I feel your pain, that absolutely sucks.
But I also feel Schadenfreude for the company: refusing to hire a dev because they are autistic is just hilariously incompetent HR.
If you exclude autists, ADHD, trans people and furries, the only thing that has a severe disability is your company’s IT skills hahaha
It is.
It’s also sad that chickens, fishes and shrimps don’t look as cute and aren’t mourned even though they suffer all the same. They usually don’t even get a plural form.
While the company has a questionable record and a controversial business model, Brave Browser is an open-source browser with good privacy features.
If they don’t keep any private data on any computer that trusts their home network/wifi and don’t do taxes or banking on those, there’s no problem.
But if they do, I maintain that the analogy is correct: their unpatched machine is an easy way to digitally get access to their home, just like an unlocked door is to a physical home.
You keep using the word “maintenance”. All I’m worried about is not installing any security patches for months.
The problem that I tried to highlight with my “cherry picking” is:
So unless you have separated this Orange Pi into its own VLAN or done some other advanced router magic, the Orange Pi can reach, and thus more easily attack all your other devices on the network.
Unless you treat your entire home network as untrusted and have everything shut off on the computers where you do keep private data, the Orange Pi will still be a security risk to your entire home network, regardless of what can be found on the little machine itself.
No it is
https://www.pandasecurity.com/en/mediacenter/consequences-not-applying-patches/
And:
You’re allowing for more attack vectors that would not be there if the system were to be patched. Depending on the severity of the vulnerability, this can result in something like crashes or something as bad as remote code execution, which means attackers can essentially do whatever they want with the pwned machine, such as dropping malware and such. If you wanna try this in action, just spin up a old EOL Windows machine and throw a bunch of metasploit payloads at it and see what you can get.
While nothing sensitive may be going to or on the machine (which may seem to be the case but rarely is the case), this acts as an initial foothold in your environment and can be used as a jumpbox of sorts for the attacker to enumerate the rest of your network.
And:
Not having vulnerability fixes that are already public. Once a patch/update is released, it inherently exposes to a wider audience that a vulnerability exists (assuming we’re only talking about security updates). That then sets a target on all devices running that software that they are vulnerable until updated.
There’s a reason after windows Patch Tuesday there is Exploit Wednesday.
Yes, a computer with vulnerabilities can allow access to others on the network. That’s what it means to step through a network. If computer A is compromised, computer B doesn’t know that so it will still have the same permissions as pre-compromise. If computer A was allowed admin access to computer B, now there are 2 compromised computers.
I used to lose my keys all the time. I don’t want to spend so much time looking for my keys, nowadays I mostly just leave them in the front door, I rarely lock it and it works like a champ.
Does DuckDuckGo do this as well or is that a better option, privacy-wise?
EDIT: answer is here: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/#recommended-providers
If you need to hide IP, you just use a VPN. Duh!
And Qwant is not listed on privacyguides?
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What even is an actual cornball…? Genuine question. Never heard of it.
Of course mass surveillance existed long before the US had a fascist president, no one is implying that it didn’t.
It’s just that fascism is a great reminder why no government should have as much power to invade in privacy as the US has. Especially for those who are not subscribed to this community and forgot about that, so share this with them!
The “Peter” bit reminded me: Years back, there was a viral trend on Dutch socials where women shared a hashtag “I am Peter” to raise awareness that there were more people named Peter in Boards of Directors than women.
There is a reason why NixOS was invented 21 years ago. Reproducible builds are not simple in most packaging build systems.
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Wonder where you got that idea for Konsi’s personality from 🤔
How to call xargs is typically one of those things I always forget. The foreach alias is a great solution!
My current solution was to use tldr for all of these tools, but yeah if I find myself having to do a for each line, I’ll definitely steal your alias.
Luckily (knocks on wood) I almost exclusively work with yaml and json nowadays so I should just learn yq.
The closest to Mint in terms of:
That I know of, beside maybe OpenSUSE (have no experience with it) is Kubuntu 24.10. Yes apt will say weird things and you’ll want to uninstall snapd.
But Kubuntu 24.10, current latest, ships with Plasma 6.1. Current stable, Kubuntu 24.04 ships with Plasma 5 still.
But I assume you’re not a fan of the rolling release model like EndeavourOS (Archlinux based, KDE is the default). So if you want recent packages AND a versioned release model, that leaves only Fedora out of the distros I’m familiar with. They recently promoted the KDE version from a Spin to a full version beside the GNOME version.
But Fedora is much heavier on the FLOSS philosophy, and not as works-out-of-the-box as Mint or any Ubuntu flavor.
Debian isn’t, but it will take a long time for Plasma 6.3 to make it to Debian stable.
So yeah, I guess OpenSUSE may be your best bet EDIT: took a quick look, there’s a rolling release model of OpenSUSE called Tumbleweed. But you probably don’t like rolling release. And a versioned one called Leap. The current latest Leap version still ships Plasma 5 so that still isn’r nearly as recent as Fedora, which has had Plasma 6 in the last TWO versions.
It’s not just about speed, but also (battery) efficiency.
Even if you don’t notice the speed, if you are working on anything but a modern expensive laptop, you will notice the difference in battery draw between:
VS Code > NeoVim in traditional terminal > Neovim in Alacritty or Ghostty
I’ve heard of SwayFX, but it’s pretty niche and I doubt it comes close to the featureset of Hyprland