Mandrake -> Whatever came on the Linux Magazine CD -> Backtrack -> Arch

According to the Arch Wiki, it’s the driver recommended by NVIDIA and, anecdotally, I was having issues in Wayland and with gamescope/HDR until I switched to the nvidia-open drivers.

You don’t need to do any of this.

If your drive is not encrypted, then this won’t save you. It takes time to overwrite files and if your computer were the target of any adversary, they would simply unplug it immediately and then image it.

If your drive is encrypted, then you can just overwrite the headers that contain the key slots. This would take hundredths of a second.

yay -S nvidia-open

Load it and it fingerprints your browser. You can add a signature to that fingerprint.

Make whatever changes you want to make to resist fingerprinting and reload the page. If it displays your signature then it has identified you, if not then your changes worked.

Ideally, every page refresh would generate a new unique fingerprint so the page can’t link you to the last time you loaded the page (which is what tracking is, essentially)

The site also displays all of the data that it can see, for advanced users

I learned how to make a dual boot machine first.

My friend wanted to get me to install it, but he had a 2nd machine to run Windows on. So we figured out how to dual boot.

And then we learned how to fix windows boot issues 😮‍💨

We mostly did it for the challenge. Those Linux Magazine CDs with new distros and software were a monthly challenge of “How can I install this and also not destroy my ability to play Diablo?”

I definitely have lost at least one install to getting stuck in vim, flailing the keyboard and writing garbage data into a critical config file before rebooting.

Modern Linux is amazing in comparison, you can use it for essentially any task and it still has a capacity for customization that is astonishing.

The early days were interesting if you like getting lost in the terminal and figuring things out without a search engine. Lots of trial and error, finding documentation, reading documentation, etc.

It was interesting, but be glad you have access to modern Linux. There’s more to explore, better documentation, and the capabilities that you can pull in are still astonishing.

Oh god, my brain

fr fr

Hmm, I did not know that. Thanks

The CVE system protects everyone that uses computers. It is a public service that forms the core of cybersecurity in the US and many other places. It does not cost the database any more money if people use it to provide services to clients.

Letting a private corporation take it over and put it behind a paywall now means that security, like so many other things, will only be available to people with money. It will make software and hardware more expensive by adding yet another license fee or subscription if you want software that gets security updates.

In addition, a closed database is just less useful. This system works because when one person notifies the system of an exploit then every other person now knows. That kind of system is much higher quality if you have more people that are able to access it.

An industry being created and earning money by providing cybersecurity services shows how useful such a system is for everyone. There are good paying jobs that depend on this data being freely available. New startups only need to provide service, they don’t need to raise the funds to buy into the security database because it is a public service. They also pay taxes (a significant amount if they’re charging $30,000 per audit), more than enough profit for the government to operate a database.

It’s not bad faith, it’s just a learned behavior that’s antisocial.

Outrageous comments are heavily rewarded in public social media where everyone is pseudo-anonymous. At the same time, almost nobody wants to be the person on the receiving end of outrageous takes.

We’re rewarding the wrong behaviours.

If you disagree with someone or someone tells you that you’re wrong you can just immediately block them with no effort.

People are so used to being able to instantly ignore anybody that they never develop the skills to deal with people disagreeing with them or having support an argument.

It’s a self-reinforcing cycle.

Otherwise I think that the idea of deleting all IP laws is just wishful (and naive) thinking, assuming people would cooperate and build on each other’s inventions/creations.

Given the state the world is currently in, I don’t see that happening soon.

There are plenty of examples of open sharing systems that are functional.

Science, for example. Nobody ‘owns’ the formulas that calculate orbits or the underlying mathematics that AI models are built on like Transformer networks or convolutional networks. The information is openly shared and given away to everyone that wants it and it is so powerful it has completely reshaped society everywhere on the Earth (except the Sentinel Islands).

Open Source projects, like Linux, are the foundation of the modern tech world. The ‘IP’ is freely available and you can copy or modify it as much as you’d like. Linus ‘owns’ the Linux project but anyone is free to take a copy of the Linux source code and modify it to whatever extent that they would like and form their own project.

Much of the software and services that people use are built on top of open source tools made by volunteers, for free; and most of the useful knowledge and progress for human society results from breakthroughs made in the sciences, who’s discoveries are also free and openly shared.

There’s one (at least) of them in every special interest group.

There are digital stenography tools that cryptographically hide data in the least significant bits of a media file.

That’s a more robust way of hiding communication on monitored channels

OP is a newbie and is externalizing his lack of knowledge.

A 747 would seem like a death trap if a toddler were given control but there, as here, it isn’t the plane that’s the problem.

Coming from Windows, Linux (especially when only talking about GUI environments) seems to not tell you anything about your problems. Eventually you learn how to find the relevant logs and the problems seem less arbitrary.

The most annoying thing about the Linux community is dealing with non-Linux users who learned everything they know about Linux from social media memes.

Social division kills.

Very true

Dehumanizing the other is only the beginning.

It can be read either way.

It’s also simple enough in structure to be generated slop and the OP could just be an automated account.

It’s hard to say what is true, but on the face of it we should all be able to agree that it would be a bigoted opinion to express literally, out loud and in public.

(Like the OP is doing)

People believe it because they’re bombarded with memes (like this one) on social media that push them towards believing it, and sometimes reposting it.