Många vänsterpartister i Göteborg utreds för brott. Ett av argumenten för att ”pausa” (en omskrivning för suspendera) Kristofer Lundberg från sitt uppdrag som ordförande i Vänsterpartiet Angered är att han är föremåla för en brottsutredning. Det är så klart ett svepskäl. För det finns ju faktiskt fler vänsterpartister i Göteborg som är föremål för brottsutredningar. Minst 4 vänsterpartister har nämligen anmälts för brott av den liberale politikern Axel Darvik.
There are sane people with this many VMs on a personal machine, right? RIGHT?
Half of these exist because I was bored once.
The Windows 10 and MacOS ones are GPU passthrough enabled and what I occasionally use if I have to use a Windows or Mac application. Windows 7 is also GPU enabled, but is more a nostalgia thing than anything.
I think my PopOS VM was originally installed for fun, but I used it along with my Arch Linux, Debian 12 and Testing (I run Testing on host, but I wanted a fresh environment and was too lazy to spin up a Docker or chroot), Ubuntu 23.10 and Fedora to test various software builds and bugs, as I don't like touching normal Ubuntu unless I must.
The Windows Server 2022 one is one I recently spun up to mess with Windows Docker Containers (I have to port an app to Windows, and was looking at that for CI). That all become moot when I found out Github's CI doesn't support Windows Docker containers despite supporting Windows runners (The organization I'm doing it for uses Github, so I have to use it).
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Ytterligare en present till de gängkriminella. Regeringen har beslutat att anonyma vittnen ska införas. Det har enligt all forskning ingen som helst betydelse vad det gäller brottsbekämpning. Det minskar inte brottsligheten alls men innebär en kraftig minskning av rättssäkerheten. Och det används i allmänhet inte i de länder där det finns.
Bitcoinhandel var inte olaglig. Svea hovrätt har ändrat Västmanlands tingsrätts dom gällande ett fall med bitcoinhandel. En man, Linus Dunkers, dömdes för grovt skattebrott i tingsrätten. Detta då han haft inkomster från bland annat köp och försäljning av kryptovaluta men inte tagit upp detta i sin inkomstdeklaration. Enligt hovrätten hade mannen inte något uppsåt vilket krävs för straffansvar.
This week in KDE Plasma: converging 6.2
This week in Plasma: converging 6.2
The core Plasma team remains deep in bug-fixing mode until Plasma 6.2.1, with lots of bugs fixed this week! This is the second-to-last week of development before the repos are frozen, and we’…Adventures in Linux and KDE
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MediaTek Chipsets Zero-Click Vulnerability Detected by Researchers, Can Affect Routers and Smartphones | Technology News
MediaTek Chipsets Zero-Click Vulnerability Detected by Researchers, Can Affect Routers and Smartphones
MediaTek chipsets are reportedly carrying a critical vulnerability which might make it easy for hackers to exploit remote code execution (RCS) attackers.Siddharth Suvarna (Gadgets 360)
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Original blog post. That website has too much JavaScript
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This story has nothing to do with why Linux would be any better than Windows. Sure, if you lie to people, then anything can be convincing. What if I had a firewall installed in Linux, wouldn't you have had the same issues?
This is sort of the problem I have with a lot of Linux enthusiasts, when you have a hammer, everything is a nail.
Compared to Windows and MacOS as a client desktop, Linux still severely falls behind, but it is getting better. For a server, Linux is just far superior.
You think linux doesn't have a firewall? I'm fairly certain every distribution has one installed and enabled by default.
The real reason linux worked so well in this situation was the local admin rights that came from being a rogue, unmanaged device on the network. I'm sure they could have made windows work if all the group policies weren't being enforced.
Yes, you have iptables and nftables, but it's not always enabled. So, when I said installed, I really meant enabled. I 100% agree with what you are saying though.
Unfortunately a lot of places just have shitty IT and people go rogue because of it. Some people are just impatient though as it sounds like in this case.
You also have things like apparmor and selinux. If those are enabled, you might be chasing your tail trying to figure out why something is not working. You would need to know where to look and how to fix it.
What if I had a firewall installed in Linux
A previous company of mine, required an "AntiVirus" installed on the Linux computers too.
The one the IT guy installed, ran in the background all the time, doing nobody-knows-what and and slowing down every thing and having multiple segfaults in a minute, shown in the journal.
Long after I left, I also saw an RCE vulnerability related to it. So essentially, my system would have been more secure without the app.
