Depends. What are you planning on using a VPN for?
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SheeEttin@programming.devto Linux@lemmy.ml•Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam appsEnglish7·1 year agoThat’s not a meaningful comparison because it splits Ubuntu by version but all of Arch is a single category. We’d need to roll up the Ubuntu users for it to be apples to apples.
If you’re in the position that the NSA is in your system trying to bypass SELinux, you have much bigger problems.
Besides, in that case, having it disabled is going to make it easier for them anyway.
SheeEttin@programming.devto Linux@lemmy.ml•openSUSE addresses supply chain attack against xz compression libraryEnglish9·1 year agoSomeone is going back over their contributions, right?
Right?
Debian and Fedora have ports, though not all packages are available, and you’ll probably be doing a lot of porting if you want anything else.
But this bit from the uConsole R-01 product page might be relevant to you:
uConsole R-01 is a highly experimental model and requires some experience with Linux systems & FOSS. We strongly recommend all beginners choose other models.
SheeEttin@programming.devto Linux@lemmy.ml•Swap causing very slow boot (and systemd says the swap partition became active after 500k years)English3·1 year agoswapoff, reformat, swapon?
Also make sure the drive isn’t dying.
SheeEttin@programming.devto Linux@lemmy.ml•Asking for a Linux (or non-Windows) laptop during a job interview?English7·1 year agoEven at big companies, devs get flexibility because they need to run a bunch of random stuff that can look sketchy to security software.
SheeEttin@programming.devto Privacy@lemmy.ml•What are your thoughts on USB storage drives that have keypad encryption?English61·1 year agoOverkill and overpriced. If you’re on Windows, bitlocker is enough. If you’re on Linux, LUKS is enough.
I’ve used Apricorn drives at previous jobs. They’re cool and very much fit for purpose, but I’d have a hard time justifying the significant price premium when software is nearly as good, free, and works with any drive.
SheeEttin@programming.devto Privacy@lemmy.ml•(Hypothetically) How terrible would Privacy be if using dial-up internet in modern day?English2·1 year agoIt wouldn’t be significantly different from any other access method.
SheeEttin@programming.devto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user contentEnglish5·1 year agoyet
SheeEttin@programming.devto Privacy@lemmy.ml•How to constructively protest against AI voice transcription at work?English3·1 year agoSounds like a weak argument. They’re not going to be inclined to operate a local ML system just for one or two people.
I would see if you can get a quote for locally-hosted transcription software you can run on your own, like Dragon Medical. Maybe reach out to your IT department to see if they already have a working relationship with Nuance for that software. If they’re willing to get you started, you can probably just use that for dictation and nobody will notice or care.
SheeEttin@programming.devto Privacy@lemmy.ml•How to constructively protest against AI voice transcription at work?English1·1 year agoWhat, exactly, are your privacy concerns about this?
SheeEttin@programming.devto Technology@lemmy.ml•AI will eliminate busywork. Are we sure that’s a good thing?English9·1 year agoThat’s not busy work. Busy work, as explained in the article, is work that doesn’t really accomplish anything, like re-folding towels that have already been folded. Or as I’ve had to do before, sweep a perfectly spotless sidewalk. Data validation is valid work.
SheeEttin@programming.devto Privacy@lemmy.ml•What PC is like the "thinkpad" of PCs?English81·1 year agoHow confident do you need to be? I don’t think I’ve seen any convincing evidence of any firmware spying in PC components.
Well, except the NSA’s Clipper chip, but I don’t think that really ever got implemented.
Long story short, I can’t use multiple monitor RDP because I have different resolution monitors and they are stacked 2x2 instead of all in a row.
Did you try setting them up as one big display across all four, instead of four little ones? I think that’s something you can do.
Does the multi-mon RDP thing work from a Windows client too? I’d be surprised if it did, Windows’ multi-monitor support is fairly lacking in my experience too.
SheeEttin@programming.devto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Some virtual care companies putting patient data at risk, new study findsEnglish1·1 year agoThis doesn’t have anything to do with patient data and everything to do with pharmaceutical companies abusing care platforms.
SheeEttin@programming.devto Privacy@lemmy.ml•how can I trust health care professionals if they use windows?English211·1 year agoYes, and? They are not sending your PHI to Microsoft.
Or, if they use Microsoft cloud services like 365 or Azure, where they are sending PHI to Microsoft, Microsoft agrees to follow local healthcare information protection law. In the US, as a business associate, they are a covered entity under HIPAA and must maintain compliance to protect your information.
SheeEttin@programming.devto Linux@lemmy.ml•Something like kate advanced find/replace (regex, multiple files) which allows saving searches to use again later?English3·1 year agoWhy not run sed and pipe to diff to preview changes?
You’d still have to manually copy out the command line to a notes file, but I don’t think that that’s too terrible. You could use a terminal-integrated snippets palette to make it a little smoother.
I’m not aware of any program that does exactly everything you want it to, so you might write your own or extend an existing one, as mentioned.
It doesn’t actually contribute to the discussion.