I don't know if it is available yet, but KDE Linux sounds pretty cool. It's kinda the same "Arch for everyone" take on Arch that Valve has going on with SteamOS, but with some pretty fancy stuff planned.
If you want to learn about a couple of cool customisations, you could also take a look at Garuda Linux, specifically the Dragonized Gaming Edition (aka Bloaty McBloatface Edition) or XeroLinux (although I don't know if that's maintained atm, I think the dev had to flew from a war in the middle east)
Is it legally wrong? Yes. Should it be legally persecuted? Absolutely. Is it, in this specific instance, morally justifiable or even admirable? I would say you could definitely argue that.
I'm not familiar enough with the dead guy to judge, but from what I have heard I'm leaning towards "yes and yes".
If you can afford it and want ultra low power consumption, latest gen Intel is for you. If you want maximum performance or go for older gen APUs, AMD is pretty much always better.
Edit: Since Intel's naming got super confusing: I'm talking about Core Ultra 7 256V and 236V. I'm not sure whether the 288V is worth it. Note that the 256 and 236 also have 32GB variants, if you think you need more than 16.
KDE Linux to me sounds like the desktop Linux worth waiting for - although if you are willing to put in some work, EndeavourOS is half way there and available today
I would want Windows 11 if it wasn't a total privacy nightmare. I have been a Windows user for a long time, but MS scared me away the moment the started requiring online accounts. Half my life is on my computer, they can fuck right off with that. Windows is generally pretty good for work computers, but I rather take my private business elsewhere
There are more devices that ship with Linux or actively advertise support for it than ever tho. Of course far from the majority, but it's a start that you can get basically anything with Linux if you want
This is so stupid. Messengers offer easy access to E2EE, but they are not the only way to make it work. So doing this changes nothing, even assuming you need E2EE to distribute illegal material.
And I want to stress this is not even true. Or can I not just go on the internet and download a movie, which is definitely illegal and aggressively persecuted?
The thing is, much of the new stuff is intended to replace old stuff. Modern C++ is a completely different experience than old C++ - actually a much better one imo. But then there are two problems which make things messy:
Lagacy code, where introducing new concepts without updating the older parts increases complexity.
People who don't know or don't care and just copy-paste whatever, mixing styles and standards.
In both cases, you end up needing to know how to do things the new way and the old way, while one of which would be sufficient.
There are exceptions of course (try{ pun(); }catch(const NotFunnyException& err){ return NOT_INTENDED;}).
I saw that statue irl on a tour I think. I can't really get the story together, wasn't she some kind of local celebrity and touching the chest of the statue is supposed to give you luck in love or something?
I'm using Proton Pass aliases and they work like a charm. With the browser plugin, it's easily feasible to generate one for every single thing you sign up for. I would argue that there are some advantages over DDG (although I haven't used their service in for quite a while):
Proton applies E2EE to incoming mails
If the mails go to your Proton account anyway, removing DDG means removing a proxy that could read your mails or be an attack vector to do so
Afaik you can secure your proton account way beyond what DDG offers (password + 2FA + Sentinel + extra password for Mail + extra password for Pass) if you want to
Convenience: You can manage everything in Pass and it tells you right away what you created an alias for, allows to create accounts from it etc.
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As someone who has used Python and Rust professionally, I'd say Python, while memory-safe, lacks proper type-checking. I don't know if there are alternatives, but Pylance is straight up trash. Also Python's performance doesn't even compare to Rust. It's a great scripting/programming language, but I think it's use cases are vastly different.
I'd say whether Python counts depends a lot on what you want to do. I have a very strong opinion on using Python for complex projects. When it comes to performance, it's suitable as nothing more than glue-code.
Came her to say this. Safe programming languages? Yes, plenty. Safe and low-level? Well, modern C++, kinda, if you do your homework and follow some rules. I don't know any other tbh.
Cryptography based Banking
There are lots of good reasons to not base money transfers on arbitrary numbers that you need to keep track of. Right now, banks have to make sure themselves that a transaction is legitimate and may never lose record of it, otherwise money just disappears to someone's damage. With a blockchain, you get a hard proof a transaction took place. Whether that's to proof you paid for something or for law enforcement to know you bribed a certain someone, I firmly believe it's better than what we do now. If my bank told me tomorrow I have no money or claimed I spend it all on terrorism, I would be in a pretty bad spot.
Ownership and Track Records
We live in a time of misinformation and AI generated bs. With the help of a blockchain, you can keep track of who posted something first, i.e who has the copyright or started some false information campaign, and also who generally spreads bs. This of course also works the other way around: Who has a good track record and posts trustworthy news or original content? And again, you wouldn't necessarily have to rely on a single institution to play nice, not delete content etc. Although admittedly, it's much more complicated this case, because you have to expect bad actors much more than in banking. Banking is infrastructure, this can be a lot of things (science and/or opinion and/or legal stuff...).
I don't know if it is available yet, but KDE Linux sounds pretty cool. It's kinda the same "Arch for everyone" take on Arch that Valve has going on with SteamOS, but with some pretty fancy stuff planned.
If you want to learn about a couple of cool customisations, you could also take a look at Garuda Linux, specifically the Dragonized Gaming Edition (aka Bloaty McBloatface Edition) or XeroLinux (although I don't know if that's maintained atm, I think the dev had to flew from a war in the middle east)