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pedro2··on Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI
How much of a tinkerer are you? Try this: https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps
pedro2··on We Could Brighten Clouds to Cool the Earth
I saw Snowpiercer, no thank you.
pedro2··on MS Windows Defender and DeCSS
On one very tiring day I decided I wanted to see that stupid useless video someone had sent me, and I updated Flash to see it. It failed and I thought no more of it.

Happily, the worm detected Avast and shut it down regularly and that's how I 4h later found out I had behaved like a regular user instead of a power one.

AV helps: 1) People do stupid things 2) defense in depth

pedro2··on New Aspects Related to Plant Processing Revealed at Çatalhöyük
I saw no ads and even thought blogspot had improved handling of long paragraphs.
pedro2··on Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptions (2014)
My guess would be he felt depleted emotionally and psychologically after spending too much time working.

Like when you need to spend some time in a dark silent room before filling like having fun or do house chores or do the cooking.

pedro2··on Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’?
Yes! Forbid procreation, import people from overpopulated countries!
pedro2··on Brave, the false sensation of privacy
So closing your bathroom door isn’t worth it because someone can ram it? :)
pedro2··on Brave, the false sensation of privacy
Fear mongering.

A competitor maybe? Someone with an agenda against Eich because of the donation debacle?

Privacy-wise, either Firefox or Brave are better than Chrome.

Ads are annoying but they do fund the net.

pedro2··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?
I bork OneDrive everytime I try migrating my Dropbox contents to OneDrive using rclone or old-fashioned copy.

Do your own tests, but Web and Windows filessystems get out of sync easily.

Pausing/unpausing the client does not work, resetting seems dangerous and I'd prefer not to do it.

pedro2··on World Now Likely to Hit Watershed 1.5 °C Rise in Next 5 Years
Don’t worry, we can go to Mars to escape Earth’s fate :)

Those who have the money, of course.

pedro2··on Half-Double: New hammering technique for DRAM Rowhammer bug
wrong. https://www.vusec.net/projects/eccploit/
pedro2··on U.S. government probes VPN hack within federal agencies, races to find clues
Trolling prediction: all U.S. agencies will switch to open-source software on top of Gentoo Linux as a way to easier patch whatever vulnerabilities NSA finds and does not disclose

:)

pedro2··on Trans-Pacific deteriorating, brace for shipping ‘tsunami’
OT: why does that site ask to install Google Widevine DRM?
pedro2··on Dutch MPs had a call with deep fake imitation of Navalny's Chief of Staff
Well, use S/MIME for emails? Wouldn’t that make such things more difficult to happen?
pedro2··on Ask HN: Why is the Linux community struggling to implement hibernation?
Thanks to Secure Boot (AFAIK), you can't implement hibernation until you implement hibernation file signing.

Sleep works fine for ages. Works better on Linux on my 2015 laptop than on Windows (hint: if you have a KIRA laptop, suspend stops borking after you update the drivers for the touchpad to a ~2019 version).

pedro2··on LineageOS 18.1
They are -- but now with caveats: https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/cv5mhw/oneplus_6...
pedro2··on The absolute worst scenario happened
IMO Management will find the money pretty quick if the business survive.

Up until now, they didn't know what 'backup not working' meant. Now they know.

Not being bitter -- there was a failure of communication from both parts.

pedro2··on Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020)
For me Flatpak is akin to Arch’s AUR.

As such, rebuilding Flatpak and its various layers should be easily rebuilt from source or equivalent as available as an option (but not the default). That would prevent some of the issues.

It would also introduce bugs, but at least you would have the option.

pedro2··on Write libraries instead of services, where possible
Not everyone's cup of tea, but on Linux gobject-introspection allows for automatic or semi-automatic generation of bindings for X languages.

.NET also -- and this is only my interpretation -- is following that path.

pedro2··on The Whole Web Pays for Google and Facebook to Be Free
Also Brave Browser.

Yes, Brave has a mixed model for funding. If you don't opt in into Brave Rewards, you can still fund sites using your own money.

pedro2··on Element Matrix Services Announces Element Home
Maybe. If so, I wasn’t aware. I always thought the cheapest plan was pricier than €10.
pedro2··on Element Matrix Services Announces Element Home
This is probably a stab at BeeperHQ, judging by the price.
pedro2··on The Need to Remove Bad Management
To what worries me the most is of learned helplessness. I’ve come to accept most of what you mentioned just because no-one else seems to care, why should I?

NOTE: AFAIK them problem wasn’t in wind turbines, someone said renewables actually overdelivered on what was budgeted for them.

pedro2··on Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client
Anyone know what happened to the 3.x branch?
pedro2··on Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
Not by contents, I'd assume.
pedro2··on Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
Yah, looked at it too. Still thinking if E2EE is worth losing search and OCR.
pedro2··on Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
I am repeating myself from another thread but I'm 90% sure of the answer and no-one checks: are you sure OneDrive works well? Can you sync PST files? [1]

[1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-...

pedro2··on Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
I am repeating myself from another thread but I'm 90% sure of the answer and no-one checks: are you sure OneDrive works well? Can you sync PST files? [1]

[1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-...

pedro2··on Tell HN: Dropbox now requires access to contacts for Google login
I am repeating myself from another thread but I'm 90% sure of the answer and no-one checks: are you sure OneDrive works well? Can you sync PST files? [1]

[1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-...

pedro2··on Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
Yup. That must have been how I triggered it -- I moved main folder around.
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