That sounds really evil, esp. if you already have low expectations and it’s not like I’m going to defend ol’Bill, but…

Do we know what he used the patents for?

Acquiring patent sounds like you want to use it as a gold mine by manufacturing the product for “best” price, which is pretty heinous, especially when it’s in conflict with saving lives. But in principle it could be the opposite. One could, entirely for altruistic reasons acquire a patent from someone with the intent to make the cure more affordable.

I mean, I don’t like Bill but let’s be honest, he’s no RFK Jr.

Damn the clickbaitines of those video titles could make an old cowboy cry.

…but “don’t judge the book by the cover”, they say…

Use as $meta in my .i3/config, so … lots of things.

…but … but according to background, the bug photo comes from a different log than you were looking at.

please make sure to report the bug to the correct team.

closed/wontfix! 🤡

I think they don’t need logrotate, they need the exact opposite: logdontrotate

OT, but I feel like I keep seeing more of these “foo 1.2.3 released” announcements here on this channel.

Is it on topic, though? Shouldn’t the channel be more about Linux specific topics, rather than place for people to discuss updates of arbitrary selection of apps which just share the fact that they also run on Linux?

Edit: Technically the “I feel like” part was true but looking at the topic post … factually I’m totally wrong; it’s like 1 in 20 at most.

Zig

the risk of data loss at that point is high. you will miss things

that’s what makes it exciting 😓 😓 😓

I used to love Sailfish OS.

I guess I still do, but the problem is that while they recently expanded amount of devices they support, for some of them the “support” is just not what you think. Eg. I got Xperia 10 V just for the SFOS, but even though on their main list the device is listed as supported, turns out that camera, Android support and fingerprint sensor, these don’t work. To be fair, this info was possible to find on their forums, and I did not have to pay for SFOS (they offer 6 month trial), so they have nothing to gain from communicating so badly, but it is what it is.

So in case you want to try it, just really make sure you know to what extent your device is supported.

…well, technically, yes.

If you are well-versed in the guts of the distro (grub, /etc/fstab, /etc/crypttab…), and have extra space, you could spend part of your weekend shifting partitions around and moving everything to the encrypted side, and eventually re-configuring your install and removing the old part. (Oh and don’t forget to chown your /home data if you have multiple users.) I’ve been there, it’s not fun. It’s fun[tm]. It’s just far easier and less error prone to re-install if you can.

(Yeah, I’m stretching the definition of “enabling it” reeealy thin here… 🙃 )

https://xkcd.com/538/

It’s much worse: They can re-use the same wrench.

(Disgusting, I know… 😝 )

Great point.

I provided reasons why I encrypted my drives but this one is even better.

(Another one could be if you need to get your computer to a repair shop, and for some reason you can’t just remove the drive.)

TBH even the way you phrased your question kind of proves it’s orthogonal. Yes, you can have the full matrix:

encrypted | backed up
----------|----------
       no |        no
       no |       yes
      yes |        no
      yes |       yes

In each case, you have a different set of problems.

• Encrypting a particular medium only means that it’s going to be harder to gain access to the data on that medium (harder for everyone, but trillions of less harder for someone who knows the password.
  • That’s regardless of whether you also have a backup.
• Backing up just means that a copy of the data exists somewhere else.
  • That’s regardless of whether this or the other copy is encrypted.

Sure, eventually, the nature of your data’s safety will be affected by both.

Disclaimer: I’m by no means a security expert, don’t take what I write here as advice!

Eg. I encrypt my disks. When I do, I basically encrypt everything, ie. all partitions (except /boot). Then on those partitions, most of the data is not worth backing up since it’s either temporary or can be easily obtained anyway (system files). Well, some of the data is backed up, and some of that even ends up on disks that are not encrypted (scary, I know!) :)

To be fair, just encrypting the disks does not solve all. If someone broke to my house, they would with almost 100% chance find my computer on, which means that the disks are not encrypted (technically still are, just that LUKS provides unencrypted versions as well…) So the barrier they would have to face would be basically just the desktop lock.

For that reason I don’t encrypt hard drives on my remote server, since the server is always running in a virtual environment so by definition anyone who’s maintaining the hardware can already open files from the unencrypted drives, ie. I think it would be pointless.

mary beach rodeo

thank you for sharing your password 😜

LUKS (I was assuming that’s kind of implied, I don’t think I ever thought of another way…)

but if somebody is eager and skilled enough to break in my home to get my disks, honestly they “deserve” the content.

The problem with “my disks” is there’s always some other’s people on it, in one way or another.

But of course, it’s your call. We all have gaps in our “walls” and it’s not like I’d be pretending that LUKS is all that matters.

I do, laptops and workstations.

It’s just too easy not to, and there’s almost no downsides to it. (I only need to reboot, once a month or two.)

Well, unless you consider the possibility of forgetting the password a downside, so for that reason I keep the password in a password manager.

In case my laptop was stolen, there would quite a couple fewer things to worry about. Especially things like client’s data which could be under NDA’s, etc…

Don’t take it the wrong way, It’s not a strong opinion at all.

The inclusion of the word “cloud” meant that I wanted to know precisely how other people’s computers are involved. My thinking was, since it got to the first paragraph on the site, (which I assumed was intended for the users), I thought it must be more than just the obvious, well, someone has to provide the hardware.

All I did was Google it, and the definition I found was not telling me much.

In fact, I’m already learning more; eg. I listened to some of the podcast with j0rge that someone linked here… So no need to fire this user yet.

More nuanced reply: I do tend to complain

• less about certain bugs and limitations, where I can understand that the problem is harder than it seems
• and more about others, where I have to imagine a poor intern dragged around by bad advice for several sprints, finally marking the task done (forehead sweating and all), even though they did not really know what they were doing even for a minute.