As much as I disagree with your last statement (I think Linux for client is on par with Windows for the vast majority of users), I strongly agree with everything else. This wasn't a Windows problem, but a "your IT is cockblocking you" problem, it could have happened in Linux too if it wasn't because he used a rogue device, he could have fixed it on Windows too doing the same.
Personally I would have gone straight to Linux because I'm out of the loop on how to do these sort of stuff on Windows. If it had to be Windows, let IT figure that out, their firewall, their anti-virus, their problem.
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That’s not how I read it at all
By supporting
work on a freelance basis for these topics, Valve enables us to work on
them without being limited solely by the free time of our volunteers.
Seems pretty explicit to me. Valve is allowing some arch linux contributors to work freelance for valve and get paid money to work on the things they would otherwise be working on for free. This allows these contributors to spend much more time working on these things because they can treat this work as the-thing-I-do-to-put-food-in-my-mouth rather than something extra they would do on the scraps of time they have on the side.
By supporting work on a freelance basis
This sounds like Valve is paying devs to work full time on arch, and thus managing to achive more than volunteers could.
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winewayland: "Use subsurfaces for unmanaged windows" merged
Interestingly, the developer is already bringing up the possibility of using Wayland by default.
Btw, after this I feel like the driver is much more usable, would it be acceptable to enable it by default? Is there any other major feature missing (given that virtual display settings is being worked on)?
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Cubedex - Open source bluetooth cube training
Cubedex is a lightweight Progressive Web App (PWA) that connects to your GAN smartcube using Bluetooth. It's designed to help you drill, time, and master algorithms like PLL and OLL, making it easier to build them into your muscle memory faster and more effectively.
📱 How to Get Started:
✅ Visit CubeDex.app in your browser
✅ Add Cubedex to your home screen for an app-like experience
✅ You can use it offline - Cubedex works perfectly without an internet connection
Cubedex has been created with ♥ by Pau Oliva Fora using gan-web-bluetooth and cubing.js.
If you enjoy using Cubedex, please consider supporting the development on Ko-fi.
GitHub - poliva/cubedex: Quickly train Rubik's cube algorithms using a smartcube.
Quickly train Rubik's cube algorithms using a smartcube. - poliva/cubedexGitHub
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From the "privacy nightmare" "article":
If you have any objection at all to your posts and profile information being potentially sucked up by Meta, Google, or literally any other bad actor you can think of, do not use the fediverse. Period.
It's on the internet. Public. Got it. It's almost as if, and hold on to your hats here, the whole point of posting on something like Mastodon or Lemmy or so is to have a public discourse, as you cannot know who will be replying anyways. It's almost as if, and this is getting wild, I know, read-access being public is intentional and explicitly part of the design.
Sorry, but this always make me rage. It's like these people are discovering in 2024 that public access means anyone can read it, not just 2000 individual tech bloggers. It's like in 2024 they're discovering that, but aren't technicallly skilled enough to open a forum to have their closed-of discussions in.
Sigh.
No wonder the tech sphere is going to shits if this is the modern discourse around it. :(
Sorry, rant over.
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Asynchronous Device Shutdown Doesn't Make It For Linux 6.12
Asynchronous Device Shutdown Doesn't Make It For Linux 6.12
Patches for wiring up async device shutdown within the Linux kernel were queued via the driver core branch for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernelwww.phoronix.com
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Flohmarkt is a Fediverse Marketplace
As the Fediverse continues to grow, people are looking to build new experiences that change what's possible on the network today.
Flohmarkt is a nascent project intended for selling personal items, and may be the first attempt of its kind here.
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I don't know how, but i kinda imagined it even though i don't speak a word of German (nor i am an English native speaker). It just... uh, sounds like it.
cinnamon_tea
in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •I have probably a couple of more Linux/BSD VMs than here (with some with GPU passthrough and one or two for ARM crossbuilding and so on) but only 2 Windows VMs - the only 2 I have legitimate licenses for.
But am I normal? Most would disagree. 😅
data1701d (He/Him)
in reply to cinnamon_tea • • •10, plain 11, 7, and funny enough, Server 2022 are all legit licenses (I can get a key for server through my university). Actually, I'm pretty sure the 11 one, I upgraded a Windows 7 VM to 10, then to 11.
Every other Windows version that needs it (11 LTSC, 8.1, and Vista), I just temporarily host a phony KMS server whenever it needs to be reactivated.
I apologize for talking so much about Windows on a Linux sub. May Stallman break into my house and give me 10 lashes as I slumber.
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in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •I do have as many too at work.
