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Millions of Kias could be hacked and tracked thanks to a simple website bug that allows attackers to track cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will.
  • Probably ships with OpenSSL and/or OpenSSH. Buying a cheap CH341A programmer off of Aliexpress is a lot of fun because you can actually dump the firmware from like 95% of these things with a $5 tool and poke around/reverse engineer them and do some fun things with that knowledge.

  • Gaming PC power supply question
  • I'd really avoid Alienware at all costs. Their machines are super proprietary (meaning you can't upgrade/replace a lot of the components with off the shelf parts) and usually have really shitty airflow and cooling problems because of the inadequate cooling and horribly designed case they come in. I've directed a couple of friends to Build Redux, they'll build a machine for you for cost of parts + a $50 build fee + shipping and you can even save $150ish bucks by not having them install Windows for you so you can just install/pirate it yourself when you get it, experience was pretty good for both friends.

  • Exposing the Flaws in Our Phone System
  • Ah, it's that time again, we're bringing SS7 and it's problems back into the spotlight baby! I don't have my fingers crossed that this will be solved anytime soon... I mean it's been in mainstream media every few years since like, what, 2006?

  • Hezbollah fires barrage of rockets at Israel intelligence HQ, military bases after Beirut airstrikes
  • Hezbollah announced carrying out strikes against Israeli military targets lying in the northern areas, using Katyusha rockets

    Расцветали яблони и груши Поплыли туманы над рекой Выходила на берег Катюша...

    kirby-jammin

  • Hexbear Linux users are the deep state of China
  • I've never used Bazzite personally, only seen a couple of videos about it and have some prior experience with messing around with Ublue images, so I can't really comment on Bazzite specifically shrug-outta-hecks. If their forums are active and friendly towards people with questions, I guess go for it! penguin-love

  • Hexbear Linux users are the deep state of China
  • Bazzite (and atomic/immutable distributions in general) are really neat, but I personally avoid recommending them to first time Linux users because if they end up searching for a solution to a problem they're having on the internet, the top solutions that pop up in their search engine most likely not going to be what they're looking for or even work. Explaining the concepts of an immutable distribution and things like rpm-ostree to someone new to Linux can be quite the challenge and turn them off because of they'll most likely interpret it as unnecessary complexity to achieve a simple goal.

  • Hexbear Linux users are the deep state of China
  • Yep, that's another great point. KDE Plasma isn't my cup of tea because it is in fact so similar to Windows, cluttered control panel and all! Though for someone coming from Windows who wants a very similar experience out of the box, it'd probably be great for them. Fedora even has a version that comes with KDE Plasma out of the box instead of GNOME.

  • Hexbear Linux users are the deep state of China
  • Of course it will be Linux based, building an entire operating system, especially one acceptable by today's standards, is a ton of work. Not something you do over a few months with a small team of dedicated engineers. Linux serves as a great starting point to (relatively) quickly build a very usable desktop operating system that can be fully independent from the rest of the world if it so desires to be.

    I'd definitely recommend trying something like Fedora, it's a great distribution for beginners and comes with everything you'd need out of the box to just go about your day and you can try it out and mess around with it without actually installing it to your system. You can install software & update your system with a graphical interface, you can manage your files with a graphical interface, and you can change pretty much every setting that matters with a graphical interface. It's not as scary as you may think and I promise you will most likely never need to "type up lines of instructions to do what Windows can do with a double click". Want to install Element (the Matrix client) for example? Open up the GNOME software center, search "Element", click install, done.

  • Democrats banned RT, African Stream and Red. from Meta and Google platforms
  • Ah, that makes sense then. I think It'd be cool to see an open-source take on the "everything app", my (limited) experience with WeChat is quite positive. It's incredibly convenient to just have one login that can grant you access to everything you'd ever need and have it be widely enough used for it to be actually useful.

  • Democrats banned RT, African Stream and Red. from Meta and Google platforms
  • I've never used Telegram, but from what I can see public Matrix groups could most likely take it's place? Maybe there's some features I'm unaware of but shrug-outta-hecks

  • DARPA initiates a new program to automate the translation of the world’s highly vulnerable legacy C code to the inherently safer Rust programming language
  • This sounds cool in theory, but would be extremely hard to pull off in any kind of meaningful fashion I think simply because Rust is just too different from C. You can probably make something to very roughly "transpile" C to Rust, but the Rust code that is generated probably wouldn't be good and will probably be a pain to work with simply because it'd end up being a mess and at that point, if you're going to have to end up refactoring a ton of generated code, you may as well just rewrite it yourself so it is actually half decent code.

  • [CW: Vague mentions of lewd apps] In which I scream at the universe and ask to speak to its manager.
  • I should perhaps look towards a more accessible toy with a wider userbase.

    You should look into https://buttplug.io, it abstracts everything away behind a nice API so you can support a bunch of other hardware without having to program for a specific piece of hardware. They support pretty much every piece of hardware that you can think of including The Handy

  • We been lied to. He doesnt even know what Dialectical Materialism is.
  • How does one get a free copy of said books, asking an embassy? I sent one of ours an e-mail asking if it'd be possible to get an English copy of Governance of China Volume 1 almost a year ago and never got a response stalin-bummed

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    Hexcraft, the Most Communist Minecraft Server, is Live!
  • I figured I'd write a basic installation guide for the people who may not already know how to use Modrinth's pack system.

