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  • Check for any customizations in /etc/NetworkManager

    Alternatively, reinstall surfshark, enable killswitch, connect and disable killswitch before disconnection... When you disconnect it should be fine..

    The killswitch is most surely a combination of changes on networkmanager dispatcher script, iptables rules and dns setting (/etc/resolv.conf)

  • Huawei unveils world’s first tri-fold phone, the Mate XT Ultimate Design
  • Exactly my feeling when everyone was jumping into touch screens.

    (I was able to type SMS in my pocket, using one hand, while walking. Sure, it took a 100 meters a sentence but it worked.)

    Anyway, a smartphone comes with many other differences, mostly advantages. This is another leap of quality for gaming, watching movies, filling government forms on old websites, etc.

  • Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text
  • They still store the passwords like that? I remember that quote of Zuckerberg doing so, in the early days, and boasting about it to a friend... This was so outrageous at the time. Now it's beyond absurdity.. Not to mention the fine is so small!

  • Whatcha playing, Opa?
  • Thanks, now I can understand. I wouldn't know about US demographics, but stil... I've lived in Argentina for 95% of my life and never heard this thing until I emigrated to the EU. Truly, I can hardly think we have more Germans than the rest of latinoamerica... We dodid have lots of europeans that came in between, and around, both world wars. The majority are from Spain and Italy.

  • Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code
    cyberinsider.com Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

    Rockstar Games' servers have been under fire from DDoS attacks causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online.

    Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

    cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22527376

    > > Rockstar Games' servers have been under heavy fire from massive DDoS attacks in recent days, causing widespread login and connectivity issues for players of GTA Online. These attacks come in the wake of Rockstar’s recent implementation of BattlEye, a new anti-cheat system designed to crack down on in-game cheating, sparking backlash from a segment of the player base. Protesters, unhappy with the new system, have resorted to using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to disrupt the servers, escalating tensions between the gaming giant and its community.

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    Last High End devices
  • Been using syncthing with a script on my PC to keep copying stuff on another non synced location in the same filesystem with deduplication enabled (zfs). Technical solution, sadly, not many people are doing it... Btw i use.. Xdd

  • Mental hell
  • It's difficult to know if this might just be a correlation to age of onset, plus the effect of new project or work. Maybe other graduates of similar careers (i.e. chemists going into big pharma) that doesn't go into PhD programmes would be a nice control. But there's no curve there.

    Alas, I know academia is difficult. But I wouldn't dare drawing conclusions without a proper comparison.

  • [Weekly thread] GNU+Linux help: ask anything!
  • Create a user, and then a systemd unit for it, under ~/.config/systemd/user/ with contents like these:

    [Unit]
    Description=Caddy web server
    After=network.target
    
    [Service]
    ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/caddy run --config /path/to/Caddyfile --envfile /path/to/Envfile
    ExecReload=/usr/local/bin/caddy reload --config /path/to/Caddyfile --envfile /path/to/Envfile
    Restart=on-failure
    User=caddy
    Group=caddy
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=default.target
    

    Adjust the paths in the arguments. It will require systemctl daemon-reload for such unit to be available for enabling and starting it...

  • tried to read a Tom's Hardware article
  • Easier? Really?? I disagree. An Ad blocker has 0 cognitive weight, just a few cpu cycles and ..voilà! Meanwhile, avoiding the site, to me, means reading a thread on Lemmy without opening the link. Something I do oftentimes, but not always.

  • Absurdity at its finest

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19843233

    > I'll just leave this here.

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    [Research Article] Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI

    Fig. 1 gives an example of a conversation where the user goes from 100% belief down to 40% after getting their questions explained by the AI.

    Looking at the conclusions, the impact is not so big for all the interactions.

    Anyway, this is a great tool. Sure, when people are doomscrolling 24/7 they’re not fact-checking. So, the intervention might not be there. Yet, I choose to remain optimistic. More recent generations might get easier access and be better than our current trend :)

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    Pizza Delivery: Level Knight.

    cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2716501

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    ISCB is conducting a survey
    genomic.social Madelaine (@mmarchin@genomic.social)

    Calling everyone who works in or with a #bioinformatics core facility - we need your help! We’d like to hear your ideas on what skills core facility scientists need at different levels (I, II, III or manager). Interested in helping? Please fill in this survey by September 30th. https://docs.google.c...

