[–] 44 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

Recommenting since this is being posted fucking everywhere with the same sensational headline that makes it look like linkedin is jumping out of the browser to scan your actual filesystems - here's an exerpt from the site linked:

The Attack: How it works
Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers. The entire process happens in the background. There is no consent dialog, no notification, no mention of it in LinkedIn’s privacy policy.

It's enumerating the browser extensions you have installed.

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  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The opulence of the UAE lets a certain type of person overlook its human rights abuses and hostility towards women and queer people to view it as an appealing travel destination. It's probably overlooked because without that opulence, Oman is just another dictatorship actively hostile to over half of the people who might travel there.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Since this is being posted fucking everywhere with the same sensational headline that makes it look like linkedin is jumping out of the browser to scan your actual filesystems, here's an exerpt from the site linked:

    The Attack: How it works
    Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers. The entire process happens in the background. There is no consent dialog, no notification, no mention of it in LinkedIn’s privacy policy.

    It's enumerating the browser extensions you have installed.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Qubes as a daily can be pretty cumbersome with a steep learning curve, but once you get the hang of it it's a very unique modular kind of experience, and a pretty good way to safely(ish) use one machine for many things - certainly much more so than any of the main linux distros. If you're interested in security, worth checking out!

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Linux hobbyist for 20+ years, pro for 6+. Fedora for workstations, proxmox for hypervisors, and rocky for servers is my usual personal recommendation. Beyond that, secureblue (a hardened downstream of fedora atomic) with heads firmware is a fantastic daily driver if you're into that kind of thing.

    Started with debian sarge way back in the day, currently using secureblue and qubes with fedora vms for most work, with a debian htpc on the side. For servers, I'm mostly debian-based on hardware (a bunch of proxmox machines at various sites and debian-based raspberry pis everywhere), with mostly redhat-based vms. Some alpine and freebsd baremetal and virtual machines sprinkled in here and there for flavor where they fit right.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It isn't much to ask for a game built for one operating system to work perfectly on a completely, fundamentally different operating system, by means of the vastly complex and enormous work of thousands of people, which they donated to the world so that you can access it for free?

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    The fact that PG&E, a monopolistic utility, is a private for-profit company is a fucking travesty. Their intentional criminal negligence has killed hundreds of people and poisoned thousands more for the profit of their shareholders while simultaneously and perpetually worsening things for their customers. It should have been nationalized and its entire C-suite and board guillotined decades ago.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    A very rough sysadmin equivalent in my mind is infrastructure-as-code, like having a base system configuration pushed out via ansible that manual configurations can be made on top of. Saves all the preparatory busywork, equivalent to chopping your mirepoix in advance.

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    My garden in June of this season. Everything came together to make this the most lush and vibrant season I've ever had - a very mild summer, more watering and fertilizing than I've done in the past, carefully nurtured local predator populations thriving and keeping pests mostly in check, and a rare frostless winter starting everything off strong.

    It's been a very good year.

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