I have a network-wide pi hole and I noticed that it requested activity.windows.com, a url blocked by my pi hole, even while my pc is suspended. I pinged 10.0.0.217 and it is currently unreachable. So, somehow, windows pc’s turn on networking, phones home, and turns off even while suspended....
I’m not sure if this is strictly privacy or more security related but it does affect iOS and Android and could have privacy implications. It was enough to make me to turn off 2G anyway.
I installed Firefox Flatpak on F38 and some video content is not working. Youtube and Netflix work fine, Prime Video does not. Videos on some website do not play, some give simple error messages wihtout details: NFL.com, tagesschau.de, ran.de and more do also not work....
I live in a part of the world where powercuts are pretty frequent. 1 per day is normal. They last between 1 and 8 hours. A day without powercuts feels like a special occasion....
I am thinking of moving to linux (Debian seemed to suite me) from Windows. I have used lubuntu and and ubuntu somewhat before, but their use has been very limited....
Is this some sort of a convenience feature hidden behind a paywall to justify purchasing their subscriptions or does generating the codes actually cost money? If the latter is the case, how do applications like Aegis do it free of cost?
Btrfs gets a bad rap sometimes but I have been using it for years and it works very well. It is able to take failing hardware and power outages and still has good performance.
Hello, I try to keep my Debian laptop as private as possible, but for work, I need to use Windows software, so I run a VirtualBox with Windows 11. My PC runs smoothly without any issues, but I need to access my specific hardware USB ports, and it doesn’t recognize them. I read that I need to install the Extension Pack, so I...
Windows pc calling home (even while asleep) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I have a network-wide pi hole and I noticed that it requested activity.windows.com, a url blocked by my pi hole, even while my pc is suspended. I pinged 10.0.0.217 and it is currently unreachable. So, somehow, windows pc’s turn on networking, phones home, and turns off even while suspended....
EFF Article - Google And Apple Introducing New Ways to Defeat Cell Site Simulators (www.eff.org)
I’m not sure if this is strictly privacy or more security related but it does affect iOS and Android and could have privacy implications. It was enough to make me to turn off 2G anyway.
Some Videos not working with Fedora Flatpak version
I installed Firefox Flatpak on F38 and some video content is not working. Youtube and Netflix work fine, Prime Video does not. Videos on some website do not play, some give simple error messages wihtout details: NFL.com, tagesschau.de, ran.de and more do also not work....
Seems legit, Google knows what is best for me. (lemmy.world)
Sorry for the poor quality / lack of screenshot, this is from my work computer which I isolate from my personal devices, so I just took a picture.
OpenELA - SuSe, Oracle, CiQ join their forces to keep EL open and accessible (openela.org)
IBM/RedHat obviously missing from the member list....
How do you keep your home servers online during powercuts?
I live in a part of the world where powercuts are pretty frequent. 1 per day is normal. They last between 1 and 8 hours. A day without powercuts feels like a special occasion....
R on Debian
I am thinking of moving to linux (Debian seemed to suite me) from Windows. I have used lubuntu and and ubuntu somewhat before, but their use has been very limited....
TrueNAS SCALE 22.12.3.3 is out
I upgraded my systems to it and had no issues. There are few changes and it is mostly a patch to fix zfs replication in encrypted environments
Why do password managers charge for TOTP code generation?
Is this some sort of a convenience feature hidden behind a paywall to justify purchasing their subscriptions or does generating the codes actually cost money? If the latter is the case, how do applications like Aegis do it free of cost?
Btrfs is a great filesystem for proxmox in raid 1. Stop telling people not to use it
Btrfs gets a bad rap sometimes but I have been using it for years and it works very well. It is able to take failing hardware and power outages and still has good performance.
Chitchatter - a new web based communication platform (chitchatter.im)
Extension Pack in VirtualBox, is there a privacy risk?
Hello, I try to keep my Debian laptop as private as possible, but for work, I need to use Windows software, so I run a VirtualBox with Windows 11. My PC runs smoothly without any issues, but I need to access my specific hardware USB ports, and it doesn’t recognize them. I read that I need to install the Extension Pack, so I...
GitHub - 89luca89/distrobox: Use any linux distribution inside your terminal (github.com)
Is Google Pixel actually good for privacy?
I hear many people say that the Google Pixel is good for privacy, but is it?...
Search engines compared (lemmy.basedcount.com)
first they push for us to get icloud storage and now this. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
uninstall Apple Store, which comes pre-installed in iOS, to stop getting these notifications...