    Calling everyone who works in or with a #bioinformatics core facility - we need your help! We’d like to hear your ideas on what skills core facility scientists need at different levels (I, II, III or manager). Interested in helping? Please fill in this survey by September 30th. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2P_d6nX6JmhFJtcBNX3zOQB-DuAuOMiIDc7t57tZVM4POog/viewform

    The results of this survey will feed into the bioinformatics core facility competency framework. Find out more: https://sites.google.com/ebi.ac.uk/bioinfocore-competencies/

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    System Prompts for Claude, by Anthropic
    docs.anthropic.com System Prompts - Anthropic

    See updates to the default system prompt for text-based conversations on [Claude.ai](https://www.claude.ai) and the Claude [iOS](http://anthropic.com/ios) and [Android](http://anthropic.com/android) apps.

    System Prompts - Anthropic
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    Chinese crime syndicate fueled by modern-day slavery and hiding behind shell companies has strong ties to top-tier European football
    www.darkreading.com Chinese Crime Ring Hides Behind Stealth Tech and Soccer

    An illegal gambling empire fueled by modern-day slavery is being propped up by high-profile sponsorships — and defended with sophisticated anti-detection software.

    Chinese Crime Ring Hides Behind Stealth Tech and Soccer

    cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2235521

    > Archived link > > Some have argued that Yabo (aka Yabo Sports, Yabo Group) and its many constituent brands comprise "the biggest illegal betting operation targeting Greater China." You probably haven't heard of it before, but you may have come across it unknowingly in passing, hundreds of times, if you watch European football, aka soccer in US parlance. The operation enjoys multimillion-dollar partnerships with some of the world's biggest clubs, like Manchester United and Bayern Munich. > > Less visible to the public are Yabo's modern day slaves, forced to staff the debt-fueled pyramid scheme underpinning its gambling empire. > > [...] > > "Often, as a culture and as an industry, we separate technical stories from real life," Dr. Renée Burton, head of threat intelligence at Infoblox, says. "But these are monumental human crimes that are occurring [in] human trafficking and money laundering. It's the most interesting research I've ever been involved with." > > [...] > > On paper, Yabo Sports shut down in 2022 amid media scrutiny. But it fact it actually passed on through other brands like Kaiyun Sports. Kaiyun's logo has featured prominently on the sleeves of Aston Villa and Crystal Palace kits, or uniforms, in recent seasons, and the front of Nottingham Forest's (all England). Kaiyun reportedly also has a partnership in place with the world's biggest club, Real Madrid. > > [...] > > As Burton tells it, "Essentially, they use a ton of shell companies in multiple places around the world. And then they'll come up through these white label providers in the UK, like TGP Europe, which was linked by journalists to [gambling organization] Suncity, which has been accused by the Chinese government of money laundering. So it obfuscates those [groups] which are already obfuscated. It's just this ridiculous chain of false identities." > > [...] > > "So it draws people [into the sites]," Burton explains, "and they're browsing around a little bit. You've got your Manchester United logo. Then it starts popping up: these lures for you to come gamble." The sites include images of scantily dressed women and live chats with purported customer service agents. If a user stays idle for a period of time, the site might offer financial incentives, like a sliding scale of up to $1,500 free for any user who deposits up to $70,000 in a week. > > "It draws you in further, and eventually you're losing. Now you're in debt, and you move into servitude. It's essentially a pyramid scheme: you have to go recruit people to gamble, then you get a portion of those people's losses to go against your debt," she says. > > [...] > > A 2023 report from the Asian Racing Federation (ARF) Council on Anti-Illegal Betting and Related Financial Crime described how Yabo betting sites are also staffed by physically imprisoned individuals: > > The walled-off complexes have apartments, offices, supermarkets and other facilities, and are guarded by armed security whose job is to keep people in, according to reports in Chinese state media and elsewhere. > > [. . .] > > According to victim testimony, staff must work 12 hours a day, six days a week and cannot leave without a ransom. Staff are sold between operators, with ransoms increasing on each occasion. Videos and photographs online in 2021 showed people being physically threatened, beaten with sticks, and struck with electric batons. > > [Edit: Deleted tautology in the title.]

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    Share of the European Union's GDP in 2023

    cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2132293

    > Which member state contributed the most to EU GDP? And what does GDP actually mean? > > Gross domestic product (GDP) is an indicator used to measure the size and performance of an economy. It provides information on the value of goods and services produced during a given period. Within the EU, GDP was valued at €17.0 trillion in 2023. > > In 2023, slightly less than a quarter of the EU's GDP was generated by Germany (24.3%), followed by France (16.5%) and Italy (12.3%), ahead of Spain (8.6%) and the Netherlands (6.1%).

