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RamRodificationon Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security

Your comment is funny. But obviously, "mistakenly" refers to the mistake of believing the embargo being broken, and then, very intentionally and not mistakenly, publishing a stupid video.

RamRodificationon Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

I'm not the person you are responding to, but Proton VPN? That's what I switched to after it turned out one of the two Mullvad founders took my money and gave it to a local lunatic politician.

RamRodificationon Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy

Reminds me of that Michael Scott quote:

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.

RamRodificationon Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

Buried? Deep down? The fourth paragraph, clearly labeled "Affected Systems", a minute or two into the read.

RamRodificationon Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified

Just slap some solar panels on it!

RamRodificationon Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL

Blacklist of what? I don't understand what a blacklist would be used for in this context. Specific unsupported hardware?

RamRodificationon Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork

Having had consulting jobs working with Windows servers around 2015, this was ruined for me. Sooo many ancient out of support 2003 severs. Seeing it actually triggers some light anxiety ("oh no not another one!")

RamRodificationon Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

Do you know how M2 support compares to M1? Trying to figure out if M1 is the better choice for a used macbook to run Asahi on.

RamRodificationon Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months

> Who

These dudes and dudettes playing video games

> what?

Military service

RamRodificationon Project Glasswing: An Initial Update

This is marketing. So probably suspected. Or somewhere in between.

RamRodificationon What your Bluetooth devices reveal

That one doesn't seem to do bluetooth at all, I think?

RamRodificationon When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown

ATM machine

RamRodificationon GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client

Can we not allow them to continue letting you buy games (outside the launcher) and not shut up?

RamRodificationon Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

Thanks! I have not put much effort into mouse settings.

RamRodificationon Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

Thanks for sharing

RamRodificationon Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

The Quakes! Quake Live and Quake Champions mainly.

RamRodificationon Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux

As a competitive old school arena FPS guy, I have also had a very hard time getting the same smoothness and low latency (input, output, whatever it is) on Linux. The games I play are very fast and twitchy, and milliseconds matter.

There seems to be too many layers and variables to ever get to the bottom of it. Is it the distro itself? Is it a Wayland vs. X11 thing? Is it the driver? The Proton version? Some G-SYNC thing? Some specific tweak that games based on this game engine needs?

RamRodificationon Linux is good now

> It's a complete dealbreaker for competitive play

Very true, and this is the biggest issue for me when it comes to gaming on Linux. And it's not just raw FPS count. You can usually brute force your way around that with better hardware. (I'm guessing you could probably get a locked 60 in Street Fighter 6 even with a 30% performance loss?). It's things like input lag and stutter, which in my experience is almost impossible to resolve.

If it weren't for competitive shooters, I could probably go all Linux. But for now I still need to switch over to Windows for that.

RamRodificationon Linux is good now

Are there games running at 4k 120hz?

RamRodificationon Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985)

Speaking of exaggerations, there is some hilarious marketing language on those pages. A couple of examples:

> It captures both the weight of a collapsing mountain and the whisper of tectonic tension with equal ease.

> THE100 SUB PRO PASSIVE doesn’t just play low frequencies — it summons them from the earth itself.

RamRodificationon HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)

Right. Clients (web browsers) would have to stop using it too for it to work I guess.

RamRodificationon HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)

Your second example would also be prevented by just not serving on port 80 as the parent comment suggests, no?

RamRodificationon Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)

Kubuntu is nice. Not sure why it's not more popular. Or maybe it's just a quieter user base?

RamRodificationon Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

Ok thanks. That sounds reasonable.

>... and therefore you can unredact them

from that readme is just not true then I guess?

RamRodificationon Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

I was thinking I understand what's going on but then I came to the image showing the diff and I don't understand at all how that diff can unredact anything.

RamRodificationon The Bob Dylan concert for just one person

I agree. It would have been tempting to send someone who doesn't listen to Dylan at all, but what a waste that would have been. This guy deserved it.

RamRodificationon Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

I'm not the person you are replying to, but like all of technology, you just find the latest (or most public) change made, and then fire your blame-cannon at it.

Excel crashed? Must be that new WiFi they installed!

RamRodificationon The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting

$lang_header = $lang_header + $the_lang_choice_that_was_just_made

RamRodificationon The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting

Hey look it's that invisible guy again!

RamRodificationon Proxmox virtual environment 9.1 available

> aspects are appealing (creating a vm/container via cli)

Nothing is stopping you from doing this with Proxmox, right?