This looks like useful stuff; thanks for sharing. I’m not on Windows myself any more, but this looks like info with passing on to those in my life who are.

Why would this be a bad thing? I assume that’s the connotation for posting it here

Because people who are struggling financially already shouldn’t have money taken out of their paychecks by the predatory student loan racket.

I’ve had a similar thought, though not quite to hyperinflation levels where people are burning piles of $1,000 bills to keep warm or anything. But say he reduced the value of a dollar a hundredfold: suddenly people saving for retirement with a million out two dollars would have the equivalent of ten or twenty thousand. Meanwhile, Elon would still have the equivalent of a couple billion dollars. Everyone would be poor except the ultra rich. That would enable big business to compete with China in terms of wages paid, which is the only real way to bring manufacturing back to the US. Seen that way, making America great again is about making it a manufacturing base again by turning the whole country into sweatshop laborers.

How will there be any assurance of standardization in vulnerability analysis with a decentralized system? Will orgs just have to keep lists of which GNAs they consider reliable and which they don’t? I’m skeptical, and their FAQ doesn’t seem to provide any answers.

Say I’m from country X and I make widgets for $10 each. The US decides to put a 25% tariff on goods from country X. That means that each time I want to sell a widget in the US, I need to pay 25% of its value as a tax. If I was only making a 25% profit on each widget, that means I’m now breaking even on each widget and not making any money. That won’t work for me, so I raise my widget prices to, say, $14. Now I have to pay 25% of that, or $3.50, as a tariff, which leaves me pocketing $10.50, which is about what I was making before. Widget manufacturers in the US don’t have to do that, so their prices stay much lower than mine, so presumably they get more sales and the US economy is strengthened.

The problem is, the US is not a manufacturing superpower anymore, and even for the things that are manufactured here, most of the raw materials come from overseas. So the only thing these tariffs are going to do is drive up the price of everything. And once those prices are up, they’re not going to come back down, even if the tariffs are removed; in my scenario above, it’s likely that when I raised my widget prices to $14, all the US widget manufacturers would just raise their prices to $13 and make a bunch of extra money.

Long story short: more money getting siphoned out of the pockets of the working class.

It’s also about control of the Northwest Passage IMO; that’s why he’s interested in Canada and Greenland.

What games do you play? I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux since Windows 7 went EoS, and especially since the Steam Deck came out, I’ve had very few problems. That said I don’t play competitive stuff, which is what tends to have anti-cheat rootkits.

I’m curious if this applies to rooted devices with a hardened OS like Graphene installed.

If you just bring s whole other person in your checked bags, you save on ticket costs, too.

Paywall

I’ve got a Lansky kit I’ve been using for years; it does the job pretty well: https://www.lansky.com/sharpeners.html?page=1

What’s the financial plan there? Or do you just want them to drop 80% of their budget or whatever it is and work for free?

I was on System 76 for two laptops. The most recent one, a Lemur, started to fall apart: the plastic hinge just started coming off in chunks, and the clamshell began to split. Customer service was terrible: they tried to get me to agree to charges without explaining what they were going to charge me for. When I pressed them (which took repeated emails) they finally admitted they wanted to send me a part for me to do a replacement without any instructions, and which they advised people not to do. Very scammy vibes. I picked up a Framework instead and have been really enjoying it, though I can’t really speak to the gaming portion I’m afraid. I’d just say avoid System 76.

The problem is that it really has to be addressed at the national level. Otherwise, places with better social services and less extreme weather (like the big cities on the west coast) get overwhelmed by more transient homeless than their systems can handle–and that’s even without Texas or whoever shipping busloads more in…

Anyone who starts off telling you that they’re the most popular and trusted should probably not, in fact, be trusted. Especially if they’re calling for not using password managers. Passkeys are interesting in theory, but my understanding is that most of the implementations are just another way for big tech to track you.

As another poster detailed, this is not a company that exposed your info: these credentials are all from stealer logs, which are logs of credentials stolen by keyloggers installed on machines. If your credentials were in this report, it means that you’ve entered that username and password on a machine with malware on it. Could be your personal machine, or it could be some other computer you’ve used.

Oh my God, the Something Awful forums are still up: https://forums.somethingawful.com/

https://www.lemmyapps.com/ is a neat comparison site, but I’m not seeing any criteria around use of tracking data; is that just implied with the free vs paid column?

I don’t think this is a case of trying to make more money.

Sure it is: the only reason for DRM is to make more money.

What we’re seeing with Reddit is just the first stage of enshittification: making things worse for the end users who have been captured by network effect and what used to be a good service, in order to benefit advertisers. The second stage is making things shitty for the advertisers who have been captured by all the captive users. Paid subs are probably a harbinger of that kind of thing, but I don’t think advertisers are locked in enough to be really stuck yet.