stifle867 @ stifle867 @programming.dev

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For context what he said was:

war crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, and should be called out for what they are

Apparently condemning war crimes is enough to lose your job these days.

Especially the way they snake around why they didnt disclose it. "We can only disclose now". Why? They made it clear they didn't receive a court order or anything that would prevent them. They specifically mention that it was only an informal phone call from a police department.

Completely valid point. The kind of non-technical people wouldn't likely notice any difference in SSD speed anyway. It would be nice if they made it easier for technical people to disable the feature.

Yeah I do agree and myself run FDE as a defence in depth measure and as a protection against specific threats such as the one you mentioned. I think we agree on that completely.

In saying that, I would further add that it shouldn't be relied upon as the only defensive measure as once someone has gained physical access to the device it's not going to protect you against targeted attacks. If someone has access to your home they could install a camera aimed at the keyboard, or a hardware keylogger, or the good ol' $5 wrench attack.

Presumably you're relying on the security of your home, and if that's broken you've got bigger things to worry about.

Here's a single one for you in case you've been living under a rock: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1222899.shtml

It's a simple POC. To address your points you could easily add an event listener for the window blur event so whenever the window loses focuses. You could also use javascript to manually highlight the user selected text when the window regains focus. You can make it as complex as you wanted.

The point is that the core of the issue, that you can override the users select buffer which could be used to maliciously insert commands, exists.

Appears to be the same developer as wttr.in

The included example script re-runs the selection every 500ms so it would instantly overwrite what the user has selected. In theory you could even lower this timer.

What else has happened in the 7 years that they haven't bothered to mention? Absolutely NOT handled well as timely disclosure is a key part of that.

As a user you don't always have access to the database. It's much easier to work out of Excel than to find the right person to ask in the corporate hierarchy just for them to say no.

Why can they threaten to bomb us every other week, yet the government is too spineless to stand up for the people of Australia? It's disgraceful. They need us more than we need them.

Port forwarding is not a cover your ass privacy feature, it's a compatibility feature.

I just did a quick search and yes, Zorin OS is based on Ubuntu so it will be able to work with all the regular Ubuntu packages such as those provided by Proton VPN.

Haha yep! Your timezone is in that danger zone where it's not wrong enough to be immediately obvious.

If you make a Windows USB install and boot into it, you should be able to run some Microsoft tools to try and repair the installation. You can search further for it, might be worth looking into if you have anything you want to access on there.

Others have commented on the process. It's easier than you think.

One thing that might confuse you at first (after successful install) is that when you change between operating systems, the system clock gets thrown off. That's because Linux and Windows interpret the system time differently (local time vs UTC).

To match Windows behaviour in Linux run: sudo timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock

To match Linux behaviour in Windows you will need to edit the registry, I'll leave that up to you to search.

The new app only officially supports limited distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora). The CLI isn't updated to v4 yet. You can still connect to the VPN by downloading the config files (OpenVPN or Wireguard) and connecting through, e.g., wg-quick https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-vpn-setup/

It's weird, because despite not having port forwarding on Linux I've never had any problems torrenting.

It does allow compilation and non-commercial distribution, as per the terms my comment above. If you're curious as to what disallows source code modifications, that is also contained in the terms included in my comment above.

You can not modify the source code.

you are not entitled to use or do anything with the code for any commercial or other purpose, other than review, compilation and non-commercial distribution in accordance with the terms of this license.

"review" means to access, analyse, test and otherwise review the code as a reference, for the sole purpose of analysing it for defects.

So she worked as a CCP propogandist, promoting an authoritarian government according to the narrative they want to push to the Western world, then she gets detained by the same authoritarian government she was happy to promote... and somehow this is surprising? I guess it's only surprising when it happens to you.

At the end of the day the right thing happened with release and hopefully she learned a valuable lesson along the way. Maybe those looking to shill for the CCP think twice from now on.

Little note: he doesn't earn billions every day