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Employees will just start colluding using external tools once the first few suckers get fired.


You’ll then just get fired for using the external tools.

Unless you’re too valuable for them to care.


The other thing is that not all sysadmins are security engineers and you essentially have to be one to be able to manage SELinux well. You really have to understand the security implications of incorporating policy X for application Y.

Minimally, Redhat needs to come up with some better documentation around managing it along with better tools for managing policy. Like say, exporting the existing policy set before each upgrade or policy change and import them back? I'm thinking sort of what is done when a package is updated and you are prompted if you want to keep or replace your existing configs.


Isn't that what the block, mute, and muted wordlist options are for? If these were not available options I could see the argument, but they are, so why isn't this sufficient for users to moderate their own content?


If the bid is accepted, he's going to want to build his own app store otherwise Google & Apple will kick the Twitter app off if his version of free speech doesn't align with their version of censorship.

Gab discovered this early on and pivoted accordingly.


Gab isn't Twitter.

If the two app stores tried to deplatform Twitter there would be a landmark court case which would likely reach the Supreme Court.


The twitter app is unnecessary - works fine in a browser.


It works just as well as how "FB" and "Insta" work in mobile browser. Absolute shit, half of the features locked. Bad experience overall.


Yes, you cede much more of your personal data using the apps than the browser. I would view myself as deranged were I to install those apps on my phone today. The features are there to entice you you install the app.


I just start reading Neuromancer on my Kindle last night and then this post pops up on HN. :)


I just don't see VR going mainstream for gaming. I think there is a certain degree of tactile feedback that gamers look for when gaming that they get from a controller or a keyboard and mouse. It will reach a niche audience and I think that most likely be millennials.

It will never work for greybeards like me with Vertigo ;)


Have you tried an Oculus? I have vertigo too and am a graybeard and it doesn't bother me at all. They did a good job with the refresh rate. Other VR headsets do still bother me, so they did something right (at least for me) on the Oculus.


I get uncomfortably sweaty after 10 minutes, but maybe that depends on fit.


It makes a fair difference if you add a fan into your headset: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/08/a-fan-for-the-valve-in...


There is already POC code published: https://github.com/mebeim/CVE-2021-4034


Worth noting that this and the other exploit that was posted on twitter last night do not work (at least) on Fedora 34, and some versions of OpenSUSE. Generally they will not work on versions of polkit which disable GVFS. My POC [0] handles this by just setting the relevant env variable explicitly.

[0] https://github.com/PeterGottesman/pwnkit-exploit


Does that mean you need a changelog for each changelog, since each changelog will be part of the project?


org-roam should have made the list.


And how do we know that the information presented is not itself disinformation? It's simply an appeal to authority with no data presented to validate the claims. Would love to hear them address the data in this video: https://youtu.be/Ztu5Y5obWPk


Ah yes, lovely, Dr. Shiva, who claims Fauci and deepstate are behind coronavirus, is back at it with new hits!


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai#%22EMAIL%22_in...

He also claims to have invented email — after it was invented.


Precisely. This is lies with statistics. Put enough graphs in front of an audience with no knowledge of how statistics worked and already predisposed to your message... spread it around. This guy is no better than Q anon wackadoodles. I know it’s best to refute their arguments but this guy is not worth listening to. He has an agenda and it’s clearly politically motivated. No need to wade into his web of statistical lies.


He is in some ways part of the Qanon crowd. If you have the courage to dive into 8kun and other Qanon-related forums, a common refrain you'll discover is that Fauci must be replaced with Dr. Shiva. He's sort of their prophet as it turns out.


In addition to what others have said about the video's author being discredited in other, similar claims, many of the statements made on the CISA are trivially true, if you stop and think. E.g.,

> Rumor: If a social media account claims an identity, the account must be run by that person or organization.

I could claim to be the King of France himself right here, right now, but that wouldn't make it so.

As Buster (the rabbit) said: Someone would do that? Just go on the Internet and lie?

As another example, the claim that a website outage could be caused by something other than hacking — is trivial to prove by thinking about it. High load — particularly on election night, likely the busiest night for an election site — can cause the site to go down.

Further, most of them are backed by citations, many to not CISA. Even if you think "it's a giant federal conspiracy" many of the claims are still trivially fact checked by punching them into Google, where non-federal and non-governmental sources further back them up. (E.g., that voter rolls are generally public can be fact-checked that way.)


And how do we know that the guy in that youtube video isn't just another quack saying things so people will pay them attention?

If you're going to dismiss all information out of government agencies simply on the basis that they're authorities and you don't like what they have to say, you should probably buy a gun and move into the woods


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