I use one VM for each iteration of my automation software. Our factory has machines ranging from the 90s to present day, and they use different software environments to be programmed. In order to minimize the risk of data loss, we have one virtual machine with every software environment, that way if one gets corrupted, the damage is contained. It also makes them easier to export to new computers when we need to replace ours.
Flyberius [comrade/them]
in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •Auster
in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •On the joke, define "sane". 😬
On a serious note, I think there are valid reasons to have several VMs other than "I was bored". In my case, for example, I have a total of 7 VMs, where 2 are miscellaneous systems to test things out, 2 are for stuff that I can't normally run on Linux, 2 are offline VMs for language dictionaries, and 1 is a BlissOS VM with Google programs in case I can't/don't want to use my phone.
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in reply to WasPentalive • • •I like to run a hypervisor host as just that, a hypervisor host. The host being stable is important, and also reduce attack surface by only having it as that.
An LXC per service is somewhat overkill. A docker host running on LXC could likely run all the docker containers.
olympicyes
in reply to lazynooblet • • •Kovukono
in reply to WasPentalive • • •Serious answer, I'm not sure why someone would run a VM to run just a container inside the VM, aside from the VM providing volumes (directories) to the VM. That said, VMs are perfectly capable of running containers, and can run multiple containers without issue. For work, our Gitlab instance has runners that are VMs that just run containers.
Fun answer, have you heard of Docker in Docker?
olympicyes
in reply to WasPentalive • • •I have a real use case! I have a commercial server software that can run on Ubuntu or RHEL compatible distributions. My entire environment is Ubuntu. They also allow the server software to run in a docker container but the container must be running RHEL. Furthermore, their license terms require me to build the docker container myself to accept the EULA and the docker image must be built on RHEL! So I have an LXC container running Rocky Linux that gets docker installed for the purpose of building RHEL (Core is 8) imaged docker containers. It’s a total mess but it works! You must configure nested security because this doesn’t work by default.
Instructions here: ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-ru…
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in reply to WasPentalive • • •LXC is much more light weight than VMs, so it's not as much overhead. I've done it this way in case I need to reboot a container (or something goes wrong with an update) without disrupting the other services
Also keeps it consistent since I have some services that don't run in docker. One service per LXC
Possibly linux
in reply to wulf • • •I wouldn't call that terribly efficient.
I would do 2-3 VMs with docker and maybe a network share
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in reply to lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr) • • •delirious_owl
in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •I have about twice this many VMs and about this many running at any given time.
I use Qubes btw
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in reply to delirious_owl • • •delirious_owl
in reply to sntx • • •Its my only computer. I couldn't go back to anything else. Every time I double click Firefox, it opens a new VM. When I close Firefox, the VM is destroyed.
Email is in a separate VM. Email attachments also open in a disposable VM. USB devices are quarantined unless I connect them to a specific VM. Its a game changer.
Cons: I need as much ram as I used to need when I ran Windows. Watching videos is a bit choppy at full screen sometimes. And I can't play any video games.
flashgnash
in reply to delirious_owl • • •Sounds like some pretty serious cons
Out of curiosity why do you like qubes? Having everything in a VM doesn't sound that great to me
I get that the main concern of it is security but what do you do that it demands that level of hardening? I've only ever got one virus in my life that I know of as it is and that was on windows
delirious_owl
in reply to flashgnash • • •Lol wut? Those pros far outweigh the cons. But I guess I don't care about video games?
I have money on my computer, and I have a company that has customer info. That's enough of a reason for me to want to protect my shit better than running one big, super-vulnerable system
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in reply to radau • • •radau
in reply to delirious_owl • • •Fwiw I had to tinker a bit to get good video playback, Fedora was always choppy for me for some reason but debian is typically smooth with hw accel disabled.
As for the gaming, depending on your setup (I have a desktop and T480 I keep in sync) you can absolutely run two video cards and do PCI passthrough on one to a gaming VM. I have mine set up with a dedicated NIC and USB card and just use a KVM to swap between Qubes and Windows (for now) and it's worked really well. Had to play around a ton to get the full speed out of the GPU though and it only seemed to work in windows so hopefully get that going for a Linux hvm one day.
Absolutely agree there is no going back, I have all of my work stuff entirely hardware agnostic and a full on replica of my work desktop ready to go in a moment should the desktop die. Apart from that keeping client work isolated has been such a game changer.
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in reply to radau • • •I use Debian. Like I said, video is only sometimes choppy. I usually have a few vlc windows open at one time. Something I've learned is that it will use a lot of CPU even if the video is paused. To stop it, I have to manually set the video source to "none" when I pause a video and leave it in the BG.
