Exactly. I always go through and turn off all the Bitcoin whatevers and add-revenue options, after that, all is good.
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In relation to the aboveâŚ
The bug, tracked as CVE-2023-45866, doesnât require any special hardware to exploit, and the attack can be pulled off from a Linux machine using a regular Bluetooth adapter, says Marc Newlin, who found the flaw and reported it to Apple, Google, Canonical, and Bluetooth SIG.
Newlin says heâll provide vulnerability details and proof-of-concept code at an upcoming conference but wants to hold off until everything is patched. The attack allows a nearby intruder to inject keystrokes and execute malicious actions on victimsâ devices, as long as they donât require a password or biometric authentication.
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I used to use Brave in the last year or two. Then on âchrome 119â release, video decode accel stopped working somehow and switched to firefox (firefox best here for video on wayland).
It isnt bad, but how come vertical sidebar and firefox pwa, two major usuability enhancers are not included on firefox, is beyond me. (but themes on super fat tabbars are⌠sure, great).
Anyway⌠they all work kinda okay and nice. Brave for everything except video and firefox for video (somehow firefox plays a 8k video here without even sweating, even better than mpv, but I have mpv on high quality profile, soâŚ)
Would like to use vivaldi, but then Stallman interjected!
So⌠qutebrowser FTW!
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Is this info of use to the Garuda web site?
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To answer your question, I find it interesting and relevant.
In this particular case though, he focuses on Russia and the middle east hackers doing this. LOL. Like the US govât/agencies arenât doing this as well. Besides that, good info. First thought, always use a VPN I guess on your devices and computers to prevent man-in-the-middle hacking?
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http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/07/The_Effort_to_Silence_Squash_GNU_Linux_Advocates_and_Press_Cove.shtml
I like this site, itâs just punching M$ in face (?)
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If you trust the VPN provider I guess. Which is another smelly can of worms.
âWhoâs watching the watcherâ as the saying goes.
Authoritarian = they tell you and thatâs it
Non-authoritarian = they try to gaslight you first
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We do it, just not âas wellâ IMHO. It takes TRILLIONS to fund an army; one line of code to bring it down. Weâre (the U.S.) still stuck in tanks-and-trench-warfare mode, I kinda think.
Spend kajillions to develop a new weapon, or send some smart kid to the U.S. for college so they can code one cheaper. Dealerâs choice.
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I think it is both. Trillions of dollars missing during 9/11, no one cares. Just recently, they did a budget analysis again, more trillions of dollars go unaccounted, no one cares.
All that money goes into black budget projects they donât want to run by congressâŚand who knows what tech that supports, along with weapons.
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And in the meantime they cant fund $35billion to replace the lead pipes and let people die from lead poisoning for goodness sake lead pipes were replaced in the 1960s in the UK and Europe, even 3rd world like Peru donât use lead pipes. The richest country in the western world wastes 1â000s of billions of $ fighting wars that are nothing to do with them but does not care about clean drinking water for its own people
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It turns out they have a common enemy in their VM security goals: x86 32-bit software.
The big picture: In whatâs become a cat-and-mouse game between YouTube and ad blocker developers, Google appears to be making its boldest attack yet. A new policy featured in the Manifest V3 extension platform could destroy ad blockers on YouTube for good, at least on Chrome.
Canât say any more 
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Another reason to switch to firefox and firefox based browsers , I use firedragon 
(because I also like dragons 
)
What do you use ?
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Floorp
Reason: Sounds cute 
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Also Floorp.
Silly name. Great browser.
https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/14n5zw7/floorp_is_impressive/
As a footnote, itâs really customizable. Below is my setupâŚ
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Sounds great, but Floorp still has no mobile app. Bit of a deal breaker for me as I do most browsing on my phone when I have spare time.
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Who needs water when one has Coca Cola (or Pepsi, not trying to start a war here!!!)
qutebrowser
asked directly (not me) to the author of qutebrowser (The-Compiler):
https://www.reddit.com/r/qutebrowser/comments/xpahb6/manifest_v3/
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