jck86

Finally a usecase for mptcp on linux. Been waiting and trying off and on for years to get it to do something, but now it can give a nice remote root shell. Well, not to me, I just get to patch devices.

AI rewrites of Cisco code? The infinite possibilities for endless backdoors is off the charts.

To what extend do these "smart" products state how, when and what data they are collecting and selling?

Isn't it high time for legislation that at least makes it clear on the box what kind of sensors and integrations it has and how bad the product is privacy wise?

Also, shouldn't corporate spying disguised as automated content recognition and classification be limited or outright be banned?

And all this connected garbage should by law be able to function with the cord cut and without registration, and if an update negatively changes the advertised product characteristics the customer must be allowed to return it for full paid price even if it is 10 years old. Force the manufactures to make statements on the "box" about the features, the support duration and level, and the privacy characteristics.

Why don't politicians care about this?

And I will still happily take the LCD "dead end" over the regressive burn-in OLEDs.

The AI companies must be regulated. They are already destroying the world and the economy before they can even make an attempt at destroying humanity.

Either AI will get cheap enough and blow up and destroy the economy by eating everyone's lunch and killing off sectors left and right. Or it will become an uncontrolable weapon destroying the internet and killing off people on the battlefield. Or it will tank the economy because there may not be a way to monopolize it making the billions of investments moot leading them to their only leverage of hoarding up all the resources pricing out the competition but also destroying the industry. And maybe all of those at once.

Or how about you adults all grow up and gain some healthy personal accountability instead of blaming your devices and society for your lack of self control.

For certain technology there should be bans but it is not social media and algorithmic feeds. There may be speedbumps, more user controls and auto classifiying of user type with optional alteration of the feed and type of content, but full bans for things like infinite scroll are disproptional.

Should sexual content be banned on social media? Maybe? Should violent footage be banned? It depends? Should bullying or predatory behavior be banned? I guess so? Or maybe it should it only be discouraged? What kind of social media does there exist? Is it binary or is it a spectrum, and should different rules or guidelines be applied?

Way too many variables. But what is clear is that age (ID) checks for the wide spread internet are completely out of the question. Governments should not have that much control over our social lives.

Face it, technology changes the world. The smartphone with camera did. If you could, would you put that genie back in the bottle? Should all content produced on smartphones be checked and watermarked and pulled through a selection of governments fingerprints to be publishable? Be very careful what you wish for since every new technology comes with hard to imagine second order effects and threats.

zswap indeed is the real magic almost silver bullet nowadays. Device backed swap is often not needed anymore and it solves a lot of the issues with freezing under memory pressure, though it may not be ideal for servers.

And if I have a separate otherwise unused ssd then using a swap partition simply is easier than creating a file system for it and mounting it somewhere. Block level backups also are easier.

What would be nice about swap files is if they could dynamically grow and shrink without a special setup.

Way too many variables on Linux for a one size fits all.

There is censorship of illegal streaming sites crippling the internet (Cloudflare). People are being freightened from illegal iptv boxes to watch free sports because it could be part of a botnet or residential proxy network. There are million or billion euro fines for social media and service providers like google. There is enforcement against "fast fashion". Yet there is zero effort for iot privacy, not even labels or certification for good devices.

I don't want to be cynical but face it, the EU really only cares about things that generate money for themselves or big internal market players under the disguise of consumer safety and privacy. Obviously that also comes with some good effects but the perverse incentives are enormous from which we must not be blinded by ideology and warm feelings of our politicians being good and working for the people and the common good.

Somehow the EU only appears to target big wealthy service providers. I wonder why.

What I really hope for is searchable filters. With filter packs installed I simply cannot find them in slow scrolling menu list.

Apparently you only want wayland based DEs and considered the argument to be over for everyone.

How wrong were you. Lot's of people don't want to use wayland until it reaches a certain feature-complete maturity. I for instance have again put it off for another year and won't consider running a wayland only DE at all for the forseable future since it breaks too many things for no good reason and I need to be able to switch back to X11 if needed. I use my pc for for work, not just as a troubleshooting toy.

Taking the topic into account of people moving from old school Windows 7 to this Windows-like distro, these people will probably be more pleased by X11 (hassle free screen sharing, global shortcuts) vs the wayland "in theory it is great and modern but in practice there still are way too many incomplete and missing pieces" situation.

Playing devil's advocate: the projection alone won't be the patent and probably is not patentable on its own, the patent will be about applying such projections for real-time navigation which brings non-obvious difficulties that must be solved in a particular way (like the way the project is transformed during turns, how navigation is overlayed, and how motion sickness and distractions are counteracted) making the patent consist of the projection-styled navigation enabled by certain rules (what and how to present it) and the technical way the projections are transformed.

Having said that, the novelty is questionable since the projection is pretty well-known and creating a functional proof of concept that solves many of the patent's problems likely takes a day or so. But I'm not a lawyer so what do I know in this department?

Hoorah! Hopefully big distros will at least offer an optional upgrade to this.

I'm all for people switching to wayland but there should be choice and xorg should not be neglected for ideological reasons.

Red Moon Desert is now my wallpaper for the rest of the week.

Looking at it from a distance indeed may raise some brows.