Network firewalls can also be configured to deny inbound and outbound traffic to and from the physical interface. This remedy is problematic for two reasons: (1) a VPN user connecting to an untrusted network has no ability to control the firewall and (2) it opens the same side channel present with the Linux mitigation.
Sure, they can’t control the network firewall, but why would you do that when you can change your local firewall? Set an iptables rule to drop all traffic going out the physical interface that isn’t destined for the VPN server. I’m 70% sure some vpn clients do this automatically.
For your specific case, sure, but for that quote, I haven’t had those issues in years. I’m also running Mint, but on a desktop and have had zero issues. Mouse “just works,” extra monitors “just work,” and (most surprisingly to me), printer “just works,” games on Steam “just work” with all they’ve done with Proton. I switched to Google docs a long time ago, so at least for me the Office thing isn’t relevant. It natively supports discord, my password manager, Spotify, everything I’ve wanted. I switched my wife’s Mac to it years ago since it had gotten slow from bloat, and she’s been just fine despite not being very tech literate.
Today it sits as a daily reminder of the broken promises of China-funded infrastructure investments that swept Africa in recent years. Frequent breakdowns, inadequate maintenance funding and operational constraints mean barely one-third of its 41 trains are operational, ferrying 55,000 passengers a day, a fraction of initial...
Interesting, interesting, so by that logic it’s fundamentally impossible for a country to have inadequate rail service and all rails are of equal quality? I’ll be sure to let everyone know they can cut all funding because none of it matters.
Not sure if you’re making a joke, but windows kill birds because they’re transparent and birds fly into them not realizing it’s there. The rest of the building doesn’t really kill birds because they won’t fly into it.
Neither of those are necessarily true. For an Abrahamic god, sure, but one can certainly conceive of a god that doesn’t define good and evil, and a god that defines good and evil and doesn’t define itself as good.
These things aren’t well-defined, so you’re certainly welcome to, but I think most people would consider an omniscient, omnipotent creator of the universe to be a god and not a spirit.
My thought was that it was going to be just about WiFi internal to the house and it was an issue with interference from neighbors (which then gets shut out in the rain).
B4: The Lost City is a classic module for D&D. At one point it (in)famously stops giving full description of the rooms but instead lists monsters in each area and tells the DM to figure out why they’re here themselves. Once the reprint will show up in new anthology, I’m sure people who complain online whenever WotC uses...
I disagree. DM’s always have the ability to put in their own choices and, in this case, room descriptions, regardless of what a module says. But that is work, and one of the things you buy a module for.
To make an extreme example, imagine I sold a campaign module called Blank Slate, where every page just says “and then you decide what happens next” and “decide what rooms are in this dungeon and what monsters are there.”
Our sorcerer got some officers to confront the person who stole his identity and we turned the human trafficking ring over to the guard who pulled everyone out relatively safely....
That’s awesome, reminds me of one of my favorite scenes from the Bourne movies. Bourne knows some agents are coming after him to the building he’s in, so he picks up a phone, calls the police and says “I heard gunshots, I think they’re Americans” and then throws the phone against the wall, fires a few random shots, and leaves. The police then catch the agents sneaking up to the building and arrest them.
Nowadays, most people use password managers (hopefully). However, there are still some passwords that you need to memorize, like master password (for a password manager), phone lock, wifi password, etc....
One caveat I’d want to note is for the underlying methodology that uses:
As this study by Joseph Bonneau attests, people frequently choose common phrases in addition to common words. zxcvbn would be better if it recognized “Harry Potter” as a common phrase, rather than a semi-common name and surname. Google’s n-gram corpus fits in a terabyte, and even a good bigram list is impractical to download browser-side, so this functionality would require server-side evaluation and infrastructure cost. Server-side evaluation would also allow a much larger single-word dictionary, such as Google’s unigram set.
As another example, the passphrase “This password is good” is claimed to take centuries to crack, but if the search space were narrowed down from a sequence of words to grammatically correct sentences, certain passphrases would be much weaker than this would show.
I particularly like that it’s gained enough popularity that most of the gaming podcasts I’ll listen to will make some remark on whether or not a particular game works well on steam deck
“How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man?”
The industry should’ve already learned this lesson from the MMO crash, of everyone trying to replicate WoW’s success and then later realizing that a business model of investing a ton of money to try and compete for both consumers’ time and money is a bad idea.
If you don’t want to spend as much time waiting for things to uncompress. Or if you want your compressed files to be smaller (and also compress faster).
Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose (arstechnica.com)
There's no place like `[::1]`
I bet all those people that got tattoos of “There’s no place like 127.0.0.1” are so embarrassed now that IPv6 has been adopted globally.
Microsoft will now urge you to ditch local accounts on Windows 10 (www.xda-developers.com)
saving lives is hot (i.imgur.com)
A crumbling rail system in Ethiopia reveals failed promise of China’s Billions in African infrastructure (martinplaut.com)
Today it sits as a daily reminder of the broken promises of China-funded infrastructure investments that swept Africa in recent years. Frequent breakdowns, inadequate maintenance funding and operational constraints mean barely one-third of its 41 trains are operational, ferrying 55,000 passengers a day, a fraction of initial...
As if we need another reason to switch to GNU/Linux (lemmy.ca)
Toyota signs Huawei to help accelerate smart driving development (www.arenaev.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14229483...
Is there a specific religious term for the belief "God exists and he is evil"?
I am not an atheist, I genuinely believe that God exists and he is evil, like a toddler who fries little ants with a lens.
Forget Ubisoft's AAAA Games, CD Projekt Is Making 'AAAAA' Games (insider-gaming.com)
Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
Forget ‘doomers:’ Warming can be stopped, top climate scientist says (news.harvard.edu)
Cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/12956314...
Passwords are insecure (programming.dev)
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining (predr.ag)
lobste.rs/s/…/wi_fi_only_works_when_it_s_raining
Dragon's Dogma 2 MTX
So there’s obviously been a lot of existing discourse on DD2’s micro transactions, and I’m curious to get the thoughts of people here....
I believe the term is "get rekt noob" (ttrpg.network)
My rogue uses her performer persona while traveling. Innkeepers love her.
Quests from the Infinite Staircase will cause such a shitstorm (ttrpg.network)
B4: The Lost City is a classic module for D&D. At one point it (in)famously stops giving full description of the rooms but instead lists monsters in each area and tells the DM to figure out why they’re here themselves. Once the reprint will show up in new anthology, I’m sure people who complain online whenever WotC uses...
So this happened (ttrpg.network)
Our sorcerer got some officers to confront the person who stole his identity and we turned the human trafficking ring over to the guard who pulled everyone out relatively safely....
Are you using passphrases? Is it worth it?
Nowadays, most people use password managers (hopefully). However, there are still some passwords that you need to memorize, like master password (for a password manager), phone lock, wifi password, etc....
Steam Deck had a strong end to 2023 and a great start for 2024 (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Diablo 3 was not fun and Diablo 4 looks worse... (lemmy.ca)
Five Years Ago, Anthem Was A Warning (kotaku.com)
TL;DR:...
Winning the lottery (lemmy.ml)
If I used windows, I would totally do this…
EA Has Canceled Respawn's First-Person Mandalorian Game - Insider Gaming (insider-gaming.com)