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This has been happening for very many years now. It is very common for a shady scam company to buy an enterprise license for remote access software preconfigured to allow unattended access via predefined variables. This is something very very useful in actual enterprise scenarios where you want to deploy remote access software, but equally dangerous in the wrong hands. The only thing you can do to stop it is educate end users.

You shouldn't need a M$ signed driver for capture, what makes you say that? I don't think it does a great job in the position it's in now, but it's hard to say it's not at least covering most of the big points that TeamViewer does, which qualifies it as an alternative.

I also daily drive Anydesk, and I use it a borderline obscene amount. I have gotten no warnings about hitting a usage limit. I moved to Anydesk for the same reason, and would probably move away if Anydesk put up a payment wall. Do you have any links about free-tier limitations? I use Windows/Linux to connect to Windows/Linux/Mac/Android and I have not yet hit any snags with numlock or device connection limits.

The only bug / minor nitpick of Anydesk is that a Linux session host needs to explicitly initiate a new connection to the client for a file transfer, whereas on Windows hosts it happens transparently and just gives you a file picker alongside the existing session.

I *REALLY* want to love this, but it just honestly all-around doesn't work very well or reliably. The developer is almost impossible to communicate with. They don't have CI setup very well at all. It's also nearly impossible to selfhost. I'll be forced to keep using Anydesk until there's something that can at least match it in stability and features. There is potential for this to be good, but not without a LOT more change. Source for my experience is that I co-maintain this package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rustdesk

Physics Girl did a fantastic video explaining this in layman's terms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieDIpgso4no (4:55-6:49 is a sponsor)

> Dell's XPS line somehow got a reputation that it absolutely did not deserve as a good laptop to run linux on

This is where it started... https://www.engadget.com/2009-05-24-dell-now-offering-studio...

Yes, and somehow they're also marked as important even though it's from an unknown contact with none of my contacts CC'd.

There's no way to change camera input. Shame I couldn't try this demo.

Supposedly non-Home versions of Windows 11 will let you use a local account. At least you know how long Win10 will be supported, you've got plenty of time (10/14/2025). Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-...

Lutris is wonderful, the answer is yes. https://lutris.net/games/grand-theft-auto-v

Interesting post https://cliqz.com/en/magazine/farewell-from-cliqz

At least they've kept it the same price for years https://web.archive.org/web/20160915083507/https://1password...

I recently switched from Foxit to PDF-XChange and I'm enjoying it so far https://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-editor

I don't see the similarity you draw between IRC and Discord, other than the fact they both have text chat. If you think nobody was really in control of IRC then you must have missed out on some of the structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC_operator#Operator_types

If I need to create a FB account to use an Oculus, I'm not using it. They are not the only option and I'm not bending.

This is the point to me, and this is the way I've used it for years. Everything always loads almost instantly, I enjoy not burning my bandwidth for things I don't care about. I regularly have over 150 tabs, and at that point blocking unneeded/unwanted content makes a very noticeable difference, especially on older machines.

I enjoyed the ride.

It definitely seems like most people are dismissive of this point because they think technology has somehow advanced to the point where we will never be able to have accidents.

Funny how everyone is able to talk so much shit about nuclear being amazing and safe and all that, yet we've STILL not cleaned up the monstrous amount of TOXIC trash that has been produced by these plants. We have done nothing to stop creating more waste, and we have done nothing to deal with the toxic waste we have right now. To be honest I don't CARE if you want to call it safer when there is no direct proof of that, only proof of the contrary. There are hundreds of thousands of people still affected by major accidents, and the waste leftover from them worldwide. Trying to keep pushing nuclear for anything is an ignorant shortsighted choice.

[1] https://www.greenamerica.org/fight-dirty-energy/amazon-build... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwY2E0hjGuU [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and... [4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2019/05/31/new-map-...

Florida is about to release 750 million mosquitoes genetically modified to die shortly after birth. Hopefully that's progress towards ending mosquitoes once and for all. Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/health/gmo-mosquitoes-approve...

I like to use Hermit[1] to browse sites that have a dedicated app for viewing (Reddit, Instagram, and Twitter are of note). It's marketed as a "Light app browser". and lets you add your own with relative ease. Unfortunately they do not have an iOS version[2] yet -- but the Android experience is quite decent.

[1] https://hermit.chimbori.com/ [2] https://hermit.chimbori.com/early-access

I eagerly await an open source release. Fantastic work!

I'm going to say that's probably a hard no. If you're not cleared then certain documents will just not exist or would come back saying that some information has been redacted for national security reasons. You can see some examples of such requests here if you search hard enough https://www.muckrock.com

Yes see https://github.com/kern/filepizza

Accredited is indeed a valid answer https://www.wgu.edu/missouri/about/accreditation.html

I still don't trust them with anything.

This is absolutely fantastic! I hope there will be a way to adjust video quality. It'd be pretty cool if there were a picture in picture trigger too. https://css-tricks.com/an-introduction-to-the-picture-in-pic...

Unfortunately DNT is dead in the water, and has been for some time now. You are likely making it that much easier for yourself to be tracked because so few people go out of their way to turn that on anymore. An excerpt from the Tracking Protection Working Group mailing list[1]: "the TPWG working group then decided at the W3C technical plenary on 2019-10-24 to close down".

Further than this, the corporations that are tracking us actively would like you tell you they don't care about DNT, and they've no obligation to respect any DNT user[2]: "The DAA does not require companies to honor DNT signals fixed by the browser manufacturers and set by them in browsers. Specifically, it is not a DAA Principle or in any way a requirement under the DAA Program to honor a DNT signal that is automatically set in IE10 or any other browser." This is point blank saying that DNT may as well be used as another way for you to be tracked, from one of the biggest places for advertising online. This is an international discussion; it's not just companies in the US[3] that feel this way either.

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tracking/2018Oct... [2] https://digitaladvertisingalliance.org/press-release/digital... [3] https://youradchoices.com/participating

Fantastic job, I don't know why this didn't already exist, but I'm glad it does now.

Exactly this. End to end encryption does NOT mean "Encrypted on each end but not in the middle".

You've remembered that the author has written another article at some point that is completely and wholeheartedly unrelated to this story; and the point it attempts to make. Why is this the top comment?