Like I said: it can be gamed to some degree, but what system can’t?

Besides finding better ways to positively recognize bots, we also need to invent ways that make it quicker to realize “false alarm, this user is actually legit”.

For example, users should have an option to pin posts and comments to their profile, and I suggest to provide at least two different ‘tabs’ for this in the public profile: One tab just for the usual “posts and comments you would like the world to see”, but another tab for “some recent, complex interactions between you and other (established) users that in your eyes prove quite well you’re not a bot”. The purpose is simply to save others, worried that you could be a bot, some time of going through your posts in search of signs for humanity. Yes, this can be gamed to some degree (what can’t?). However, at a technical level, the feature is little more than a copy of the “pin” feature that would be very nice to have anyways, so we can get an appreciable improvement in our ability to tell users from bots for very little programming effort.

It was a bit of a long shot experiment to begin with. The commands I posted can be useful when an audio device suddenly stops working after it has been working initially during a session, but since your problem is most likely about your device not being recognized at any time, it’s not too surprising that they don’t do much. Just worth the try.

Do any of

alsactl clean 0
alsactl clean 1
alsactl clean 2

do anything for you? (The numbers are for sound card 0, 1, and 2. It looks like, if anything, only 0 would be relevant for you, but you can try the others just in case.)

This command cleans the controls created by applications.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/questing/man1/alsactl.1.html

This is in all likelihood the way to go. These instructions from VeraCrypt might lead the way.

Of course, OP should create an exact duplicate of the disk to another drive before making any changes to it.

As an aside, I know that GPT partition tables likewise come with a backup header at the end of the disk. Whether LUKS encrypted devices also have backup headers, I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem so. So, my fellow LUKS users, perhaps you would like to run the following:

sudo cryptsetup luksHeaderBackup /dev/LUKSDEVICE --header-backup-file ~/nas/backups/lenovo_x280.luks.bin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYoh6hVHufI

There’s a provision that says the trust structure can be changed without everyone’s consent if the intended change is in the interest of all trustees. Rupert, Lachlan and their team want to exploit this by arguing that the ongoing financial success of the media empire is dependent on it retaining its staunchly conservative editorial line, so that it is in fact (from a financial point of view) in the interest of the three non-conservative children if they don’t get to have any influence. The first judge wasn’t buying it; let’s hope that the others will rule the same way. (One argument in their favor is that the $787 million settlement that Fox News has to pay to Dominion Voting System due to a defamation lawsuit was a consequence of Rupert’s or Lachlan’s die-hard conservative messaging.)

What’s less good: I remember dimly that, should Rupert live long enough (past theö year 2030?), he can change the trust at will again.

The most staggering thing though is that the show has had quite noticeable repercussions on the dealings of the real-life Murdochs. Anyone who would like a long read on all this can check out the Atlantic article linked in the post description.

The Atlantic article that I linked in the post description talks at length about the spicy shit (especially about the family relations and only comparatively little about the legal aspects).

Love it. Under text editors, would you like to add Helix? It’s much like (n)vim, but among many other aspects it has better discoverability of features (although several key features like plugins and code folding are still missing).

There are word filters for Lemmy?

Four minutes in and the analysis is just as what one would expect from a video with such a clickbaity title. Hardly worth anyone’s time in my opinion.

Matrix/Element

With the Murdoch empire, there is real hope that his three more liberal children will get the ability to overrule the fourth, conservative, heir. Long read

Not sure about Bertelsmann though.

Bertelsmann is the empire in question

As an aside, it’s always both a bit funny and bewildering how even the more reputable American media talk about Europe as if it were just one thing, so that, for instance, this article specifies it to Austria only several paragraphs into the text.

lmgtfy always was needlessly unfriendly, but in the age of search result enshittification, it’s even lost the excuse of technically providing a good solution (at least in cases like this).

Creating a live USB with persistence is lengthy and even the decent tutorials out there vary greatly in their suggested approach, making it perfectly legitimate (even for non-beginners) to ask for guides that others have found helpful.

What a needlessly unfriendly response.

Ever since the BSW has been founded as a split-off from Die Linke (The Left) in 2023, it’s confusing whenever articles just talk about the far-left or the left.

BSW wants relations with Russia as if their war in Ukraine never happened. Also in view of their other policies, it’s questionable whether this party is left at all; but in no case are they passionate idealists. They are no longer in the Bundestag.

Die Linke (which doubled its membership this year alone and surged to 8.8% in the general elections) is heavily critical of Russia. Their majority position is still against arms deliveries (although growing internal discussions may change this, late as it may be). Now already, they (in particular their co-leader Jan van Aken) are heavily in favor of well-coordinated sanctions, and are not just not supporting Nord Stream 2, but are one of the loudest voices demanding a swift crackdown on Russia’s maritime gas logistics as well.

Scharfe Kritik übte van Aken auch an den bisherigen Sanktionspaketen der EU, die aus seiner Sicht nicht funktionieren. „Man muss endlich mal rangehen an die Schattentankerflotte, die das illegale russische Öl durch die Ostsee fährt. Man muss rangehen an dieses Flüssiggas. Wir kaufen im Moment noch Gas aus Russland, und zwar in großen Mengen. Wir finanzieren den Krieg in der Ukraine.“

In case anyone wonders about the context, this is the paragraph:

In April, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale got into a brawl with former Coinbase chief technology officer and Network State advocate Balaji Srinivasan. It wasn’t on a prominent stage or even Twitter/X; it happened in a Signal group chat that’s become a virtual gathering place for influential tech figures. Srinivasan wasn’t going along with the tech right’s aggressive anti-China rhetoric, so Lonsdale accused him of “insane CCP thinking.” “Not sure what leaders hang out w you in Singapore but on this you have been taken over by a crazy China mind virus,” he wrote.