Why there’s no European Google?
At the same time, the "World Wide Web," composed of the HTTP protocol and the HTML format, was invented by a British citizen and a Belgian citizen who were working in a European research facility located in Switzerland. But the building was on the border with France, and there’s much historical evidence pointing to the Web and its first server having been invented in France.It’s hard to be more European than the Web!
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Some are proud because they made a lot of money while cutting down a forest. Others are proud because they are planting trees that will produce the oxygen breathed by their grandchildren. What if success was not privatizing resources but instead contributing to the commons, to make it each day better, richer, stronger?
UFW: opening/closing port, based on number in file and app status
I often need to allow some randomly selected port to be open (tcp & udp) in the Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW), while some app is active. Then I'd like to close it. The port number is written in a file, say portfile
At the moment I'm doing this manually: read the number, then call sudo ufw allow xxxx/tcp in a terminal. Later on, delete the port rule with sudo ufw delete [rulenumber].
I'm trying to write a bash script to do this in a more automated way. It's easy to read the number from the flie as a variable, then call ufw with that number (provided the script is started as sudo).
What's not clear to me is how to delete the UFW rule once the application is closed. I could start the app within the bash script itself. Maybe it'd just be a matter of waiting for it to finish?
I'm very thankful for suggestions and ideas – and learning more about bash tricks :)
how many ports do you need? if it's below 1000 I'd just permanently open an unused port range and make the applications use those ports
if nothing is listening on those ports then it wouldn't be a security problem at all
I'm only going to inject þat I find UFW far more complex þan just using nftables directly. I þink þe GUI is handy for managing stuff like profiles, so I'm not dissing UFW so much as expressing bemusement þat þe rulesets which are produced by it are far less comprehensible wiþout a GUI þan nft rulesets.
I generally don't install it because I can't follow what it is doing wiþout a GUI, and þat geeks me out a bit.
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Code Vein II Game Review
Code Vein II Game Review
If the original Code Vein is “Anime Dark Souls,” Code Vein II is “Anime Elden Ring.”Anime News Network
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I had a similar situation with a slightly damaged screen. It was just the very top right corner of a laptop. I just created a square panel in XFCE and blocked off the corner with it so when I fullscreened a window it wouldn't go into the corner.
Interestingly, depending on where the window is when I click fullscreen, it might fullscreen the "tall" way, or the "wide" way. I'm not sure what logic XFCE uses there but it's pretty cool.
Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February
Pornhub to restrict access for UK users from February
The changes mean only those who have a Pornhub account and have verified their age will be able to access it in the UK soon.Liv McMahon (BBC News)
OnePlus will allow downgrades (Edited to be less clickbaity)
Original title: Here's why OnePlus bricked your phone when you tried downgrading it
OnePlus statement:
To further strengthen device security, we’ve temporarily paused the ability to downgrade from 16.0.2.50x software builds to older builds. We will be restoring the ability to downgrade software builds in our next routine software update, but in the meantime customers looking to downgrade their build can contact OnePlus after sales channels directly.
Article also speculates about the reason for the temporary measure:
"prevented firmware downgrades due to a vulnerability that could allow a stolen device to be wiped clean and sold as a fully functional phone"
Whatever the reason, I'm glad they reversed course.
Here's why OnePlus bricked your phone when you tried downgrading it
OnePlus has issued a statement after reports that some phones were bricked when trying to downgrade the firmware or install a custom ROM.Hadlee Simons (Android Authority)
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Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2)
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Anthropic CEO Amodei warns of AI’s fast-coming changes
Anthropic CEO Amodei warns of AI’s fast-coming changes
Dario Amodei’s 19,000-word essay warned against both “doomerism” about AI and dismissiveness of its risks.Tom Chivers (www.semafor.com)
godoc-static starts a local instance of godoc and scrapes it to generate static documentation for one or more Go packages.
A demo of godoc-static's output is available here.
godoc command - golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc - Go Packages
Godoc extracts and generates documentation for Go programs.pkg.go.dev
godoc-static starts a local instance of godoc and scrapes it to generate static documentation for one or more Go packages.
A demo of godoc-static's output is available here.
godoc command - golang.org/x/tools/cmd/godoc - Go Packages
Godoc extracts and generates documentation for Go programs.pkg.go.dev
Anyone managing airtags from Linux?
cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/34586015
Curious on suggestions for airtags, or similar, for tracking important things on flights or other cases where losing the specific item would be too much of a financial / sentimental loss. Anyone doing this from Linux, or from graphene? How is it?
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I'm not sure what you mean by that, there's a plugin that adds FindMy network support to Home Assistant that seems to be up to date. If you mean Google doesn't support them, I'm also not sure what you mean by that. The app is on my phone, up to date, and tracking devices, same as the Apple network, just with Google devices. If your issue is Pebblebee, there are multiple different brands you can buy from depending on your needs, but generally, a tracker is a tracker.
