The content produced by humans was scraped en-masse for the explicit purpose of training models which were then monetized into business products.

I struggle to reconcile that with Fair Use.

I can see if the source was EULA’d to remove all rights to what you post to things like Reddit, Stack Overflow, and if somehow those entities were contacted ahead of time and negotiated usage. You, I and the web server logs know that this was almost never the case.

This project has never been more relevant in light of the recent acceleration of enshitification over at Microslop. Might be time to donate a few bucks.

It should but you can test that assumption by trying to ping any other device on the non-guest wifi. (and try ping in the other direction)

Do not, under any circumstances, conduct any private business on it. What isn’t being logged by Microsoft and shared with your employer, advertisers, various governments will be screenshot’d every n seconds. Additionally, I highly suggest, if you haven’t already, to setup a separate VLAN for this device if you ever bring it home and connect it to your home network. Defender absolutely does passive sniffing and active network scanning now. It will also be collecting and logging visible SSIDs as well. Enjoy!

So the thing with useful quantum computers is that if they ever do make it actually work and manage to scale it up, the first thing they will do is render most modern encryption obsolete over night. My guess is that Bluffdale has a mountain of encrypted data they’d start cracking immediately.

My cynicism can’t allow me to think that we’d hear about it until years after that backlog is cleared and the NSA (and now by extension Israel and Russia) have backdoored any network of interested 10 times over.

The far more likely scenario is that this like stable/cold-ish Fusion, practical graphene, CRiSPER miracle cures are still way more theory than driveable cars at this point and for next several years at least. These folks just want more money and have to keep claiming they are close to get it.

Prolific cannibal promises to review their choice in seasonings to be more tactful as they continue to feast on PC users’ privacy, freedom and last scraps of digital dignity on a global scale.

I am sure that this empty promise of change has everything to do with their user empathy and absolutely nothing to do with their recent financial results which indicated how hollow their AI-slop-bullshit revenue growth was last quarter.

Wireguard should be the default here. The rest is just networking configuration implemented in both routing and firewall. I never understood why people use Tailscale, like why would you intentionally pay someone to be man in the middle of your virtual private network? Twingate I am not familiar with.

OpenRC seems to work pretty seamlessly on Gentoo. Just throwing that out there.

So … device attestation … the same shit coming from Google, Microslop and others. At least Poettering is consistent with his shit ideation.

You might have too many old kernels installed. This would potentially fill up the /boot partition. One way to check this is:

df -h

Look for the line indicating space left for /boot.

You can then get a list of the installed kernels with:

dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | grep linux-image

If you need to remove old ones, use uname -a to identify the running kernel (should be the latest version if you’ve rebooted after the last kernel update) then remove all of the older kernel packages with:

sudo apt remove -y linux-image-amd64-xxxx

More generally speaking, I think that sudo apt autoremove should leave you with only the latest 2 kernel packages by default.

Except that Microsoft basically puts a gun to every users head to login with a Microsoft account which can/does backup the recovery keys.

BitLocker provides for a recovery key. This is to allow someone to regain access to an encrypted device in the event that they lose their PIN, any one of these scenarios happen, OR when suspects do not want to cooperate with LEOs.

Find your BitLocker recovery key

If the target device is part of an enterprise and managed with EntraId/Intune this is the option. Escrowed keys.

That’s weird. I was looking at this docs page and assumed that USB is how the update actually happened.

If all you need is basic paint-link functionality on Linux then you might like drawing. It is already in the Debian repositories too.

Evolution isn’t perfect but it works reasonably well. Has email, tasks, calendar, contacts and notes built-in. What else do you really need?

Dude … just install Debian(stable or testing) and then distro-surf using VMs in kvm/qemu. Just reading this all makes me tired for you.

Use a windows VM and then make sure that your hypervisor is properly passing thru the USB device/connection to the monitor to the windows guest vm. Not sure why you’d need a windows host OS for this.

Bloomberg can fuck off after what they did to Gamers Nexus recently. Zero credibility there.

I’d stick to reading the alpine wiki yourself vs “asking AI”. You will actually learn things that way.

I donate to Signal. I intend to increase my contributions to other open source (Linux) projects this year though. I expect them to need it more than ever soon.