Nice. It would be good to put the distro name beneath each logo, for people who don’t recognise the logos.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic
219·2 days agoYour mum is a rounding error.
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Europe@feddit.org•Short-haul electric flights could be a European reality in less than four years
7·4 days agoThe article does not mention mountains. Mountains are often more suited to trains than planes, cf. Switzerland.
The article does quote Anna Hughes of Flight Free UK, who echoes my sentiments: “The reality of decarbonising travel will inevitably be travelling a lot less, investing heavily in rail, and only then electrifying the flights that remain.”
France’s short-haul flight ban is excellent and more countries should adopt it.
As for “counterpoint”, no-one here disagrees with decarbonising island routes rail can’t serve. Still, I’d favour sail or electric fast ferries over aircraft where possible.
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Technology@lemmy.world•David Revoy (open source comics artist) is tired and frustrated of people calling his human art, AI-generated
4·4 days agoRelevant David Revoy cartoon: https://thebrainbin.org/m/comicstrips@lemmy.world/t/1848750/authenticity-problem
This is by David Revoy, who has started getting wrongly accused of using AI for his art
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Europe@feddit.org•Short-haul electric flights could be a European reality in less than four years
121·4 days agoI’m all in favour of decarbonisation.
Still, the physics mean aviation will never be as energy-efficient as high-speed rail.
Governments and others should overwhelmingly invest in the latter. It has higher RoI.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip
41·5 days agoPlenty of shallow people in the world, sadly, enjoy vicariously living even shallower lives than their own.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
8·5 days agoIPMI/BMC have been known problems since 2015, if not before.
Matthew Garrett: IPMI - because ACPI and UEFI weren’t terrifying enough
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Europe@feddit.org•Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time
5·6 days agoFor a beautiful moment after reading the headline, I thought this must be an uplifting piece about European weather systems.
Then reality set in 🫠
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification
2·8 days agoI feel the same way, but can you explain how a VPN would help achieve that in the face of Google’s proposed developer verification scheme?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification
154·8 days agoHow would that help you?
The article says, “unverified apps will only be easily installable in the sanctioned countries where verification doesn’t exist.”
So even if you used a VPN to trick Google into thinking you live in a sanctioned country, you wouldn’t be able to distribute apps to those countries without breaking sanctions.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Unlocking LUKS with NitroKey/Yubikey: FIDO2, HMAC-SHA1, or OpenPGP?
3·9 days agoProgress report 1
- I’m ruling out HMAC-SHA1, because:
- Plain vanilla HMAC-SHA1 uses a shared secret. I don’t want the PC/server to have a copy of the credential. May also be susceptible to MITM/relay attacks.
- Rolling-code HMAC-SHA1 only partially solves those problems.
- Encrypted rolling code HMAC-SHA1 solves those problems, but I haven’t found a reliable source for using it with LUKS.
- If using
systemd, pick FIDO2:- Avoids flaws of HMAC-SHA1.
- Native support in
systemd, so “future-proof”. - Wider support than OpenPGP. More HST vendors to choose from, including cheaper options than NitroKey or Yubikey: useful if each sysadmin (or colleague, or relative) needs an HST.
- Compatible with QubesOS.
- Otherwise, OpenPGP:
- TBD: Clevis/Tang:
- Remote/network-based unlocking.
- I’m ruling out HMAC-SHA1, because:
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Unlocking LUKS with NitroKey/Yubikey: FIDO2, HMAC-SHA1, or OpenPGP?
1·9 days agoThank you for this! That thread is helpful in itself, and also links to other relevant resources - including by Lennart Poettering (controversial guy, but the canonical source on systemd).
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Europe@feddit.org•German startup to scale up fully recyclable wind turbine blades
21·10 days agoAren’t turbine blades usually aluminium? How is wood more “recyclable” than that?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Sweeping cyberattack on water systems in multiple states has US officials on edge
29·10 days agoThis coverage has a better headline: Trump blames Minnesota governor for cyberattacks against the state. Cites no evidence.
Funding restrictions and denialism, plus starting a war against a cyberattack-capable nation, made infrastructure attacks inevitable.
Security researchers have been publicly raising the alarm about SCADA vulnerabilities for 20+ years.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Unlocking LUKS with NitroKey/Yubikey: FIDO2, HMAC-SHA1, or OpenPGP?
2·10 days agoI read them before writing my OP. I’m still not sure what you’re getting at.
I would be grateful if you could say what you mean, instead of initiating an oblique guessing game.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Unlocking LUKS with NitroKey/Yubikey: FIDO2, HMAC-SHA1, or OpenPGP?
2·10 days agoWhich of the 4 recipes I posted are you referring to as “this”?
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Europe@feddit.org•Logitech to ship mice with replaceable batteries in Europe only, following Nintendo
52·12 days agoGreat to see Europe leading the way here. If other jurisdictions pass similarly responsible legislation, then those jurisdictions will gain similar benefits.




This reminds me I need to have another look at Ledger, Beancount, et al. More info at https://plaintextaccounting.org/