Mandrake -> Whatever came on the Linux Magazine CD -> Backtrack -> Arch

According to the Arch Wiki, it’s the driver recommended by NVIDIA and, anecdotally, I was having issues in Wayland and with gamescope/HDR until I switched to the nvidia-open drivers.

You don’t need to do any of this.

If your drive is not encrypted, then this won’t save you. It takes time to overwrite files and if your computer were the target of any adversary, they would simply unplug it immediately and then image it.

If your drive is encrypted, then you can just overwrite the headers that contain the key slots. This would take hundredths of a second.

yay -S nvidia-open

Load it and it fingerprints your browser. You can add a signature to that fingerprint.

Make whatever changes you want to make to resist fingerprinting and reload the page. If it displays your signature then it has identified you, if not then your changes worked.

Ideally, every page refresh would generate a new unique fingerprint so the page can’t link you to the last time you loaded the page (which is what tracking is, essentially)

The site also displays all of the data that it can see, for advanced users

Exactly, nothing that justifies indefinite jailing. Doing a weekend in jail or something would be fair but life in prison for being late is nonsense.

MSOP opened in 1995. For the next 20 years, the program did not release a single person. Almost a hundred people, however, have died inside. Ruby Brewer, a therapist who resigned after three years working at MSOP, told The Appeal that staff sometimes refer to the deaths of the people confined there as “graduations.”

These places are, allegedly, treatment centers but have failed to rehabilitate a single person in 20 years?

They’re not, they’re simply a way to give someone life in prison without calling it that.

Welcome to the club :)

Safe gun handling and storage practices ensure that, in the event of an emergency (like a home invasion), authorized people can readily access the weapons that you have stored. Firearms have no value for home defense if they require the owner to be physically present when they’re accessed… home invaders are not going to wait for your mother to drive home and open the gun safe.

This wasn’t a minor child, or some random person breaking into her house to steal firearms. It is perfectly reasonable to store weapons and allow the adults who live in the household to have access to them for emergencies.

The person who is in the wrong here is the man who took weapons into a public place and started shooting.

It’s frustrating enough to make you lay colored eggs 🤔

I learned how to make a dual boot machine first.

My friend wanted to get me to install it, but he had a 2nd machine to run Windows on. So we figured out how to dual boot.

And then we learned how to fix windows boot issues 😮‍💨

We mostly did it for the challenge. Those Linux Magazine CDs with new distros and software were a monthly challenge of “How can I install this and also not destroy my ability to play Diablo?”

I definitely have lost at least one install to getting stuck in vim, flailing the keyboard and writing garbage data into a critical config file before rebooting.

Modern Linux is amazing in comparison, you can use it for essentially any task and it still has a capacity for customization that is astonishing.

The early days were interesting if you like getting lost in the terminal and figuring things out without a search engine. Lots of trial and error, finding documentation, reading documentation, etc.

It was interesting, but be glad you have access to modern Linux. There’s more to explore, better documentation, and the capabilities that you can pull in are still astonishing.

That doesn’t mean that people are entitled to invent an alternate reality.

It’s one thing if there was any evidence to the contrary, but to just assume that they’re lying without any evidence is just social media brainrot

Of course, but fight them with facts.

Misinformation is in nobody’s best interest.

If you’re using KDE, look at KDE Connect: https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect

Important to point out that it wasn’t her service weapon. An officer allowing their service weapon to be used by others would be an additional serious violation of law.

This was a weapon that she purchased from the Sheriff’s office when they were upgrading gear. It was, at one point, her service weapon but at the time of the shooting it was just a personally owned firearm.

It’s an important distinction since this kind of misinformation implies that she was careless in securing her service weapon.

Her son was an adult and had legal access to a legally owned firearm and chose to kill people. Trying to make it about his mother because she’s a cop is a pointless distraction.

Source: Public statements by Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil

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Hmm, I did not know that. Thanks

The CVE system protects everyone that uses computers. It is a public service that forms the core of cybersecurity in the US and many other places. It does not cost the database any more money if people use it to provide services to clients.

Letting a private corporation take it over and put it behind a paywall now means that security, like so many other things, will only be available to people with money. It will make software and hardware more expensive by adding yet another license fee or subscription if you want software that gets security updates.

In addition, a closed database is just less useful. This system works because when one person notifies the system of an exploit then every other person now knows. That kind of system is much higher quality if you have more people that are able to access it.

An industry being created and earning money by providing cybersecurity services shows how useful such a system is for everyone. There are good paying jobs that depend on this data being freely available. New startups only need to provide service, they don’t need to raise the funds to buy into the security database because it is a public service. They also pay taxes (a significant amount if they’re charging $30,000 per audit), more than enough profit for the government to operate a database.

I find the people that I disagree with have much better points, with significantly fewer radicals, idiots or crusaders.

Honestly, it gives me hope.

My best experiences online have been as part of smaller communities where you can actually know and recognize other people. I see people commenting on threads and I can remember them talking in a different thread (or multiple threads). So it is much easier to know ‘ok that guy is touchy about this thing but is otherwise a decent person’ and not treat everyone like a 1-dimensional character.

Otherwise I think that the idea of deleting all IP laws is just wishful (and naive) thinking, assuming people would cooperate and build on each other’s inventions/creations.

Given the state the world is currently in, I don’t see that happening soon.

There are plenty of examples of open sharing systems that are functional.

Science, for example. Nobody ‘owns’ the formulas that calculate orbits or the underlying mathematics that AI models are built on like Transformer networks or convolutional networks. The information is openly shared and given away to everyone that wants it and it is so powerful it has completely reshaped society everywhere on the Earth (except the Sentinel Islands).

Open Source projects, like Linux, are the foundation of the modern tech world. The ‘IP’ is freely available and you can copy or modify it as much as you’d like. Linus ‘owns’ the Linux project but anyone is free to take a copy of the Linux source code and modify it to whatever extent that they would like and form their own project.

Much of the software and services that people use are built on top of open source tools made by volunteers, for free; and most of the useful knowledge and progress for human society results from breakthroughs made in the sciences, who’s discoveries are also free and openly shared.

To me it was the hypocrisy