    1. Download and install Prism Launcher from here. If you're using Linux, using the Flatpak version will make your life much easier as it comes bundled with multiple Java versions that you may need for specific Minecraft versions (including the one that this pack is on)
    2. Download the pack from here by going to the "Featured Versions" section on the left side of the screen and clicking the newest one that's currently available.
    3. Open Prism Launcher and click the "Add Instance" button in the top left, then select the "Import" tab from the options on the left side of the pop up window, then click the "Browse" button and select the .mrpack file you downloaded from Modrinth, then click the "Ok" button at the bottom.
    4. After you import the pack, you may need to change the Java version the game will launch with to Java 17. If you're on Linux and using the Flatpak, you already have Java 17, but if you're on Windows you will have to download it manually from here. Right click "Create Hexes 1.x.x" and then click the "Edit" button, then select the "Settings" tab from the options on the left side of the pop up window, then check the "Java installation" checkbox, then set the path to your Java 17 installation path, in my case because I'm on Linux and using the Flatpak, it's /app/jdk/17/bin/java.
    5. Finally, sign-in to your Minecraft account by clicking "Manage Accounts" in the top right, then clicking "Add Microsoft" and following the on-screen instructions for how to login via your Microsoft account. Once you've signed in with your actual Microsoft account, you're able to add another offline/cracked account with any username you'd like by clicking the "Add Offline" button. If you don't have an actual Minecraft account, I'm sure there is a fork of Prism Launcher somewhere with this requirement removed or you may even be able to manually add a offline account by editing the accounts file, but I'm honestly not sure. If anyone knows, feel free to post a reply.
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    Hexcraft, the Most Communist Minecraft Server, is Live!
  • The pack already comes with a lot of the optimization mods that are in Fabulously Optimized. You can just put your shaders in the shader packs folder and enable them in your video settings.

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    Hexcraft, the Most Communist Minecraft Server, is Live!
  • Wearable collars mod my beloved

  • New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser automagically
    www.bleepingcomputer.com New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser

    Microsoft is now using a Windows driver to prevent users from changing the configured Windows 10 and Windows 11 default browser through software or by manually modifying the Registry.

    New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser

    !windows-cool !qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

    Long story short: That pop-up you get when you open Firefox (or whatever other browser) for the first time asking you if you want to make it your default browser won't work anymore. They're forcing you to go through their convoluted control panel where you have to change it like 20 times for each file extension.

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    10,000 machines powered by the home-grown Loongson 3A5000 CPU and Linux make their way into China's classrooms

    LoongArch will win !xi-cooking

    Rough Weixin post translation by DeepL: > Recently, the Hebi Municipal Government joined hands with the Municipal Education Bureau and other departments to introduce nearly 10,000 units of Longxin 3A5000 computers into the classrooms of nearly 50 primary and secondary schools in Hebi Municipal Direct and Hebi Qibin District. These computers are based on the independent Dragon architecture of the Longxin 3A5000 processor, equipped with a domestic UOS operating system, installed WPS office software, Extreme Domain teaching (operation and maintenance) management software and a full set of genuine licensed software, and through the classroom management to the teaching, programming, national/provincial and municipal management platforms and a total of 104 applications, to help the city in the realization of the education industry in the education industry, the basic hardware equipment as well as education and teaching The company has taken a solid step forward in realizing the independent control of basic hardware equipment and educational teaching and learning applications in the education industry.

    Edit: Someone posted this already, oh well. This won't stop me from !posting

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    Check out this dope ass bear

    Just a big silly forest dog if you really think about it !og-hex-bear

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    Turns out that piano player from that Reddit post the other day is just a racist

    Really weird (/s) how quickly it went from a couple of Chinese tourists asking politely not be filmed to the guy embracing the racist Winnie the Pooh stereotype and talking about how oppressed Hong Kong and Taiwan are.

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    Daily reminder to update your BIOS for security patches
    arstechnica.com Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack

    UEFIs booting Windows and Linux devices can be hacked by malicious logo images.

    Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack

    The news about this specific vulnerability is a bit old by now, but it doesn't hurt to drop a reminder that you should update your BIOS frequently to prevent yourself from falling victim to other vulnerabilities later down the line. BIOS updates can also improve performance as well (or make it worse, cough, Spectre mitigations) in a few scenarios.

    If you have a laptop, it's probably as easy as just downloading your manufacturer's tool from their website, clicking a few buttons, restarting, and you should be set or your manufacturer might provide these updates thru Windows' update system which in that case you don't need to download any additional software.

    If you're on a desktop however, most of the time this involves you downloading a file, throwing it on a USB stick, and updating it from the BIOS screen or by pressing a button on the back of the motherboard.

    Either way, you're probably only a [insert search engine name here] search away from finding a guide on how to do it for your specific motherboard/device.

    A few words of caution though: If you're on a desktop without a battery backup it's probably wise to only do these updates when you have high confidence that your power isn't going to drop during the update. If you lose power during one of these updates, recovery is not a fun task (unless your motherboard is fancy and has a button to recover from these kinds of scenarios) and your motherboard basically becomes a cool looking paper weight unless you want to flash the chip manually, which is possible but is kind of annoying to do and requires the right tools (but they're pretty cheap from Alibaba or whatever)

    Anyway, rant over. Make sure you keep your computers up-to-date comrades, it's always worth spending the half an hour or so it takes to update everything on your computer so you can have some extra peace of mind.

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    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières convoy attacked by IOF
    www.msf.org MSF convoy attacked in Gaza: all elements point to Israeli army responsibility | MSF

    On 18 November 2023, an MSF evacuation convoy came under fire in Gaza killing two people. After collecting the testimonies of MSF staff present, we consider that all elements point to responsibility for this attack to the Israeli army.

    MSF convoy attacked in Gaza: all elements point to Israeli army responsibility | MSF

    https://nitter.net/MSF_canada/status/1730819946362405039

    https://www.msf.org/msf-convoy-attacked-gaza-all-elements-point-israeli-army-responsibility

    !idf-cool

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