Luke (from #LinusTechTips) made a really good point that I hadn't considered about the new #Microsoft#Recall feature. What about public computers? How many libraries, computer labs or internet cafes are going to be absolute hotbeds for personal data compromise? You know Microsoft will have the feature enabled by default and you know that even if people disable it, they'll randomly re-enable it. What happens on public computers where everyone shares one user account? 1/
Been giving the #Vivaldi browser another try and one of its coolest features is the ability to tile multiple tabs in a single window. This makes it easier for me to share news across multiple social networks at the same time.
If you use Dropbox you should probably change your password.
Headline: #Dropbox Hacked! Threat Actor Accessed Passwords and Phone Numbers
Snippet: A quick analysis revealed that a threat actor had broken in to access customer information such as emails, usernames, phone numbers and hashed passwords, as well as general account settings and certain authentication information (API keys, OAuth tokens, and multi-factor authentication).
@sigh_d It appears so, and as somebody who isn't a DropBox user I'm not sure if "DropBox Sign" accounts are the same as DropBox storage accounts, or if they're separate. I would assume they are the same, so if you had an account with DropBox Sign and it became compromised, that probably grants access to files stored in your DropBox account as well.
@gerowen@sigh_d Dropbox Sign is the rebranded Hellosign product that Dropbox acquired in 2019. According this post on their site their infrastructure is largely isolated from the rest of Dropbox. (And as far as a I know the account for hellosign/dropbox sign to sign or request signatures - I’ve only used it in the past to sign things - is separate from my main Dropbox account and has different credentials.
I don't think it comes thru in this compressed, tone mapped JPG screenshot, but #HorizonZeroDawn with HDR enabled on a #SteamDeck OLED looks and runs way better than it has any right to on a handheld device. This has got to be one of if not the best looking game I've played on the Deck yet. With the "original" graphics preset (PS4 equivalent?) and HDR enabled on a 90hz OLED display it's holding 50+ fps, looking and feeling great. Really looking forward to this, 🙂
@marczak I'm gonna try to put my money back to build myself a more up to date gaming desktop for the living room and put ChimeraOS on it. We have a desktop in there at the moment, and although it is more powerful than the Steam Deck, the Deck nips at its heels in a lot of scenarios while drawing a fraction of the power to do it. If the Deck can't handle Forbidden West properly I'll probably just play it on the living room TV.
@gerowen The graphics definitely got a bump in the sequel. The deck is great! It might run it, but not sure it would truly do it justice. The dev team really did their job.
This is why it's important to use good passwords and not plug things like your camera directly into the internet without a router or other hardware firewall in line.
VPN servers are an easy and secure device that takes minutes to set up and would solve a lot of these problems. Many routers even have one built in.
If you have a device that you need to access from the public internet there are secure ways to do so.
Be careful what you post online, especially if you have kids. You might think nobody would target you, but not only is that not necessarily true, it's not just about you, it's about all the other people around you, even if they're just in the background of your photo or video.
The #PiVPN project has ended. For those who don't know, this project was a suite of scripts that make it easy to set up your own #VPN server.
The good news is that it's basically just a collection of scripts that draws from your system's package manager. If you're currently hosting a VPN that you used PiVPN to set up, I see no reason why you can't just keep using it like normal.
Anybody know how financially stable #LinuxMint is? I am considering recommending it to people like my mom as support for #Windows 10 winds down, but looking at their sponsors page looks like they only bring in between $3k and $4k per month. That's not a lot of money for several developers to maintain an entire operating system. What happens if they lose one of the 2-3 big sponsors they have? Does the whole project cave or just stop getting timely #security updates?
Today I discovered the "debsums" package for #Debian#Linux. If you want to make sure a file hasn't been modified, you can do:
debsums packagename
It will compare the checksums of your local files against the checksums provided in the MD5SUMS file within the .deb file for that package.
It does just use MD5, which is known to be broken in terms of #security, but it should suffice for most folks who just want to make sure something hasn't become corrupt.
Anecdote: None of my systems are affected since I stick with #Debian stable. So if you use any of the services I host on my home server, we're still all good here.
Headline: #RedHat warns of backdoor in XZ tools used by most #Linux distros
Quote: "PLEASE IMMEDIATELY STOP USAGE OF ANY FEDORA 41 OR FEDORA RAWHIDE INSTANCES for work or personal activity," Red Hat warned on Friday.
@darth I did, and I guess I should stick to less depressing content on Mastodon. It's just hard to avoid it sometimes with the folks that I live and work around being constantly political at every turn, it's hard not to feel sort of anxious about the potential fallout of our upcoming election.
@gerowen, the reason why I pinged you like that is because it seemed to be affecting you in a negative way. I do apologize if I am intruding where it is not my place.
I'm at Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY for the state STLP (Student #Technology Leadership Program) championships. Students present their projects which describes using technology in productive and engaging ways.
I made this observation a month or two ago when I taught a class to the STLP kids, but now that I'm here I'm even more convinced that #Microsoft#Windows has lost the next generation. My kids use #Linux at home and Chromebooks at school, and almost every kid here is using a Chromebook.
@marczak I just think it'll be interesting to see things in 10-15 years. If these are the machines the kids are growing up using, then they'll probably want to stick with something they know when they're adults. Outlook runs in a browser, Office runs in a browser, etc., so most office tasks could run on FreeBSD for all they care as long as there's a functional, modern web browser available.
Windows will still have its place, but I don't think most kids today are going to go out looking for it.