Well, that’s this afternoon planned then.

A non technical answer: Don’t interact with other players and don’t give out any personal information.

Use a unique and non-memorable username in steam and in game. Don’t use any of the social functions in steam.

It’s often overlooked that the biggest risk to personal information is the person themselves.

(Obviously you need to give some information to Steam for purchasing, and others have shown other methods to limit what information is sold about you as much as you an. It also depends where you reside - the EU has better protections than most)

I think you’ll find some ISPs will be reluctant to let go of CGNAT - they’re doing quite nicely by charging extra for ‘commercial’ services where it’s not in the way.

Fortunately, many of us know about cloudflare tunnelling and other services, so NAT really isn’t a problem to self hosters and even SMEs any more.

Agree, and I switched over a couple of years ago. Only yesterday learned about Mermaid graphs and was impressed that Joplin does them natively.

That’s great optics.

Not sure how workable it is to define how you would define “confidential information” without having already viewed the content. But the whole thing isn’t very clever on a technical level anyway. Technically competent people will always find a way around such censorship.

I don’t think Snowden’s endorsement is the positive you think it is. Even if you can ignore treason, he’s a pretty toxic person, by all accounts.

So you’re using Kodi as the OS on the TV itself? Not the Kodi App or Kodi backend?

I’m still struggling to understand how that would work, and still have Jellyfin in the mix - could you please explain exactly what you mean?

No, and never did - but I don’t understand your point. Facebook started only a year after Myspace did.

I think you’re reading more into that than there is.

Why use kodi *and *jellyfin? Jellyfin is its own thing, and without all the awful cruft that comes with Kodi.

It also has native apps for windows, linux and… FireTv.

Hopefully they escalate it to our MPs, who certainly have plenty to worry about when it comes to not wanting others seeing what they’re doing online and might actually do something to protect privacy for once.

The way I help, as a Sysadmin, is primarily by using foss software in my job and feeding back with bug reports, issues and so on. I’ve raised several hundred issues on Github this way, and try to do them concisely, accurately and with as much relevant information as I can.

“We’re shocked” - nobody.

But companies are crawling everything like mad - I’ve noticed a 400% upturn this year alone in bot traffic on a low traffic web forum and a few sites I host, so much so that I’m having to do some fairly heavy filtering upstream to keep them out. (They don’t resepect robots.txt, obviously)

When bot traffic outnumbers legitimate traffic at least 10x, it makes you wonder why you’re paying to host stuff.

That’s really neat, and in the Debian main repos.

micro looks very impressive. I’m too invested in vi to move away from that, but it’s great to see alternatives, especially those focused on being easy to use (like jed)

Only weird thing from the cap I saw was that you need to edit a json file to change keybindings - doesn’t that go against the ‘easy to use’ edict, or is that something that’s planned to be changed?

This is exactly why I never buy Early Access games. The biggest thrill for me is starting a new game, and if that isn’t as good as it can possibly be, then that opportunity has been wasted.

Sure, it /may/ get better at some undefined point in the future, but there’s just so many games out there that are complete, and won’t require re-visiting at some point because they got better. Once that first play is gone, it’s gone.

It’s actually 250 euros for the top tier (267 $us)

I mean, seriously, what the actual fucking fuck?

Obesity is increasingly a problem in low- and middle-income countries.

Isn’t that always going to be the case, regardless of ingredient adjustment? It feels like people who have had very little food will tend towards over-compensating during times of glut - perhaps not so much the generation directly affected, but the care they give to next generations.

As an example vaguely related but less extreme; I was born in 1970 in England to a lower middle-class family. My parents were wartime and post-war babies who had experienced rationing and as a result, I have very strong recollections of being made to “clear your plate” before I could leave the table. (Ironically given this topic, the “there are starving children in Africa who would like that” line was given quite often)

Wasting food was the absolute highest sin I could commit and that’s stayed with me to this day.

Fair point.

If the distro team is compromised, then that leaves all their users open too. I’d hope that didn’t happen, but you’re right, it’s possible.

I think bus factor would be a lot easier to cope with than a slowly progressing, semi-abandoned project and a White Knight saviour.

In a complete loss of a sole maintainer, then it should be possible to fork and continue a project. That does require a number of things, not least a reliable person who understands the codebase and is willing to undertake it. Then the distros need to approve and change potentially thousands of packages that rely upon the project as a dependency.

Maybe, before a library or any software gets accepted into a distro, that distro does more due diligence to ensure it’s a sustainable project and meets requirements like a solid ownership?

The inherited debt from existing projects would be massive, and perhaps this is largely covered already - I’ve never tried to get a distro to accept my software.

Nothing I’ve seen would completely avoid risk. Blackmail upon an existing developer is not impossible to imagine. Even in this case, perhaps the new developer in xz started with pure intentions and they got personally compromised later? (I don’t seriously think that is the case here though - this feels very much state sponsored and very well planned)

It’s good we’re asking these questions. None of them are new, but the importance is ever increasing.