles requires the Windows program to set up, but as a simple controller it will work on Linux just no real way to do extra stuff unless you dual boot.

  • Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers

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  • I'm talking more about software and program level support. Not whether hardware itself is working on Linux, which Linux has been good at.

    Like software to be able to update firmware on controllers, which doesn't work on Linux. Controller itself will work. 8bitdo to update firmware and set extra profiles they only support windows.

    So more about what their level of native Linux support is so consumers get the same level of extra features as Windows users.

  • Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers

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  • Yeah don't have my hopes up. Without it I don't plan to give their GPUs a shot, since they aren't saviors either with their state sponsored attack on notepad++ as a recent example. Just a potential hardware supplier.

    So despite how bad hardware supply might get for consumers there's still a level of caution I have and would need some level of a trustless system in place.

    Otherwise I'd just opt for old PC hardware like retro console players have been doing for decades.

  • Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers

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  • My hope for open source is that if something sketchy is pushed there might be a chance to catch as opposed to a proprietary approach where nobody has a chance of knowing what is going on.

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  • Linux seems to be common to run things like servers, but is that the case for consumer hardware?

    When I've looked at peripherals like keyboards and controllers linux support has been lacking. Of course, for keyboards I went out of my way to get qmk compatible ones to use via and vial instead so I dont need to run an exe of unknown origins to remap or update the firmware.

    And how is it for games. Is there more of a push to support Linux for their games? Since like Genshin Impact they only officially support Windows. There's work around with anime launcher which disables the DRM, but I wouldn't consider that Linux support with it risking a ban. They have their own version of Finals now and Ive wondered if that has Linux support or at least have the DRM work with wine type methods instead of the approach Valorant took.