Overkill right now, probably, but the Government seems hell-bent on locking down access to more and more things that we see as completely normal, so I'd say that it's forward planning.
Does Windows Backup still exist? I was never really aware of (m)any people using it, and it's definitely not a revenue generator. Someone please emlughten me?
I can only speak for the UK but for quite a while now, McD's has become an uninviting experience, with miserable staff, menu screens that visibly tell you to hurry the f*k up and choose the product. Not to mention customers vying with delivery drivers for orders. I think the problem applies to all-income customers.
Having watched rather a lot of disaster movies recently, I can't help wondering if, with so many data centers in one area, whether there's been any extra spending on defense? Imagine the chaos if a hostile element decided to take out an area of Loudoun County, especially with Dulles Airport nearby. Eggs in one basket comes to mind.
> Are these hacks unavoidable, or are they indicative of shoddy IT on the victim's side?
That's a really good question and one that I've asked (myself) many times. What I can't understand is that on one side you have an IT division that (probably) has a substantial budget, security hardware and software layers, security strategies and probably hundreds of personnel. On the other side you have a group of hackers/crackers who have none of the above, but often succeed. How does that work? Srsly!
F-Droid apps have enabled me to more-or-less DeGoogle my tablet and populate the device with some truly exceptional software, much of which just isn't available on Google's Play Store. I've also made sure to pay/donate where possible: we can't afford to lose this resource!
Yeah! He didn't want to appear rude by just walking out, so he stayed it's been all over the local TV News - he looks a tall guy so yes, he'd definitely be noticed making a sneaky exit!
I went through a phase a couple of years ago where I was setting up my Linux Thinkpad T480 with every accessory I could find. My heart leapt with joy when I found an affordable USB-modem dongle and was excited to try it out. TBH the only service I could find was a US-based fax service but that worked really well. Sadly, all the BBSs I'd hoped to try out had long since converted to Telnet, but hey, it was cool to think that if I ever needed to dialup anything I could actually do it
Great evaluation by the (UK) BBC Evening News: basically, "it's faster, gives better answers (no detail), has a better query input (text) box, and hallucinates less". Jeez...
I'm not! I know how easy it is to "discover" porn, but if sites adopted the RTA labelling system (https://rtalabel.net/?content=howto) and browsers obeyed that would go a long way to preventing those "accidental" discoveries. What my privacy concerns are were as per my post - no accountability from various global third parties and indiscriminate use of my PII.
For me personally, I agree that wanting non-adults to be able get at online porn is commendable, and the fact that the tech industry is scrambling over itself to comply is evidence that this Act has teeth. However, what bugs me personally is that 1) The Government had nearly 2 years head start to set up a centralised ID repository, hopefully basing it on the same model as the DVLA and Passport Office sharing photo and other data. They did not. 2) Verification sites are not UK based, and therefore subject to the same mistrust with handling PII - which obviously can't be replaced. 3) There are no Goverment-created apps that can/should handle ID verification despite the fact that these would probably solve 95% of the problem. 4) Feature overreach: if you want to surveil your citizens, be honest for once and don't use the knee-jerk carrot of it "being for the kids" - we're not as stupid as you think (unfortunately).
Same here. I got so tired of fighting "the system" that wanted to manage everything, and post-updates meant mire wasted time switching off bloat/features I didn't need.
It is an incredible breakthrough and if it prevents disease then all well and good, but are our Administrative Systems set up to handle such an arrangement?
I run Brave on multiple devices and there's now a "glitch" a few seconds after what wouod be the ads, starts. I put up with this because the alternative is to put up with ads that treat viewers like morons with one hand in the mouse and other in the wallet.
Very nice! I compiled this from source on my Lenovo M8 4h gen running termux: I only had to install nim. It even installed nicely despite there being no "root" user.
Maybe this is one reason why in the US and latterly in the UK, the authorities are scrambling to introduce remote ID for drones with 249gm flying weight upwards: this includes operator/pilot ID. No doubt there'll eventually be some sort of AI-assisted pattern recognition/prediction that'll enable pre-emptive prediction of attacks.
Satie's my favourite composer so I was pleased to read this article. If I had to compare him with another composer (and if it was possible), I'd say Basil Kirchin (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Kirchin): I can imagine Satie listening to Kirchin and nodding in that knowing fashion...
I've set up IIAB and tried Kiwix as well. I used a Pi Zero 2 and as it's only me using it, I found the user experience was good, although given the Zero's power, not high-speed. I managed to gain enough knowledge to create my own ZIM files of some selected YouTube content ( including my own). Being aware of the recent propensity of useful data to "vanish" I've approached a couple of online content providers to see if they'd ask to get their content added to Kiwix: sadly I heard nothing back, but I'll keep trying.