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What's a personal "Damned if you do damned if you don't"?

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  • Goddamn ancient fish!

    • How many of you out there were influenced by Art Attack growing up?

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  • Wow, a blast from the past!

    • What's a personal "Damned if you do damned if you don't"?

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  • Being born, I guess...

    • If you were to combine all humans on earth into a titan, how big would that titan be?

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  • on that day, mankind received a grim reminder...

    • My friend keeps defending my dad, what should I do?

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  • Probably ask her why, then stop talking to her.

    • Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss to launch ‘free speech’ social media platform

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  • Lemme guess, they're gonna launch a private Mastodon server.

    • If there was about to be a long term internet outage and you have limited storage, is it better store fewer Movies and TV shows in high resolution, or store more of them but in lower resolution?

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  • I can't think of any device with hardware decoder for AV1. I think it's mostly by CPU with some GPU accel.

    • If there was about to be a long term internet outage and you have limited storage, is it better store fewer Movies and TV shows in high resolution, or store more of them but in lower resolution?

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  • I never play anything in 4k simply because my eyes can never tell the difference lol

    Are they that heavy?

    • Mifos - Open Source Core Banking system for Credit Unions and Micro finance

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    • If there was about to be a long term internet outage and you have limited storage, is it better store fewer Movies and TV shows in high resolution, or store more of them but in lower resolution?

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  • Or AV1

    • If there was about to be a long term internet outage and you have limited storage, is it better store fewer Movies and TV shows in high resolution, or store more of them but in lower resolution?

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  • You've never been outside of your country, have you?

    • Can you change your Linux distro

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  • There's nothing stoping you from gutting your distro and installing new kernel, libc, package manager, toolchain, and all the other components. The GUI should be trivial as people have change back and forth among different ones (within the same distro) anyway, assuming your package manager.

    Of course, this begs the question: why the fuck would you do that instead of just installing a new one fresh?

    • EUVD: Vulnerability Database operated by ENISA (beta)

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  • Got 403 Forbidden

    • Why do you use the distro you use?

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  • Mint: consistency, versatility, having all the Ubuntu's benefits (being industry standard, somewhat) without the drawbacks (Canonical's opinionated bullshit like snap)

    Debian: stability, predictability, leanness

    Gentoo: customizability down to compile-time level

    • Google is shutting down Assistant on Fitbit smartwatches

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  • Of course they are!

    • What are your favourite songs with epic bass drops?

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  • 501 - Headrush

    Purity Ring - Stardew

    • 4chan’s ‘cesspool of the internet’ is down after apparently being hacked

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  • Oh hell no!

    • Comprehensive guide to hardening RHEL clones?

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  • What does that even mean? What kind of exploitation are you talking about?

    Every use case comes with its own risk, and every risk needs to be handled differently. People jokingly said that if you wanna be sure, don't connect your computer to the network at all; and if you wanna be surer, don't use a computer. While that was a joke, there's truth in that.

    If you're just going to use it as a workstation, then firewall to make sure some randos don't ping you should suffice. If you're sharing this workstation with your tech illiterate mates, then perhaps something to prevent executing random stuff like SELinux or AppArmor would do. If executing random stuff is just what you do, then set up VMs or some other ways to isolate that execution environment.

    If you're sharing files directly from your computer to the internet (e.g. with SMB or NFS), then you'd need to make sure only the right people have the access, and the auth can't be brute-forced (i.e. with rate-limiting and lock-out policy). Same goes if you allow remote login (i.e. thru SSH). Some people use custom port number to obscure their stuff, and you can do it too, but do keep in mind it could make your life (or your mates' lives) harder.

    If you're running other outward facing services like SQL database or HTTP, that would require different ways to address. If you're on such level, you'd want do some serious readings.

    • Comprehensive guide to hardening RHEL clones?

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  • What do you want to achieve exactly?

    Different requirement can lead to different approach.

    • Bored. Give me a good "Living room PC" distro

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  • Honestly, I picked it because I was lazy. It's such a low maintainance machine. As for the codec, the flatpak version of VLC does it.