Yep. Pathetic and embarrassing.

If you do, then also choose full-disk encryption. It doesn’t make sense to close a small hole only to leave the big one gaping wide open. And yet on Linux FDE is mostly off by default, even in today’s era of encryption, even on laptops. Personally I don’t understand it.

Once you’re encrypted, then Secure Boot (if you even have the option of it) mitigates against the “evil maid attack”. To get access to your encrypted computer, the attacker will need physical access to it twice: first to swap out the bootloader, then to harvest the password you unsuspectingly passed to their freshly installed malware.

For most targets (i.e. you, probably), this would all be far too much trouble. But technically it closes a loophole: it means that you can go to Russia as a spy or a journalist and not have to carry your laptop on your person at all times.

Give it a few years.

I use sway in tabbed monocle mode, i.e. no windows at all, just one thing at a time like on mobile. Never going back to mousey Windowsy 1980s-style computing.

Tiling window manager plus a terminal.

Hmm, say what? No, it looks GREAT.

What’s GTK?

Black terminal FTW.

to open PDFs

mupdf

for selecting the text and stuff

This is what is slowing things down.

In 20 years of using Linux my partition scheme has always been to say yes to whatever the OS suggests.

French fries, shorly.

There is nothing inherent about technology that means it must be used for evil.

Sure. In theory. But there are things we know about humans and their weaknesses, and these things are not going to change overnight (except perhaps in the fever dreams of some Marxists, of whom you might be one). Technology of this power did not exist before, and now it does. So technology is indeed the proximate problem.

While this is essentially true, IMO it’s become a bit of a distraction. The immediate problem we face today is technology.

In the 90s, people believed technology (i.e. the internet) would protect liberty against power (or “security”). We thought that removing the barriers to information would put our rulers in a goldfish bowl where we could keep an eye on them. It was a reasonable expectation. But it turns out to be us in the goldfish bowl.

It seems those with power simply have more time and resources available for surveillance. And now the technology is reaching a point where rulers will soon have awesome tools at their disposal, and they’re sure gonna be tempted to use them.

Our problem is technology. Not sure how to put a positive spin on this. Technology itself will provide some solutions. But IMO it’s more important than ever to get involved in politics. In any appropriate way.

Conversely, as I just learned with surprise from an episode of The Ancients podcast, homo erectus seems to have been somewhat carnivorous for a period of a million or so years.

But sure, the primate family and related rodents and lagomorphs are generally herbivorous.

Just that photo I find hard to look at.

That’s certainly an oddly optimistic take in this neighborhood.

Unless you mean space exploration, which I personally think is a delusional distraction.

that could be because it is an AMAZING post – it covered all the points and no one has anything left to say

Finally, I know why.

First, there’s often no choice, it’s SMS 2FA or no 2FA. Personally I would prefer no 2FA at all because, as mentioned, I’m doing this all on desktop. The attacker would need physical access to my encrypted computer. Not happening.

This is the most solid solution IMO. I use Linphone on desktop with a Twilio phone number over SIP.

It works. Not that I get to try it often: I consider phone calls a barbaric relic of the past and get by fine without them. I use the number to receive 2FA SMS mostly.

That’s not what I advised at all.

Synopsis:

This constant tinkering with the genetics and reproductive systems of farmed animals has enabled the livestock industry to squeeze more food out of each animal and make meat, milk, and eggs cheaper, thereby increasing consumption of these foods — a vicious cycle that has led to animal suffering on an unfathomable scale.

NB: Vox is the only big publication that covers this subject regularly. Consider subscribing if you can afford it.

Lots of self-important, irrational, hand-wavy responses to this question as usual.

Assuming you are the only user (sounds like it) and you secure your client device properly, then no, there is no reason not to do what you propose. Go ahead and do it, you’ll save yourself lots of redundant typing and clicking.

Others here can keep performing their security theater to ward off the evil spirits.