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1950s

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oops you beat me to it, though i put it in the 50s (it started in 42 but i think its iconic phase was more in the 50s)

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i thought this might fit but the first episode was 1969 so it doesn’t really

Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding (kitklarenberg.substack.com)

On November 16th, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, published a detailed breakdown of the popular encrypted messaging app’s running costs for the very first time. The unprecedented disclosure’s motivation was simple - the platform is rapidly running out of money, and in dire need of donations to stay afloat....

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I have mixed feelings about this article. It gets some stuff right, but also some stuff wrong and it misses some important details.

  • I don’t think Signal has actually received money from OTF (Radio Free Asia) since 2015 or so; if it needed any today it would likely get it from one of the less transparent US government internet freedom funding vehicles. There is no indication they are “facing collapse” beyond a blog post talking about their expenses and soliciting donations.
  • This article mentions “over a billion” people repeatedly, but doesn’t explain that number is actually referring to WhatsApp (which uses the encryption protocol developed by Signal). Signal says they have 40 million active users.
  • It doesn’t mention that Brian Acton (billionaire WhatsApp founder) gave them a $50M interest-free loan when he co-founded the Signal Foundation with Moxie in 2018, and became its “executive chairman” or whatever. That “loan” had increased to over $100M by the end of 2018, and is presumably much larger today.
  • It doesn’t mention that Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker worked at Google for over a decade, and co-founded a department there that worked alongside OTF on various internet freedom projects (and was later on the OTF advisory board herself)
  • it doesn’t mention the salient properties of Signal which actually make it particularly beneficial to US interests (keeping the communications of privacy-desiring people associated with their phone numbers while concentrating their metadata on Amazon servers)
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Picture of Miles O’Brien with his duplicate from the future from DS9 S03E17

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You’re agreeing with something I didn’t state.

knowyourmeme.com/…/misinterpretation-comedy-trope HTH

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seems plausiblescreenshot of wikipedia text “Some sources state that Butrick was homosexual.[8] Kirstie Alley, his co-star in Star Trek II, identified Butrick as being bisexual.[9]” with citation 9 saying “Alley, Kirstie (2012). Art of Men (I Prefer Mine Al Dente). Simon & Schuster.”out of curiosity i found her book; it only has two sentences about him: screenshot of text “I got married in 1983 while I was simultaneously doing a TV series and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof onstage. I’d done Star Trek II in 1981 and I was slightly crushed out on my young, bisexual costar Merritt Butrick, who became my friend. Sadly, he died of AIDS in 1989 at the young age of 29.”… and one photo: photograph with caption “Merrit Butrick and I goofing around on the set of my first movie, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.”

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We Aren’t Prepared?

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Commander, these cubes are improperly balanced.

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shake my smh

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it can has if you apk add coreutils

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-mode_Linux

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i think this would work better flipped horizontally, so that the original is seen firsthttps://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/209bac27-d2e8-4dda-aba2-839132c98dfd.png

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see my other comment in this thread…

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GNU Guix, and NixOS, respectively

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You have a few options.

My preferred way is to create an encrypted disk image using LUKS, backed by a sparse file. Sparse means that, while you’ll still need to specify a size for the encrypted volume, it won’t actually use the space on the underlying disk until you use the space on the encrypted volume. You could even make the encrypted volume bigger than your physical disk (though of course you’d get an error if you tried to actually use that extra space).

There are a few ways to setup a LUKS container; if you want to learn how to do it manually, this howto i just found looks like a good overview of the steps (though I wouldn’t recommend doing its final Setup auto mount section).

These days, you can also create a LUKS volume on a sparse file entirely using a GUI such as the GNOME Disks program. Using it, just click the hamburger menu and select “New Disk Image” and then with your new disk image selected click the gears menu and “Format Partition” and there should be a checkbox for LUKS on that screen. If you leave “Erase” turned off (which is the default), then the backing file will be sparse.

One downside to the sparse disk image approach is that when you delete files from the encrypted volume you will not regain that space on the outer disk automatically. It is possible to, but requires work to do so which I won’t try to document here.

Another approach which doesn’t have that downside is to use eCryptfs instead of LUKS. It stores each encrypted file separately (with an encrypted name) and thus doesn’t hide the directory structure or file sizes - only directory and file names and file contents are encrypted. It also appears to have not been updated since 2016, but, it is still included in various distributions so it is also an option. You can read about how to use it (and other caveats about it) on the arch wiki.

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that creates encrypted archives, but doesn’t provide a mountable filesystem (which is what OP means by “real-time”).

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tomb looks like a nice wrapper around LUKS but it doesn’t appear to support creating a sparse file, so, it will immediately use however much space you allocate to it.

(I think it doesn’t support a sparse backing file because I searched the word “sparse” on their github, and for the word “seek” (which is the dd argument for creating a sparse file) in the tomb bash script, and both searches yielded no results.)

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Hello this is Ricardo Montalbán

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obligatory link to Voyager Audition

would it be illegal to download Ubuntu on a Chromebook?

what if I, for example, had a job in Google and I liked Linux so much I install Ubuntu on my Chromebook, would that be illegal/send me to prison?? Or, if I had the job, would I be kicked?? I like Chromebooks because they are so smol and nice. But I don’t know if it’s legal to install a Linux distro on it. Thank you!!

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“right to jail, right away” meme

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I think most chromebooks allow you to disable their boot security? some even allow you to re-enable it with different keys so that you can have a different trust anchor instead of google.

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(from this video which also features him operating guillotine)

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