Not my post btw, just sharing the link :)

Sorry for the reddit link, I don’t know of a mirror. This was posted just today, running on an EeePC:

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1fitgri/labwc_pimp_your_10_inches_laptop_with_alpine_linux/

https://github.com/thias/glim

The binaries in question are various GNU and FOSS tools from elsewhere, not part of the Ventoy project itself. So no, the Ventoy author does not own the copyright of the tools in question.

So your approach to security is that you cross your fingers and hope?

Ventoy has a lot of work to do if they want to earn our trust:

Remove BLOBs from the source tree #2795

This ticket has been open now for 5 months with no engagement from the maintainer.

Your install media and anything that modifies your EFI partition or UEFI firmware settings needs to be the most trusted part of your system. And here is Ventoy, a tool that looks open source and then includes a large number of binary blobs in its repository, with no indication of how they were compiled. This is horrible security practice and for me that’s enough for me to never use it.

You can also see a discussion on the subject on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40689629

A much better alternative, if you want a multi-boot USB, is GLIM: https://github.com/thias/glim

It’s just a collection of Grub configs, so very simple and easy to audit.

You can’t improve on perfection.

I used Ubuntu from version 8.04 to 18.04 and not once did I have a successful upgrade between major versions. There is always something that gets broken to the point that a reinstall is necessary.

That’s a huge difference, the estimate became 10,000 times smaller.

they can’t be jammed the way radio can.

I wonder how well these satellite laser links do with various types of cloud cover.

By repeating their rhetoric, even as a joke, it’s just giving oxygen to people who don’t deserve any form of publicity whatsoever. It would be better not to reference these batshit-insane conspiracy theories and then perhaps they would die more quickly.

This story is about French/space/communications/technology. Not American/politics/racist/conspiracy. Not one genre overlap, so there’s no reason to even bring it up here. Maybe leave these jokes to the American politics threads.

(Federated) email didn’t survive. It got completely subsumed by the major providers who now have control over everything email related. It’s now impossible to run your own email server since none of the major providers will deliver your email without your mail server having first built a reputation.

The fediverse analogy would be if 99.9999% of users were on Threads and you couldn’t interact with any of those users from any of the small independent fediverse servers. Frankly, that’s exactly what it looks like is happening.

Wait until you see the ones that let you choose between “Accept All” and “Subscribe to monthly plan 4.99/mo”

I saw a website like that the other week and it was based in an EU country.

Got a link to that?

Can’t wait to read about it telling someone to put glue on pizza.

She’s a great chess player but she’s never been a World Champion. There’s no need to embelish her story. She’s currently training to become a surgeon at University of Missouri School of Medicine.

perhaps

I love that the local translation feature is getting regular small updates to make it more useable. It’s a great feature.

Porges believes

This is an interesting article and yet you’ve chosen to quote the most speculative unscientific part of it from the final paragraph.

“Have you tried going outside” is not a scientific cure for depression.

Sorry but your satire isn’t funny enough for me to continue reading when the page gets gradually darker as I scroll down so that it can show me a popup asking me to subscribe to your newsletter or whatever the fuck.