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So, his team set up a bunch of tech to interfere with the company’s event and even managed to capture Flock attendee chatter on microphones they forgot to switch off.
Jordan then flew his drone and captured images of politicians, police, and senators in attendance.
Right, but simply staying away from their websites doesn’t really solve the problem. You can ditch Google all you want but you won’t get away from their tracking on just about every third party app and website — they even load scripts on (US) government websites.
Me too, just fuck it all to hell. It’s nice not to have mobile apps tracking me either.
…okay? So the conclusion is don’t buy anything that communicates over the internet?
What are you talking about? They obviously just begin malfunctioning whenever anything important is going on.
Right, that’s a totally valid argument against unnecessary animal abuse
It’s really just time to stop eating animal products. I really just don’t understand why people are still stuck on this — it’s just completely unnecessary.
I use this at work (I’m a web developer) when I need to confirm something still works in Chrome but I’d never dream of using it as a daily driver.
Teams, Visual Studio, VS Code are trash, they leak memory like no other
WSL2 is hilarious, just run Linux/UNIX?
SQL Server and SSMS are trash
I run Docker quite a bit but if you’re actually writing the containers efficiently it shouldn’t be sucking down ~64GB of RAM. But I’ve also seen how people shovel things like Java, log rotation, etc. into those containers because they act like it’s a 1994 VPS.
Why do developers need 64GB+ RAM on their computers? Maybe I’m biased as a Ruby on Rails web application developer but I’m happily squeaking by on just 8GB RAM. Maybe they’re developing with the memory-hungry VS Code?
I thought it was the gamers who needed tons of RAM.
This joke is so old it’s been in mainstream movies even for like 5-10 years now.
I completely agree but for the sake of argument this could be used against any Linux distribution too. The difference though is that you’re not going to have tons of distributions of Windows with differing sets of packages.
Don’t know what my point is since I just raised an argument and kind of solved it on my own.
Clicking things is so Windows
I don’t use it but I would recommend Kopia due to its content-defined chunking, deduplication, etc. I’m writing a fork of it that allows any RClone adapter to work as the frontend or backend but it won’t be released for quite some time.
Otherwise I sync most my files to Backblaze by hand from time to time using Rclone and client-side encryption.
ICE sent nearly 500 administrative subpoenas to Meta, Google, and Twitter (now X)
People act like it’s crazy to block ads, tracking and a lot of these tech companies but even if you don’t have accounts with them they have data on you. I think it’s incredibly important to realize that blocking them at the network level (DNS, IP addresses) is really vital — so many things include tracking including mobile apps, devices, etc.
Huel 💪
Same here. If I wanted to watch videos I’d just go to YouTube directly or use some other non-text social network.
Frankly, what a bunch of fucking creeps. Does no one else find it weird that they’re hellbent on spying on people? If it weren’t for the government we’d probably lock up these fucking psychos.
I’m just glad I dodged that bullet. I had two friends on separate occasions say Best Buy was unable to fix their laptop, and I’m both cases simply opening it and reseating the RAM was enough. I’m not sure what kind of morons they had working there.
They disqualified me from Geek Squad because I knew how to use Linux (as well as Windows at the time but it’s been ages). They told me “we only sell Windows machines here” despite (as far as I know) they themselves using Linux to repair Windows computers.
I really thought the response was an AI suggestion at first glance; that would’ve been hilarious.
Be careful if there’s a public IP address. I think some operating systems even include IPv6 with 0.0.0.0 so that if there’s a public one assigned this might open it up to the world.
I have a mini PC that has been barreling through NVMe disks but Alpine Linux’ “usb” install mode just wasn’t great either. So I use a “sys” install mode (traditional) on an NVMe disk but have directories like /var/log, /tmp, etc. mounted as zram disks with Zstandard compression. It’s been pretty fantastic honestly.
For me it’s also the same with “hubby”
I’ve recently signed up for Ridwell and while I absolutely love it (they recycle electronics by the way, at least in Los Angeles) I hate that I have to pay a private company to recycle things.