What if I had a firewall installed in Linux

A previous company of mine, required an “AntiVirus” installed on the Linux computers too.
The one the IT guy installed, ran in the background all the time, doing nobody-knows-what and and slowing down every thing and having multiple segfaults in a minute, shown in the journal.

Long after I left, I also saw an RCE vulnerability related to it. So essentially, my system would have been more secure without the app.

I don’t get how that’s going to help with multiple keys on my cheap keyboard not registering properly, when pressed at the same time.

IMHO, nKRO is the best solution to get rid of ghosting.

That would be pretty useful.
I’m still looking for how I might manage to use my old phone’s camera anyway. Seems like a waste of good engineering to keep the pinout and protocol closed.

Just get some raspberry pi camera.

What to do about IR vision though?

body with the power to actually do anything

Their response: “Another less opposer. Noice”

In India, if I call out someone for coughing in my face, IATA.

So, unless you die of it, there are no repercussions to someone blatantly coughing at your face, again and again, despite protests.

I don’t feel sorry for anyone doing that.

I was making a shared library at work and was recently asked to start throwing exceptions, because the users wouldn’t care to check my returned error and just continue with the empty returned data.
Well, now they will most probably have an empty catch block and continue doing what they did before.

Nothing can fix a lazy worker.

Anti Commercial-AI license

I usually try to stay away from any of those.
Just that this time, they decided to use the legal system to suppress Wikipedia, which is why I thought, this needed to be shared.

Normally, I don’t even care about checking Wikipedia for controversial topics.

I am starting to understand why stealth games portray guards as easily head-flippable.
It’s because they already have it halfway there for the player.

You get all Lemmy results! Yaay!

Sorry, that’s really all there’s to it.

Try searching Google for “Saganumenousness”

Your machine translation is working well.

Well, considering that I am with coworkers who don’t remember when to and not to put the ‘/’ at the start of the file path (despite me explaining it to them multiple times), “slash e t c” is probably the better way.

ANI does seem to be getting the Streisand effect going though. I would never have checked their Wikipedia page and never have known of said allegations. And no, I didn’t even have to see the Wikipedia page, to know that something on those lines was written on Wikipedia.

For the average Indian, it would be just a minor inconvenience. Having to visit a site full of ads and half-assedly written information, whenever they want to know something new, is the price they will pay.

For Uni students, looking for stuff to plagiarise, it won’t be much different either, as most of the times, Wikipedia is considered a less reliable source than a shady website having 10’s of ad popups leading to malicious targets. Probably because the one grading it, only has to check to make sure it is not a Wikipedia URL and doesn’t really need to actually open the link to see here it leads.

Wikipedia kinda works like a Democracy of the type, ‘Logical Consensus’, making it very hard for people to just throw money at it to get false information shown, at least on topics with enough hands-on people^[1]. This makes it very unappealing for political campaigns. Meaning, Govt. doesn’t have a reason to care for it.

What we lose:

• As a kid, most articles I read on Wikipedia were Science and Technology related. They seemed to have a certain amount of care put into writing them and I picked up a bit of “care” from it.
  • We lose this potential positive influence on future inquisitive children, which will probably turn to video based sources (assuming they don’t just give up and go back to WhatsApp/X/other stuff). While video based sources are also fine, IMHO, the way Wikipedia tends to have stuff laid out, is a really nice way to let people learn new stuff, which might be leagues away from their on level and domain.

What Wikipedia loses:

• India has a lot of people. A lot of them would be contributing to the information in it. That is lost.
  • Catch: A lot of the Indians in Science and Tech tend to just emigrate. So, Wikipedia still has those.
  • Blind Spot: I don’t really read much other than Science and Tech and won’t be able to assess the amount and value of other articles. By extension, the contribution by resident Indians to those.

What Wikipedia as a company, loses:

• A bit of money maybe.
  • Though still much less than what ANI is trying to extort

What I gain:

• Another reason to consider emigration
• A reason to vote. And not incumbency this time.

What happens if Wikipedia pays out?

• A precept
  • I’d rather have WMF block Indian access, than this happen.

Anti Commercial-AI license

I too expected it to be “et cetera”.

I used to pronounce it like yuzr, knowing that it wasn’t user, but not knowing what it was.
Now I have better context. Maybe I’ll go with U.S.R.

Wikipedia vs Delhi HC Judge’s Actions

Wikipedia explained that the delay had been caused as the platform didn’t have any physical presence in India.

• Wikipedia here, explaining that they have a limited ability and asking HC to be reasonable.

“We will close your business transactions here”

• Judge, realising they are showing weakness, increasing threat level.

Current actions vs Past actions

• Refer “Relevant Article” in the post.
• Low impact companies asked Supreme Court and were shot down
• Company with a high standing and a potential political backing, asks the High Court and gets full attention
  • On top of that, Delhi HC Judge decides to move to “Contempt of Court”, making it much harder for Wikipedia, in case they move Supreme Court (SC) in the future, for a re-trial
  • I feel like this would have gone differently had ANI gone to SC from the beginning.

Writing this part separately in a comment, because I understand this includes my bias.

Also, if I don’t interact with any comments later, please excuse me. GOI might have stopped my internet, just for posting this, because they can.

Maybe this article would be a good indicator.

By default, Ubuntu will give the Snap version, which Steam devs don’t like to support.
And installing another version will probably require some configuration and terminal stuff, so I’d suggest going with something that plays well with Valve.