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@f @ai6yr @briankrebs I think it's less of a "#political" question but an act of #SelfDefense and #MutualDefense at this point.

Re: #TechIlliterates that are unwilling to learn, act like a "#BenevolentDictator" and enshure they can't harm themselves in the sense that they don't get #sudo or other administrative privilegues and can't do any #persistent #changes.

  • And if that means they get forced to use #Tails then that's a "necessary evil"...

After all, societies almost everywhere ban people from driving motor vehicles faster than 6 km/h by people who actively refuse to even take basic exams and classes for a #DrivingLicense.

  • And I'm convinced one can do more damage as #TechIlliterate with a #PC than a single-cylinger two-stroke engine driven motorcycle...
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@ai6yr @briankrebs OFC this targets #TechIlliterates and the only effective means here are:

  1. Teach #TechLiteracy instead of consumerism.
  2. Mandate #confirmation & #notification - #PopUp|s for every use of #Clipboard (similar to #webcam use by websites)...
  3. Ban #JavaScript - seriously!
  4. Ban #Windows, because it's a #Govware, espechally since #Windows10 and even more so on #Windows11 that is *insecure in every configuration!
  5. Put #TechIlliterates before a system they can't feck up. I.e. @tails_live @tails / #Tails for that reason alone (can't run such commands if they neither got #root nor any #persistent #storage to target).
  6. Normalize the use of @torproject #TorBrowser!
  7. #Teach #tech #literacy instead of #consumerism!
  8. Ban #GAFAMs and their shitty products!
  9. Migrate every #TechIlliterate to #Linux and don't give them administrative privilegues.
  10. Teach tech literacy instead of consumerism!
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@JustOneMoreThing

They're #smart, they're #stubborn and #persistent, and their teeth and claws can get through almost anything else - the hardware cloth I have is a 1/4" steel wire mesh made of (I think) 19- or 20-gauge steel wire. They can get through anything flimsier than that. So it blocks off parts of the rooms we don't want them in (wires, speakers, etc) and you learn to live with The Rabbit Owner House Look.

Don't get too attached to soft furnishings and carpets either 😜

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@aral
I've never understood why the act of taking a screenshot generates a persistent notification by default in most screenshot apps.

Like, I already know a screenshot was taken; I'm the one who took it! And if I need to do something with the screenshot I just took, I want to either click on an ephemeral toast notification that pops up immediately after, or set the screenshot app to save all screenshots to a folder, and then retrieve them from there if/when I need them.

Persistent notifications for ephemeral actions should not exist.

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@moebeus @adafede @ainali @wikidata @querywikidata
Same approach.
This project merges the data fetching (#SPARQL + github action) and the data processing/display. My approach was to split these two concerns into two github repositories.

At Wikimania Singapore, i heard Wikimedia was considering creating a similar online service, so #persistent, rapid, and regularly #updated results stay available and fetchable in millisecs. Question are: true ? Then when ?
#wikidata

#signalapp: ich finde das etwas #ubergriffig, dass #signal einen Chat anlegt, den ich nicht benötige und der auch sonst nicht irgendwie betrieblich sinnvoll erklärbar (notwendig) ist.
Darüber hinaus: wenn die Notiz-#Historie genau sobwenig #persistent ist, wie sonst die #chathistorie (#handywechsel #schonwissen), dann gibt es kaum einen flüchtigeren und unzuverlässigeren Ort für Notizen, als diesen. Muss jeder selbst wissen. Ich nutze für so was #nextcloud und #matrix / #element.

Ever since the UK Biobank study that showed #brain #atrophy, loss of grey matter, and #cognitive #decline in about 400 people who had #Covid compared with matched controls, via baseline (pre-Covid) and subsequent (~3 years later) MRI scans, there has been significant worry about the impact this virus has on the brain.

Two new studies, both from researchers in Germany, illuminate the mechanisms for #inflammation of brain tissue which is #persistent and occurs even in patients with a #mild Covid illness.

Importantly, these were studies of people with Covid, not specifically individuals who were suffering from Long Covid

erictopol.substack.com/p/the-b

Ground TruthsThe Brain and Long CovidBy Eric Topol
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@quikkie Somehow VMWare Hub is linked in as a ?container? to the Knox Security service that is on Samsung. The Factory Reset using the ADB didn't get rid of the Hub software. It is a pretty good #Infosec #Andriod #Persistent #Threat. I certainly hope that #VMWare has thoroughly tested their Work Profile software, seems like a good entry point for #Redteam or #Blackhat #Cyberattack (or third party compromise). People have been looking at holes in the software and have found some already (may have been patched)