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Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux by Dark_Arc in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 22 points 19 hours ago

Like radically insidious man.

Internal blog post reveals Automattic's plan to enforce the WordPress trademark using 'nice and not nice lawyers'. by Dark_Arc in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 1 day ago

That seems incredibly unconvincing on its own. It sounds like this person had a lot of alt accounts, probably was doing ban evasion, and kept posting things that violated the TOS.

Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more by Dark_Arc in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 22 points 1 day ago

That's literally a passkey.

Trump suggests using military against ‘enemy from within’ on Election Day | CNN Politics by Dark_Arc in c/politics@beehaw.org

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 2 points 3 days ago

How can you blame Democrats for Trump's words?

Skyrim Lead Designer admits Bethesda shifting to Unreal would lose 'tech debt', but that 'is not the point' by Dark_Arc in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 2 points 4 days ago

I'm hoping Godot becomes a serious competitor but I'm also thinking CryEngine 6 might be a true UE5 competitor. It's basically the WIP engine for Hunt Showdown and Crysis 4.

Self-made Halloween costume by Dark_Arc in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 20 points 5 days ago

That's adorable!

How do I keep up with the insane amount of trash that I get? by Dark_Arc in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 5 days ago

This works to some extent. I have a house that used to be a rental.

I had one lady tell me she couldn't take MY HOUSE off their list because I am not the guy who signed up for the mail. Even though that guy hasn't lived here in years.

Someone else used this address for a business... After they no longer even lived here. So I had to take that up with the state and got their business license revoked.

Nvidia’s RTX 5070 reportedly set to launch alongside the RTX 5090 at CES 2025 by Dark_Arc in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 0 points 6 days ago

My frustration is they said "it's going to be a massive ripoff" in response to an article that says absolutely nothing about price with 0 context to where they got pricing information.

Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency by Dark_Arc in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Buddy, you have a genuine problem in that you're refusing security updates. Never mind the importance of your data, a system that's not receiving patches can become part of a bot net using your bandwidth to perform DDoS attacks, it can be used as a springboard to infect other systems, and it can be used to spy on you (if not directly via hardware sensors, MAC spoofing based MITM is a thing), it can lead to hardware level compromises (by infecting the BIOS), it can be used as a proxy for illegal activity, and probably some other stuff I'm not thinking of right now.

If you want to update to Windows 11, I fully accept that as a valid choice.

This is not a Linux vs Windows issue. This is "I don't like what Windows has become in 11 ... and I will not be getting security updates on Windows 10 soon." So, your valid options to be responsible are A) get over it and update to 10, Microsoft owns Windows, you do what they do if you want to run Windows, B) install Linux, C) buy a Mac and host it on that, D) install FreeBSD and host it on that, E) write your own operating system, F) find some other niche operating system.

So when I suggest "just install Linux and fix your problem" it's not fan-boy-ism; it's accepting the reality that what you're doing is a bad idea and you shouldn't do it.

Bluesky is having a moment... on Threads by Dark_Arc in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 6 days ago

Interesting, I missed that they'd opened that up.

Do you have any good information on how the ATProtocol requires interaction with their servers?

My quick look at it suggests that everything occurs on the same network (presumably there's some way to override that) but the servers are independent. So you seemingly can "get to everything" regardless of who your provider is.

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Has anyone ever cloned a disk with the GPT partition scheme? (social.packetloss.gg)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/linux@lemmy.world

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So, I'm trying to clone an SSD to an NVME drive and I'm bumping into this "dev-disk-by" error when I boot from the NVME (the SSD is unplugged).

I can't find anyone talking about this in this context. It seems like what I've done here should be fine and should work, but there's clearly something I and the arch wiki are missing.

things you can only do with boys by Dark_Arc in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 223 points 3 months ago

I would argue the top picture is also a big no no.

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TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/news@lemmy.world

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The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok's political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP's Geostrategic Objectives https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf

This report highlights major differences in the prevalence of hashtags related to subjects like Hong Kong Protests, Tainanmen Square, Tibet, the South China Sea, Taiwan, Uyghurs, Pro-Ukraine, and Pro-Isreal when compared to other major social media platforms.

Additionally the times cited a Wall Street Journal analysis (https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-israel-gaza-hamas-war-a5dfa0ee) which "found evidence that TikTok was promoting extreme content, especially against Israel. (China has generally sided with Hamas.)"

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Linux Laptop WiFi Access Point Selection (social.packetloss.gg)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/linux@programming.dev

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Hi all,

I'm visiting a relative that has a Google WiFi system with multiple access points. There's an access point literally right next to me that I can see in the KDE BSSID list with 100% connection strength.

For some reason, it's instead picking a BSSID with only 60% strength. Does anyone have any thoughts on why it's choosing this access point instead of one of the others? Is this something the Google WiFi controls/suggests to the laptop, is something bugged, or is there a good reason Linux might be choosing this particular access point?

EDIT: It turns out the access point placement was actually just really bad, and the access point in question was not even making it to the rest of the LAN... The speed difference between my phone and laptop seems to be just that, something to do with a difference between the framework and the Pixel's wireless cards (or drivers). Even with everything corrected, the Pixel is significantly out performing the framework.

"Millennial lingo" by Shen Comic by Dark_Arc in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 270 points 10 months ago

I think you've got Gen Z and Millennials backwards.

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State of Font Rendering on Linux (social.packetloss.gg)

submitted 1 year ago by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/linux@lemmy.world

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Hi folks,

I was wondering what people's thoughts are on the state of font rendering on Linux and if there are any important settings/packages I might not be aware of.

I've never been particularly font sensitive. So despite being a long time user at this point... I'm still a Linux fonts noob. However, I know a lot of people are big into fonts.

I recently installed Debian KDE as a desktop for my father. He likes it, but he wasn't crazy about the fonts. We turned the normal subpixel rendering on in KDE Font settings, but some pages definitely had blocky looking fonts (e.g. the Yahoo home page my dad still uses 🙃).

Any tips? The documentation in this area seems to be lacking... and maybe it's just the resolution of the mintors and things (my dad had gotten used to his high resolution phone so jumping back to a 28" 1080p monitor is going to look blocky no matter what). Regardless, if there are any tips or things I might have missed, they'd be much appreciated!