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I would immediately agree if the gangs were utterly fragmented away from each other.

However, many of those gangs simultaneously constitute an asset for the government of their respective country.

Case in point: In Russia, things take the form that the government lets the gangs do their stuff, but they have to attack government-chosen targets every once in a while. So there is already structure for coordination. What it would take is for the Russian government, or maybe even just one of its rivalling intelligence agencies, to conclude that making an example out of Britain has become important. Still more interesting game theory lies here: Russia’s government and agencies needn’t even hope to participate in any ransom payouts at any time – just perpetuating the gangs’ damaging of European economies is already heavily in their interest. They have a cyberwar budget anyways.

However, I know far too little about the economic magnitudes involved here to say anything with certainty.

There’s some interesting game theory at play here.

The idea is to make the public sector and CNI (which includes utilities and datacenters these days) less attractive targets for financially motivated attackers.

Indeed it’s about time a major country try out if this works. Should it prove successful, others could follow suit. However, it’s exactly this prospect which could make it all fail. Why? Once the UK enacts its law, the major ransomware gangs (and the occasional government backing them) could have a major incentive to target the UK’s systems extra hard. This would not make the gangs any money, of course. Rather, the purpose would be to deter the rest of the world from employing the same approach, lest this source of income dry out, too.

I didn’t know about the web interfaces of Invidious instances. Definitey looks cool, and this redicrect domain is handy to quickly find a working instance.

Still, FreeTube has a couple of major advantages. One is that even if your go-to Invidious instance becomes unusable, your local FreeTube configuration (subscriptions, blocks, ricings, you name it) remains 100% in effect, because FreeTube just picks a different instance. Even when Google again makes all Invidious instances dysfunctional, FreeTube may still be usable by accessing YouTube directly. Also, FreeTube likely has A LOT more options—the settings page is quite sizeable. Finally, I find it increasingly nice that it’s a standalone client separate from your browser. It makes it more deliberate to start watching videos, so that I’m less likely to go on senseless watching sprees; and conversely, when I’m watching useful videos, I’m less likely to interrupt them by going to some irrelevant website.

They’re all innovating hard to bring us even better ink cartdridge DRM.

There is forum software that’s integrated in the fediverse. Most often I’ve heard about NodeBB, which is open source and one can self-host it for free; there is even a YunoHost package.

What hardware do you currently use and what software do you intend to run on the new machine? And what’s your budget situation?

In any case, I would always recommend to buy used or refurbished hardware. Even if it’s not necessary financially, it’s better for the environment.

That’s very cool indeed – although I dread the moment he starts talking to his followers about Lemmy.

I think a better title would be “Gnome is Asking You to Switch from Lump Sum Donations to Regular Donations, Even If the Total Amount is Smaller”

Last time I wanted to automate something on Windows (3 years ago), PowerAutomate did the job quite well.

There’s a provision that says the trust structure can be changed without everyone’s consent if the intended change is in the interest of all trustees. Rupert, Lachlan and their team want to exploit this by arguing that the ongoing financial success of the media empire is dependent on it retaining its staunchly conservative editorial line, so that it is in fact (from a financial point of view) in the interest of the three non-conservative children if they don’t get to have any influence. The first judge wasn’t buying it; let’s hope that the others will rule the same way. (One argument in their favor is that the $787 million settlement that Fox News has to pay to Dominion Voting System due to a defamation lawsuit was a consequence of Rupert’s or Lachlan’s die-hard conservative messaging.)

What’s less good: I remember dimly that, should Rupert live long enough (past theö year 2030?), he can change the trust at will again.

Thank you, that’s interesting and good to know. At least it’s probably a good idea to not increment/decrement properties in very small steps (like 2% at a time) on a regular basis. I suspect the 5% steps I’m using for brightness should be fine, but I’ll implement some shortcuts that go in bigger steps just to be sure.

The most staggering thing though is that the show has had quite noticeable repercussions on the dealings of the real-life Murdochs. Anyone who would like a long read on all this can check out the Atlantic article linked in the post description.

The Atlantic article that I linked in the post description talks at length about the spicy shit (especially about the family relations and only comparatively little about the legal aspects).

I’m curious about both things you mention. Do you have the name of the kernel module at hand? And can you point me to a source on the monitor flash memory (as I couldn’t find anything on that)?

To add to this, I’d recommend to go through the BIOS/UEFI settings and turn off things you don’t need, e.g. certain card slots, ports, fingerprint scanner, maybe the webcam.

I feel you basically. I have given up trying to control the RGB on my RAM (even though it’s probably decently documented somewhere).

Your comment has now motivated me to add a Windows section :)

I know nothing about this, but can OpenRGB (Linux tool) talk to your device in any way?

Rather than running a Tor relay, running a simple Tor bridge (e.g. via the browser add-on Snowflake as suggested by @ryokimball@infosec.pub) is probably the best thing to do with one’s home hardware.

Actual relays must suffice certain requirements, according to the Tor project:

Requirements for Tor relays depend on the type of relay and the bandwidth they provide. ==== Bandwidth and Connections ====

A non-exit relay should be able to handle at least 7000 concurrent connections. This can overwhelm consumer-level routers. If you run the Tor relay from a server (virtual or dedicated) in a data center you will be fine. If you run it behind a consumer-level router at home you will have to try and see if your home router can handle it or if it starts failing. Fast exit relays (>=100 Mbit/s) usually have to handle a lot more concurrent connections (>100k).

It is recommended that a relay have at least 16 Mbit/s (Mbps) upload bandwidth and 16 Mbit/s (Mbps) download bandwidth available for Tor. More is better. The minimum requirements for a relay are 10 Mbit/s (Mbps). If you have less than 10 Mbit/s but at least 1 Mbit/s we recommend you run a [/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/obfs4proxy bridge with obfs4 support]. If you do not know your bandwidth you can use http://beta.speedtest.net/ to measure it.

As for exit relays aka exit nodes, the obligatory advice is of course to not run them at all unless you know exactly what you are doing both legally and technically, and probably only if you’re a foundation or something.