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by mindcrash 9mo ago
To be more precise: TikTok in the US is now collecting more data about its users. TikTok across Europe and Asia is still run by TikTok Pte Ltd, the ByteDance subsidiary in Singapore, under the old EULA.
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
And if that is not enough, I just learned (through Deutsche Bank) we in Europe own around $8 trillion in US treasury bonds and equities. FAFO, Orange Man.
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
No, they should move DigiD out of that data center. Pretty much all critical Dutch gov services are located in sovereign data centres across the Netherlands. Why they can't do it with DigiD baffles me. Especially because it is (or at l
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
I've seen a lot of people switch from Windows to Bazzite and they are super happy with it. The only thing you'll have to decide is if you want a desktop which looks more similar to MacOS (GNOME) or Windows (KDE). For now they don&
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
> Kernel antic heat is frustrating but usually its games where I feel like I won't lose anything if I don't play it. And for those you still have options, through streaming: 1> A small headless Windows PC powered with a vide
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
I'm not talking about military strength, I am talking about shipping lanes. Something you can already see in Venezuela as we speak: The Trump Administration has essentially blocked countries like Russia and Iran to ship oil from Venezu
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
HifiBerry is basically the only choice when you live in Europe and do not want to deal with tariffs.
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
They do not really care until the United States takes Greenland. Or NATO outright attacks Russia. Then they do care. Because controlling Greenland means whoever has it gets excessive control over the Arctic Sea. And both parties, but espe
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
While people mock the EU for being entirely toothless, France is the only country in the EU with nuclear deterrence, with 240 warheads coupled to 48 MIRV capable missiles aboard four Triomphant class submarines (built in France), and 50 car
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
> Also can anyone explain why X is calling itself a “news app” and is categorized as “news” instead of social media If I remember correctly the publisher can choose the category of the app it publishes on the storefront. Elon Musk thinks
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
> I think Raspberry lost the magic of the older Pis, they lost that sense of purpose. They basically created a niche with the first Pis, now they're just jumping into segments that others created and are already filled to the brim w
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
If I might add a couple of quotes: "What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old a
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
If it comes to a real hot clash between Denmark and it's allies on one side and the United States at the other in just about two months everything Bert has written are good warnings but it all will be too late. Because it will just tak
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
Yes, something like "Update soon to be expired SSL certificates" as a task with a deadline in the weekly planning. The ops team then could assign the task to themselves whenever they were ready to execute. And as a manager it made
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
This is why should never-ever directly bury cables in the ground/walls/floor and ALWAYS use rigid PVC and/or flexible PVC tubes from site to site and pull the fiber or UTP cables through those tubes. As an alternative if you
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
We used to track and plan this ahead in a shared weekly schedule, together with feature work and assignments. Any good (agile) collaboration system supports this. We did this succesfully in Azure DevOps and GitLab, for example.
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
Some Venezulean sources claim US troops on a helicopter initially tried to capture a beach to turn it into a beachhead and forward operating site but had to return to the battle group without successful deployment (or any deployment at all)
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
> Losing 31 ally nations (possibly more) overnight and all those facilities would be a long-term military disaster, and a longer-term political disaster. And they should also consider all equipment, munition and weapons stored at those f
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
If you are looking for a container interconnect you could also take a look at Skupper ( https://skupper.io/ , Usage examples here: https://skupper.io/examples/ ): "Skupper is an over-the-top, multi-p
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
> I’m sure that recruiters are going to scour the Internet looking for you. They don't have to do that. Apparently there are services which link any known email address, mobile phone etc. to your LinkedIn account through a browser a
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
Windows 11 is forcing you to create and sign into a Microsoft Account, which will also pretty much auto enable all cloud based services connected to that account if you are not careful enough and/or do not really understand what you ar
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
They include the "formerly..." to hilariously try to not confuse people (not joking). They did the same when they rebranded Azure Active Directory and moved it into the Entra family of security products. It's now fully called
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
Azure Active Directory => Microsoft Entra ID (Formerly Azure Active Directory) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/identity-a... And yes, the latter is the complete name as seen on the web pa
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
Next up: Anything running or playing on Windows can be solely distributed, installed and updated through the Microsoft Store. Actually, I should place a bet on Polymarket for that.
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
Which would become a very interesting situation from a geopolitical POV. Because Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, i.e. a NATO country. Which means Denmark could declare war AND invoke NATO Article 5 against the United States: &q
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
Funny that you mention this, because broadly GNOME is seen as Linux' MacOS, and KDE as Linux' Android. At least in terms of user customization.
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
> but browsers only support the Flatpak stack Well, I think you should blame Google and Mozilla for that. KDE (through Discover, https://apps.kde.org/discover/ ) and GNOME (through Software, https://apps.g
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
> The problems you have with one of them might not appear in another. Because both have their own portal implementation/compositor with their own issues and service spec implementations. KDE has xdg-desktop-portal-kde, and GNOME has
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
A loI of people don't know about this and I don't know if they really went ahead with it (been away from everything Microsoft professionally just about three years now) but at the time they were pretty serious about the idea to bu
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by mindcrash 9mo ago
I've just finished the base install of Gentoo on my brand new Framework 16 and I still wonder why I didn't make the move sooner. Hardware: HX370, 128G RAM, Radeon 860M iGPU, Radeon RX7700S dGPU, Xbox Wireless Cntroller, 2T + 8T SS

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