Edit: damnit I messed up the submission
:o - but the novel is awesome! Recommended for sure!
proper link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel)
Readit NewsIolaum commented on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun europeanbusinessmagazine.... · Posted by u/NewCzech
I m wondering why they are trying to build a competing product rather than a successor product?
The digital euro could be a good candidate here and it also aspires to have cash-like privacy features. It's also mentioned in the article as separate and hopefully non overlapping product.
Your body makes Vitamin D when in sunlight. Could it be that sunlight - and the whole being outdoors situation - is the thing that helps rather than vitamin d levels?
Iolaum commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster
I installed fedora yesterday. Instead of steam i am hoping that GOG with heroic games launcher will work nicely. Idk, I want to support drm free software so if it's on gog, I buy it there.
Fedora Silverblue user here. Lutris (from flatpak) can play GoG games fine (*).
(*): Apparently achievement support even on single player games requires the gamestore client (GoG client in my case) and Lutris doesn't support that yet. Am old enough to not care :p
Iolaum commented on GPU Memory Allocation Bugs with Nvidia on Linux and Wayland Adventures nickjanetakis.com/blog/gp... · Posted by u/nickjj
Skimmed through the blog post, interesting info and dig downs. Hate when I have to do something similar :o
I m curious why the author didn't test other Linux distros, either ones that use GNOME or MATE (for example) Desktop Environments, or stick with X11.
But then he is an arch user, and I'm not, hence I'm obviously missing something :p
What are the chances this will get fully defunded in 2026 when they realize they can't land before Trump leaves office? :p
Iolaum commented on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? infosec.press/brunomiguel... · Posted by u/pabs3
The web without ublock origin is a hellscape. Whenever I try another browser, I immediately go back to firefox.
Do these people even know their users?
For example: Fedora Silverblue default Firefox install had an issue with some Youtube videos due to codecs. So I tried watching youtube on Chromium. Ads were so annoying I stopped watching by the second time I tried to watch a video. Stopped watching youtube until I uninstalled default firefox install and added Firefox from flathub. If the option to use a good adblocker gets taken away I 'll most likely dramatically reduce my web browsing.
P.S. Maybe someone ports Vanadium to desktop Linux? If firefox goes away that 'd be my best case desktop browser. Using it on my mobile ;)
Iolaum commented on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/recvonline
Yes! I can confirm it works just like on desktop. I'm shocked when I have to use other people's phones. How do they put up with all these ads?
This! So many times!
Iolaum commented on Native ads coming soon to Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange meta.stackexchange.com/qu... · Posted by u/exploraz
....now?
Friend, it has always been this way. Malware in ads is literally the primary reason we created adblockers in the dark mists of time.
Flash was killed off because a majority of ads became cancerous Flash abominations executing all kinds of malicious code.
I stand corrected. Had heard the term malvertising but didn't happen to read such a concrete example like the one I shared. But from what you said I m sure many exist.
Stuxnet was pretty impressive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
It was a complicated product that many people worked in order to develop and took advantage of many pre-existing vulnerabilities as well knowledge of complex and niche systems in order to work.