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Pennsylvania Contact Tracing Breach Impacts Private Info of 72K People

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/pennsylvania-contact-tracing-breach-impacts-private-info-of-72k-people/3029773/

Okay, Proxmox has a slight learning curve, but I've figured it out.

My biggest hurdle was adding a 2TB external SSD to it so I'd have enough space to actually add VMs. It's an old laptop, I knew there were going to be quirks.

I'm just finishing up spinning up a test Ubuntu Server and once that's done I'll start making real ones for me.

Got tired of waitig for the Dash to dock extention to get released for gnome 40 and built it from source, woking fine for now ,,,,...

WTF ... Mozilla had always running JavaScript inside PDFs disabled by default.

But now with FF 88 this option is ENABLED by default. Which means, if a PDF file contains JS it will run without any user interaction. What can possibly go wrong?

To disable this:

about:config
pdfjs.enableScripting --> false

# FF 78.10 ESR doesn't include this option and still blocks JS in PDFs by default. Just tested.

Normalise tech folks having a conscience.

Ah, the irony...

For the uninitiated: Metallica played a huge role in the fight for draconian music copyright laws.

'A half-vaccinated world is like a swimming pool where only one end has a "no pissing" rule.'

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/27/bruno-argento/#pharma-death-cult

Introducing the Fedora i3 Spin

"Fedora 34 features the brand new i3 Spin created by the Fedora i3 S.I.G. This new spin features the popular i3wm tiling window manager. This will appeal to both novices and advanced users who prefer not to use a mouse, touchpad, or other pointing device to interact with their environment. The Fedora i3 spin offers […]"

https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-the-fedora-i3-spin/ #bot #opensource #Fedora

Access freenode using Matrix clients

"This article is a guide on how to register, identify and join freenode channels from Matrix clients using the Matrix IRC bridge."

https://fedoramagazine.org/access-freenode-using-matrix-clients/ #bot #opensource #Fedora

I like that most VPN services' selling point is to show you your own IP address like, "Oh no! Everyone can see this! You're DOOOOMED!" But it'll be OK if we just let Joe Bob's Discount VPN and Bait Shop have exclusive access to our Internet activity instead.

From NORMAL mode, to swap two characters type xp

The Ultimate DEGOOGLED ANDROID ROM, now even BETTER! https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/4533152a-82e1-43e2-a87e-d722d169fd12

Microsloth Windoze (n.):
Hackerism(s) for ‘Microsoft Windows’. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.
😂
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/Microsloth-Windows.html