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For swap files on btrfs COW and features like compression have to be disabled. I believe for btrfs the swap file even has to sit on a subvolume with those features disabled, so it’s not enough to only disable them for the swap file.
Online transactions require a second factor which displays the actual amount to be transferred. This works by either an app which receives the transaction data (recipient, how much) over the network, or a device which takes the bank card and is used to scan something similar to a qr code. The device then displays the transaction data.
This makes sure a fraudulent site can’t easily change the amount or the recipient of a transaction, even if they somehow made an identical website (or close enough).
For remote transactions (e.g. online payments), the security requirements go even further, requiring a dynamic link to the amount of the transaction and the account of the payee, to further protect the user by minimising the risks in case of mistakes or fraudulent attacks.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/intro/mip-online/2018/html/1803_revisedpsd.en.html
It’s not perfect, especially with people using a banking app and the second factor app on the same device for convenience sake.
21·3 months agoThat’s a bummer. Seems like Google Pixel and Fairphone are the only ones left. I don’t even know why manufacturers wouldn’t allow for relocking or even unlocking of their phones. I can’t imagine they make much money with user data and the phone is already paid for. Warranty claims shouldn’t be much of an issue either, as modifications can be easily detected and it’s likely not a relevant amount of people anyway.
The banking apps I’ve tried don’t require SafetyNet, instead they use Android AOSP’s
basicIntegrity. The latter doesn’t require certification by Google, but also checks whether the device is rooted and the bootloader is locked.This means custom ROM’s on most devices won’t pass
basicIntegrity, as only Google Pixel,OnePlusand Fairphone allow for relocking the bootloader.
At least in the EU web browsers don’t allow for authenticating transactions (beyond a limit of e.g. 30€). Either an additional authenticator app or a standalone card reader is mandatory.
Luckily my banking apps work flawlessly on GrapheneOS and even microG, likely because of they care about the bootloader being locked again.
It’s not possible to dd a Windows ISO to a USB stick.
What way too many people fail to understand, because Linux ISOs are applying this method, but this is essentially a MAJOR HACK CALLED ‘ISOHYBRID’, is that, in most cases, you cannot simply take an ISO image and copy it byte for byte to a USB drive, and expect that to boot.
But is it useful what you’ve learned? Could’ve learned something else.
(But I’m commenting on a meme, instead washing my dishes, both things that didn’t teach me much).
After using multiple tiling compositors over the years, I’m pretty much set in how my system works. There’s not much I have to do, except the occasional tweak to keybinds for launching apps, adding some window rule or changing my monitor layout. Those are things I’d have to do on any DE and they don’t take any longer.
Until I need something unexpected not yet set up by me, e.g. switching keyboard layouts. But it’s been a long time since I needed to do any of that. That’s the beauty of config files stored in git: Once it’s set, just forget about it.
Edit: I do agree though, the time it took to arrive where I am is considerable and definitely not something I recommend to others who value their time.
I notice lately that many memes origins are worse than I thought from the context they are used in. Racist, homophobic, and lying people are not something I usually accept as entertainment, but they sneak their way unnoticed into my (non-news) feed through memes. I guess most people won’t know the origins of the meme and use it according to the meaning they formed on their own. Other memes like the distracted boyfriend meme are meaningless stock photos, so I understand why many people use memes without thinking about the origins.
Anyway, thanks for pointing out who the person in the picture actually is.
For most use-cases, yes. I wouldn’t want to use any distro without simple rollback anymore. This boils down to Fedora Atomic, NixOS, or btrfs + any distro.
A agree with everything you just wrote. Discord is the platform of choice for many projects because most people are already there, so it increases engagement (and often enough some people actually ask for an official discord).
I personally prefer projects to use matrix, despite all it’s faults. Some already do.
Discord is better than IRC in any way except available clients, while also doing voice/video chat rooms so it replaced Teamspeak/Mumble. With the additional (at first) paid streamers and being free it took off especially with younger audiences. I remember how terrible Skype was and Discord just worked.
It’s possible to allow anyone to edit a Github wiki. But I’m not sure whether edit permission can be set per page or wiki wide.
It’s possible to view matrix rooms without an account, but it has to be supported by the server as it has to load the conversation history from other servers over federation before showing it. I’m not sure about how long this currently takes.
I think the key is whether it’s indexable by search engines and can be archived by archive.org. Any chat service fails miserable at this and is thus not acceptable for documentation.
I personally don’t like LaTeX for documentation because it doesn’t benefit much from advanced features of LaTeX, while being more difficult to read/write than Markdown.
Discord is great for building a community because it’s the defacto chat service for communities. It replaced IRC and does that quite well. Having a place to casually chat with people more invested in the project has its advantages.
Now I really dislike it if they think discord can replace a wiki. Iirc discord added a wiki-like feature a while ago and it’s terrible because it’s not indexable by search engines.
That’d be one of those many broken AUR packages that won’t compile.
Choice is one of the great things about Linux, and I don’t see alternative init going away. For most people systemd is good enough and solves problems, so I agree, in that case popular init diversity has gone away.
5·6 months agoI feel like most of these “10 alternatives to xyz”-articles are basically a summary of alternativeto.net. Or they’ve just listed all projects they’ve found with a quick search. I’m almost certain they didn’t install them most of the time.
This also applies to “comparison” sites, which usually are a list of Amazon affiliate links. At this point, I don’t trust websites with affiliate links anymore, as they’ve never actually tried the products. Sadly those spam sites make it difficult to find actually good reasearched tests.
Back to itsfoss, they write many articles, and some are good, but they still are blog spam.
If I’m cooking, I make enough for a few meals. It takes a similar amount of time and it can be stored for a while in the fridge.
Also I don’t think hello fresh is able to have lower prices than supermarkets, and it’s easy to find recipes online. I won’t be surprised if those services go bankrupt in a few years.
Edit: I can’t recommend SponsorBlock enough. Hearing the same sponsor message again and again is incredibly annoying.
I prefer swap files over swap partitions, because it makes it my partition layout simpler to manage.
If your using a swap partition, make sure it’s located on an encrypted partition, else it exposes data stored in RAM (encryption keys etc). With SSD’s it’s difficult to make sure this data is actually deleted, even after overwriting.
My preferred setup for a long time was LUKS with btrfs on top. Then subvolumes for
/,/homeand the swap file (+ /var/cache, /var/log etc.). This gives me peace of mind nothing is unencrypted except /boot.Nowadays I simply use zram, which allows for a small part of RAM to be compressed for swap. It’s great, simple to setup and performs well. Imo it should be default for all desktops.