OPs example was task management, which doesn’t require kernel modules.

That won’t crash your kernel, and I was more curious about the OPs example. Task management is basically reading some files, and sending signals, it should be near impossible to crash the system.

How are you crashing your system?! Crashing program sure, but the entire system?

Spaces

Sway-wm used to be spawnable as a child window, not sure if that is still possible.

I think you should also be able to get multiple ctrl-alt-fX graphical sessions.

I’ll come back and update this comment when I get to my PC and give this a try.

Edit: seem Max-P’s comment.

This was pretty clear when observing the output of tldrbot. It would just randomly select paragraphs, ignoring surrounding context, and call it a summary.

Very weird. Maybe its the client. Can’t see it in the browser either

Ah, I see whats happened, you didnt put anything in the square brackets:

[](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/shell-scripting-crash-course-how-to-write-bash-scripts-in-linux/)

should be:

[Cool Tutorial](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/shell-scripting-crash-course-how-to-write-bash-scripts-in-linux/)

resulting in:

Cool Tutorial

Psst, you link has gone missing

RNG is probably more commonly associated with random number generation, rather than range. So that might be confusing.

The militarys goal isn’t to make money, its to maintain their tactical edge. And they are up against relentless competition, so they must continuously innovate or lose their advantage.

It’s not so much that the army dudes are buying the tech once its developed, they often ARE developing it. And if its giving them an advantage, they will obviously want to hold that as long as possible.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/

Bottom of that article, there are commands to run from windows and Linux to detect it. Probably easier than messing with the firmware.

From a reddit comment, so could be lies:

yes…here’s an excerpt from the story…

“An Electrician ended up with stars in his eyes after being zapped by 14,000 volts during a serious accident at work. The 42 year-old man from California developed the eye disease cataracts after the high voltage current surged through his body. His shoulder touched a live wire and the current passed through his entire body - including the optic nerve, which connects the eye to the brain. The effect was two bizarre star-shaped electrical burns in his eyes, according to The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr Bobby Korn, an associate professor of clinical ophthalmology at the University of California, San Diego, treated the unnamed patient. Dr Korn told NBC News: “The extreme current and voltage that passed through this important natural wire caused damage to the optic nerve itself.” Cataracts is clouding on the lens inside the eye which leads to limited vision and the most common cause of blindness. The electrician’s story was published in the January issue of the journal. The accident happened 10 years ago and the patient still has poor vision in both of his eyes.”

To go through that with only “poor vision”, pretty damn lucky

Any rightups on this? A remote WiFi takeover like this is crazy, especially if it affects all drivers and devices.

I think my instance is now defed’d from hexbear, but when it wasn’t, they were the reason I wouldnt recommend lemmy to my partner. Their “trolling” was pure obnoxiousness.

The other major issue I think is the lack of moderation, lemmy just isnt a very pleasant space. There are still issues with spam. The CSAM incident a while back hasnt been repeated, but I have no reason to beleive it cant/wont happen again. Porn seems to hit All every so often.

With an agressively curated block list Lemmy can be nicer, but by default it just isnt.

Here is an idea for dissection: There should be a default blocklist that instances can provide and update. Defederation is too coarse a tool, but if instances (or third parties?) could provide a list of “bad” instances, “bad” communities and “bad” users that are used as the default blocklist. Users are free to opt out of the blocklist, but with a sane default lemmy could be a lot safer. (Or maybe not, im no expert)

Clevo/Metabox have always been my goto for upgradable/repairable machines. I got a Metabox P650SE over a decade ago, and it was rock solid for a very long time (still is usable, but its quite heavy now, so I upgraded to a thinner and lighter laptop).

Super easy to open and replace RAM, harddisks, clean out dust etc.

No trouble getting a replacement battery and bottom shell as it aged.

Definitelt thick as well. Downside is cost, they are not cheap. But also not Apple level expensive either.

The best part, is people wont sit near you if your wearing a mask because they think your sick.

Write an alias/function to do it and add to your bashrc.

function nanox() {
    nano "$1"
    chmod +x "$1"
}

Probably backwards compatibility with existing scripts.

Im lazy. Dont like my beard, but cbf shaving.

I suspect that if you connected to your work vpn from a personal VPN IP address that may raise some questions. “Dave keeps connecting from inside Amazons data center, thats weird”.

Turning on wifi to scan would be trivial technically. Hidden GPS maybe, but its more likely that they would just have an overt GPS module if they cared.

A wired in airtag or similar would probably be doable, and wouldnt be visible to the OS.

Latency analysis would probably be quite tricky. If you had starlink or dialup your latency would be pretty bad to begin with.

Realistically, if the employer was concerned about company data leaving the country they wouldnt be allowing WFH at all.