" three researchers have crafted a long-sought version of private information retrieval and extended it to build a more general privacy strategy. The work, which received a Best Paper Award in June 2023 at the annual Symposium on Theory of Computing, topples a major theoretical barrier on the way to a truly private search."
Buy it. Larian is a small studio that put a lot of effort and love into that game. If you like what they do, support them. You can get it DRM free on GOG, so you get to actually own it.
hi I’m still exploring stuff and I was thinking about nix, with all his stuff, what do you guys think? maybe someone with experience can tell me if I should stay away from that or could be a good choice for privacy, anonimity and security
I don’t know what gave you the idea that a particular distro would be an especially good/bad choice for privacy, etc. They’re all GNU/Linux with only minor differences in compile-time options in the kernel and different defaults in user-space. But they’re just that, defaults. You can reconfigure them to your preference.
With that out of the way, the issue NixOS attempts to address is reproducibility. You get a central configuration infrastructure that defines everything, from partition layout, through user creation and package installation to software configuration. The central idea being that migrating to a new machine or setting up a new development environment should only take a few commands.
What you do with that is up to you. You can barricade the whole system if you like. The defaults are sane, but not overly focused on privacy, etc.
Also it’s quite a learning curve as the documentation/wiki is incomplete and/or outdated.
Seriously this was very surprising. I’ve been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it’s a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn’t “true open source” but it’s a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app....
My phone is no longer getting updates, so it’s time to buy a new one. The hardware could easily last 1-2 more years but I’d have to replace the battery, which is a pain on my phone....
With the Fairphone you get more than just a replaceable battery. You get replaceable nearly everything. Also they do their best to ethically source the materials. In terms of ROMs there is also Iodé, also based on LOS, and if you go with a FP4 instead Ubuntu Touch.
Accidentally flashed a live image (PCBSD, IIRC) onto my 1TB external HDD instead of the thumb drive. Lost years of collected music and movies that night. I learned two things:
Don’t do this sort of thing in the middle of the night, when you’re tired and should be sleeping.
I purchased a second hand ThinkPad from an ebay outlet. When it arrived I wiped windows 10 from it and installed ubuntu with no issues. It runs perfect without any weird fixes needed. However, after just checking the bios to see if I could change some settings, I realised it has a supervisor password....
You can either try to contact the seller and ask for the password or just erase the UEFI settings by shorting some jumper or something. There should be instructions how to do that for your specific model.
But I have to fight the stupid OS to give me useful information. I have to install 3^(rd) party stuff. By default you only get this useless error reporting tool. Even if you report an error your likely to never hear from anyone and the chance of the error being fixed is virtually nonexistent.
On Linux the necessary information is usually readily available. The worst offender in my experience is Steam itself. You can get logs from games fairy easily. But if Steam misbehaves things can get more complicated.
Honestly not surprised. You’re running that on a, what, 15 year old potato? Yes, Skyrim isn’t the most modern game, but that GPU was intended for desktop use, back then. I’m actually impressed that it runs at all. I’d half expect the game to just crash because it requests something that dinky GPU simply cannot provide.
Cryptographers Just Got Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches (www.wired.com)
" three researchers have crafted a long-sought version of private information retrieval and extended it to build a more general privacy strategy. The work, which received a Best Paper Award in June 2023 at the annual Symposium on Theory of Computing, topples a major theoretical barrier on the way to a truly private search."
What is the upgrade path for Baldurs Gate3?
If someone had the Rune version of the game, what do they need to run the updates to get to at least have fsr2 in the game?
Not such a conspiracy theory now (lemmy.world)
Linux Sound Device Manager
I’ve recently switched my primary PC to Linux (Specifically POP_OS). Overall the experience has been incredible. Far less difficult than I feared....
🦃 happy turkey day 🦃 (mander.xyz)
Whatever, I'll use it and abuse it. (lazysoci.al)
NixOS
hi I’m still exploring stuff and I was thinking about nix, with all his stuff, what do you guys think? maybe someone with experience can tell me if I should stay away from that or could be a good choice for privacy, anonimity and security
Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it
Seriously this was very surprising. I’ve been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it’s a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn’t “true open source” but it’s a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app....
Deciding between Fairphone 5 and Pixel 8
My phone is no longer getting updates, so it’s time to buy a new one. The hardware could easily last 1-2 more years but I’d have to replace the battery, which is a pain on my phone....
We don't judge here. :) (mander.xyz)
You can choose normal, fancy, or wildcard. (startrek.website)
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Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?
I just discovered something I did so idiotic I need a stronger adjective that what is in my name....
Is an unknown supervisor password for ThinkPad bios an issue if I've already installed linux?
I purchased a second hand ThinkPad from an ebay outlet. When it arrived I wiped windows 10 from it and installed ubuntu with no issues. It runs perfect without any weird fixes needed. However, after just checking the bios to see if I could change some settings, I realised it has a supervisor password....
Aaaaaand it's over (lemmy.world)
Kid's going places (mander.xyz)
Gamedev and linux (treebrary.pone.social)
Source: reddit.com/…/despite_having_just_58_sales_over_38…
Skyrim Special Edition, 5-10 FPS
I posted this to c/piracy, as lemmy does not have a CrackSupport equivalent....
I would never have guessed... (picayune.uclick.com)
16/1/2009
*cleans room* (slrpnk.net)
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School surveillance tech does more harm than good, ACLU report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Triple Yolk Egg (lemmy.world)
Making scrambled eggs from my sister-in-law’s chickens and found one with a triple yolk.
Apple Formally Endorses Right to Repair Legislation After Spending Millions Fighting It (www.404media.co)