This doesn't have anything to do with user control - modern windows versions need drivers to be WHQL signed to get that kind of access. Alternatively you'll need to enable developer mode on your system, and install your own developer certificate into its keyring for running own code, which has its own drawbacks.

Crowdstrike is implemented as a device driver - but as there is no device Microsoft could've argued that this is abusing the APIs, and refused the WHQL certification. Microsofts own security solution (Defender) also is implemented as a device driver, though, and that's what the EU ruling is about: Microsoft needs to provide the same access they're using in their own products to competitors. Which is a good thing - but if Microsoft didn't have Defender, or they'd have done it without that type of access it'd have been fully legal for them to deny the certification for Crowdstrike.

Both MacOS and Linux have the ability to run the type of thing that requires those privileges on Windows in an unprivileged process - and on newer Linux versions Crowdstrike is using that (older versions got broken by them the same way they now broke Windows). So Microsoft now trying to blame the EU can be seen as an attempt to keep people from questioning why Microsoft didn't implement a low privilege API as well, which would've prevented this whole mess.

Gibt da dummerweise noch mindestens CAS, sowie Hersteller die bei keinem davon mitmachen. Lustigerweise scheint Steinel sowohl bei CAS als auch Power for all dabei zu sein.

Dazu kommt dann noch dass z.B. Bosch mindestens 4 verschiedene Akkusysteme hat - zwei 12V und zwei 18V. Die Heimwerkerversion ("gruen") von beiden Spannungen ist power for all, die Profiversion ("blau") ist separat. Die blauen Akkus sind sauteuer - aber klar darauf ausgelegt dass die notfalls auch in einem aktiven Kriegsgebiet ueberleben.

Seit ich Kinder habe haengt ein Kassettenrecorder am Receiver - Kassetten sind ein erstaunlich brauchbares Medium fuer Hoerbuecher fuer Kinder.

As they just want it temporarily lubed water based lubricants from the sex shop might be a better option. They don't leave much residue, and are tested for compatibility with various rubbers.

There are a lot of Ukrainians and sympathisers in Russia. A terror campaign wouldn't be with drones, but strategically placed explosives.

I don't really care what is was - Russia is fucking lucky that Ukraine was mostly playing nice so far. They could've made the chechen activities inside Russia during the chechen wars look like amateur hour if they really wanted to - and if we don't give them the type of weapons they need to win in the right quantities, with ability and permission to strike airports they use for bombing and supply runs inside of Russia Ukraine eventually might want to.

Take into account that your average police raid will not attempt that - they just don't have the means for that.

If you have managed to become an important enough target that either specialists get called in, or you've managed to become target of three letter agencies or the equivalent in your country you will have been targeted by other attacks to gain access to your data, both software and hardware - and if you have to ask that kind of question here you're very unlikely to successfully defend against them.

Installing 25 year old binaries on Linux is rather interesting - relevant for stuff like some of the old Loki ports. Problem is mostly that they've been written with kernel 2.2 in mind, which does have different behaviour for quite a few things - you generally can find old libc versions compatible with the binary, but those libc versions don't necessarily play nice with the kernel.

There are some compatibility flags which made things work last time I checked - but not sure if that's the case, and it definitely won't work forever, given that 32bit x86 support is likely to be dropped eventually.

Zumindest frueher konnte man noch oft zuschauen wie hinten der naechste Spiess zusammengebaut wurde. Aber auch angeliefertes nicht-Hack waere noch besser als Hack.

Ich bin inzwischen nur noch ab und an auf Besuch in Deutschland - aber nen ordentlichen Doener haette ich da schon gerne einmal. (Und die Frau auch - sie hatte ihren ersten Doener vor ~8 Jahren auf Gran Canaria, da hat ein ausgewanderter Deutscher ein excellentes Doenerrestaurant)

Don't try to take my raw ground pork away from me.

I've massively reduced my time spent with youtube over the last year or so when I noticed that the overall experience was just getting worse and worse.

Previously I'd watch a video, and from there jump to another interesting video, and so on - now pretty much all the top level suggestions are useless already, and it's rare that after watching a video you get something worth watching recommended.

I assume it's not just youtubes fault - while I do think youtube is pushing those videos even from people I used to like I now see more videos where they go on for 20 minutes about something that should've been said in 3 minutes max.

I now almost exclusively use youtube to watch videos from people I've subscribed years ago, and as they either become annoying to go with youtubes algorithm, or eventually stop/slow uploading my usage goes down. Nowadays I often enough don't open youtube for two weeks, while previously there rarely was a day without checking at least a few videos.

What annoys me about the various forms of package management that exist on Windows nowadays is that while Microsoft started embracing package management they didn't bother adding proper infrastructure to enable it. So yes, we now can pull stuff from a global catalog on Windows, and it more or less keeps track what is installed - but for a lot of stuff in the back it's still just wrapping traditional Windows installers (with funny errors thrown through the package manager when things go wrong), and there's no tracking of installed files.

I can't just list a package to see all files it claims to own - or the other way round, query a random file to see which package it belongs to. I'm typically using package managers way more to query stuff than to install - and on Windows one important tool still just doesn't exist.