Brummbaer

Of course.

Personally I have given up on that. I try to either use false information when they don’t need the real data or throwaway" emails and SEPA and one time credit card numbers for banking stuff.

I don’t trust any company with my data ever, so I’m constantly paranoid in a way.

The Chinese can do less harm with my data than the US and it’s allies.

Maybe there was a lot of beef in her polycule or something. He wanted to paint the backstory but never did get to it?

This makes total sense, since not ever department has the same needs.

Also these are work computers, there is no “consumer confusion”- you get what everyone uses, that’s also one of the reasons windows is everywhere.

Lastly, if rolling out different distros is a core decision in your IT you lack Linux experience in my opinion.

The problem here is that somehow people got convinced that internet infrastructure is some kind of “magical realm” where physics and laws stop working.

If I rent out a house and someone starts doing “all the illegal things” at once in there, in secret, it’s not my responsibility, nor does that mean that the police or me as the property owner needs to do daily inspections because someone could do “all the illegal” things in secret.

If someone puts a neon side up on that house announcing “all the illegal things here, open from 9-18h” - then people get involved.

I’m speaking about the firmware and other blobs that are there because devices wouldn’t work without it.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/WHENCE

Nice, something running in an eBPF context with a blob in the middle, what could go wrong …

Also there are already a lot of binary blobs in the kernel, that also makes me nervous a bit.

I don’t understand why they are signing it. I mean we know that Microsoft is hostile, why submit to their signing bullshit.

The more you normalise bad behaviour the worse it gets.

Are they writing two letters now?

What are you using to ship the logs to VL?

If you want to exclude “normal” logs you should start excluding them before they reach VL, so the only logs you have are the interesting ones.

The more you can filter and label at the source, the less you have to work out in VL.

I use alloy (which is kinda heavy) to extract and prepare only the data I want and it works great so far.

Maybe they are doing “trial balloons”, to see what the reaction is if they put that out there.

Just put it on the light side if the moon - problem solved.

Bavarian Motor Works

It’s a cheap Chinese made, it prints when I turn it on and that’s like every two months for the last 3 years. So I guess it’s good. I also only use it to print from linux or my phone.

I got a cheap Xerox laser printer, the toner is cheap and lasts forever.

That’s the first step, the next step is marking LGBT+ content only for adults. They can’t ban it yet so they will find another way.

It might be AI translated or translated by someone who isn’t proficient enough to do so. The German article is written in a more neutral to leaning against it tone.

“Schlappe” is a German “Newspaper” expression denoting someone or something failed, but from a standpoint of an observer that is mostly against it. It’s not a “positive” or neutral term of failure.

Sadly I concur, every EU country is better in that situation than Germany.

The whole mobile ecosystem is a giant hardware backdoor on every phone. I think it’s too late now to change anything on that level.