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What can I do in other Linux distros that I can't do in Linux Mint Xfce?
  • Serious answer? XFCE doesn’t support multiple monitors with different refresh rates. So that.

    That's more of a limiation because of X11. KDE and Gnome do not support different refreshrates on multiple monitors as far as I know. Its the main reason why I never used multiple monitors. But on Wayland, this issue is solved. So if XFCE is ported to Wayland, they should also get this support for free I guess.

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    What can I do in other Linux distros that I can't do in Linux Mint Xfce?
  • Technically he or she has access to the AUR, but through website.^^ On a more serious note, one could install https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox and manager multiple package managers. Because each package manager is in a container, they do not interfere. I never used it, but imagine it like Flatpak, but actually using the package manager from the distribution (including access to AUR). And specific applications and programs can be "exported" to install them like a normal application, so you can access it with a single appname.

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    Live Linux distro list?
  • Not all new users should be treated the same. There are technical new users and those who don't care the technical details or updates. Arch based distributions are good for new users too, especially if we are talking about gaming. WE shouldn't treat every new users like it they are the dumbest people on earth (generally speaking). Instead these blind recommendations, we should talk with the new users what type of user they are, what they want and what they are willing to do. We should utilize the strength of Linux instead just recommending the same distribution all again.

    /rant over

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    Distro with working Xbox wireless adapter
  • Are you sure we are talking about the same thing. I'm not talking about an universal Bluetooth adapter? The official Wireless Adapter from Microsoft uses a proprietary driver. Xpadneo supports only Bluetooth (as stated in the Github, unless I misunderstand something). To use the official Microsoft dongle xone is needed. The Xbox One S controller supports both, Bluetooth and Proprietary drivers.

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    Distro with working Xbox wireless adapter
  • Xpadneo only supports Bluetooth, not the official wireless adapter.

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    Distro with working Xbox wireless adapter
  • Or install the working fork instead: https://github.com/dlundqvist/xone

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    Distro with working Xbox wireless adapter
  • Short: xone driver fork

    Long:

    I use Xbox controllers for years on Linux. And my current one is Xbox One S controller with the official Microsoft dongle (not Bluetooth, but the proprietary connection). Linux does not support this driver, but there is a community driver: https://github.com/medusalix/xone And for whatever reason the newest Linux Kernel 6.11 and upwards broke this driver. That means this driver does not work on Linux Kernel 6.11 or newer, until it is patched. And I believe Fedora 41 ships with 6.11. But wait! There is an alternative fork that fixed the driver: https://github.com/dlundqvist/xone You only need to install this one.

    Why is it that complicated in Linux? That's because the Microsoft driver and dongle are proprietary and do not provide an official driver for Linux. Look it this way instead being complicated: It still works, because of the awesome community! Some people prefer using the Bluetooth connection. I personally don't like Bluetooth in general for any device. So cannot assist with that.

    EDIT: Alternative way with xpadneo. Apparently this works too with the official wireless dongle from Microsoft: https://beehaw.org/comment/4056781 The installation might be more involved.

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    KDE's New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap
  • Maybe you are right. Its something I repeat it myself, after doing a research back when it was new. Given Neovim is available on Flathub, maybe its possible. Maybe it was true at some point. Good catch, I'll make sure not to repeat that anymore, as I don't want spread misinformation.

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    Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You
  • I'm already trained with over-compliment. I think If I just act like always its already sus. xD

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    Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You
  • I would just get sunglasses and try to look suspicious just to mess up their tracking.

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    Github: GreemDev/Ryujinx - The emulator changed its owner? Previously gdkchan
  • I thought the contributors list would be reset when uploading to a new location. At least that's for forks, so that was my assumption without checking actually. I mean for the forks, gdkchan still have the commit history too, like any other contributor.

    I think you are right: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/transferring-a-repository

    If the transferred repository has any forks, then those forks will remain associated with the repository after the transfer is complete.

    And looking in the list of forks, the oldest one seem to be 1 month old or so.

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  • github.com GitHub - GreemDev/Ryujinx: Experimental Switch emulator written in C#

    Experimental Switch emulator written in C#. Contribute to GreemDev/Ryujinx development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Looks like owner of Ryujinx changed and now is developed by someone else? The top contributor for this is gdkchan, the previous owner and main developer. So this is not simply a fork, but changing ownership of the original repository. Is that right? It makes sense, because what happened previously is that gdkchan got a message (or visit) from Nintendo to stop working on the emulator. That's all. There was no cease and desist to the entire project, or anything like that (unlike with Yuzu).

