Elvith Ma'for

You don’t use browsers to install browsers anymore on Windows of you know what you do …

winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox.<your ISO language code>

e.g.

winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox.fr or winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox.de or…

Ironically that won’t help. Email is unencrypted and you’re not allowed to send “sensible data” over it as it would be violating the GDPR.

On the other side you’re technically not allowed to use a fax machine for that either as the recipient might forward faxes to an email inbox and that’d be unencrypted.

But nobody talks about fax being unencrypted either… Also the argument for fax is that POTS is a direct connection between two fax machines while the internet wouldn’t be and were easier to eavesdrop on. Since everything is SIP nowadays,… But I don’t know what they’re thinking besides “we’ve done that for all those years why wouldn’t it work now?”

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Don’t forget that the electricity of your stove (or the gas you use) may be made of dinosaurs. So you basically burn dinosaurs to prepare a meal from their descendants pressed into a dinosaur shape

Well, now X11 lacks a feature you want…

They will be drowned in hundreds of „Thanks for your email, but we don’t do support via mail. Please open a ticket at $URL“ and „Thanks for your mail, we will get back to you shortly. Your ticket ID is #123456“. Also everything you add as an auto response will be distributed to all other victims in that group, so I chose to not be a dick.

Google Groups allows spammers to subscribe you to their groups in a workspace account, but doesn’t allow you to unsubscribe since you’re not part of that workspace account… Worse - all autoresponders for the spam will also be forwarded to all members of said group.

Since I do not participate in Google Groups, the nuclear option is to file all mails from Google Groups as spam with a Sieve script.

Note the require part may be too large as may sieve script also contains more rules than this one.

require ["body", "date", "editheader", "envelope", "fileinto", "imap4flags", "mailbox", "regex", "reject", "variables"];

if anyof(
    header :contains "List-Subscribe" "groups.google.com",
    header :matches "X-Google-Group-Id" "*"
   ) {
	if header :matches "Subject" "*" {
		set "subject" "${1}";
	} else {
		set "subject" "";
	}
	deleteheader "Subject";
	addheader :last "Subject" "[Google-Groups-Spam] ${subject}";

	fileinto "Junk";
}

My gaming PC survived from 2021 to 2026 without “overclocked” RAM because the BIOS would just error out in the POST when I enabled DOCP to boost it from 2600 to 3200 MHz.

A Bios update this spring finally solved it. It was a nice little performance boost, but not that much as I expected. So I guess you’re fine with slower RAM.

My current setup for this:

I own a domain - say homelab.com - and use it exclusively in my internal network.

The public DNS records do only resolve to 127.0.0.1 (as my domain holster doesn’t want me to have no A record).

In my home network I have a pihole running that resolves this domain and it’s subdomains locally (say pihole.homelab.com, proxmox.homelab.com and so on).

For HTTPs: As this server is not publicly reachable, I use the DNS API of my domain host to get a let’s encrypt certificate with the DNS-01 challenge. That way, the internal systems do not need to be exposed to the internet.

Edit: Caddy can do DNS-01, but you usually have to compile it yourself to include the plugin for your provider. To circumvent that, I’m just using plain old certbot and told Caddy to use the certs that are already on the machine

Download doesn’t necessarily mean that they dumped everything on their local PC - they could just upload everything from all those servers to an S3 bucket or whatever.

That way the bottleneck would be either the ingress of the hyperscalers or the egress of the attacked company (which probably uses the hyperscalers anyway). I probably could also do that this way with my humble home Internet connection on a semi reliable WiFi…

What about this? This basically forbids you to fork the software if you want to - e.g. because they’re maybe going closed source in a few years?

You may not use the Software, in whole or in part, to create, distribute, or operate any product, system, or service whose primary function directly overlaps with or replicates the core business purpose of the Product, unless explicitly authorized in writing by fabricators.

shakes fist into air

SCNR

Yes and no. They started to limit GPOs. Some are only valid on Enterprise Licenses or Windows Server and will be ignored by your usual Windows Pro License at home. With Windows Home, you’re SOL regarding GPOs.

Also they started to migrate some of these settings to their Intune Device Management and will ignore those if not set via Intune.

Read: Companies can still disenshittify Windows to some degree, but they make it harder and harder for normal people to do so.

tl;dr:

Life insurance companies invest your money in the stock market - they only need to pay it back after your death which is hopefully in a while and not like tomorrow. They’re involved in more risky investments and might bust regarding the AI bubble.

There’s a mechanism that protects peoples savings with which they basically “insure” your savings for a little fee in case they go bankrupt. The problem is, that this fee will often be reimbursed by the state (and as such by the tax payer). So in the end, they get the gains from those investments and if they fail too much, all the risk is averted and paid for by the public.

HDMI and USB C are used in monitors. Both can transmit more than just the image data, e.g. tunneling an Ethernet connection. Not sure if Display Port also supports that

Most people will be on Win Home which usually locks you out of gpedit. Or ignores your settings there, some even from the registry. In the recent times there are even some GPOs locked for Pro and only available on an enterprise version or Windows server…

Correct. It’s Bayrische Motoren Werke which translates to Bavarian Motor Factories or maybe Bavarian Motor Workshops.

The German Werk has several meanings:

1. The process of work/the work itself needed to finish a specific task.
2. A specific action. E.g. used to imply someone did $thing
3. A specific thing that was produced by someone (e.g. a piece of art) or even someone’s lifeworks as a whole.
4. A factory or industrial complex BUT ALSO depending on context the workers on said factory/complex.

Accidentally stumbled upon Overwatch when a streamer that I follow played it a bit on stream while experimenting with other games.

It scratched an itch. I hadn’t played competitive FPS in ages. All friends were either ignoring that genre or were playing games where a death kicked you out of the match basically (no respawn). That meant that you’d end up spectating a lot or waiting in queue if you played with them. Also the concept of a hero shooter and those abilities looked fun.

I sunk hundreds of hours in it, even got some proficiency in the workshop when that was released. I drifted more and more into custom games and ignored the ladder but still had fun.

Then there was a content drought. They were preparing for OW2 and neglecting the current game. It felt more and more like a chore. I played less and less. Then OW2 came out as a forced upgrade - you couldn’t play the original anymore, there was aggressive monetization, 5v5 instead of 6v6 and most of my used synergies as a tank player wouldn’t work anymore. I encountered way more toxic players than before (probably partly because of the influx of new players). Either the workshop and custom games were gone, or they were hardly played - I can’t remember. Then I quit for good and haven’t looked back.

What does GitHub’s security team do by trade?

^/s