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India proposes forcing smartphone makers to give source code in security overhaul
I think that this would be great, since source code auditing would provide insight into anti-consumer additions like malicious backdoors, hidden spyware capabilities, unintended vulnerabilities, etc. However, this could be very bad if this passes and then escalates to mandatory source code modification at the request of a sovereign state. As always, there are possible pros and cons to this approach.
Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever
Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.
https://www.theverge.com/news/690815/bill-gates-linus-torvalds-meeting-photoOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldThis Email from Hillsdale College.
“Elite universities are rife with communism, socialism, transgenderism…”?
“[professors] teach students who and what to hate”?
“[leftists] want a new America opposed to the Founders’ ideas”?
Maybe a little exaggerated?
I'm being forced into using Life360. Is there anything I can do?
I am being forced into installing Life360 on my phone, which as you all probably know, is a massive privacy violation. Just by looking through the AppStore data page, lots of sensitive information gets shared with third parties. There’s got to be a way to disable it, and only enable it when necessary right? Or am I out of options here? Even though it’s only slightly less of a privacy risk, I’d prefer using Apple’s find my service, which has most of the features that Life360 has, while also being built in to every iOS device. How do I reason with this person?
Graphite KDE
DE: KDE Plasma
GTK + QT: Graphite by Vinceliuice
Icons: Tela Circle
No one: Laptop. Could this be hardware or software related?
This has happened 3 times in the past 2 days, any advice? It goes away after reboots but always comes back.
Update: So it could be GPU death, how exciting, especially for a 1.5 year old laptop. As of now it hasn’t terribly affected my workflow, but if this persists even after future kernel/driver updates, it may be rip. I am still hopeful that it could be software related, but time will tell!
This one is a little more interesting
Update 2: I was using Windows for testing purposes, and it happened again! This was immediately after picking the laptop up, so it is definitely hardware related. This time it made a horrible noise as well, answering some of the questions. So somehow by picking the device up, maybe the internals are slightly bent, causing the issues?
Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots
Louisiana, my home state, is banning the promotion of certain vaccines by public health workers. This seems to be in preparation for the upcoming Trump administration.
[Steam] Pankapu | 100% off/Giveaway
Released Sep 21, 2016
Pankapu is a narrative action-platformer that takes place in the dreams of Djaha’rell, a child troubled by a tragic incident. Upgrade your skills, find new competencies, switch your Aegis in real time in order to get rid of Nightmare's invasion.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/418670/Pankapu/Open linkView original on lemmy.worldReddit morals vs Lemmy morals in the greentext community
I recently came across a Reddit post with a greentext also posted here a few weeks before (by me). While the one here got downvoted, the one on Reddit got over two thousand upvotes. Don’t take me wrong however, this has led me to realize how much morals differ between the two platforms; it seems to me like Lemmings have overall better morals in general. I’ve come to appreciate this. Evidence like this shows how much better Lemmy is as a community (excluding lemmygrad) when compared to Reddit. Instead of becoming what you swore to destroy, you became better a better version. I thought you all would find this interesting.