Radio War Nerd. It's a history podcast with a focus on war, but they do have some discussion about current conflicts too. They do a good job telling stories. This is NOT a technical podcast about weapons and such.
sasalzig
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Debian allows setting up disk encryption during install for example. Never heard of VeraCrypt, I don't think that's popular on Linux. The relevant under the hood parts if you're interested in how it works on Linux are:
- dm-crypt: Linux kernel feature for accessing encrypted partitions
- Luks: A header format / standard for encrypted partitions
- cryptsetup: command line tool to set up and manage all this
I just think that when Firefox dies, maintaining a chromium fork with Google tracking crap ripped out is going to be way easier than continuing development on Firefox, and can be done by way fewer people.
Yes, yes and yes. And Mozilla have been selling out their user's data since the day they took money from Google.
This is honestly what annoys me more than anything about Mozilla: they pretend to be champions for privacy, but they aren't. And people fall for it. They are controlled opposition. They are the social democrats of the privacy world: channeling privacy supporters into their compromise (and compromised) position and painting the radicals as unreasonable dreamers.
If they were to finally die, that would probably be good for online privacy. A real non-corrupt free software fork of chromium could take off with built-in ad blocking and actually good privacy defaults. Firefox is sucking the oxygen out of the room right now.
Ultimately all tracking and data collecting besides what's absolutely necessary needs to be declared 100% illegal. I have no hope Mozilla will help in this fight at all.
Linux accepting patches from Facebook that improves btrfs isn't the same thing as working with Facebook on ad tech tracking proposals.
I haven't read the thing and I'll be waiting for someone decently trustworthy to explain this to me, but I consider tracking and advertising to be immoral, so this doesn't bode well.
Yeah, looking at this list, there are multiple things that could cause worse outcomes in practice.
The most problematic IMHO are the I/O prio and niceness. This is because other processes like xorg and the compositor (and maybe even kernel threads, though not sure if you can starve those) need I/O and CPU too when running a game, and they get starved by the game hogging these resources. I remember when running the original StarCraft through wine you needed to de-nice it to avoid starving the X server of CPU.
Of course some of the other stuff is also sketchy since it could increase temps and therefore induce throttling. Depends on how good the cooling is I suppose.
A low latency scheduler can increase overhead and thus reduce average fps, but should not really increase stuttering (probably the opposite), so I don't think that's the problem really.
Calling Ukraine neutral after the Western-backed coup of 2014, in which the US candidate became PM and Russian-hating Neonazis got into government is some twisting of facts. The whole Maidan (which was supported massively by Western governments, press and NGOs) was about aligning with the West for fuck's sake! The invasion only happened after that.