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  • Just three for me:

    • Niagara Launcher Minimal launcher, a nice FOSS alternative is Kvaesitso (hope I spelt that right lol)
    • Grayjay Multimedia platform that aggregates video and text content from platforms like Patreon, Nebula and YouTube
    • Nebula Streaming service owned by creators
    • Plex & Plexamp

    Everything else is mostly either FOSS, proprietary selfhosted, or a stock app

  • When a human solves a problem, we like to think that it occurs in discrete steps with simple goals: "First I will draw a diagram and put in the known information, then I will write the governing equations, then simplify them for the physics of the problem", and so on.

    I wonder how our brain even comes to formulate these steps in a way we can comprehend, the amount of neurons and zones firing on all cylinders seems tiring to imagine

  • SMS is pretty useless for exfiltrating data, however it's very useful for charging random individuals if you have remotely infiltrated their device IMO

    In some countries, special SMS messages can charge you money (billed to either your contract, or withdrawn from your call money immediately if you don't have a contract)... They are usually used for gambling and TV competitions though

  • It's not like it can be wirelessly accessed

    The creativity of research students shouldnt be underestimated lol, they have found ways to transmit data to cameras, to microphones (inaudible to us), and also by using coil whine in power supplies, all by modulation.

    There is the caveat that these usually require the computer to be compromised first though, if it is airgapped

  • Not answering your question but partially related: personally wouldn't advise using your server's admin account for casual browsing, lest a password stealing CVE pops up (happened in the past with custom emojis), or something else along those lines happens

  • For me .zip on Windows is equivalent to .tar.gz on Linux - used when I just want to send a folder in a single file very quickly.

    Also handy when sending an archive to a weaker machine, that might take a while to unpack a 7z compressed at the highest setting.

    .7z is when I want to send a folder encrypted, or heavily compress something to archive (like a database, documents folder, or disk image/iso). It seemingly does the impossible, shaving the size from say 60GB down to 40GB compressed if you use solid mode (which has downsides if there are multiple files in the archive). It's incredibly flexible, but the defaults are pretty solid for most cases

  • Literally the reason why 7 zip is the first thing I install on a windows machine.

    All the linux file managers I use have that context menu built in, so nothing else to install 😅 except that I also sometimes use 7zip file manager via WINE because I like a GUI

  • Built-in encryption in bcachefs sounds great, that's the only thing that BTRFS has been missing for me so far.

    Bonus points if it can be decrypted on boot like LUKS, and double bonus points if its scriptable like cryptsetup (retrieve key from hardware device, or network, or flash stick etc)

    https://bcachefs.org/Encryption/

    Will likely give bcachefs a spin as soon as it drops in Debian Unstable 😁

  • From what I see in the repo, this functionality is being built into systemd (in the same vein as something like systemd-resolved), and introduces a new target dedicated for the new feature.

    Sure, you could probably rip it out and use it with your own init system, but that seems tedious to now scour the documentation to ensure your init system brings up the 'dependencies' launched at the preceeding systemd targets, so the NVMe TCP service can run.

    Would be easier to just use another existing implementation IMO, most people running their own init systems probably want more than the bare minimum featureset offered by the services included in systemd's package

  • Informative, and unfortunate.

    100% agree with your take on the original issue - it should be a discussion between the devs, not edging along the lines of an argument. However, I do feel like the discussion would have been better suited to the dev Matrix chat or something

    Even if they were upsetted by your comments, banning you was not the right way to handle that IMO.