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10 hours agoIf you disregard ability to win, any one of us is technically ready to attack Europe.
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2·15 hours agoWill they be able to circumvent Google’s restriction?
I think the picture in the article was just AI bullshit art. It’s not how anyone really thinks robotic factories look.
It’s really shocking that the poors are too stupid to try this. Clearly the rich are smarter and deserve their riches.
141·1 day agoI’ve not noticed Cinnamon being any faster than KDE. I’d recommend KDE for someone coming from Windows.
I like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed: everything’s up to date and it’s very stable for a rolling distro. Very occasionally an update is problematic but there are easy rollbacks thanks to btrfs. KDE Plasma is an easy desktop environment for a former Windows user too. One weirdness is you’ll have to get used to using the command line to update native packages and Flatpaks (“sudo zypper dup” and “sudo flatpak update”), because the GUI updater apparently isn’t really intended for the rolling distro.
May this be the beginning of the tide turning.
69% is a strong result. 30% still voted for the fascist, but perhaps in those parts of Germany this is a relatively encouraging outcome.
It’s not that they’re especially fragile. It’s really only when you combine them with a sync process. I once had a sync go wrong and it resulted in the contents of a vault being unreadable. Because all you have are a bunch of encrypted files with meaningless names and a flattish structure, which Cryptomator interprets and mounts as a different directory structure, when something goes wrong it’s not easy to know where in the vault files the problem lies. You can’t say “ah, I’m missing the documents folder so I’ll restore that one from backup” like you could with an unencrypted directory. And if you’ve made changes since the last vault backup you can’t just restore the whole backup either. You could mount a backup of the vault, from a time when it was intact, and then copy files across into your live copy, but I feel safer having a copy in another format somewhere else. Not necessary, I guess, but it can make recovery easier.
It depends how the backup is encrypted. Most backup solutions will give you an encryption key, or a password to a key, that you have to keep safely and securely somewhere else. If you have an online password manager or a Keepass database in cloud storage, that would be a reasonable place to keep the key. Or on a USB stick (preferably more than one because they can fail) or a piece of paper.
compressed with AES-256
I guess you mean encrypted.
Cryptomator is good but it’s important also to keep backups of the unencrypted content of the Cryptomator vault that are not encrypted by Cryptomator. (You could encrypt the backups with another system.) Cryptomator vaults are more fragile than the underlying file system, and it’s easier for a glitch in the sync process to corrupt them so they’re unrecoverable. I have lost data due to this in the past. So it’s best to make sure all the contents of your vaults also exist somewhere else, encrypted in another way.
I guess it depends when exactly the ceasefire is supposed to have started. These are the stories I had in mind:
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/10/10/israel-ceasefire-second-day/
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-attacks-persists-gaza-after-ceasefire-agreement-announced
Edit: Here’s another from today, and it’s now pretty hard to deny that this is Israel breaching the ceasefire by continuing to kill civilians:
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/10/12/israel-ceasefire-third-day/
It has been in the news. There have been stories of Israel’s shootings and bombings over the last two days.
It’s already failing because Israel hasn’t stopped shooting people.
7·3 days agoLAN parties and BBS systems. Poison couldn’t spread so quickly when those were our hobbies.
Maybe once the internet is shut down humanity can start recovering its sanity.
From Discord’s age verification page, under “Privacy and Data Security”:
Q: Is my data stored when I use Face Scan or Scan ID verification?
A: Discord and k-ID do not permanently store personal identity documents or your video selfies. The image of your identity document and the ID face match selfie are deleted directly after your age group is confirmed, and the video selfie used for facial age estimation never leaves your device.
So is that a lie?
Not using Internet Explorer causes circumcision? This just gets worse and worse. Pass the Tylenol. No, wait…
Possibly because deleting or recreating the data is resource-intensive on the servers. It might actually be a good sign that Microsoft really removes the data, not just mark it inactive, when you turn the feature off.