    Edit: Another hint that this is the original repository is, that a message is displayed that I have blocked a certain user who contributed to this repository. This message does not popup on any of the forks.

    Edit 2.0: I may have been wrong: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/creating-and-managing-repositories/transferring-a-repository

    > If the transferred repository has any forks, then those forks will remain associated with the repository after the transfer is complete.

    And looking in the list of forks, the oldest one seem to be 1 month old or so.

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    KDE's New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap
  • I don't like Snap too, but it has some advantages over Flatpak. And unfortunately the most popular distribution still uses Snap. In example it is easier to create Snap packages and Flatpak does not support CLI only applicatoins ( Edit: my bad ) , but Snap does (something like grep in example). Also some may like it more that Snap relies on AppArmor instead using the custom solution of Flatpak.

    All in all, its not like black and white which is better. I still wish only one of the formats would exist, because this is not the kind of fragmentation I wish to have. But both exist and the end user should decide which of them to kill.

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    KDE's New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap
  • Not all. Red Hat started this by naming their immutable distributions with "atomic" (but then not consistently...). Some people agreed, but not everyone.

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    KDE's New Distro: Btrfs-Based, Immutable Linux OS, with Flatpak and Snap
  • Immutable does not mean "not changing", but rather that you don't have the rights to change. If you take the immutable option away, then its changing again, like when you update your system. People who have a problem with the term say, "see its not immutable, the term is a lie!". Which I kind of agree, but somewhat conflicted.

    Atomic is an attempt to create a new "meaning" with a word, that cannot be misunderstood. Its trying to avoid the situation of "Free" in example. But I don't like the term Atomic either, because it just suggest to me that everything is split into many little parts and is not self explanatory like Immutable. I'm conflicted here too.

    I'm always conflicted.

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    IT'S BEEN EIGHTY FOUR YEARS
  • Understandable. Just to be clear, I wasn't serious, it is a meme reply. It's so satisfying if a long awaited game finally comes out. From technical point game seems to be on a good level, without being bug riddled and with good performance. Hopefully it was worth the wait.

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    Kamala Harris' 'Fortnite' map bans guns, has less than 400 people playing
  • Ban real guns, not Fortnite guns.

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    IT'S BEEN EIGHTY FOUR YEARS
  • Half-Life 3 fans: Your first time?

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    Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux
  • Alternative video link from Invidious, which is an alternative YouTube client without YouTube or Google: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=LY6PGd8auHI

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  • My Unread Messages is at 2 (it was at 1 for a month or so, but since weeks its at 2 now). Clicking it shows nothing. Maybe there are messages from people I blocked? When I get real new unread messages, then counter goes up and it works like always. Reading those messages (or clicking them as read) will decrease the number, up to 2.

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    YouTube: https://youtu.be/A_XGsAl-LqY

    Watch on Invidious without using YouTube directly: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=A_XGsAl-LqY

    6:24 minutes. Please ignore the clickbait. It's a satisfied story that happened, thanks to Cloudflare. I was not aware of this before. Video talks about a patent troll company suing companies left and right, as their main business strategy. And then they tackle on Cloudflare. But Cloudflare "you chose the wrong door, buddy" and destroyed that company.

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    From article:

    > GNU Boot is a "100% free software project aimed at replacing the non-free boot software" and is a downstream of Coreboot, GRUB, and SeaBIOS. While priding itself on being "100% free", last December they had to drop some motherboard support and CPU code after discovering they were shipping some files that are non-free by their free software standards. Today they announced another mistake in having inadvertently been shipping additional non-free code.

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    thingsiplay.game.blog Showcase for RetroArch Shaders 2024

    Retro games and consoles are pretty accurately emulated nowadays. Output from emulators is crisp and sharp. However those pixels look different on CRT monitors. Shaders in RetroArch is a way to rec…

    https://thingsiplay.game.blog/2024/10/19/showcase-for-retroarch-shaders-2024/

    I finally managed to write another blog post. Screenshots made with Shaders on RetroArch and crops are compared. Shaders are those effects to recreate CRT look or other special effects. RetroArch is the emulator suite I use on PC. Its several pages long and compares images in various resolutions as well. Maybe you can find your favorite Shader this way. Or you get introduced to the topic. Hope it helps. Have a great rest of your day.

