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All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU
Thank fucking god for the EU, for fighting for global digital rights where nobody else does.
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All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU
Thank fucking god for the EU, for fighting for global digital rights where nobody else does.
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Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm
This is just an attack that attempts common username/password combinations on ssh, and the article even states that the worm is dime-a-dozen. Unless you have both password auth enabled and an available account with an easily guessable password (and if you have either you should change that), this is nothing to worry about, even with sshd available to the internet.
Sensationalist title.
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Ted Cruz uses unauthorized images of cisgender students in anti-transgender attack ads
Those kids and their families should sue the fuck out of him.
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Russia complained that its 'peaceful' people don't deserve to be invaded
Get fucked, Russia.
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WARNING: Lemmy Self-Hosters, There Have Been CSAM Attacks taking place against [email protected]
If you aren't going to fully wipe your drive in horrible events like this, at the very least use shred instead of rm. rm simply removes references to the file in the filesystem, leaving the data behind on the disk until other data happens to be written there.
Do not ever allow data like that to exist on your machines. The law doesn't care how it got there.
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What GitHub alternative do you use?
Forgejo, a Gitea fork used by Codeberg. I chose it because it's got the right balance of features to weight for my small use case, it has FOSS spirit, and it's got a lovely package maintainer for FreeBSD that makes deployment and maintenance easy peasy (thanks Stefan <3).
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Russian delete
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The only legitimate commands for a non-root shell are sudo -i, exit, and echo "yee haw"
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What instances do you block and/or contain the most trolls?
I blocked hexbear and lemmygrad to stop the firehose of kremlin/beijing propaganda cluttering up my feed and that made my lemmy experience worlds better. There's only so many times you can read "special military operation" used unironically..
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How about we play, "Never have I ever"?
Friendly reminder that lemmy votes are public
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Linux: I'm not asking
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Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE Act’ commits a ‘First Amendment sin,’ appeals court says in ruling that blocks part of the bill
Anyone that uses "woke" as a pejorative really just wants to say the n-word instead, but don't think they can get away with it yet.
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Ukrainian Olympic weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko dies in war with Russia
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He volunteered.
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you know what
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The resolution is actually quadrupled by doubling the value of both axes. In this case going from 1500x1424 (2.1MP) to 3504x3327 (11.7MP) multiplies the total number of pixels by 5.4
With the same level of jpeg compression you'd expect it to jump from 700KB to roughly 4MB. Since both images are the same file format, the rest of the file size difference is likely attributable to less jpeg compression being used in the larger image.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom orders state workers back to office
What a cunt
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Russia Mulls Forking Linux in Response to Developer Exclusions
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The real challenge facing a kremlin linux fork isn't opposition, it's deciding what to do once they realize there aren't any maternity wards in the kernel they can shoot ballistic missiles at.
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Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline
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Not having security patches on a system you do things like go to your banking website on is actually a pretty big deal, and I don't think it should be dismissed lightly. Also AV is mostly snake oil, and is in no way an adequate substitute for a properly patched OS.
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Nikita Khrushchev, in his own memoir, stating clearly that the USSR could not have won the war on its own:
I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany's pressure, and we would have lost the war. No one ever discussed this subject officially, and I don't think Stalin left any written evidence of his opinion, but I will state here that several times in conversations with me he noted that these were the actual circumstances. He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so.
-Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich; Khrushchev, Serge (2004). Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Commissar, 1918–1945. Penn State Press. pp. 638–639.
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What is the best cloud storage provider right now?
When it comes to privacy and security, I think you should treat all cloud providers equally. Use a client with client-side encryption so that the only thing that touches the provider is encrypted data.
Rclone is an example of a good client that can do this, and can even mount your cloud storage as a filesystem with its encryption layer in between.
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ssh predates the specification, exists somewhat independently of even the idea of a desktop (not common to see xdg env variables like XDG_CONFIG in a headless environment, for example), and uses the homedir/.ssh directory on both the client and server side of a connection. I think it's less to do with security and more to do with uniformity for something as important as ssh - ssh doesn't need to change to use the xdg spec, and xdg doesn't need to allot anything special for ssh when it's already uniform across the unix spectrum
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Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year
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Anyone who's had to open a Microsoft support ticket can assure you technical support is already not available from Microsoft.