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#101 Re: Off-topic » Microsoft and data sovereignty » 2025-07-28 13:32:11
^^^@chris2be8 and @all
That is why any sensitive data should *always* be encrypted before being stored on any system you do not *fully* control. And *really* sensitive data should not even leave your systems, even encrypted, without a *good* reason.
*Fully*
*Always*
*Really*
*Good*
F
A
R
G
yep, we're farged[/sarcasm]
#102 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » trying to keep my 100yr-old father computing for another year » 2025-07-27 09:39:48
update: currently using daedalus and claws-mail and taking it slow and easy, day by day, thanks again all.
#103 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Canon LBP6020 » 2025-07-27 09:12:49
bought a brand new fancy canon multi-function 30ish years ago and it was a nightmare.
never bought anything canon again
(full disclosure, i have experimented with canon stuff that was thrown out in the rubbish by other poor souls)
#104 Re: Off-topic » Microsoft and data sovereignty » 2025-07-27 09:05:43
it is important to understand that with just the last few years of ai/llm/etc related _world_wide_web_ scraping, along with all the additional _internet_traffic_harvesting_and_storage_
it is already all in the _wrong_ hands...
#105 Re: Off-topic » A programmer should be a touch typist ? » 2025-07-27 08:53:36
imagine what the planet would be like today if ALL the humans on the ENTIRE planet lived like the americans(mostly referring to the _earth_destroying_level_of_consumerism_ with a side-dish of several hundred years of global murder and mayhem)
_who_would_jesus_nuke_
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
_slavery_is_alive_and_well_
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristian_Williams
also see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement
the whales can't wait til we're gone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_whaling
or:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tIdCsMufIY
and:
#106 Re: Other Issues » I seem to crash when I go to a certain website... » 2025-07-25 08:48:11
@all
please see both the article as well as the comments:
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/14/tackling-the-ai-bots-that-threaten-to-overwhelm-the-open-web/
Proxies for Bots / Global Proxy Networks
do a quick search for “proxies for bots” and a hypothesis develops where hundreds of millions of individual consumers/users get “free” internet access simply for willingly being an active part of a global proxy network. not sure how cloudflare or anyone will be able to distinguish quasi-random proxy-networks from naturally occurring web traffic. definitely a race to the bottom nevertheless.
would expect to see more of these types of apps:
https://geekflare.com/consumer-tech/apps-to-sell-internet-data-and-earn-money/
#107 Re: Off-topic » Anyone have familiarity with GrapheneOS? » 2025-07-18 15:28:03
^^^@zapper, thanks for your installation report! keep us posted on your experiences/observations/progress/etc
#108 Re: Off-topic » Google in trouble again » 2025-07-18 09:15:40
this was insightful(or inciteful, depending on your take) - circa 2021:
https://unixdigest.com/articles/this-is-how-you-keep-your-dignity-and-not-sell-your-soul.html
#109 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » XFCE Suspend wakes immediately, successful suspend on second attempt » 2025-07-17 03:40:26
check out this specific post and then read the complete thread to get a better idea of what you are up against:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=23730#p23730
another thought is if your free hard drive space is below a certain amount, then that will cause strange machine behavior
#110 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-14 06:33:04
stumbled across this commentary which references g*
mostly sharing it because...[sarcasm]well, what we need is to be more like microsoft windows...sigh.[/sarcasm]
#112 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-14 05:51:05
more on the k* word
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/kumbaya-song-meaning
side-eye dude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Lee_Jones
alternatively
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000169/
just fer fun
#113 Re: Off-topic » Anyone have familiarity with GrapheneOS? » 2025-07-13 22:25:44
tracfone unlocking webpage:
https://www.tfwunlockpolicy.com/wps/portal/home/
sad how verizon has consumed Straight Talk, Net10, Clearway, Total, Tracfone, Simple Mobile, Safelink(obamaphone), and Walmart Family Mobile
#114 Re: DIY » ALSA-only purists: Question, new GUI app for the mixer and EQ? » 2025-07-12 13:03:17
^^^@tux_99
Got sound in Firefox with only alsa and JACK!
#115 Re: Off-topic » Anyone have familiarity with GrapheneOS? » 2025-07-12 12:52:56
power and fuses and circuitboards, oh my!...beware the Magic Smoke!?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke
re: ... oh my!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lions_and_tigers_and_bears,_oh_my
and to get that earworm out, Bad Wolves tribute covering Cranberries Zombie rip Dolores O'Riordan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ
peace out
#116 Re: Off-topic » Anyone have familiarity with GrapheneOS? » 2025-07-12 08:00:16
re: "charging only" cables
best guess is when a batch of cables Q.C.ed bad for data at a high-enough failure rate then they magically became "charging-only" cables(ooohhh, specialty item...sigh...argh)
#117 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-12 07:50:31
mostly thinking along the lines of @golinux at reply #60 regarding "peace"
#119 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-12 05:58:11
there is no spoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAXtO5dMqEI
one gives themselves peace
others mostly bring violence
refuse to engage and/or obey _enough_ and many will attempt to destroy the peacefully non-compliant
as always, your mileage will vary
#120 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Help with signing nvidia's driver with secure boot enabled » 2025-07-12 05:44:04
looks like there might be timing issues with _some_ distros
quoting from:
https://benleskey.com/blog/opensuse#nvidia
snippet:
The biggest problem with the NVIDIA drivers is updating them. With UEFI secure boot enabled, each time the drivers were upgraded I had to enroll their keys at boot time. If I missed the 10 second window (and you only get one chance, even after rebooting), the graphical environment couldn't come up and I had to recover manually by running sudo mokutil --import /usr/share/nvidia-pubkeys/whatever-nvidia-pubkey.der from the recovery environment. You can also disable kernel module verification by running sudo mokutil --disable-validation. This will ask you to set up a small password and then disable the verification at next boot time (assuming you can remember the small password you set up).
#121 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Help with signing nvidia's driver with secure boot enabled » 2025-07-11 14:17:04
did you try it in single-user?(just a casual guess)
#123 Re: Installation » How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)? » 2025-07-10 08:20:09
more re: anubis, please review:
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots
#124 Re: Off-topic » GNOME is taking the scum bag approach still... » 2025-07-10 07:08:23
this thread reminds me to reread and rereference:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html
and for those who unduly shun the message for the messenger, please see:
and search the below webpage for "lifelong activist" as you have time:
edited to add a couple more(again, as you have time):
https://www.stallman.org/articles/magellan-just-a-name.html
https://www.stallman.org/articles/what-mary-had.html
https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community
https://www.stallman.org/apple.html
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
#125 Re: Devuan » Can't use MAKE command driver for installation » 2025-07-10 06:46:25
since the OP seems unable to use simple code tags perhaps we might hypothesize we are interacting with ai/llm? how would we know? could we? really?
don't get me wrong, i understand. a dear one has dementia and no longer knows who they are/was/were. it is hard to relate unless/until it is personally experienced and so one must seek out others who have both experienced it and are willing to share and talk about it as well. life is short, love them long.
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