    ! !

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    YouTube video: https://youtu.be/uSGVk2KVokQ

    Invidious same video from YouTube without YouTube client: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=uSGVk2KVokQ

    Video description:

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    Pls Google do something.

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    cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/16434132

    > YouTube video: https://youtu.be/uScsmjvdwyo > > Invidious video from YouTube without YouTube: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=uScsmjvdwyo or https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=uScsmjvdwyo > > Video description: > > --- > > It’s clear there are some people who don’t understand Proton. So let’s talk about it. #Proton #SteamPlay #CompatibilityLayer > > > 00:00 Introduction > 00:41 The basics of a computer > 01:46 What Proton is not > 03:04 What is an emulator > 04:32 Proton acts like a map > 05:25 Proton translates API and system calls > 06:18 Proton provides a Windows-like software environment > 06:55 Why are some games incompatible? > 08:52 Shouldn't we demand native Linux games? > 11:07 Conclusion >

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    YouTube video: https://youtu.be/uScsmjvdwyo

    Invidious video from YouTube without YouTube: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=uScsmjvdwyo or https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=uScsmjvdwyo

    PeerTube, alternative video hosting platform based on Fediverse: https://subscribeto.me/w/isv3e2tfTJyGeAT6RRSR6M

    Video description:

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    It’s clear there are some people who don’t understand Proton. So let’s talk about it. #Proton #SteamPlay #CompatibilityLayer

    00:00 Introduction 00:41 The basics of a computer 01:46 What Proton is not 03:04 What is an emulator 04:32 Proton acts like a map 05:25 Proton translates API and system calls 06:18 Proton provides a Windows-like software environment 06:55 Why are some games incompatible? 08:52 Shouldn't we demand native Linux games? 11:07 Conclusion

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    2024-10-05 by GIMP Team

    This is a short development update on our progress towards the first release candidate for GIMP 3.0. We recently reached the string freeze milestone. What this means is that there will be no more changes in user-facing text (like GUI labels and messages) so that translators can work on the final translations for the 3.0 release.

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    YouTube video: https://youtu.be/mZH8Fh29Wxc

    Invidious link to YouTube video without YouTube: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=mZH8Fh29Wxc or https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=mZH8Fh29Wxc

    Video description:

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    I recently found a list of "Woke" Video Games on Steam and I thought it'd be pretty funny to check out it and I was not disappointed. This list of over 1,400 games contains some of the most insane takes I've ever heard.

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    YouTube: https://youtu.be/w5ebcowAJD8

    Invidious, alternative YouTube link without YouTube: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=w5ebcowAJD8

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    Video description:

    How do QR codes work? The checkerboard patterns taking over the world, demystified. Go to Saily.com/veritasium and use the code ‘veritasium’ to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase.

    Special thanks to Mashiro Hara and Yuki Watanabe.

    00:00 I was wrong 00:49 How Morse Code revolutionized communication 03:57 How barcodes work 10:34 How QR codes store information 18:16 Why damaged QR codes still work 29:54 Why are QR codes so common? 31:21 How safe are QR codes? 32:25 The future of QR codes

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    Now you can play DOOM on your GPU. You are confused? Well this means the CPU is no longer used for the logic of the game, it runs basically entirely on GPU. So the graphics card is not only used for graphics, but the main logic of the game. It just needs a little bit help from CPU to start the process I think.

    • News Article: https://www.phoronix.com/news/DOOM-ROCm-LLVM-Port
    • Project Source: https://github.com/jhuber6/doomgeneric/tree/amdgpu

    It's a fork from a fork of a fork of a fork:

    id-Software/DOOM > insane-adding-machines/DOOM > maximevince/fbDOOM > ozkl/doomgeneric > jhuber6/doomgeneric/tree/amdgpu

    I quote the developer (from README):

    > ## why > > Because I can.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20783261

    > Arch Linux is entering into a direct collaboration with Valve. Valve is generously providing backing for two critical projects that will have a huge impact on the distribution: a build service infrastructure and a secure signing enclave. By supporting work on a freelance basis for these topics, Valve enables them to work on > them without being limited solely by the free time of our volunteers.

