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fl42v

@ fl42v @lemmy.ml

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  • hey L.W mods/admins, how's it going?

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  • I mean, VHEMT is a great ideology and ever, but the dude seems to have missed the "voluntary" part.

  • "You need to try Linux"

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  • It's feRd

  • Secure Boot on or off with Mint?

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  • As always, the answer is "depends". It shouldn't hurt unless you're dual-booting windows (they used it last year as a weapon in their "mess up grub" game), but, Imo, it's worth the trouble if:

    • your data is also encrypted -- otherwise one just removes the HDD/SSD and reads what they need;
    • you provision your own keys -- to not depend on Microsoft signing shims for you;
    • you delete the already provisioned keys -- Microsoft signed a few vulnerable things, like one kaspersky's (iirc) live CD with grub not locked down, so one can boot up literally anything anyway;
    • you lock down grub or whatever bootloader you're using -- otherwise you become that vulnerable live cd;
    • you password lock the uefi -- otherwise one can simply disable the secureboot;
    • your vendor's implementation isn't terribly buggy -- iirc, some MSI laptops would just ignore all the discrepancies.

    So, a lot of ifs, and a necessity to store the uefi password somewhere safe, as those may be a pita to reset.

    As for standalone stuff -- idk, it might protect you from malware injecting itself into the bootloader or something, but given there's likely no chain of trust (I.e. the bootloader doesn't check what it bootloads), it can move in on some later step.

  • What was your first Linux distribution?

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  • This, but backtrack 5 (the one just before kali). On a laptop that'd take several eternities to brutforce an md5 🤣

  • AI will never be able to write like me.

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  • Reminded me one of the vids of f4mi, although that ladiy's approach is far more beautiful. Basically, she took advantage of ai scrapers relying on subtitles and YouTube allowing for pretty advanced styling of those very subtitles to insert garbage that only bots will see.

    To those interested in the details, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEDFUjqA1s8 (selecting a working invidious instance is left as an exercise for the reader)

  • Happy birthday, Lenin!

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  • Quite simple, actually. If you want to do a thing that violates a law, you modify the law to allow the thing.

  • We want privacy but not that much

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  • Or start adding "-site:reddit.com". On the other hand, in some cases it kinda makes sense with SEO being basically "generate a wall of text on what should be one paragraph with 3.5 sentences".

  • Anyway, here are terminal commands you don't understand.

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  • I guess I misunderstood the meme, then: to me it looked like a jab at nerds that ignore "simpler" solutions when they themselves have a problem, rather than said nerds giving overcomplicated advice

  • Thinking on switching to linux

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  • GuixSD then /jk

  • Anyway, here are terminal commands you don't understand.

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  • Sometimes it's easier to assemble what you need from parts than go adding/removing stuff from somewhat monolithic solutions, tho.

  • Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April

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  • As in, symfonium.app? If so, seems questionable, given its proprietary nature and unavailability outside the play store. Although, the feature set is interesting.

    Edit: yeeeah, no

    From their FAQ:

    licences checks requires a call to the verification server from time to time

    The license is tied to your Google account

  • Guess who now has a girlfriend! (Can't text her back sadly, since she's banned)

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  • a message

    Or 6

  • gravestone status

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  • Neither can we, little system. Neither can we.

  • Yes

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  • The music you guys breakdance to doesn't have breakdowns?

  • According to my crippling living expenses, my existence is a burden to me.

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  • Been on the receiving end of apologizing for no reason. Annoying AF

  • Don't try this at home

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  • I'd rather not drink it, on the off chance it's mixture of water and ethylene glycol, like in those snow globes, or some other poisonous shit.

  • Just something I made

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  • Not exactly. In English, stuff that's not a person is of neutral gender, i.e. just "it" (unless the speaker has an affection towards it, then it's usually a "she"). In other languages stuff also has "genders", like "la chambre" (the French* for "a room") is a "she".

    So, my initial guess was that the dev natively speaks some language, where a user is a "he", and ppl don't have a concept of a neutral gender. But in case of Swedish ~there are 2 variants of "it" for things~ [edit: there's "it" and "they"], so it seems incorrect.

    I'm using French instead of, for example, Russian here due to it not having a neutral gender, while Russian has "it" and something akin to "they" (like "задира", the Russian for a bully). Although, I may be wrong here, since I've started learning French quite recently, and may've missed smth.

  • Just something I made

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  • Huh, checked out their noun genders, and those are quite interesting: 2 genders, but common and neuter instead of masculine and feminine. So out goes that theory

  • Did you know?

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  • And that, my friend, actually depends on the establishment you're sourcing 'em from

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
    fl42v @lemmy.ml

    I've been asking myself the same for quite a while now

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
    fl42v @lemmy.ml

    Should've searched for a mirror

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    fl42v @lemmy.ml

    Were zx spectrum +2 keyboards disgusting to type on?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    fl42v @lemmy.ml

    Nvidia tries to kill CUDA translation layers | Tom's Hardware

    www.tomshardware.com /pc-components/gpus/nvidia-bans-using-translation-layers-for-cuda-software-to-run-on-other-chips-new-restriction-apparently-targets-zluda-and-some-chinese-gpu-makers
  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
    fl42v @lemmy.ml

    Who needs FHS, anyways?

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    fl42v @lemmy.ml

    You can certainly change it. But should you?

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
    fl42v @lemmy.ml

    Evil maid or something? Idk I use LUKS

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
    fl42v @lemmy.ml

    If there was more than one Illinois, would they be called Illinoises or Illinoi?