Posts by bolac 50 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jun 2016
No one can make it work. Even people who worked inside Microsoft keep telling me that it does not work there either.
In the explanations for the recent Azure secret key disaster, Microsoft has also (unknowingly?) admitted that they consider their client zone to be less secure than their server zone.
It is not a curse, it is a blessing that Apple is not support all the shit that web devs come up with. I am not using any Apple device, I am using 100% open source for more than 20 years. But I am really grateful that Apple killed Third Party Cookies and refuses to support unnecessary standards that give websites access to anything.
This is bullshit. Cross-platform software always sucks. Always. No exception. A tool should integrated into the system conventions as well as possible. A Windows application should follow Windows conventions, a Mac application should follow Mac conventions, and so on.
This is particularly true for a password manager, so you don't need insecure dirty clipboard tricks to enter passwords into forms. The only cross-platform thing we need in this area is a portable format for export/import and backups of password databases.
The whole issue is not just misuse of software. When you give someone a copy of your software, you have no control where it ends up. But this is not the issue at all here.
According to Amnesty, NSO operated the servers. NSO had lists of phone numbers for target people. NSO is not just a software manufacturer in this game. NSO is actively participating in the attacks, including the unlawful ones. They cannot just say: «Someone took our software and did an unlawful attack without our knowledge.» NSO was basically performing the unlawful attack themselves.
I was never talking about private PCs. Who even uses Windows on their private PC in 2021?
In every corporation where I worked (I am consultant) and that had teams (many refuse), thre was a copy in my user folder.. Are you sure that the enterprise install does not do the same thing, copy it to user folder?
You can also do two full graphical logins at the same time and switch with Alt+Ctrl+F1/F2/etc. Or you switch users using the GUI, but then you always have to unlock your screen.
Typically tty1 is the login screen and the user screens start from tty2 (modern distros) or from tt7 (traditional distros, because 1-6 were reserved for text console).
Teams for Windows is also Electron. Electron is owned by Microsoft since the Github takeover. New OneNote and VS Code are Electron, too. The new Outlook One will be electron-based as well.
Teams on Windows is even worse. It is installed into the home folder. Even if you ask for global install, it will install one copy to Program Files and then one copy to each user's home folder. Including an auto updater which pulls binaries from the Internet and puts them in the home folder, where the versions are accumulating to gigabytes of old Chromium DLLs and what not.
But the biggest joke is that Microsoft made a tutorial how to improve Teams performance by whitelisting your home folder in the antivirus. You could not make this up.
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-SkypeForBusiness/blob/9df8f4069848c52ae810719e4baf171014b01452/Teams/teams-files-folders-antivirus-perf.md
With Firefox, you can have multiple browser profiles. They have completely different browsing histories, cookie stores, password stores, proxy settings etc. For example, set up one for work and one for personal use.
Go to the "about:profiles" page.
Edit: You can run them at the same time in separate windows (not in tabs of one window though). I also like to put a theme on some so the window has a different color to avoid confusion.
Also for my main private PC, I just added a completely separate Linux user for work stuff This way, everything contained in a separate home folder and can be easily removed from the private PC. I can use mail programs, contacts, calendars etc. without mixing up the two.
It is not fair to say that all spreadsheets are equally shit. For example Gnumeric, the one created by the Gnome folks in two weeks as a demo app, was very popular among scientists because it calculated accurately and mathematically correct. For a decade, it was also a role model for good C programming.
This does not mean anything. The whole months-long effort in vaccine development is the testing for effectiveness and side-effects. The invention of new vaccine candidates takes only hours nowadays. This AI only does something that has never been a problem in the first place.
But even that is a stupid approach. If the data is not there, then that makes it even more stupid. It does not really help reliably, but it is a hassle for everyone else, for example people who want to park money into a newly opened bank account.
Some people being too stupid to protect their access credentials does not justify to make the life of innocent people more annoying even to the slightest extent.
If you are user A running a X session and want to run an X app with user B, A has to set:
$ xhost local:
Before Wayland, this was not required if user B was root. With Wayland, it is required for Root as well. That is the only differnece. Set it and you can run Synaptic etc.
Btw: It is really not a good idea to run graphical apps as root like Synaptic does, and everybody knows that, so this is just legacy mode anyway. The graphical admin app should run as user and only execute batch jobs as root.
To be honest, it is a problem with video drivers by lazy manufacturers like NVIDIA. On my Macbook with Intel Iris I did not have a single Wayland crash since the beta of 17.10, and I am hotplugging different monitors and projectors with HDMI and DP (Thunderbolt) all the time.
And it by the way has very useful features, e.g. flexible scaling when mixing high- and low-dpi screens. And all remote things still work if you just set the permissions, which you had to do before anyway for anyone who's not root.
However, making it non-default for the LTS version sounds like a sane choice from Ubuntu's perspective.
No. It has nothing to do with "America first".
To stick to the pizza example: "Pizza über alles" means "I think pizza is better than everything else". It does NOT mean "I think we should put pizza above everything". It is just a observational statement, it has no connotation of "should be" or "want".
It does not matter, those German terms are just as undefined political propaganda bullshit bingo as they are in English. They are seemingly using legally defined terms, but they are misusing them intentionally.
For example "public call to commit crime" and "threatening" don't require new laws. They were illegal to begin with. Those things are illegal even in America, because you can grammatically distinguish an imperative "kill this guy" from a mere opinion statement "I wish this guy had a car accident".
No, it has a completely differnet meaning.
"uber alles" is used for everything in German, like "for the world" in English.
For example, if pizza is your favorite food, you would say "pizza for the world" in English and "Pizza über alles" in German. It just means "there is nothing better than pizza"- It has no connotation of ruling oder domination or anything. It also does not mean that you put pizza above something, it means that you find out that it is above something.
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Sorry, I confused the two cases. I meant to say that case sensitivity does not work properly, and that case insensitivity is a huge mess with Unicode.
It boils down to the fact that it is very complex to properly define equivalence of two Unicode filenames. By the way, OSX is in fact the only OS doing this. Windows (NT) does not do this (the case insensitivity is emulated by the Win32 subsystem), and even iOS is case sensitive all along.
And HFS+ is not just old. That's not the issue at all. Being old would not be a huge issue if it just worked. But it doesn't. HFS+ is known to be very unreliable and for having very poor performance. This is not a case of “we still use the old system because it runs”.
Last but not least: There were already security issues with git arising from HFS+'s case insensitivity.
APFS is not really next-gen, it just appears new compared to HFS+, which is stuck in the early 90's.
HFS+ has the following “features”:
- Case insensitive mode does not work (properly).
- Case sensitive mode is a total failure because we don't live in times of ASCII. Defining what equality of two Unicode strings actually means is hard enough anyway, and not getting any easier by mixing up cases.
- HFS+ stores all the metadata in the first blocks, which makes it perform very poorly. In times of SSD it seems less relevant, but it isn't. It totally cripples backup speed on USB 3.0 HDDs.
Also: The fact that the port of ZFS to OSX was cancelled gives me a very bad feeling about OSX's state in the layers above.
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