The opulence of the UAE lets a certain type of person overlook its human rights abuses and hostility towards women and queer people to view it as an appealing travel destination. It’s probably overlooked because without that opulence, Oman is just another dictatorship actively hostile to over half of the people who might travel there.

Since this is being posted fucking everywhere with the same sensational headline that makes it look like linkedin is jumping out of the browser to scan your actual filesystems, here’s an exerpt from the site linked:

The Attack: How it works
Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers. The entire process happens in the background. There is no consent dialog, no notification, no mention of it in LinkedIn’s privacy policy.

It’s enumerating the browser extensions you have installed.

Qubes as a daily can be pretty cumbersome with a steep learning curve, but once you get the hang of it it’s a very unique modular kind of experience, and a pretty good way to safely(ish) use one machine for many things - certainly much more so than any of the main linux distros. If you’re interested in security, worth checking out!

Linux hobbyist for 20+ years, pro for 6+. Fedora for workstations, proxmox for hypervisors, and rocky for servers is my usual personal recommendation. Beyond that, secureblue (a hardened downstream of fedora atomic) with heads firmware is a fantastic daily driver if you’re into that kind of thing.

Started with debian sarge way back in the day, currently using secureblue and qubes with fedora vms for most work, with a debian htpc on the side. For servers, I’m mostly debian-based on hardware (a bunch of proxmox machines at various sites and debian-based raspberry pis everywhere), with mostly redhat-based vms. Some alpine and freebsd baremetal and virtual machines sprinkled in here and there for flavor where they fit right.

Yet another colossal American self-sabotage for the good of the fossil fuel industry.

It isn’t much to ask for a game built for one operating system to work perfectly on a completely, fundamentally different operating system, by means of the vastly complex and enormous work of thousands of people, which they donated to the world so that you can access it for free?

Sometimes, I ask OpenClaw to…

This person should not be trusted with anything.

You can use hdparm with the -S parameter to set the standby/spindown time for a hard drive.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hdparm#Power_management_configuration

The fact that PG&E, a monopolistic utility, is a private for-profit company is a fucking travesty. Their intentional criminal negligence has killed hundreds of people and poisoned thousands more for the profit of their shareholders while simultaneously and perpetually worsening things for their customers. It should have been nationalized and its entire C-suite and board guillotined decades ago.

The first secession also led to the creation of the office of Tribune of the Plebs, an important and fairly powerful check on patrician power over the next few centuries.

A very rough sysadmin equivalent in my mind is infrastructure-as-code, like having a base system configuration pushed out via ansible that manual configurations can be made on top of. Saves all the preparatory busywork, equivalent to chopping your mirepoix in advance.

Vanadium on secure mobile and Trivalent on secure desktop, and a mix of Fennec/Firefox and Chromium where required on casual mobile/desktop/htpc

This quote from your link on the main client e2ee issues captures the zeitgeist of modern tech so beautifully:

Please keep in mind that this website is a furry blog, first and foremost, that sometimes happens to cover security and cryptography topics.

I’m reading this post as a well-intended PSA for those who might not know that their computers keep logs, and I appreciate the poster for that. But also I got a laugh from it sounding kind of like this:

If you want to avoid providing incriminating evidence during a possible police interrogation, you must disable your brain’s long-term memory functions by lobotomizing yourself

Ye Vagabonds are on a US tour right now, and I’m so excited to see them I’ve been listening to them nonstop. A lovely Irish folk music duo of two brothers.

My favorite recently:
https://youtu.be/3WMBtCOzYks

Your email is the root of your digital identity, and pretty much everything in your digital life is tied to it. If your email is provided by Big Email, they own your digital identity and it exists at their whim, with no recourse if it gets taken away, compromised, or abused.

If you own your domain and pay for mail hosting, you can at least move your email between providers if something goes wrong, and have some recourse with those providers since you’re a customer instead of a product.

You should only enter a password once to log in, so maybe we just use our machines 1000x more than other people?

deleted by creator

You’re right, thanks!

This looks to be running a full virtual machine via the Android Virtualization Framework in the same way as the new “Terminal” app in AOSP, so you have full root control over it.

Edit: I was wrong about the backend, per below it uses proot instead