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by sys42590 4y ago
Unless they changed programming language of Acrobat Reader to something memory safe, this will open a huge attack surface for drive by hacking. There's a reason why most browsers got rid of plugins (Java Applets, Flash, Acrobat, etc.)
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by sys42590 4y ago
Under Linux many desktop environment have support for FTP (via GVfs, KIO, etc.). A well integrated editor (which Kate might be) will usually support editing files on such folders. Alternatively, you can try curlftpfs, to access your FTP ser
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by sys42590 4y ago
Is this publicly available now? There's currently no "chat" option on bing.com for me.
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by sys42590 4y ago
Indeed... if your (car, train, bus) commute is the highlight of the day, you might need to change a thing or two in your life.
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by sys42590 4y ago
Link seems dead (currently)
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by sys42590 4y ago
And HP announced it in November: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/22/hp-laying-off-4000-6000-empl... My main grief with Dell is that they still practice inflating catalog prices of their business SKU to allow the
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by sys42590 4y ago
Some companies are still offering OpenVZ because it allows to heavily oversell RAM, CPU and storage bandwidth with somewhat graceful degradation of guest performance. I think OpenVZ has kernel patches for RHEL7's 3.10.x kernel, which i
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by sys42590 4y ago
If you compare current laptop offers with a Core i5-1235U and Windows 10/11 Pro, you'll see that at least HP and Lenovo give you significantly more bang for the buck than Dell.
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by sys42590 4y ago
Agreed, a swap(file) on a NVME SSD can keep the kernel's OOM killer away while still yielding quite acceptable performance under many workloads.
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by sys42590 4y ago
I'm a big fan of VMs cheaper than 5$ a month. And you can do a LOT using such VMs, now that most are hosted on SSDs instead of spinning disks. My take-away points are the following: 1) Beware of cheap OpenVZ offers (e.g. on LEB or WHT)
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by sys42590 4y ago
I also remember having some minor hiccups related to network credentials and Windows Hello when I disabled the TPM to prevent any "accidental" W11 upgrade.
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by sys42590 4y ago
Cookie pop-ups became so prevalent and full of dark patterns that I consider surfing the web highly unpleasant without appropriate technical countermeasures. (e.g. "I don't care about cookies" extension). Unfortunately I have
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by sys42590 4y ago
Also many Git web front-ends support formatting some dialect of Markdown documents.
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by sys42590 4y ago
2 years ago, I went to an Samsung authorized third party repair shop to to have a cracked screen replaced. They told me it will take 5 weeks to have my phone repaired. I then went to an unauthorized repair shop and they replaced my cracked
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by sys42590 4y ago
That's what I'm saying, for Apple it's much easier to contact Apple directly (or any authorized repair shop) to have your device repaired or replaced. It may be possible for other Brands but their network is much smaller, so
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by sys42590 4y ago
For free under warranty?
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by sys42590 4y ago
I really like this step... especially because they sell a mix of "good" brands and stuff you could get on Aliexpress for a tenth of the price. One more observation: If you look at the smartphone scores, you'll see that Apple
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by sys42590 4y ago
thanks for the parts list, especially because I think ASRock Rack paired with a Ryzen Pro offers better performance than a Supermicro in the same price range.
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by sys42590 4y ago
Indeed, that box here next to my desk draws 50W of electricity continuously despite being mostly idle. Why? Because it has ECC. Having some affordable low power device with ECC would be a game changer for me. I added affordable to exclude e
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by sys42590 4y ago
Prison phones have been a topic on LTT some months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xouEd5cVE8
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by sys42590 4y ago
dehydrated, as it has little dependencies.
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by sys42590 4y ago
ZeroSSL left an uncanny impression on me when for some reason acme.sh developers made them default instead of Let's Encrypt. This prompted me to switch to a different client (just in case of further worsening of Let's Encrypt supp
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by sys42590 4y ago
Threema had 9 years to migrate to something more standard like the Signal protocol, given the findings in the article, that would have been a great idea. In their defense, they're a comparably tiny company, so a full protocol rewrite m
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by sys42590 4y ago
The story around Threema feels a tiny bit like Crypto AG repeating: Reputable Swiss company sells homebrew crypto to unsuspecting parties.
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by sys42590 4y ago
If a company makes >99.9% of profits within North America, blocking access for the rest of the world might antagonize a few legit users but may offer some "advantages", too. E.g. not having to worry about European regulations a
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by sys42590 4y ago
> I have seen human copywriters producing much worse content than what ChatGPT does based on good prompts. Why on Earth should we not automate that? Because then it gets even cheaper to spam the general population with advertisements and
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by sys42590 4y ago
Sending shakedown mails is cheap, especially because it's easy to automate the scanning of websites and assembly of such mails. If even just 1% of recipients pay him it's a profitable "business" model. I'd be VERY s
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by sys42590 4y ago
IMO asking for CC details upfront for a "free trial" in the hope that people forget to cancel is a very dark pattern. A customer friendly free trial will have some limitations (e.g. stops working after a while, inserts a watermark
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by sys42590 4y ago
When I first read that article, the writing looked dull and unstructured, so I did not read it to the end. I assumed it was written by a human either lacking the skill or the motivation to create a captivating piece of text. If in the futur
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by sys42590 4y ago
In such cases I'd normally apply Hanlon's razor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor ) but this security gap is really huge and rather obvious if you have an informed look at the code. So this is

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