moonpiedumplings
https://moonpiedumplings.github.io/playground/ape-experiments/
Trying to figure out portable executables for an upcoming cybersecurity competition.
I dunno what's most appropriate for email, but I often joke:
Isn't open source kinda like a cult?
It's a not a cult I swear! Just switch to free software, and free yourself!
I've also heard my friend say something along the lines of:
Free software, free culture, free people
Or maybe it was free world or free trade? I can't remember.
Although, for slogans like this, I might go with something that has more of an immediate effect, like shilling an adblocker.
- Install uBlock Origin. Blocking ads is one of the easiest ways to increase your security.
- Install uBlock Origin. It blocks more than just ads, but also tracker scripts that follow you around the net and collect your data.
Or the ever so simple:
- Free software means free as in freedom — not as in beer.
Anyway, I partially agree with the other poster, but I think a one sentence quip at the end of an email is unobtrusive enough that it gets a pass. Of course, it depends on your specific workplace and how strict they are, but I would assume most workplaces have a little space for humanity.
Yeah, that's what this uses. But copy's x86 emulator on their site does not have any sort of networking, while anura seems to use some kind of http proxy to have the vm be fully networked.
You can even install packages and run graphical apps in anura. (Very, very, very slowly).
Play it on Linux and you don't have to deal with that part.
https://www.protondb.com/app/553850/
(Easy Anti Cheat is also a kernel level anticheat, but disables those bits when used on Linux.)
however I would still appreciate confirmation in knowing that the host grub edit is required/necessary
Not necessary. Although you may need to get packages related to VM drivers or VM firmware installed on the host, especially if you are going to use virtualgl.
Anyway, you probably want: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Virt-manager#3D_acceleration . It looks like you might need to install spice graphics drivers in your VM if you want to use this.
or maybe https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VirtualGL .
First things first: Check if any data was actually leaked/breached.
Many times, the data leaks news sites like to report in the most alarmist manner, don't actually contain any new data, and are just aggregations of older breaches that already happened. Although still worth reporting, sadly, due to the way ads and clickbait works, they are incentivized to play it up and report it as the LARGEST DATA BREACH EVER 2024 CLICK ME IMMEDIATELY.
But yeah. My recommendation: Find high quality sources which either don't report this stuff, or I like lemmy (and used to like reddit), because when stuff like that gets posted, it gets called out by users in the comments.
I want to like Plasma, really I do, but even when I haven't chosen it as a DE it overheats my laptop because Baloo File Extractor just won't fucking quit consuming a CPU core for what seems like hours a day.
I remember having this issue. Basically, it was a bug, where baloo file manager was stuck on a file. After some time (and maybe a reinstall?), and deleting the index, baloo worked fine.
Only vivaldi caught this issue. Brave had this api enabled, most likely on accident.
But the problem is, that chromium is just such big and complex software, when combined with development being driven by Google, it's just impossible for any significant changes or auditing to be done by third parties. Google is capable of exteriting control over Brave, simply by hiding changes like above, or by making massive changes like manifest v3, which are expensive for third parties to maintain.
Brave can maintain 1 big change to chromium, but for how long? What about 2, 3, etc.
My other big problem with brave is that I see them somewhat mimicking Google's beginnings. Google started out with 3 things: an ad network, a browser, and a search engine.
Right now, Brave has those same three things. It feels very ominous to me, and I would rather not repeat the cycle of enshittification that drove me away from chrome and goolgle.
Disabling javascript increases security, and offers a little bit of privacy. Those are both separate from anonymity, but people conflate the three often.
For example, javascript can be made to do arbitrary websoccket or http connections to any ip/hostname your computer has access to — even local networks or localhost.
I use the browser extension Port authority to block it.
Of course, port scanning is used by ebay to scan users computers, and discord.
Disabling javascript prevents websites from tracking exactly what you do on each site, or what local ports you have open. This is definitely an increase in privacy, as it relates to hiding what you're doing. However, you noted it comes at the cost of anonymity, as you become uniquely identifiable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_Maps
Unironically, wikipedia is pretty good for getting official links to projects/websites. It's not a guarantee, but it's a lot betted than just googling it,