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iByteABit

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  • Anyone else notice that middle click is the first thing to fail on their mice?

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  • Didn't really use it that often, and it stopped working right as I was playing Sekiro, which was annoying because I had to remap the target button elsewhere

  • Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months

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  • There are many valid reasons to have moved to the US decades ago, either running away from poverty like people from Latin America, or simply finding better job opportunities. Unequal exchange in capitalism can lead many people to work for the imperialist powers because their home country is worse economically, often due to them being taken advantage of.

  • Question about Antivirus

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  • Quoted from the Arch wiki:

     
        
The current situation of anti-malware products on Linux is inadequate due to several factors:

    - Limited Variety: Compared to Windows, there are fewer users/clients resulting in limited interest for companies to develop products for Linux.

    - Complacency: Many believe Linux is inherently secure, leading to a lack of awareness and focus on malware protection. This creates a gap in proactive defense mechanisms.

    - Lack of Features: Existing tools often lack advanced features which are common in Windows anti-malware products, making them less effective on Linux.

This is especially bad because the amount of malware on Linux is increasing just as the possible attack surface due to the increasing number of Linux-based servers and IoT devices.
Currently on Linux one of the few existing and actively developed anti-malware solutions is ClamAV.

    There is no inherent mechanism that makes your system secure to viruses just because it's Linux. This is mostly said because, Linux being a small percentage of desktop users, it's not yet common for hackers to target Linux systems because it's not worth the hassle when you can just target a much larger audience on Windows that is on average much less tech literate too.

    But as Linux popularity grows, viruses will start popping up on Linux as well, so it's never a bad idea to use ClamAV. You are already more protected when you use package repositories instead of downloading executables from websites like you do on Windows, and Linux has better file system permissions, but you still need to be careful what you're downloading and running.

  • Suppose i have a glass of balls, what % of balls need to be blue so that i can say, balls in this glass are generally blue?

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  • instructions unclear, painted my balls blue

  • Western media finally writes article about Epstein and Israel, instantly receives Zionist smear campaign.

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  • And if you're looking for an answer, you can find it in the video below:

  • Asking for help with updating system after not using it for a few months

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  • Pretty unhelpful to the discussion, OP is looking for a fix, not distro suggestions

  • Open Source | Gamified Language Learning (Chinese Mandarin) | Web-App | No Sign-up Required

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  • Really good idea!

  • Average lib sinophobic comment

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  • China 1984 authoritarian CCP -racist slurs and stereotypes for good measure-

  • Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment

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  • Nature is healing

  • do LLMs destroy open source?

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  • It's one thing for a company to train a model with your code and then create a better copy of what you made and sell it for profit (which I think is an unrealistic thing to happen if their codebase is depending on AI slop code), and it's another thing that an AI is providing access to public information (the code) that you previously monetized to help people understand it better. I really don't see how that monetization model would have worked regardless of AI existing, at some point there are going to be enough people out there that understand the code that can build documentation of their own for free. I'm not a lawyer but I don't see how this violates a GPL license either.

    The only thing FOSS projects have to be wary of about AI is slop pull requests, but code review still had to be done before LLMs existed anyway.

    Also my two cents about the threads regarding Tailwind is that, what FOSS devs wanting to live doing what they do should really hate is not AI making it harder for them to monetize their projects in odd ways, but capitalism requiring them to monetize anything they do for them to be able to live while doing it. FOSS devs should be able to hand out their creations to society without worrying about putting food on the table, their work is no less valuable than that of any engineer working for the big corporations.

  • why does my knife need a web browser smh

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  • apologies for the english I am an american

    lmao

  • Not that much is missing from Epstein DataSet 9 already collected.

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  • I know it would be ridiculously ironic, but if any CSAM is in there could the authorities get you in trouble over its possession or even distribution?

  • Its not looking good..

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  • Try to think why these supposed "threats" are such a big deal for an alliance of countries so far away from the region to be affected, and you might stumble upon the real reason why they hate China so much.

    Spoiler alert, it's because they can no longer take advantage of China like they did when it was under the boot of the British. They hate that it's a sovereign country that works for its own benefit, and that their footholds in the region are unable to reverse the course of history as they'd like.

  • CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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  • Hating on the humanities has been a talking point of the right wing for a long time, specifically because the empathy it nurtures leads to solidarity instead of survival of the fittest mentality. They say that these studies are useless to society, while capitalists are the only class that truly sits on top of society and leeches off of it

  • Signal Contingency Plan (spoiler: it's Delta Chat)

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  • Still, adding feds to a group chat is a management issue, same as inviting people to your home

  • Its not looking good..

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  • Maybe there'd be some hope for that to happen if everyone in the EU hadn't been conditioned to be racist as fuck against anyone to the east or south for centuries

  • New to reading

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  • Don't know if it's your taste, but my most recent favorite is The Dispossessed which is a political sci-fi kind of book about a brilliant mathematician who lives in an anarchist world

  • Good news, Stardew Valley enthusiasts: the 1.7 update will make children 'a little more interesting' and add two new marriage candidates

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  • Really unfortunate wording in the title lol

  • Coworker wants to try Linux with gaming, Bazzite or Mint?

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  • Nobara does seem pretty cool