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German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
  • MS will erect another campus and things will go back to "normal". Hopefully this will last at this time...

    Good documentary about MS hold over German government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg

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  • Thanks for the video link. Very interesting. This is how all computers will be built eventually. So seize the means of computation until we can...

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    Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser
  • Google will just say that pages with DRM will rank higher in their search and it's all done.

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    Is it possible to completely hide all reverse proxy traffic from a VPS provider?
  • You could try destination NAT with netfilter/iptables (DNAT) and terminate TLS on your home server.

    This way packets will be forwarded to the home server without beign decrypted on the VSP.

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  • So one could have replace a JS file with one fetched from attacker controlled server for any site behind Akamai like LastPass or PayPal. That JS could have exfiltrated all the secrets from these sites on the client side (post decryption) or replace account numbers with their own on behalf of the user.

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    Next steps for Rust in the Linux kernel
  • Torvalds added that Rust isn't that terrible in the end; "it's not Perl".

    LOL

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  • yewtu.be Climate emergency: Is nuclear power a part of the solution? | The Stream

    As the world seeks ways to move away from carbon dioxide-emitting fossil fuels, some nations are increasingly looking towards nuclear power to fulfill their growing energy needs. Nuclear power has been viewed unfavourably due to major accidents and the creation of radioactive waste that can pose a...

    YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1TV1Y5f7Mg

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    > “Norton is pretty much amplifying energy consumption worldwide, costing their customers more in electricity use than the customer makes on the mining, yet allowing Norton to make a ton of profit,” tweeted security researcher Chris Vickery. “It’s disgusting, gross, and brand-suicide.”

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    Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of Israel's NSO Group spyware tool Pegasus [The Guardian]
  • Any form of surveillance used by any government will be used primarily for political reasons, against non-criminals. There is no such thing as Good Spyware.

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    Rust vs Go in Backend Web Development - Qvault
  • Performance metrics generally put Rust squarely ahead of Go, but not by a lot.

    10x, 4x and 3x performance difference is not "but not by a lot", it is al lot! :D Imagine needing 1 server vs 10 servers to run same app. Same for memory.

    Can people stop contradicting themselves when comparing X with Rust just to make X look less horrible, please!

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