ShortN0te

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EU regulation and oculus quest

Ive seen MS is having to do a lot of work in regards to pro privacy due to EU regulation, I switched on my oculus quest which I keep offline and questioned if enforced account, locked in applications that serve beyond base functions and the locked down setting, surely all this goes against privacy laws in some way....

ShortN0te,

It is. Thats also the reason why the quest is jot available in germany. (Or at least the quest 2)

Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

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  1. I am not sure if posting this in a linux community raises the awareness to a relevant degree.
  2. I am not sure if i am scared by the fact that there will be potentially 240 million pcs still running windows 10 and are posing as potential bot net.

[Discussion] How do you feel about age verification on Porn sites? (lemmings.world)

Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA)....

ShortN0te,

Electronic ids can provide the age verification without giving out any personal information. This is a solved problem at least for a lot of ids in the EU.

But no i still find it a stupid idea. It is the parents job to parent them.

ShortN0te,

I suspect you haven’t worked with governments before.

Just because something is technically possible, it’s no guarantee that it will be the chosen mechanism for something. More likely the contract will be awarded to either the lowest possible bidder, or to a friend of a friend. Cronyism is depressingly common at all levels.

Not sure why you are under that impression. I never discussed the potential chosen mechanism.

I stated that it is possible and that it is already implemented into the id card of many eu citizens.

ShortN0te,

No. There is no 3rd party service needed. It all can happen only between the service asking and the id (smart card).

ShortN0te,

The service gets no other information other then “Is the holder of the id older then 18” => “Yes”

There is no personal data exchange.

ShortN0te,

No. Again. There is no other service involved. Pls do some research.

The basic idea is ZKP en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof

This here looks like a good write up: www.identity.com/zero-knowledge-proofs/

ShortN0te,

No. Thanks to cryptography it is possible. The Cincept is called Zero-knowledge proof. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof

Here is a quick write up: www.identity.com/zero-knowledge-proofs/

ShortN0te,

I store my keys via KeepassXC. They got a Freedesktop.org secret service and key-agent integration

Why I need extra kernel modules to be able to run Wayland on nvidia?

If i run X.org i dont need to modify my kernel or its configs, it just works well (well, well for X.org) out of box. With wayland its the other story. I need to enable nvidia-dkms module and much other stuff to should be configured. There is a whole page about enabling hyprland on nvidia....

ShortN0te,

It is still part of various LTS releases till 2030 or something like that. Would not call it deprecated but more or less in maintenance mode.

ShortN0te,

I never had huge problems with rolling release distros and Nvidia but recently got a AMD card and boi… Everything (hardware acceleration etc) basically worked out of the box with a very simple Arch installation… Never again going with Nvidia on Linux.

ShortN0te,

I.e. how malware could easily catch your Sudo password without root access.

Peeps, bad news, Linux is damn insecure.

By simply placing an alias in your bashrc they could already grab your sudo password.

Another bad news, this Windows “okay” Button without any password is actually more secure.

In other words: a compromised system at the User level can easily compromised at the admin level if there are no additional checks/measures in place. Same for Windows. Just change the link to a Programm you commonly need the press OK to to you maleware. Profit.

ShortN0te,

Mostly misdirected anger from two categories — Arch purists who balk at the notion of someone modding their beloved distro, and newbs who blame Manjaro for issues they create themselves and they would have on any Arch-based distro.

Nope not at all. The built in and by Manjaro maintained packagemanager pamac bricks systems. Has not bricked mine since i use pacman instead.

The packages are just the arch packages delayed by a few days which makes it incompatible with the (by default enabled an encouraged to use) AUR.

Here is a total list of what is wrong with it: github.com/arindas/manjarno

ShortN0te,

The AUR doesn’t assume arch packages, if the package your aur script wants isn’t in your repo then the package simply fails to update/install.

Edit: This is true even for Arch linux, as the Aur package might be out of date.

The problem is not the package. It is the packages Version. If you have for example an application that depends on .net 7.0 and arch updates it to the latest 8.0 then the AUR usually gets updated soon as well. Now the AUR pqckage depends on the newer 8.0 Version while manjaro still has the 7.0 version. The programm now does no longer start on manjaro.

ShortN0te,

So you create a new email for every account you make?

ShortN0te,

RustDesk

With the shit they pulled on ‘fixing’ wayland support i would not recommend using their code ever.

github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/blob/…/linux.rs#L411…

ShortN0te, (edited )

Why are you posting this here? This is not Linux specific.

Better ask on the bug tracker or on any libreoffice related forum/subreddit/lemmy instance.

filen.io - one time payment plans - encrypted cloud storage (filen.io)

Sorry if this reads like an ad; the link is a non-referral one. (I am broke though if anyone wants me to DM my referral link (10%) lol) I heard about it here and wanted to share for others that were interested by that original post but waiting for a sale....

ShortN0te,

Do not trust it to be lifetime and do not trust it to be e2e.

Always use your own OSS encryption on top of it and never trust it to be lifetime. They can not promise you to be lifetime since they can not promise they are still in business in 5 years.

Time to ditch #duckduckgo (lemmy.world)

In the last couple of months I have noticed an increasing trend of supplying me search results that are completely unrelated to the current query and tie back to my location or previous searches. I can say this with a high degree of certainty this is without a doubt beyond the 100th instance this has happened....

ShortN0te,

I have still the same good results in ddg, no matter what device or browser. I have noticed that they have some location bias when ddg (and any other search engine i have tried) has non good results globaly but good resulta locally.

Still better then anything i have tested. Just because there are minor anomalies i will stick with them.

ShortN0te,

The amazing thing about those are that they are halfing the rebuild time. With large drives you get rebuild time of over 24 hours which is actually frightening.

Setup is a one time thing and yes you need to be carefull about it but i bet software support will come as soon as those get more mainstream.

ShortN0te,

You would think ppl on Lemmy are somewhat more able to read, understand and interpret data like published by backblaze but it seems like they are just as everywhere blind because of a onetime experience 10 years ago (3tb constallation drivr by Seagate)

Experience bias ay it best.

ShortN0te,

Just on the side, Openssh and ssh config works just as well on Windows.

Linux on a 2in1 for Uni (lemmy.world)

Hello linix@lemmy, I got fixed on the idea of replacing my iPad with a 2in1 like the thibkpad X13 for uni since I use the keyboard with my iPad a lot. The only time I need to take handwritten notes is in chemistry, mathematics and to annotate PDFs. Does anyone here have experience with convertibles running Linux? What would be...

ShortN0te,

The thinkpad yogas (at least the models i worked with) work just fine with Linux (Except maybe the fingerprint reader but i never bothered to get it working).

When you need a software recommendation for handwriting/annotating then i strongly recommend xournal++. Imho the best there is and i prefer it over any windows application (onenote sucks balls). Have used it for 5-6 years now.

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