People don’t care about security until they get hit. Source: working in IT for 10 years.

Cooldown: 20 hours

It also makes updating easier. When a lib has a bug it can be fixed by updating one package. If every application on your system was statically linked, each one of these would have to be updated individually.

I’m not aware of any distro that automatically clears a user’s .cache in their home directories. Maybe you’re thinking of /var/cache?

SSL (or TLS nowadays) not only protects against surveillance but also guarantees the integrity of the data you send and receive. Without it, someone could spoof the response you receive. In practice this means injecting ads or malware or even worse: fake shakespeare!

It’s clearly yif

This is Lemmy Shitpost, not Sensible Discussion 😆

Personally I’ve been happy with the Nokia branded phones (manufactured by HMD Global).

takes Notes oh no, this is even worse!

Otherwise users could easily taint the datasets by giving wrong answers on purpose.

I do that and as long as it’s not too outlandish it lets me through.

That could happen when the system has already flagged you as unwanted traffic. It just keeps giving you Captchas to solve until you eventually give up voluntarily.

I admit I had not thought of this possibility when I saved this to my memes folder last year. :(

I saved many many documents as pdf via libre office and never encountered this feature, so I’d say so too.

Looking at his recent posts it looks like he didn’t buy it to make money but to increase his influence. Just recently he promoted a post that calls to vote for the farright party in Germany for example.

Interestingly I’ve found Syncthing far far easier to setup than Nextcloud :D

Edge appears and becomes your default browser.

I have to use Edge at work and after a recent update it disabled the adblocking extension I used because “it might have been tampered with”. It also offered a nice Repair button which…uninstalled the extension completely.

Edge is hostile to its users and should never ever be used.

I tried NixOS in a VM with 2GB memory and the package manager OOM’d when searching for a package…stayed with Tumbleweed on my metal.

Do Redhat and SUSE not maintain their own LTS kernels for their enterprise distributions?

Your argument is flawed. Heritage cannot be chosen. Following a certain religion is a choice however.

And a colleague of mine recently praised Musk to me for bringing back free speech to twitter…