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    Video Description:

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    Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about 10 exciting studies that won the Ig Nobel prize in 2024

    Links:

    • psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037/h0045345
    • linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022030241954061
    • sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468785523002859?via=ihub
    • science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abj7918
    • tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15592324.2021.1977530#abstract
    • academic.oup.com/brain/article-abstract/147/8/2643/7664309?redirectedFrom=fulltext
    • cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00709-6?_returnURL=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982222007096?showall=true
    • arxiv.org/abs/2310.04153
    • biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v3
    • Placebo video: youtube.com/watch?v=ByA4i8PlfFs&t=0s

    #ignobel #nobel #science

    0:00 Levitating frogs 0:40 Ig Nobel Prize 1:30 These are actually important studies 2:45 Pigeons in missiles 3:32 Cows cats and paper bags 4:11 Hair whirls and direction 5:04 Drunk worms 5:32 Mimic plant 6:58 Placebo and pain 7:48 Dead trout and swimming 8:10 Butt breathing mammals 9:05 Probability and lots of coins 9:50 Old people may be not so old

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    (Edit: I always forget that Beehaw will convert every ampersand character in code segments to &. Have this in mind when reading the code below. Do you have these problems too with your instance?)

    If you update your system from terminal, do you have a shortcut that bundles bunch of commands? I'm on EndevourOS/Arch using Flatpak. Rustup is installed and managed by itself. The empty command is a function to display and delete files in the trash using the program trash-cli. In my .bashrc:

    ``` alias update='eos-update --yay \ ; flatpak uninstall --unused \ ; flatpak update \ ; rustup update \ ; empty'

    empty() { trash-empty -f --dry-run | awk '{print $3}' | grep -vF '/info/' trash-empty -f } ```

    I just need to type update. Also there are following two aliases, which are used very rarely, at least months apart and are not part of the main update routine:

    ``` alias mirrors='sudo reflector \ --protocol https \ --verbose \ --latest 25 \ --sort rate \ --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist \ && eos-rankmirrors --verbose \ && yay -Syyu'

    alias clean='paccache -rk3 \ && paccache -ruk1 \ && journalctl --vacuum-time=4weeks \ && balooctl6 disable \ && balooctl6 purge \ && balooctl6 enable \ && trash-empty -f' ```

    This question is probably asked a million times, but the replies are always fun and sometimes reveals improvements from others to adapt.

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    Is it just me or did kdenlive broke for you too? I'm on an Archlinux based system and just updated the system. A few hours before update kdenlive worked. Update was not small, so its hard to tell the exact cause. I've tried to downgrade kdenlive, but same issue. I use Linux for a very long time now, but still get lost with errors like these.^^ Any idea what I should do? Does it work for you?

    I get this on start (I reset the configuration files too):

    ``` $ kdenlive --version kdenlive 24.08.1

    $ kdenlive kf.config.core: Watching absolute paths is not supported "/usr/share/color-schemes/BreezeDark.colors" mlt_repository_init: failed to dlopen /usr/lib/mlt-7/libmltsox.so (libsox.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) mlt_repository_init: failed to dlopen /usr/lib/mlt-7/libmltrtaudio.so (librtaudio.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) mlt_repository_init: failed to dlopen /usr/lib/mlt-7/libmltsdl.so (libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) WARNING: All log messages before absl::InitializeLog() is called are written to STDERR E0000 00:00:1726202254.631983 14133 descriptor_database.cc:633] File already exists in database: versions.proto F0000 00:00:1726202254.632005 14133 descriptor.cc:2236] Check failed: GeneratedDatabase()->Add(encoded_file_descriptor, size) *** Check failure stack trace: *** @ 0x733c9e6b0e09 absl::lts_20240722::log_internal::LogMessage::SendToLog() @ 0x733c9e6b19ae absl::lts_20240722::log_internal::LogMessageFatal::~LogMessageFatal() @ 0x733c64890955 (unknown) @ 0x733c649c228d google::protobuf::internal::AddDescriptors() @ 0x733c65696125 (unknown) @ 0x733cdd22d6ad (unknown) @ 0x733cdd22a5c2 _dl_catch_exception @ 0x733cdd2344fc (unknown) @ 0x733cdd22a523 _dl_catch_exception @ 0x733cdd234904 (unknown) @ 0x733cd9e9ef14 (unknown) @ 0x733cdd22a523 _dl_catch_exception @ 0x733cdd22a679 (unknown) @ 0x733cd9e9e9f3 (unknown) @ 0x733cd9e9efcf dlopen @ 0x733c9ea96c6c mlt_register @ 0x733cdc3a2279 mlt_repository_init @ 0x733cdc386f52 mlt_factory_init @ 0x733cdc3605f5 Mlt::Factory::init() @ 0x5b73c4a7f0d5 (unknown) @ 0x5b73c4a3a285 (unknown) @ 0x5b73c4497d06 (unknown) @ 0x733cd9e34e08 (unknown) @ 0x733cd9e34ecc __libc_start_main @ 0x5b73c44998d5 (unknown) Aborted (core dumped) ```

