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Fineā€¦ I also donā€™t buy most of the things in the ads. :slight_smile:

But then againā€¦ I donā€™t see any :slight_smile: not even on Youtube :slight_smile:

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Its dead jim. (futurama)

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Use FOSS, please.

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BSI certifies first smart card with post-quantum cryptographic algorithm

The BSI has certified the first quantum-secure smart card. Quantum computers cannot therefore crack the encryption of data.

If only there werenā€™t these backdoors that can be used before encryption.

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Anyone who believes anything the BSI saysā€¦also believes in the Christmas Bunny :upside_down_face:

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Most Progressives and DINOcrats have left METH oops I meant META and X for better sites.

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Chris Trottier @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org

Hereā€™s a list of ActivityPub services that are not Twitter-like, along with a description of what each service does:

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An more trash LLM infrastructure. Itā€™s a worse pitch then April 1st jokes.

All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AIā€”and in particular AGIā€”for the benefit of all of humanity. We believe that this new step is critical on the path, and will enable creative people to figure out how to use AI to elevate humanity.

Elevate who?
https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/

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6 posts were merged into an existing topic: Off Topic Chit Chat - (Silliness factor 5)

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I not sharing this for the kickstarter iā€™d say donate directly instead but its a really nice intagram alternative. i havenā€™t used loops (not my thing) or the other ones but Iā€™m happy they are taking on all the big guys with open source. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=333318

  • Pixelfed is our flagship & challenger for Instagram, and other photo based platforms.
  • Loops is a challenger for Tiktok, and other video based platforms.
  • Sup is a challenger for WhatsApp/Snapchat, and other instant message platforms.
  • Pubkit is the essential ActivityPub toolset for developers building new online experiences in the fediverse.
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Isnā€™t everything nowadays trying to ā€œSAVE HUMANITYā€ ?

From toilet paper to AIā€¦
Even Nix must ā€œSAVE HUMANITYā€ as core mission!

(although I must say ā€¦ toilet paper IS saving humanityā€¦) :slight_smile:

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Nice bugdoor: SonicWall Pre-Authentication Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

As always, a big thank you to NOYB:

M$:

MICROS~1-356: Problems with Authenticator for Microsoft 365 services
Funfact: To sign in any way, Microsoft suggests signing in with a web browser besides Chrome or Edge.

You could also say that Microsoft recommends Safari and Firefox :grin:

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The land of the unlimited possibilities takes on a new meaning?

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China sends greetings.

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News without Cisco fails isnā€™t real news: Critical security vulnerability in Meeting Management
Too bad, only 9.9ā€¦Please place bets with me on who will get a perfect 10.0 this month :smiling_face:

And the next car manufacturer:

Crypto Wars v.12.3 (german only):

Zyxel Disaster:

Running (windows) gag: server 2025 causing lsass reboot after windows hello 4 business logon :grin:

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Meta/Facebook is saying Linux is malware and is labeling Linux related groups as being ā€œcybersecurity threatsā€. Even though they use Linux themselvesā€¦ :person_facepalming:

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Since distrowatch seems to be loading slowly (not sure if it is because of the news that just came out or something elseā€¦) I am going to post the site news article here for easier reading:

click to read news post

Facebook ban

Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebookā€™s internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being ā€œcybersecurity threatsā€. Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.

Weā€™ve been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux.

The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.

Unfortunately, there isnā€™t anything we can do about this, apart from advising people to get their Linux-related information from sources other than Facebook. Iā€™ve tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter. My Facebook account was also locked for my efforts.

We went through a similar experience when Twitter changed its name to X - suddenly accounts which had been re-posting news from our RSS feeds were no longer able to share links. This sort of censorship is an unpleasant side-effect of centralized communication platforms such as X, Facebook, Google+, and so on.

In an effort to continue to make it possible for people to talk about Linux (and DistroWatch), as well as share their views and links, we are providing two options. We have RSS news feeds which get updates whenever we post new announcements, stories, and our weekly newsletter. We also now have a Mastodon account where I will start to post updates - at least for new distributions and notice of our weekly newsletter. Over time we may also add news stories and updates about releases. Links for the feeds and the Mastodon account can be found on our contact page.

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Well maybe than they should stop use Linux based servers on their end and replace them with Windows :smiley:

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And watch their IT cost go up 100 fold or more.

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