_MusicJunkie @ _MusicJunkie @beehaw.org

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KeePass autotype is amazing for these situations. Very customizable.

I know you're joking, but KDE is much more than just a Linux desktop environment. They make all sorts of software working on all sorts of operating systems. I use Kdenlive on windows for example. And 90% of browsers nowadays use a fork of KDEs KHTML rendering engine.

Cybersecurity costs would also likely go down due to most malware being exploited isn't targeting desktop Linux.

Which is going to change once any sort of widespread adoption happens.

But at least in my circles, malware really isn't that big of a deal in security. Phishing is where the danger is these days, where the costs occur.

I tried it once with some household zipties, I could do it but it did hurt a lot. Dunno if the police use stronger ones, I would assume so.

One third Trekkies, one third talking about how shit twitter and Reddit are, one third content.

If the traffic plummets, YouTube wins. Serving content to ad-blocking users only costs them money. They don't want those users.

Did you tell them that you don't have access to your account? Because to me, this reads like the default answer ("here's how you do it yourself"), not like they won't do it by email if asked to do so.

My company does the same - if you ask our support how to delete the data, they will send you a link to the customer portal. Only if you tell them that doesn't work for you, they will work out another way.

We built the feature into the customer portal, so we want people to use it if possible. Because that's way less work for our support team.

Notepad++ may very well be widely used as an IDE. Notepad isn't. Other than the name they have nothing do do with each other. It's just a plain text editor with absolutely no features. Maybe some people use it to write code but unless you can't use anything else, even a web browser,, why would you.

I would be bowled over if any el stations had them.

I like that expression, I'm going to steal that.

These train displays haven't changed in probably 30 years here. Vienna also has a bunch ofthese public clocks on big intersections and squares.

Really? Where are you located? I walk past three clocks on the way from my office to the metro station alone.

But that's the thing. When that Video was made, almost all of the advertising was focused on the same BS the article is disagreeing with.

I remember lots of NordVPN ads by uninformed nontechnical creators just reading the provided script. Saying that Balaklava wearing hackers will steal your credit card data just by being in the same cafe as you, and only an expensive VPN subscription can protect you from that. Or that only using a VPN will protect you from malware.

This sort of advertising is what Tom Scott critizied back then. IIRC he even said that there are real use cases, but that you shouldn't believe the fearmongering. Same as the article.

The fearmongering advertising was the problem, not advertising the service itself.

Mistaking if= and of= when using dd.

It's a connection standard for enterprise hardware, think of it like your PCs SATA connections on steroids. You can have higher speeds, many drives on a single cable, and redundancy.

Directly Attached Storage. A NAS but without the network part, a box of drives which you plug into your PC directly. For consumers via USB mostly, for larger applications via SAS or something.

A car parts store in my country has a very similar logo. As a kid I did confuse the graphics cards and car tyre companies.

Is it legal in the US to store your guns in a nightstand or something? That's insane.

Even so, that's just irresponsible. It's my duty to make sure nobody has access to my guns except if I personally give them access, after making sure they know how to handle them safely. Also, very illegal in my country, they check safe storage and if you don't stick to it, you'll lose your gun licence quickly.

Vienna found a weird workaround to make social housing not become slums: Let some influential people live there too. Don't make it housing only for the poor. Make it housing for everyone.

In Vienna's social housing, they mix almost all the social classes. Poor immigrants live there, as do young academics. Simple laborers live there, as do local politicians.

A government that doesn't care can neglect a building full of folks who can't stand up for themselves. They can not easily neglect a building that also houses outspoken, politically active educated folks. They can not easily neglect a building where some of them live themselves.

Normal seats on night trains suck, that's the first thing that comes to mind. If you ever take a night train on your interrail journeys, pay extra for a bed.

I've been exclusively travelling by train for many years, it's pretty great. Europe has a lot of places to see.

You should come to terms with the fact that not everyone is an anarchist and believes that any form of the concept of a state is by itself evil.