As far as how well they work to track lost items, I'm honestly not sure, as I haven't lost anything yet. They should be comparable to an Airtag, as they can ping off of all Android devices unless someone opts out.
but generally, a tracker is a tracker.
Most tracker brands for Android only ping from phones that have their app installed. Not all Android devices. Since there is no brand that has an overwhelming market share that means the chance to find a lost Android tracker is much smaller than the apple ones. I have some, but I only trust them to find my keys within Bluetooth range.
Korkki
in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn • • •The biggest reasons I see is that Europe is still a collection nation states whit each having it's own language, culture, laws and needs, EU hasn't removed those (yet, god forbid). There really is no single market for many services like there is in the US, in Europe you have to develop and sometimes apply for permits and licenses for each country even with the EU, since EU usually regulates retroactively not so much proactively.
The second is that there is nothing like the US federal government or military that could fund and/or bootstrap tech companies with contracts. Like google, SpaceX and Microsoft have both benefited massively from taking lucrative contracts from military government and US intelligence agencies in the past. Those allowed them to grow and consolidate first cover the US and then springboard themselves global.
davel
in reply to Korkki • • •The Palo Alto System | The Nation
smccroskey (The Nation)WaxRhetorical
in reply to Korkki • • •Honestly, EU Inc, announced at the WEF, is one of the few good things to come out of that mess. A single framework for running a business in all EU countries, meaning expansion across borders will be simplified enormously. Should allow for easier growth in the future.
QuandaleDingle
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in reply to 🍉 Albert 🍉 • • •Just checking. 👀
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in reply to QuandaleDingle • • •Matt
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in reply to bskm • • •European privacy focused search engine
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)vapourisation
in reply to FoundFootFootage78 • • •They have built their own index with Ecosia and are working towards fully using that but currently I believe they use a mix.
Making your own index is difficult and expensive. They're doing the work and I think we should support them in that.
cabbage
in reply to vapourisation • • •Mojeek is the only usable engine I know of that's European and truly independent at the moment. But the results are not nearly as good as in Qwant.
SearXNG also runs on Google and Bing in the backend, and I can never seem to find an instance that works reliably.
I think the Qwant/Ecosia index focuses primarily on the French (and German?) speaking web to begin with, but I'm hopefull it will get good in all languages eventually.
Mojeek
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in reply to Matt • • •partner_boat_slug
in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn • • •All this nice opensource code still is executed on hardware owned (Intellectual Property/IP) by AMD/Intel/Qualcomm/NVIDIA/Apple. Having nice European-Open Source projects is not enough without the hardware layer and standards (instruction sets, drivers), which are owned IP by US cooperation's.
Also one needs to consider cooperation between military-complex/secret-service and big-tech cooperation, which are basically hidden subsidies for the civilian part of the business. And if eu governments do not subsidize their own tech standards similarly they will get out-competed naturally.
Captain Beyond
in reply to HaraldvonBlauzahn • • •I always had the impression that the free software idea had a stronger presence in Europe (and, generally, non-Anglo areas) and have generally chalked that up to the fact that the ambiguity of free (as in freedom)/free (as in beer) largely does not exist outside of English. Note that "open" is every bit as ambiguous as "free" here - i've had way too many arguments with people who thought "open" just means you can look at the source code (imagine thinking that a store was "open" just because you can look through the window and see products).
However IMO the author goes a bit too far in presenting free software seemingly as some sort of uniquely European concept - he seems to suggest that the creation of Linux came about entirely out of thin air, and almost reads to me like Linus Torvalds originated the idea of copyleft - with no mention whatsoever of the American GNU project upon whose shoulders he stands. Allegedly he was inspired by a talk Richard Stallman gave at his university in 1990.
... show moreI always had the impression that the free software idea had a stronger presence in Europe (and, generally, non-Anglo areas) and have generally chalked that up to the fact that the ambiguity of free (as in freedom)/free (as in beer) largely does not exist outside of English. Note that "open" is every bit as ambiguous as "free" here - i've had way too many arguments with people who thought "open" just means you can look at the source code (imagine thinking that a store was "open" just because you can look through the window and see products).
However IMO the author goes a bit too far in presenting free software seemingly as some sort of uniquely European concept - he seems to suggest that the creation of Linux came about entirely out of thin air, and almost reads to me like Linus Torvalds originated the idea of copyleft - with no mention whatsoever of the American GNU project upon whose shoulders he stands. Allegedly he was inspired by a talk Richard Stallman gave at his university in 1990.
oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/c…
Edit: Git also did not come out of thin air, Linux developers were using a proprietary (American) VCS in the beginning, under a gratis license specifically granted for Linux development. The Australian developer Andrew Tridgell is arguably the person most responsible for inciting the development of git, as the proprietary VCS developer withdrew the gratis licenses once he developed a free tool which could interoperate with the proprietary servers.
gnu.org/philosophy/mcvoy.html
(That proprietary tool is now licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, but as far as I know no one uses it anymore)
Free as in Freedom: Chapter 9
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