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Microsoft Windows Recall, remember to disable it

That was my strategy for major distro updates on the Linux side too but, now that I've got filesystem-level snapshotting on my boot drive, I'll probably not procrastinate upgrading to the next LTS release and just leverage the rollback-ability of my hourly, nightly, and monthly snapshots on my...
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- Post #83
- Oct 10, 2024
- Forum: Security
Microsoft Windows Recall, remember to disable it

So it's a "way to improve your Windows that Microsoft doesn't want you to know", like disabling your TPM in your UEFI settings to get rid of the upgrade-to-windows-11 nags?
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- Post #77
- Oct 9, 2024
- Forum: Security
Oracle Virtualbox - be aware of version 7

Ahh. According to this Reddit thread, it's also affecting the combination of nVidia binary drivers and newer-generation Intel CPUs. Basically, IBT (short for Indirect Branch Tracking) is a security feature where either the compiler or, in fancier cases, the program needs to mark the intended...
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- Post #4
- Aug 18, 2024
- Forum: Open Source
Oracle Virtualbox - be aware of version 7

Would the breakage with that recent kernel update be UBSAN failures in the VirtualBox kernel modules? I got those on Kubuntu 22.04 LTS with the 6.5 HWE kernel and I had to downgrade my mother's laptop to to the 5.x non-HWE series because 6.5 was also causing UBSAN failures with the AMD video...
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- Post #2
- Aug 18, 2024
- Forum: Open Source
Question Am I being ignored?

Filtering out distracting, valueless junk is still something that benefits you.
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- Post #11
- Jun 21, 2024
- Forum: Programming
Question Am I being ignored?

My experience has been that it ebbs and flows.
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- Post #9
- Jun 20, 2024
- Forum: Programming
Question Western Digital tried to pull a fast one

Our family has only ever bought "Sold by Amazon.ca, Fulfilled by Amazon.ca", "Sold by Newegg", Retail from Costco, or sold directly by Western Digital but, in those circumstances at least, yes, registering the drive updates the warranty period they have on file from "date of manufacture" to...
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- Post #14
- Jun 19, 2024
- Forum: Memory and Storage
Question Am I being ignored?

The problem is that you need to make sure you don't confuse screen readers for blind users and it's not difficult for a bot to follow the same rules a screen reader for blind users does for determining whether a field is hidden or not. What's equally bad is, if you get it wrong, a browser's...
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- Post #7
- Jun 19, 2024
- Forum: Programming
Official Free References Thread

When you get around to it, I'd recommend: For the Godot game engine (Which is also getting used to make game development tools like Pixelorama and Material Maker), I'd suggest Godot 4 Recipies on the KidsCanCode site as an extension to the first-party documentation (like those O'Reilly '...
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- Post #68
- Jun 19, 2024
- Forum: Programming
Preventing cookie/session theft via local javascript attack

Take a look at the OWASP Cross Site Scripting Prevention Cheat Sheet. Also, make sure your site declares a Content Security Policy which doesn't allow inline resources and doesn't allow resources from domains user-uploaded content lives on. Also, if you use any CDNs for subresources, use...
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- Post #4
- Jun 19, 2024
- Forum: Programming
Question Am I being ignored?

They're generally smart enough to handle the invisible box these days, so the approach I've taken for cutting down botspam on my CAPTCHA-less contact form (because CAPTCHAs punish the humans for the sins of the bots) is to do some clever content-based filtering and present a "Please correct ...
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- Post #5
- Jun 19, 2024
- Forum: Programming
Official Free Tools Thread

You underestimate the shelf-life of a lot of this stuff. If you'd like a quick modernization jump, fixing the broken Doxygen link and adding these would go a long way to that: Godot Download: https://godotengine.org/ Platform: Windows/Linux/OS X/lots Category: IDE's, Compilers, and Editors...
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- Post #105
- Jun 19, 2024
- Forum: Programming
Microsoft Windows Recall, remember to disable it

Funny you should express that sentiment just now. I was just enjoying being brought back to when life was simpler and the slow post-2000 rot of UI design hadn't kicked in by a thin client I recently finished converting into a "Windows XP pretending to be Windows 98SE" box (it had no drivers for...
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- Post #52
- Jun 15, 2024
- Forum: Security
Microsoft Windows Recall, remember to disable it

It wasn't originally, and people are worried about Microsoft's propensity for changing/resetting options during system updates.
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- Post #50
- Jun 15, 2024
- Forum: Security
How do you permanently kill the screensaver in Mint XFCE?

One other suggestion for people who land here because X11 has half a dozen screensaver solutions is to suppress the screensaver instead of disabling it, since that can be done without knowing what tool is responsible. For example, using something like caffeine-ng. (The reason this is such a...
- ssokolow
- Post #23
- Jun 15, 2024
- Forum: Open Source

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