ozymandias117

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[–] ozymandias117 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Where did Microsoft put an official announcement saying the statement from an official Microsoft employee, Jerry Nixon, speaking at an official Microsoft conference, Ignite, was incorrect?

Edit:

When reached for comment, [Microsoft] didn't dismiss them at all

Recent comments at Ignite about Windows 10 are reflective of the way Windows will be delivered

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-version-of-windows

[–] ozymandias117 3 points 1 week ago

Yes, in the sense that every device you own has these same commands

The alarmist of the original was that this was somehow unique to the esp32

If your device has Bluetooth, it has these commands

[–] ozymandias117 4 points 1 week ago

I agree, but unfortunately, this has become common since Heartbleed, and they seem to be able to sell their snake oil to CTOs...

[–] ozymandias117 74 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I think the bigger complaint is that, when Galaxy was released, GOG said (back in 2015)

A Linux version of our client is planned eventually ... Stay tuned for future announcements

Ten years is plenty of time to implement a launcher, or at least give a planned timeline

Sure, third parties have done it with Heroic, etc. but promising support and not delivering leaves a really bad taste to me

[–] ozymandias117 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The article is a security company trying to hype their company with a theoretical attack that currently has no hypothetical way to be abused

The article has an update now fixing the wording to "hidden feature" but, spoilers, every BT device has vendor specific commands.

The documentation of the part just wasn't complete and this companies "fuzzing" tool found some vendor commands that weren't in the data sheet

The China part just came from OP

[–] ozymandias117 13 points 1 week ago

If they're being shared as disk images, basically every Blu-Ray has an embedded Java program, also

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD-J

[–] ozymandias117 13 points 1 week ago

The Ubuntu security team only supports the ~2,000 packages in "main"

Things like ffmpeg are in "universe" and only get security updates if you subscribe to Ubuntu Pro

ubuntu.com/security/esm

Debian's security team has always been significantly more responsive than Ubuntu. It's regularly had CVE fixes in older versions of Debian that newer versions of Ubuntu don't bother to pull into universe

[–] ozymandias117 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can even trivially run your own server on an old Raspberry Pi.

I used to run one on a Pi 2 that would regularly have ~100 concurrent users without any hiccups

[–] ozymandias117 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's separate from what OP is talking about. The on-device encryption is decent

For data on Apple's servers (which they push icloud by anemic device storage...) Apple themselves publish that they give access to user accounts 90% of the time in the US

https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html

[–] ozymandias117 1 points 2 weeks ago

Finding a searxng instance and entering a random search term, the first 10 pages of results all came from google.

Checking the preferences, there were 4 search, and 6 of the other toggles enabled.

Even enabling all engines and rerunning the search, the first 13 results were listed as google

Is it meaningfully different from this offering if all the results it picks seemingly come from Google?

If I disable all but mojeek and qwant, all the results came from mojeek

[–] ozymandias117 1 points 2 weeks ago

That may be the best option right now, but it's still a far cry from an upstreamed device

They aren't able to support devices longer than Qualcomm and Google maintain the random out-of-tree drivers for a chipset, and even state such in their "legacy support" for harm reduction

[–] ozymandias117 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sure, I just wasn't sure if 2^9 has some historical significance in nazism or fascism

 

I was looking at a grocery receipt, and there are three different tax rates depending on the items. The receipt doesn't even specify which items are taxed at which rate - just the total at each percentage.

I understand the goal of lower or higher taxes on groceries is to incentivize purchasing healthier options over more processed foods, but does it really affect purchasing decisions when the final price of the items is opaque to the consumer?

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I’m considering trying out an immutable distro after using Tumbleweed for the last 6 years.

The two major options for me seem to be Fedora Kinoite or uBlue Aurora-dx

My understanding is that universal-blue is a downstream of Fedora Atomic

So, the points in favor of Kinoite is sticking closer to upstream, however it seems like I would need to layer quite a few packages. My understanding is that this is discouraged in an rpm-ostree setup, particularly due to update time and possible mismatches with RPMFusion

uBlue Aurora-dx seems to include a lot of the additional support I’d need - ROCm, distrobox, virt-manager, libratbag, media codecs, etc. however I’m unclear how mature the project is and whether it will be updated in a timely manner long term

I’m curious what the community thinks between the two as a viable option

 

I'm not sure if this is an iOS bug or an issue with wefwef, but any time I select a text entry, I don't get a keyboard on an iPhone 13 running iOS 16.5.1 and wefwef 0.10.4.

Is this a known issue?

 

I tend to lean towards melodic death metal and symphonic metal, so hopefully this fits!

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