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The Doctor

@ drwho @beehaw.org

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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

I try to post as sincerely as possible.

  • Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted

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  • Probably because the advice in question was lengthy and technical (subtype: laws and legality), and the short form had the disclaimer "Please don't publish the short form because it's too much like giving legal advice.) Something similar happened back in 2012 with Project Byzantium, when we were consulting with the EFF with respect to having cryptographic libraries included in the distro.

  • Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted

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  • Arguably, ITAR set the precedent in the 1990's during the crypto wars. USians used to have to travel to Canada to work on cryptographic code in OpenBSD because their commits couldn't legally be exported.

  • Store making me feel like an outcast because of privacy concerns

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  • I usually just say "Nah, no time, just ring me up."

  • Store making me feel like an outcast because of privacy concerns

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  • Grocery stores. Picking up prescriptions at the pharmacy (there have been a couple of months where I couldn't have afforded the cost if there weren't discount points on 510-867-5309). Stuff at the hardware store. Target, occasionally.

  • Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia

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  • Money and violence, the twin forces that make the world go 'round.

  • Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia

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  • But then there would be no Internet! /s

  • Smart T.V. Privacy Overview?

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  • Thank you - I've added them to my list.

  • Smart T.V. Privacy Overview?

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  • You missed the point.

  • Smart T.V. Privacy Overview?

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  • That's great, I didn't say you were. I was speaking specifically about people who, on the one hand lamented the risks of smart TVs, but on the other hand didn't realize that they would just be plugging their existing digital cable STB's HDMI cable into what amounts to a very large flat panel display.

  • How to avoid Windows Recall as a Linux user?

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  • The best way is to use comms channels that avoid their Windows install entirely. If Recall never sees it, it never gets recorded.

  • Smart T.V. Privacy Overview?

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  • From trying to get people to do that (with no success), it's because it seems too much like work. Folks want something they can plug in and go... but plugging in one extra thing is just a bridge too far these days. It's frustrating as shit.

  • Smart T.V. Privacy Overview?

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  • Can you tell us some of the things to search for so we can find those?

  • MX Linux forum was under a DDOS attack.

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  • Somebody testing their latest botnet before trying to monetize it?

  • “Ventoy” responds to blobs concern on GitHub with ChatGPT nonsense from a newly-created Lemmy account after sole maintainer’s vacation to China

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  • Let's see... Ventoy is a tool intended for sysadmins to use.

    Something sketchy is going on in a tool sysadmins use when working on the crown jewels.

    What could possibly go wrong? /s

  • “Ventoy” responds to blobs concern on GitHub with ChatGPT nonsense from a newly-created Lemmy account after sole maintainer’s vacation to China

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  • New York, DC, and LA as well. If one doesn't want a polite knock, one doesn't speak ill of the CCP.

  • What is your linux backup strategy?

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  • All of my servers make local dumps of their databases and config files to directories owned by unprivileged users. This includes file paths, permissions, and ownerships (so I know how to put them back).

    My primary research server at home uses rsync to pull copies of those local backups from my servers.

    My primary research server uses Restic to make a daily incremental backup to Backblaze's B2 service.

  • FBI created a crypto token so it could watch it being abused • The Register

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  • And study the techniques used for currency manipulation, fraud, and so forth.

  • My #1 recommandation for messenger, as the day of today

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  • Yes, and yes.

  • Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"!

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  • Gee. It's almost as if rich people don't give a single shit about anyone else. /s