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9 hours agoI’ve not noticed Cinnamon being any faster than KDE. I’d recommend KDE for someone coming from Windows.
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I like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed: everything’s up to date and it’s very stable for a rolling distro. Very occasionally an update is problematic but there are easy rollbacks thanks to btrfs. KDE Plasma is an easy desktop environment for a former Windows user too. One weirdness is you’ll have to get used to using the command line to update native packages and Flatpaks (“sudo zypper dup” and “sudo flatpak update”), because the GUI updater apparently isn’t really intended for the rolling distro.
1·20 hours agoIt’s just about convincing investors that you’re going places. Customers don’t have to want your new features or buy more of your stuff because it has them. Users certainly don’t have to want or use them. Just do buzzword-driven development and keep the investors convinced that you’re the future.
It’s not that they’re especially fragile. It’s really only when you combine them with a sync process. I once had a sync go wrong and it resulted in the contents of a vault being unreadable. Because all you have are a bunch of encrypted files with meaningless names and a flattish structure, which Cryptomator interprets and mounts as a different directory structure, when something goes wrong it’s not easy to know where in the vault files the problem lies. You can’t say “ah, I’m missing the documents folder so I’ll restore that one from backup” like you could with an unencrypted directory. And if you’ve made changes since the last vault backup you can’t just restore the whole vault either. You could mount a backup of the vault, from a time when it was intact, and then copy files across into your live copy, but I feel safer having a copy in another format somewhere else. Not necessary, I guess, but it can make recovery easier.
It depends how the backup is encrypted. Most backup solutions will give you an encryption key, or a password to a key, that you have to keep safely and securely somewhere else. If you have an online password manager or a Keepass database in cloud storage, that would be a reasonable place to keep the key. Or on a USB stick (preferably more than one because they can fail) or a piece of paper which you mustn’t lose.
compressed with AES-256
I guess you mean encrypted.
Cryptomator is good but it’s important also to keep backups of the unencrypted content of the Cryptomator vault that are not encrypted by Cryptomator. (You could encrypt the backups with another system.) Cryptomator vaults are more fragile than the underlying file system, and it’s easier for a glitch in the sync process to corrupt them so they’re unrecoverable. I have lost data due to this in the past. So it’s best to make sure all the contents of your vaults also exist somewhere else, encrypted in another way.
There are plenty of people who are smart with tech and engineering but not very smart with people, society and politics. And these people sometimes develop a tendency to see all society’s messiness and difficulties as engineering problems to be fixed. If you’re looking at it that way, it’s easy to become either a tankie or a fascist, because both offer neat engineering solutions that promise to make life work cleanly.
YouTube’s ‘second chance’ process fits with a broader trend at Google and other major platforms to ease strict content moderation rules imposed in the wake of the pandemic and the 2020 election.
Oh goody, we’re going to get a whole new wave of far-right videos on YouTube.
From Discord’s age verification page, under “Privacy and Data Security”:
Q: Is my data stored when I use Face Scan or Scan ID verification?
A: Discord and k-ID do not permanently store personal identity documents or your video selfies. The image of your identity document and the ID face match selfie are deleted directly after your age group is confirmed, and the video selfie used for facial age estimation never leaves your device.
So is that a lie?
Not using Internet Explorer causes circumcision? This just gets worse and worse. Pass the Tylenol. No, wait…
On the other hand, autism went up. So, RFK Jr., which is it? Tylenol or using the wrong browser? Or are we just not murdering enough these days? Does Tylenol prevent murder? Shit, does autism cause Tylenol?
8·4 days agoI can solder.
Great - you can build all the phones then. I can program, so I think we’re most of the way there. We need one more person to write the manual.
22·4 days agoThe regime openly wishing violence and retribution against Americans for opposing fascism is a recent development. The USA has always treated the left (socialists and communists) badly and been more favorable to the far right, but this level of open intimidation and threat against everyone from centre-right leftwards is different and new. This is the USA’s first government that’s openly trying to construct a violent fascist dictatorship in which people with the wrong views are disappeared.
Your argument seems to be “all things that aren’t perfect are equally bad, so you must either boycott them all or never complain about any.” This is obviously silly. We’re talking about Apple and ICE, not every other company and every other bad thing.
Spoken like a German industrialist in the 1930s-40s or a buyer of Krugerrands in the 1980s.
Two Nazi salutes.
Where is that small print? It should be archived before Discord tries to change it.
It’s really shocking that the poors are too stupid to try this. Clearly the rich are smarter and deserve their riches.