Or just pause the whole VM. Another great Qubes feature
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in reply to delirious_owl • • •this has been my experience with it on windows too, so it must be a core VLC thing. if it bothers you, I recommend you to try out MPV. been using it for more than a year, would never go back. If you need more than the on screen controller and key combos, there are quite a few proper GUI players being built on MPV.
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in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •Well I do but I have a machine with 3/4 of a terabyte of memory on it.
Work scraps are great sometimes.
How are you running the MacOS VMs. The machine I have is a cheese grater so that makes it easier.
data1701d (He/Him)
in reply to billwashere • • •I found a prebuilt OpenCore for KVM. github.com/thenickdude/KVM-Ope…
I then changed the config.plist to make it think it was a 2019 Mac Pro.
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in reply to billwashere • • •billwashere
in reply to olympicyes • • •On the cheesegrater(2019 MacPro) it’s a little convoluted. During covid times it was my single box lab since it had so much memory (768TB). So I was running nested ESXI hosts and then VMs under that. I also have a M1 MacBook Pro that I had parallels run ARM VMs (mostly MacOS, Windows, and a couple of Debian installs I think).
I have been looking at VMWare alternatives at work so for the hypervisors I’ve been playing around.
I do this stuff for a living but I also do it home for fun and profit. Ok not so much profit. Ok no profit but definitely for the fun. And because I love large electric bills.
olympicyes
in reply to billwashere • • •That’s a beast of a Mac. Wake on lan is your friend. I have the same problem with my Threadripper. I wrote a script that issues a WOL command to either start/unsuspend my Ubuntu machine so I can turn it off when not in use. It’s probably $70/month difference for me. Most of my virtualization is on Linux but I’ve moved away from VM Ware because QEMU/KVM has worked so well for me. You should check out UTM on the Mac App Store and see if that solves any of your problems.
ETA: mac.getutm.app/
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in reply to olympicyes • • •Raccoonn
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in reply to Raccoonn • • •radau
in reply to Raccoonn • • •I did this with Qubes a year ago and haven't had any issues apart from figuring out the right flags to get the full performance, otherwise the GPU would cap around 30% under load with low CPU load.
Kind of at the mercy of what your motherboard and bios will allow, mine I had to cheese a little and disable the PCI device on boot so I get to decrypt my disk with no screen lol but it works!
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in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •I have two Windows VMs. One for work and presentations. One for games and Adobe. A bunch of random Linux VMs trying to get a FireWire card to work and a Windows 7 VM for the same reason. I’ve also for several Linux VMs trying out new versions of Fedora, Ubuntu, or Debian. A couple servers. Almost none of them are ever turned on because my real virtualized workloads run in docker or LXC! I never could get Mac VM to work but I have an AMD CPU and a MacBook so not too high priority.
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in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •Interesting enough, there is a project that I've found that runs Windows in a Docker container as a VM.
github.com/dockur/windows
I run a Windows 10 LTSC that way to run things like Blue Iris for my security cameras, and some stuff to track my solar installation.
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in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •Dizzy Devil Ducky
in reply to data1701d (He/Him) • • •If I could get vbox to work* on my laptop or find the drive to learn QEMU, then I would have plenty on there. For now I'm just stuck with plenty on my desktop running win10.
*I have installed it a few times on my Debian based distro, but I swear every time I do nothing to it and it destroys itself. Works fine one day, then the next I turn on my laptop, after the only changes being that I created and ran a VM and it decided to hate me and not even boot the program. I think I'm just cursed.
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in reply to glitch1985 • • •- Windows ME
- Glorious Leader's Red Star OS
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- Don't use an operating system - sacrifice all your your time to studying the ways of the mighty Zarthadonatoxator instead. All hail Zarthadonatoxator! Zarthadonatoxator is the only true way!
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in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •I think this VM is still on Sonoma, actually. I still need to upgrade.
I can't remember exactly what I did to get an installer image, but there's a million shell scripts online for downloading macOS installer images. For booting it, I use this premade OpenCore for KVM/Proxmox. I have to check if I made other modifications (I run on an AMD CPU), but I think I mainly just had to set the serial and model - I personally used a 2019 Mac Pro.
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in reply to interdimensionalmeme • • •dd if=whatchamacallit.dmg of=whatchamacallit.img. I think you can get a net install image through macrecovery, which is a utility included with OpenCore packages.UltraGiGaGigantic
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