Tech that comes with weak passwords such as “admin” or “12345” will be banned in the UK under new laws dictating that all smart devices must meet minimum security standards....
Same as it’s ever been. Israel is the only Middle eastern country the USA considers a reliable ally. No I’m not taking a position whether that is true, but that’s the perception. It’s not the only reason, but it’s a big one.
Mint & popOS are both Debian tree distros and Ubuntu derivatives without the snap cruft.
They work fine for gaming in my experience as any linux native game is always tested against ubuntu and I’ve had no issues with Steam/proton for windows games.
No EAC anti cheat compatability for Linux of any flavour of course.
I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....
Given the entire governance structure of the BBC and many of the senior managers have been stacked with Tory cronies over the last decade I don’t think that’s still true.
You don’t need to give the VM network access to download the software if you have a linux host. You can directly mount a virtual box drive from the host, copy the file(s) onto the drive and then unmount it and start the VM as per normal.
Search for qemu-nbd iirc (network block device) - I have the how to details saved on my host (ie not on me) so ping me if you want them. Note it’s a qemu app that works for vbox
My main laptop is dead, so I’m on a potato laptop with a 6th gen Intel i3 processor and 4GB of RAM. I have IceCat installed, but I really don’t like the defaults it provides....
Like one of those recipe blogs where you wade through 10,000 words about the cook’s relationship with their nonna before getting to the recipe, the author very verbosely talks about peripheral issues at length before you get to the recipe.
Except there is no recipe.
There’s an edit at the end which summarises to “just google it”
“The $290 billion of Russian sovereign assets frozen in the West – two-thirds of which is situated in Europe – would make a huge difference in Ukraine both during and after the war,” researchers Leo Litra and Lesia Ogryzko from the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) say....
There’s a simple reason the assets haven’t been seized, we have a legal system in Western Europe. There needs to be a legal basis for seizure of assets and a legal process that allows the on-payment to Ukraine.
It is blatantly fair and just that the assets should be handed to Ukraine, but if we don’t carefully follow our legal principals principles then courts will unfortunately overturn the attempt.
It’s easy to say “Russia has broken international law” it’s a tougher task proving it and working it through the courts then paying those damages to Ukraine. It needs to be done though.
The only alternative to legal judgement and payment via that judgement is for laws mandating the asset seizure to be passed by the governments of the countries where the assets are held.
The problem with that route is many constitutions forbid or severely restrict the ability of a government to seize assets.
Those restrictions are there for a reason, it curbs the ability of nascent dictators (Orban et al) to seize private property on a whim or to punish enemies
TL;DR freezing assets has a clear and well established precedent which thus has been done. Seizing assets however, while ever we have rule of law is rightly constrained
In an interview on the Israeli Basketball Association’s website, Israeli player Dor Saar said before the game: "It’s known that they are quite anti-semitic and it’s no secret, and maybe that’s why a strong game is expected....
Simless phones can make emergency calls because the towers are configured to accept a request for an emergency call to any device that handshakes sufficiently (in Europe and most of Asia anyway, I assume also true of USA because it does work).
The phone is able to contact the nearest tower and initiate a call because it scans for the nearest towers in the boot process in order to go to the next step (check sim details and connect to configured provider). In the process of determining available towers it provides the IMEI to each of them.
If you live in a country where you have to provide ID to buy a handset then this definitely isn’t anonymous, but even if you are in a country that doesnt, all the manufacturers track where every IMEI is shipped, and sku numbers on POS will easily allow determination of exactly when the device was sold. Even if you paid cash there will be CCTV footage of the purchase.
TL;DR this will work mostly until you make a mistake against corporate tracking but will absolutely not protect you from three-letter-acronyms and law enforcement.
Consider your threat model carefully before relying on it
No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK (www.theguardian.com)
Tech that comes with weak passwords such as “admin” or “12345” will be banned in the UK under new laws dictating that all smart devices must meet minimum security standards....
Solved Kde log in screen not accepting password (lemmy.world)
Solved. I was able to run sudo pkcon update and that fixed it. I can log in now but the desktop is rest to system defaults...
Opinion | Why Does the U.S. Arm Ukraine With Fanfare and Israel in Secret? (www.nytimes.com)
Windows 11 will record all of your activity 24/7 (www.windowscentral.com)
What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?
I’m working on a some materials for a class wherein I’ll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we’re including a section we’re calling “foot guns”. Basically it’s ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....
Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, judge finds on balance of probabilities (www.theguardian.com)
In Italy, a far-right MP wants to take over the country's second-largest press agency (www.lemonde.fr)
archive.ph/wtoAv
Pirated software send information about the fact of piracy to developers, the developers sues. How can this be prevented?
Hi all....
OpenSUSE has the best installation menu of any OSs ever made (lemmy.ca)
How long does it take to build LibreWolf?
My main laptop is dead, so I’m on a potato laptop with a 6th gen Intel i3 processor and 4GB of RAM. I have IceCat installed, but I really don’t like the defaults it provides....
Anna's Archive is looking for volunteers to run mirrors (annas-archive.org)
Anyone run across a post that ceashes sync?
My first time encountering it, just scrolled to it like three times to check, anyone else having this issue?...
Increasing IQ is trivial (epistemink.substack.com)
Major European think-tank urges Western allies to seize Russian sovereign assets to financially support Kyiv’s war effort (ecfr.eu)
“The $290 billion of Russian sovereign assets frozen in the West – two-thirds of which is situated in Europe – would make a huge difference in Ukraine both during and after the war,” researchers Leo Litra and Lesia Ogryzko from the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) say....
Now that vmware is over, what should I move to? (lemmy.world)
With free esxi over, not shocking bit sad, I am now about to move away from a virtualisation platform i’ve used for a quarter of a century....
Junior doctors in England offer to call off strike if given more time for talks (www.theguardian.com)
Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End (www.bloomberg.com)
Ireland women's basketball team refuse to shake hands with Israel (www.bbc.com)
In an interview on the Israeli Basketball Association’s website, Israeli player Dor Saar said before the game: "It’s known that they are quite anti-semitic and it’s no secret, and maybe that’s why a strong game is expected....
No SIM? No Problem! (youtu.be)
Very interesting video about the tracking of cellular networks.