Blemgo @ Blemgo @lemmy.world

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Honestly, Telegramm always seemed to me a bit shifty since I learnt E2EE for chats was opt-in.

You are forgetting targeted attacks. A blind attack would pretty much not have much of an effect indeed, however if the attacker knows the machine, then it's easy for the attackers to exploit these vulnerability if left "out in the open", and cause havoc, possibly create a lot of damages or leech informations pumped into those machines via old Windows installations.

Quick question about the overwrite passes: is it overwritten with random numbers or is there a sequence of passes?

Is there a benefit from this over the inbuilt Secure Erase functionality in most SSDs/NVMEs? To my knowledge, it instantly dumps the current from all cells, emptying the data on it.

Furthermore, another issue with SSDs/NVMEs is that it automatically excludes bad blocks, meaning that classic read/write operations can't even reach those blocks anyways. Theoretically that feature could also be used against you to preserve the data on the disk by marking all blocks as bad, rendering them as inaccessible by the file system.

Of course there's also the issue of Secure Erase not being implemented properly in some drives, leading to the bad blocks not being touched by the hardware chip during that procedure.

It's pleasantly surprising to see it getting mentioned it at all. Loved the servers when they were Omegle chatoorms, and it's a bit sad to see it sort of die out with the death of Omegle. But yeah, the people there are generally nice.

Also, since I mentioned Omegle: I do not recommend any Omegle clones, as they often have an account system in place, which sort of ruins the whole anonymity stuff and also leaves to some stigma to those who do not want to use the account system. Not to mention that these sites generally attracts horny creeps, and finding a good chat partner is thusly hard.

I can also recommend Pimsleur. A bit more expensive, but features more traditional style courses, while offering a lot of what Duolingo has. Plus actual topics with grammar, not just random words!

My guess is that the wires/tracks could get stuck in sewage, and it might make it harder to examine the floor better due to how small the drone might be.

I had the idea of a monorail system, but I guess it would have a similar issue in case the surface the rail was attached to got faulty. Might've been cool looking though.

Fun fact about Ayn Rand: BioShock was partly inspired by her philosophy, or rather how disastrous it would be.

Another fun fact about her: at the end of her life, she got financial aid from the government under a fake name.

First of all, when learning about helping those with suicidal thoughts, one of the first thngs you learn is that trying to tell them that their departure will hurt those around you will drive them even more into suicide due to the added pressure.

Secondly, by not hearing someone fully out, all you do is cementing yours and the other's opinions. If you really want to change things, listen to the other and try to reason with the other on why their reasoning is faulty.

I do apologize if my post was a bit emotionally loaded, since it is a topic that hits very close to home, as someone with a past of suicidal thoughts. And I know how much it hurts to lose someone. Yes one has to remember that someone suffering from depression does not think sane. The main thing one should always do is make the other feel heard, because they will think that no one does. Show them that they are not alone against their own thoughts, because they will think they are. Signal to them that you are an ally for them, as they will think everyone is a threat.

I disagree and cannot condone this statement, as it inevitably harms those you are trying to save. It denies them of their feelings in favor or preserving the status quo, which brought them to that situation in the first place. It is selfish at best and manipulative cult-like behaviour at worst.

Suicide has been labeled wrong because it harms the society the individual lives in. The surrounding community will lose one contributing member and gain only pain from the loss.

However one has no right to decide over the lives of others, and there are fates worse than a quick death. If you want to help, accept that people have those thoughts, because they are natural, as we can only bear torment for a certain amount of time. Don't punish them for wanting to have peace, help them to get peace in some other way, if possible.

Suicide is bad, but not wrong. What is wrong is not helping others who are hurting in any way one can.

Generally during the mounting process, which is pretty early on at the OS boot process.

Yeah, that's a risk. However you'll always risk having leftovers from programs, even when continuing to use an OS, simply because you might switch programs, the developer rethinks where they store the config files, etc..

In most cases these files are relatively small and won't be very noticeable in the long run. However if that still bothers you have no other choice but to cleanup your config files regardless.

Also, those config files are generally only for your own user, i.e. user-related configurations, not program-dependent ones. System configs are generally stored outside the user profiles.

Honestly, I'd argue it depends on the use case. A lightweight distro meant for basic tasks will never consume as much as a gaming one. Factoring in that your snapshots will naturally grow over time (and thus disk space) will mean that repartitioning, and getting bigger hard drives, is always a thing.

I'd still just trust the general installation guide, if it offers automatic partition allocation. Just only do partitions for /boot, / and /home, I've never found much use for /var /log and such as a separate partition, at least as a home user.

And when in doubt: use LVM with ext4 for dynamic partitions. BTRFS has a similar feature, but it's still experimental, and thus potentially unstable.

I recommend making your /home a separate partition. It makes switching distros easier and also allows you to not encrypt your installation and only your own files, saving you from the headache in the case LUKS doesn't work properly anymore.

Honestly, Sailfish is only worth it if you have a license, as there are very few native apps and the android compatibility layer is the only way to have a proper daily driver phone. I did try it with the Sony Xperia X II a 1-2 years ago, and honestly, it was still very buggy.

Generally, GrapheneOS ia pretty much the best privacy-focused android version you can have, as it will strip away anything that's related to google while focusing on a small amount of supported devices to ensure that not many vulnerabilities are possible on the devices.

LimeageOS are less focused on privacy and more about availability. /e/OS is pretty much a downstream of LineageOS focused on Fairphones. Generally a good choice if you want android without google services.

Funnily enough, AFAIK this is also reflected in the total webpages on the internet. There is an extraordinary amount of German webpages compared to other non-english ones.

EDIT: Third most used language, after English and Spanish.

While it is correct, it doesn't justify any and all the shady stuff Brave Software Inc. has done.

Maybe you thought of this old picture?: