@GossiTheDog The crazy thing is that the engineers who work on open source projects "seem" to be reasonably talented folks. Like the guy who found the back door in SSH because it took a half second longer than normal to authenticate. When it comes to Windows though it just seems like a complete clusterfuck.
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.
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.
@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.
@darth Depends on your target audience. It's 1:39 AM in the US right now so we probably won't see it here for at least another 7-8 hours, longer if we wait until after work to watch it.
Trump is now making "I won't let them take your cars away from you" a major campaign point, playing very effectively into pushback by people who don't want to be forced into EVs by government mandates. The more Biden pushes this, the more he plays into Trump's hands.
@lauren A problem with EVs is that around here (east Kentucky) it's very common for folks to keep their cars for 10-20 years. Folks are very self sufficient and will maintain their cars for decades. You can even get a brand new engine for a few hundred dollars and keep vehicles going for ages. Besides our considerable lack of charging infrastructure around here, nobody is going to buy an EV and at 10 years old spend more on replacement batteries than the value of the car.
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.
You know why people pirate stuff? Because even when you pay for it, you get hit with garbage like this. Was reading thru the EULA for the #MetalGear Master Collection bonus content on Steam, and this little paragraph jumped out at me.
Shit like this is the reason I built my own home server to keep backups of everything, including the installation files of all my Steam games. "No CD" or "No Steam" cracks are a thing, should worse come to worse.
@gmr_leon After the install I just copy the installation folder to the backup drive; PC game installs aren't encrypted like they are on consoles. For many games it includes just a regular old .exe file that can be executed on its own. These sometimes require Steam all on their own, but sometimes they don't and Steam is just the launcher. For those that require Steam, there are "ways" around that if Steam ever shuts down. Here's the install for my copy of God of War (2016).
This whole "both sides are bad" nonsense is getting really old, and I'm to the point that I'm just done protecting people's feelings on important issues, lifelong friends or not. You have to be willing to stand up for your principles, and this tendency towards fence riding will be our downfall because intelligent people are too afraid of being divisive. Even if you disagree with me, take a position and defend it.
Just posted this reply in a debate about American #politics.
There's an old saying that goes, "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."
He's a spoiled brat who is out to destroy America, and pretending he's the lesser of two evils because you don't like Biden is asinine. One of them staged an attempted coups and got people hurt and killed to protect their own ego. The other one hasn't.
Thought on #COVID19 . It's still a thing, and still deadly, but it's my impression that it's tapering off and becoming our new influenza. Just like the Spanish flu killed everybody and their dog and now we just have an annual shot and relatively low risk of serious illness, so too has Covid weakened and become less of a threat. It killed all kinds of people here during the #pandemic, but my son has it right now and he's croopy, but I'm still allowed to work and nobody around here wears masks. 1/
I'm not saying we shouldn't take reasonable precautions, but my experience on the ground here in eastern Kentucky is that basically nobody takes it seriously any more. Several people I know have caught it in recent months and none of them have serious symptoms, so the need to perpetually self #quarantine and wear a mask seems to have subsided. Hell, it was a fight to get people to wear one here even when people "were" dying, and we didn't seem to have it any worse than other communities. :END:
@marczak I'd wager vaccination rates around here are actually relatively low. We're a rural town with a lot of politically conservative and religious people. It didn't help matters any that several people who got vaccinated got sick and even died. Our rescue squad coordinator made a public showing of getting his shot and he got sick and died, so it didn't instill a lot of confidence in the efficacy of the shot.
We seem to be attaining herd immunity, as well as the virus weakening overall.
@marczak All they gave my little boy was supplements for Zinc, vitamin D and some Robitussin to help with the congestion and symptoms. I've seen commercials for Paxlovid though. He's doing fine, just croopy; he's mainly just hanging out in his room playing on his Steam Deck.
@darth It happens on Linux, but it seems to happen oh so much more on Windows. On top of that, Proton tends to help older games run on Linux that either don't run at all on Windows, or that need community patches to work properly on Windows.
When I ran Windows I had to apply community fixes to a number of games that I haven't had to mess with since switching to Linux.
I don’t understand why people who send me emails to promote their software or products expect me to answer them, even just to tell them I’m not interested.
They sent me something, without any invitation. They want to sell me something, or get me to promote their product. Why would they feel I have an obligation to let them know I don’t want to? Just accept that no answer after a few weeks means « no », and stop wasting time and energy on emails.
@thelinuxEXP I'm not even that popular on YouTube, less then 10k subs, and I've gotten offers to try out and promote dog collars and all kinds of stuff because some of my videos feature my dog. I can't even imagine what somebody with any kind of meaningful follower count has to put up with.