cman6

@cman6@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So just to help a little bit without getting too technical…

  df -h is your friend to find out which physical drive or partition relates to which directory (called the “mount point”)

  If you want, you can set up each drive/partition to be mounted a bit Windows-esque.

  For example:

  • Drive 1, partition 1 will almost certainly be root /
  • But drive 1, partition 2 can be mounted to: /mnt/d/
  • And then drive 1, partition 3 can be mounted to: /mnt/e/

  And so on.

  You’ll need to look up fstab to understand how to do that.

  I understand it’s tricky to get your head around initially as I felt exactly the same coming from Windows to Linux.

  Once you get your head around partitions being able to be mounted anywhere, it actually becomes really handy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  new funding for a confidential service to provide prevention therapy to potential offenders before they commit that horrid act against a child.

  THIS.

  I would recommend watching “Louis Theroux - Among the sex offenders” to get a better understanding of the lack of treatment available for people who don’t want to offend but feel compelled. Some of them are crying out for treatment!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tipping culture npcs⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is illegal! If you tip a waiter/waitress then the money must go to them: gov.uk/…/all-tips-to-go-to-staff-under-government…

  I mean I’m not sure what you can do other than name and shame the restaurant, and/or boycott it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands of private camera footages from bedrooms hacked, sold online - VnExpress International⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s not 100% the same, but there’s a website that gives you access to insecure webcams and has been for ages!

  www.insecam.org

  Obviously these aren’t hacked as per the article

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You get a phone call from someone claiming to be from 23andme but they’re not…

  Hi it’s Jim from 23andme. Just going through security with you. You did a test with us on the 5th Dec, your mother is X and your father is Y. Ok that confirms who I am. So as I said it’s Jim and in your results we see you have a genetic condition which means you will have early onset dementia. We offer a preventative treatment. Want to enrol in the trial? It’s $200.

  Not the best example I admit but an example of how that data could be misused and you’ve just paid “Jim” $200

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Safe to say peanuts into a US school too?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of this: emailsfromanasshole.dontevenreply.com/view.php?po…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attempted right-wing takeover of National Trust backed by Nigel Farage fails!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In case anyone wondered how to potentially get around this…

  • Pay for a server in another country that gives you SSH access
  • Create SSH SOCKS tunnel: ssh -N -D 8008 your-server-ip
  • Open your browser and set the SOCKS server to localhost:8008 (in Chromium/Firefox you can search for this in Settings)