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    [TechHut] FINALLY, Linux on a Tablet that doesn't SUCK

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/18360519

    > It's the MinisForum V3 > > --- > > ### Pros: > - Touchscreen (currently works best on KDE Plasma) > - AMD CPU (Ryzen 7 8840U) [8 cores, 16 threads] + GPU (Radeon 780M) > - Power button + Fingerprint reader (built into the tablet portion thankfully) > - 3.5mm audio jack > - 65W PD power adapter (likely to be GaN) > - Magnesium alloy body > - the inclusion of gyroscopes means display auto-rotation is supported > - 1x stylus pen included > - [4096 level pressure, up to MPP 2.6 SLA] > - (I have no idea what any of that means, hopefully it's useful to yall) > - Keyboard that is/has: > - Detachable > - Backlight LED lighting > - Even-surface actuation pressure touchpad > - an optional purchase (which can be deselected before checkout) > > ! > Alt text: An image of the purchase checkout options for the MinisForum V3 Tablet with the Magnetic Detachable Keyboard (both which are on sale for $999.00 and $149.00 USD respectively as of Aug 21, 2024) > > ### Cons: > - Made in China: "Motherboard Manufacturer: Shenzhen" > - Supported storage: M.2 (2280) 2TB max > - cursed Microsoft Copilot button (thankfully on the detachable keyboard rather than on the tablet itself) > - Limited customization/configuration options in BIOS > - Weak magnets on kickstand > - Inaccessible user manual/BIOS(Windows users be damned) > - Ryzen AI (locked to Windows, personally I find this as a gimmic anyways) > - due to MinisForum disuading customers from opening up their devices I'm adding that the battery is not replaceable (void warranty at your own risk) > - CPU is un-upgradeable (This is now a con due to Framework providing users the ability to upgrade even from Intel to AMD or vice-versa) > - WIFI 6E (802.11ax) is soldered/un-upgradeable unlike Frameworks's laptops > - RAM is confirmed to be soldered/un-upgradeable > - only two configurations available as of Aug 21, 2024: [32GB max, 16GB] > > > ### Features/Specifications > - Weighs: 946g > - Battery: 50.82Wh > - Display: 14", 16:10 ratio, 2560*1600, 165Hz > - 2x [type c] USB-4 at 40Gbps max > - 1x [type c] USB VLink(DP-in) > - 1x SD card (UHS-II) > - Volume rocker button > - Bluetooth: BT5.3 > - RAM (assumed both configurations are LPDDR5 with speed/frequency: 6400MHz) > - 2x cameras: > - [Front]: 2M, Windows Hello, Dual D-mic, Face ID, ESS > - [Rear]: 5M, Auto focus > > > > #### Extra Info > > VLink TL;DR: > - (on laptops) it's a special type of port that's primarily meant for extending ports with a USB-C hub or driving as a secondary monitor > - VLink Tomshardware > - VLink Anandtech

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    datahoarder @lemmy.ml adr1an @programming.dev
    How do you handle backup?

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/26278528

    > I'm running my media server with a 36tb raid5 array with 3 disks, so I do have some resilience to drives failing. But currently can only afford to loose a single drive at a time, which got me thinking about backups. Normally I'd just do a backup to my NAS, but that quickly gets ridiculous for me with the size of my library, which is significantly larger than my NAS storage of only a few tb. And buying cloud storage is much too expensive for my liking with these amounts of storage. > > Do you backup only the most valuable parts of your library?

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    Europe’s seeds are being privatised by patents - and it could threaten food security
    www.euronews.com No Patents on Seeds: Europe’s small farmers are battling privatisation

    A silent battle is brewing over the control of our food supply's very foundation: seeds.

    No Patents on Seeds: Europe’s small farmers are battling privatisation

    cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2037887

    > Europe has one of the most diverse seed industries in the world. In Germany, the Netherlands and France alone, hundreds of small breeders are creating new varieties of cereals, vegetables and legumes. > > Relying on decades of careful selection to improve desired traits like yield, disease resistance and flavour, they adapt seeds to local environments through methods like cross-breeding. > > This legion of plant breeders help maintain Europe’s biodiversity and ensure that our food supplies stay plentiful. But their work is under growing threat from the patent industry. > > Although it’s illegal to patent plants in the EU, those created through technological means are classified as a technical innovation and so can be patented. > > This means that small-scale breeders can no longer freely plant these seeds or use them for research purposes without paying licensing fees.

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    No Healing Without Decolonizing: Community Mental Health in Gaza w/ Dr. Jess Ghannam
    podcasts.apple.com ‎Solarpunk Now!: No Healing Without Decolonizing: Community Mental Health in Gaza w/ Dr. Jess Ghannam on Apple Podcasts

    ‎Show Solarpunk Now!, Ep No Healing Without Decolonizing: Community Mental Health in Gaza w/ Dr. Jess Ghannam - Aug 15, 2024

    ‎Solarpunk Now!: No Healing Without Decolonizing: Community Mental Health in Gaza w/ Dr. Jess Ghannam on Apple Podcasts

    cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12475922

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