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lurch ,

lol this person can’t merge layers in gimp. there’s at least 3 obvious ways to do it, e.g. right clicking on a layer.

File picker issues

Hi, I’m having issues with the file picker on my arch system. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all. If I press “Upload file” in a browser, nothing happens, no window pops up. It doesn’t work in other apps either when that happens. It sometimes starts working after a restart. Does anyone have any ideas? Let me know if you...

lurch ,

on a totally different system and different app i had similar issues after an update. my solution was to run the app with a java version closer to what it was compiled for, which is not helpful for you. however, i think it was related to gtk/gnome libs having been updated (the app was using the file picker with gtk “look and feel”)

lurch ,

could be anything, even allergies or an infection.

How long have you been in there?! A popular tourist destination in China has installed toilet timers. Reactions are mixed. (edition.cnn.com)

A video recently shared on various Chinese news and social media sites shows a set of timers installed above a row of toilet cubicles in a female washroom, with each stall getting its own digital counter....

lurch ,

if it shows hours someone likely died in there again. i think it’s okay to knock and check on them.

lurch ,

I always got receipts and cancellation infos via the mail connected to the Google account. One time there was no balance and I had no payment methods set up and I got “Your Google Play balance is too low to pay for your {app name} subscription. To keep your subscription active, please add credit or a new payment method.”

So, if you get email notifications you probably don’t need that.

Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft is pivoting its company culture to make security a top priority, President Brad Smith testified to Congress on Thursday, promising that security will be “more important even than the company’s work on artificial intelligence.”...

lurch ,

I doubt MS even knows what security means

lurch ,

you can even mount the image as a loop device (i suggest read only (ro)) to extract files

lurch ,

it’s like the opposite of a mom group 😉

lurch ,

Well because Hanas is not a nation, not even officials of sorts. It’s just some rando guerilla group that likes to abduct people and shoot missiles at people they can’t beat.

lurch ,

Here you go Apple: 🍏I

lurch ,

It’s not “free” it’s Free™

lurch ,

anecdote: during the pandemic every day seemed the same. i sometimes forgot ro shower for a few days. so i put a water sensor in my shower. when i shower, it starts a macrodroid automation that records the date. another macro plans and reminds me when it’s shower time.

lurch ,

nah, i just couldn’t remember because all days were so similar. i was like “did i shower yet or was that yesterday” almost went mad ngl

lurch ,

if this is the case, it should be in your contract, you should get paid for on-call duty and get a free SIM and/or phone for those notifications, so you can mute or shutdown notifications from your private SIM/phone

How dense would the atmosphere need to be to result in a cataclysmic chain reaction during a nuclear explosion?

Famously, Oppenheimer and co worked out how close a nuclear bomb test would be to causing a chain reaction of nitrogen fusion in the atmosphere. They made a lot of worst-case-scenario assumptions and still came to the conclusion that no, a nuclear bomb test wouldn’t scour the surface of the world....

lurch ,

i think the idea is that the part that already fused creates a blast wave that could create the conditions, including preassure required for more fusion. i have no idea if it’s possible though.

lurch ,

if you think microbes got in that can survive in salt and are harmful to humans (which is unlikely), you can bake it in your oven a bit (without the container)

lurch ,

I guess a few spores don’t mind salt, but i don’t know for sure. That’s why I wrote microbe.

lurch ,

you can fill up the disk a few times after deleting files, so the system has to use up all free space and no matter where your data was it gets overwritten.

lurch ,

after rm fill up the file system with random data a few times, then copy /etc/skel/ over to get the default configs back. maybe, if you’re paranoid, use a few apps like browsers, so if they actually look, there will be misleading results.

lurch ,

yeah, the icon problem is stupid. there will always be apps that don’t set the icon properly in both. especially new ones where the devs didn’t get to that for every environment, yet.

a bigger problem is java though. it’s still not wayland ready and is distorted in the compatibily layer xwayland. some old, closed source java apps that use “native” stuff (like games) will probably never run well on wayland.

lurch ,

lmao, i was low key looking for this trivia for several years. the irony that this was helpful 🤣

lurch ,

make a backup

lurch ,

if the T-1000 hasn’t been 3D printed yet, the axe may still work

lurch ,

reminds me of the time someone said “Who is this 4chan?” on tv and it became a meme. good times

lurch ,

Even though that’s a good extra precaution, per person config data, such as keys, should be stored outside of the repo, eg. in the parent directory or better in the users home dir. There is zero reason to have it in the repo. Even if you use a VM/containers, you can add the config in an extra mount/share.

lurch ,

the format of the encrypted file can give the attackers an advantage. if your code reads the decrypted file, the attacker can guess the first line is a comment or the name of a setting. a savvy person can combine that with the algorithm to perform a “known plaintext attack”, for example by generating a number of possible passwords that would lead to files starting like that.

lurch , (edited )

Beware of the fierce Eastern Yo Dawg 🐉

lurch ,

lmao, why didn’t he go to the bathroom?

lurch ,

well yeah, but that’s just so the teacher doesn’t lose any kids. the kids ask, informing the teacher, and the teacher makes sure they don’t go all at once. if the teacher won’t let them without good cause, that’s likely also illegal in your country (because it’s torture)

This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI (www.wired.com)

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed the new Windows AI tool that can answer questions about your web browsing and laptop use, he said one of the “magical” things about it was that the data doesn’t leave your laptop; the Windows Recall system takes screenshots of your activity every five seconds and saves them on the...

lurch ,

i don’t need your password if i can read your email from the screenshot it took of it

lurch ,

no, your eyes are hacker tools

lurch ,

some streamers use a capture device to stream on a second device with an extra internet connection, so the stream doesn’t interfere with their gaming internet connection

lurch ,

one of the cool things about tar is that it’s hard link aware

lurch ,

lol, i already have an extra 5G router for less and unlimited volume 🤣

lurch ,

yeah, i think that helped kill a lot of other OSes early (like OS/2, Looking Glass, etc.) and still makes creating new paid ones difficult.

lurch ,

if anything goes wrong, you can blame the replacement AI now. so there is still something to hold accountable.

lurch ,

AFAIK you can’t wipe the IMEI and if you report it stolen to providers they will block it from using their networks. (It will only be able to use wifi.)

lurch ,

AFAIK you can’t wipe the IMEI and if you report it stolen to providers they will block it from using their networks. (It will only be able to use wifi.)

lurch ,

Maybe just feet pics.

lurch ,

If she can draw, she can maybe do comissions.

lurch ,

just make the password a little story you can remember, e,g. “Carl+Lenny:go2a bar&spend$$$”

lurch ,

“the call is coming from inside the house”

lurch ,

He will find a way to ruin it.

lurch ,

i actually was in 2 recently, but one wasn’t important and i muted it when a colleague started showing slides. wouldn’t recommend either way.

lurch ,

you know there is already an open source web app for lemmy, right?

lurch ,

you mean, by improving an existing open source project instead of trying to invent the wheel over and over again? i think you got something mixed up chap.

lurch ,

make sure you have a backup

lurch ,

that’s very convenient and likely enough (but not 100% like a backup on something you can disconnect from the computer)

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