    My system if its relevant:

    OS: EndeavourOS x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.10.9-arch1-2 Uptime: 1 hour, 10 mins Packages: 1657 (pacman), 9 (flatpak) Shell: bash 5.2.32 Display (AG271QG): 2560x1440 @ 120 Hz in 27″ [External] DE: KDE Plasma 6.1.5 WM: KWin (Wayland) WM Theme: Breeze Theme: Breeze (Dark) [Qt], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3/4] Icons: breeze-dark [Qt], breeze-dark [GTK2/3/4] Font: NotoSans Nerd Font (12pt) [Qt], NotoSans Nerd Font (12pt) [GTK2/3/4] Cursor: breeze (24px) Terminal: konsole 24.8.1 Terminal Font: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font Mono (11pt) CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (16) @ 5.57 GHz GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 7600 (RADV NAVI33) [Discrete] Mesa 24.2.2-arch1.1 GPU 2: AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV RAPHAEL_MENDOCINO) [Integrated] Mesa 24.2.2-arch1.1 Memory: 3.00 GiB / 30.50 GiB (10%) Swap: 65.00 MiB / 512.00 MiB (13%) Disk (/): 550.90 GiB / 1.79 TiB (30%) - ext4 Disk (/media/Emulation): 4.47 TiB / 5.41 TiB (83%) - ext4 Disk (/media/My): 3.10 TiB / 3.58 TiB (87%) - ext4 Disk (/media/Work): 648.09 GiB / 915.82 GiB (71%) - ext4 Locale: en_US.UTF-8

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    Alternative Invidious link without using YouTube directly: https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=ihtAijebU-M

    Insane method to read your PCs memory, based on certain electromagnetic emissions your system makes when you write or read data to the RAM.

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    Video Description:

    The RAMBO Attack on RAM is truly amazing. Some of the best research I've seen.

    covertchannels.com arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02292 wired.com/story/air-gap-researcher-mordechai-guri

    youtube.com/watch?v=CjpEZ2LAazM&t=0s youtube.com/watch?v=-D1gf3omRnw&t=0s

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    Alternate video link to Invidious (YouTube without using YouTube directly): https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=dH1ErhJa3Qo

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    Banjo Kazooie Gitlab (Source Code): gitlab.com/banjo.decomp/banjo-kazooie

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    Additionally a written article posted here at discussion:

    https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/08/banjo-kazooie-is-the-latest-n64-game-to-be-fully-decompiled

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    >You can edit or delete your comments and replies directly on YouTube. If you delete comments, it may take a few hours before they’re fully removed: https://myactivity.google.com/page?hl=en&page=youtube_comments

    This is the history of you YouTube comments and you can directly jump to it from this central place.

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    blog.mozilla.org Firefox Rolls Out Total Cookie Protection By Default | The Mozilla Blog

    Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the most private and secur

    Take back your privacy

    Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the most private and secure major browser available across Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.

    What is Total Cookie Protection?

    Total Cookie Protection works by creating a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit. Instead of allowing trackers to link up your behavior on multiple sites, they just get to see behavior on individual sites. Any time a website, or third-party content embedded in a website, deposits a cookie in your browser, that cookie is confined to the cookie jar assigned to only that website. No other websites can reach into the cookie jars that don’t belong to them and find out what the other websites’ cookies know about you — giving you freedom from invasive ads and reducing the amount of information companies gather about you.

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