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what is your private key
Somewhere between 3 and 5
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what is your private key
Somewhere between 3 and 5
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Active listening
Everyone in MGS apparently speaks like that because that's how you speak in Japanese, when you acknowledge something you just repeat it as a question instead of saying something like "oh cool", normally it's localized away.
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SUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand
Rename it to openSUS
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Anon and Rusty
Real and straight
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When was the last time some, crazy, random, extremely well produced, content like "Kung Fury" happened?
Anything made by Captain Disillusion
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XWayland 24.1 Released With Explicit Sync, Better Rootful Experience
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A compositor is a program responsible for displaying program windows and things like the desktop on your PC. On Linux, the compositor is just a program that starts when the system starts. There are multiple desktop environments available, like Plasma or Gnome, each comes with their own compositor, you can choose which you want to use.
Wayland is a protocol that the programs use to communicate with the compositor. Everyone decided to use Wayland, because if each compositor had their own protocol it would be silly, eg some programs would work only on Plasma or Gnome.
It's a replacement for a much older X11, which could no longer keep up with requirements of modern apps.
You never hear anything about compositors on Windows or Mac because there's only one available, you can't choose.
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Firefox 147 Will Support The XDG Base Directory Specification
It's important to note that apparently there's no automatic migration path and this will be only used for new profiles, so you have to migrate manually.
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xkcd #3307: Spectrum Allocation
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Also maybe it's a reference to the 2.4 GHz band, used by a ton of wireless protocols, most notably bluetooth and wifi.
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Scientists discovered human can also breathe ________
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Half-Life 2: Episode 3 could have featured an ice gun and blob monsters, as seen in new documentary footage
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The tech for the blobs of the "slimes" got reused for the Portal 2 gels, actually.
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I wanted to be a tram driver, became a programmer instead.
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For Linux there's DB Browser for SQLite
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Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.
@grok is this real
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Is there a working method to use argon2id with encrypted /boot?
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The simplified way of how Secure Boot works is you have a bunch of public keys stored in the UEFI, and you can sign .efi executables with the private key. If the signature of an executable is invalid or the file has been tampered with, UEFI refuses to run it.
Now, every computer sold nowadays comes with Microsoft's keys pre-installed, one for Windows and one for stuff that Microsoft deems worthy of signing.
One of those things is shim, it's signed with one of Microsoft keys and it looks for the MOK database to see what it can boot or not.
But you don't have to use Microsoft keys, you can make your own, put it in your UEFI and sign your stuff. That's why UKI is useful, it's a single EFI file you can sign. You can even sign your bootloader, like systemd-boot. The Secure Boot Arch Linux Wiki link contains information of how to do it easily with sbctl.
TPM is completely independent of Secure Boot, it can be used with or without it.
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Is there a working method to use argon2id with encrypted /boot?
The way I do it is I use a UKI. It's an approach similar to efistub, you pack the kernel and initramfs into a single EFI file, then sign it with custom Secure Boot keys generated with sbctl.
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Tacoma Wept
Why do I know what the title is referring to
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Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information
May I recommend knockout.chat, a general forum, made by ex Facepunch members.
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horse
hidden path ahead