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flatironon Deceiving Windows Defender: The Big Stack Bypass

I get the same thing with notepad++ updates. Only time I use windows is work and the apps that usually update are vscode (which I assume they preanalyze) and notepad++. Other than that I live in WSL for …work

flatironon 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

Totally agree that was your experience. The benefit now is there is a “do you want to install systemd network manager” step which if you say yes will significantly ease your setup. My family and friends I buy used thinkpads and install arch with a windows vm and honestly nobody blinks an eye. 99% of what people do is a web browser so just throw chrome/chromium on there and make sure KDE is setup to bug a bit for updates and yer fine. I won’t go back to giving windows laptops out.

flatironon 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

Honestly you should take a stab at arch. There is a cli wizard installer now.

flatironon 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

Same. The only ones that seem to have problems are the ones that explicitly don’t support Linux via anti cheat or weird launchers or DRM. If it’s just a normal game, it runs fine.

flatironon Linux Kernel Ksmbd Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Rust is driver only…for now

flatironon Why fusion will never happen (2012)

The article was singing the praises of wind and solar though which are much simpler to construct, won’t blow up, and you can simply plop down in a lot of places.

Honestly the nut we should be cracking is putting solar in our deserts and figuring out how to transmit the electricity. Tons of land with really not current uses and a whole bunch of sun shine.

flatironon Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP

Apple makes their money on their products and not your data. Google is “free” because it makes its money off your data.

flatironon Secret scanning is now available for free on public repositories

Good on them. GitHub secrets cause a lot of problems. They will always create a better idiot but this idiot trap is long past due.

I also can’t wait until people base64 their creds to get past this. Explaining to some that base64 isn’t encryption tends to be hard so I imagine people will feel safe just base64 and checking it in.

flatironon NIST is announcing that SHA-1 should be phased out by Dec. 31, 2030

I’m always confused when people slam sha on hmac. Is there a realtime sha back door I’m missing? Even sha 1 takes days/months to break.

flatironon NIST is announcing that SHA-1 should be phased out by Dec. 31, 2030

Even if it didn’t sha as a hmac is still fine because the length it takes to break. You can’t break sha1 in the time it takes for your packet to go through the hmac step.

flatironon jQuery 3.6.2

Has does not have the same functionality as jquery contains.

flatironon jQuery 3.6.2

Someone just today was complaining that css doesn’t have contains. Something as simple as that makes jquery useful. It’s also not a huge library and extremely powerful. It gets a bad rap.

flatironon jQuery 3.6.2

My job has a lot of little customers with little projects and some older ones were made with jquery and we keep on keeping on. Why not? Also if we have to make similar projects we branch from older ones. So some of our current development uses jquery which raises some eyebrows but nothing like using 95% battle hardened code than starting fresh because…

flatironon Groundbreaking marks start of work on Penn Station Access

Look at the TZ bridge as an example. Closest you can get to NYC to build a bridge without dealing with the port authority.

flatironon Pausing Manifest V2 phase-out changes

I was a really big stadia fan. Controller and dozens of games. Hundreds of hours in game. Everyone said it was going to shit down and I did believe them but said no way they would leave us hanging. Got every penny back from them. So at least with stadia the few that believed in them made out with free gaming over the last years (and a free useless controller)

flatironon Tor Browser 12.0

Happened to me too. Worked from home and it showed up I was logging in via Tor. They were not pleased.

flatironon RadTrike Electric Tricycle

I’m unsure why nobody releases a compact electric 4 seater car with a 60 mile range for running the kids to school and grabbing some random groceries. Basically a beefed up golf cart. That’s all I need to drop my kids off at school each day which is 95% of my weekday driving.

flatironon Platform certificates used to sign malware

I assume that the level that the malware is running at couldn’t simply modify the OTA file and inject itself back in?

flatironon OpenBSD for Linux Users

It’s great for specific applications but you would be hard pressed to say it’s a better desktop OS than a gnu Linux distro. Bluetooth is a pretty hard thing to miss.

flatironon Show HN: Speed up your site by running JavaScript when the browser is idle

This is for site performance and not for general OS performance.

flatironon RimWorld: A sci fi colony SIM driven by an intelligent AI storyteller

I was hoping it was on sale! Today is the first day of the autumn steam sale. I bought enough to wait until the next one.

flatironon Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud

There has to be some punishment. If I steal $100 from you and the risk is I get caught and all I would have to do is give it back then there would be a lot more white collar crime.

flatironon How to get your backup to half of its size – ZSTD support

Arch Linux. Linux has support built in and so does grub.

flatironon How to get your backup to half of its size – ZSTD support

The hard drive is 64 gb. I have 20 left over. The other 40 is the base arch os install and all my apps with the files I’m working on.

flatironon How to get your backup to half of its size – ZSTD support

My main pc is a MacBook 2013 and brtfs with zstd has changed the way I use it drastically. It basically doubles its storage for common day things. Sure movies and audio and such don’t compress but everything else does. Makes it feel a tad snappier as well.

flatironon Apple Rankings

I had to check: https://applerankings.com/red-delicious-apple-review/

i have no clue why anyone would buy a red delicious apple. Their review is pretty funny.

flatironon From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

I have some copy pasta with screen shots on how to turn that stuff off I spent a bit making. Just send that out and let people know respectfully that I’m not providing tech support and I hope they enjoy the service. I don’t have anyone bug me ever.

flatironon From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server

I paid $75 for plex 9 years ago and have gotten way more than my monies worth. Their shift to monetization In my opinion is over blown. You can simply go and turn that crap off. Having my media on any device at any time is a life changer. Especially with small kids.

flatironon A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (1993)

https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html

Enterprise is $20

flatironon A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (1993)

I personally solve it by abusing Google cloud storage. If you have a domain name you can get their enterprise account for $20 a month with unlimited storage. I have close to 100TB of stuff on there. Rclone crypt makes sure they have no clue what it is. Rclone mount shows it as a mounted drive.