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Comment I would like to give Zorin a spin (Score 1) 63

I played with Zorin a few years back and ultimately went with Mint. Not because I didn't like Zorin but because I couldn't fully test it in a VM. I could not get Zorin to play nice in VirtualBox (graphics and drop down list issues) but Mint worked flawlessly. Given its new popularity I think I'll give it another try.

Comment Re:Poor political decisions. (Score 1) 96

Not really. Every ruling power in Iran over the past century has made the exact same bad decisions in this respect. The previous monarchy, the more recent monarchy, socialists, capitalists, foreign interests, Islamic revolutionaries, they've all been drawing too much water from the aquifers too fast for terrible reasons.

Comment Re:That does not inspire confidence (Score 1) 49

"No backup" is amateur-level. Also that they did not use n-out-of-k with n k is a pretty basic mistake.

Especially for people who do cryptography as their livelihood. They understand the importance of keys and to keep them safe.

Not using n of k is understandable - not every situation warrants n of k and they were likely thinking that it would be fine for all three people to be in charge of the results. N of k usually is for situations where you want K people to have the key so only N of them need to be present. Like if you were accessing say, a secret vault - you want N people to verify everyone's role in the access, but K people need access.

Here all 3 people likely were going to be needed to certify the election results so having 2 of 3 wouldn't have done anything other than let one of them lose the key.

Comment Re:As much as I want to shit on Mozilla (Score 1) 24

30 GB of Mail Storage
300 GB of Send Storage
15 Email Addresses
3 Custom Domains
Is a good amount of service for $9 a month. I assume that this is 15 different logins. Proton is $7 per user.

I pay $11.50/month for 500GB of storage. It's a hosting service called OpalStack. You can have unlimited email accounts, unlimited domains as long as it all fits in 500GB

Sure it's $2.50 a month more, but you get hosting as well. And it's a full Linux shell prompt, no chintzy CPanel or other service - full linux LAMP hosting of whatever you want.

Comment Re:We're in the group (Score 1) 209

The problem is not the few parents who are homeschooling because their kid isn't getting adequate education, it's the larger majority of people who are homeschooling, or rather "unschooling". Usually because they don't want their kids exposed to "strange kids" (kids who are non-white, or do things that are unusual), or exposed to "bad ideas".

If you don't know, that's when parents are basically not teaching them anything - they grow up to be 18 and have the social skills of a 5 year old, math below a Grade 5 level (they can barely add two single-digit numbers together), and are completely hopeless.

Yes, there are people growing up literally as dumb as rocks. Their parents teach them that ignorance is good. Just vote Republican and all will be well with the world, and stay away from anyone with a different skin color as they're evil. Just stick around and do the family business and you'll be alright.

It's an alarming trend, and sadly, they outnumber the few kids who actually get a decent or better education at home.

Comment Re:Good products (Score 1) 104

I'm sure soon enough you'll get HEVC enablers in the Windows Store where you can pay $5 and enable hardware HEVC decode.

But it's likely not a huge issue - HEVC would only apply for 4K videos, and web videos are using either h.264 or AV1. Some streaming services are using HEVC, but the patent issues have generally steered them to using h.264

HEVC is generally reserved only for Blu-Ray playback, and since UHD Blu-Ray is not possible on PCs anymore, it's basically relatively useless. Everyone else uses h.264 or AV1

Comment Re: 196 degree C is wrong (Score 2) 34

/. can't do UTF

It can, actually. It just implements an ASCII filter because you must sanitize your input, especially Unicode. Anyone who doesn't sanitize their Unicode is asking for trouble as people abuse Unicode to screw up your webpage. It's trivial to make say, a page unreadable if you do not implement any filters.

If you count by characters, you can ingest megabytes of Unicode because you can have unlimited decorations on a character. You have to limit your inputs and you have to limit what you can input. Unicode is ever evolving and new codepoints are constantly being defined that can mess with you. /. filters to just the ASCII set in a very hacky but correct way of whitelisting allowed Unicode characters.

It's also advanced enough to filter HTML entities which can contain arbitrary Unicode codepoints, to avoid the same issue. It's supported, just filtered.

Comment Re:Computer crimes are over penalized (Score 2) 56

Don't forget the costs to examine everything to make sure there weren't any other surprises hidden somewhere else.

Forensic computer analysts aren't cheap.

His script might have just changed passwords, but you don't know if he did anything else.

I would probably say the costs were probably under-reported and just what they could adequately document as damages. Someone who couldn't log in for a day and do useful work might not be reported because there's no direct cost, just an indirect one of having someone sit around twiddling thumbs. And that's assuming they need the computer - maybe they could do work offline or do it on their work laptop not attached to the network. Someone like that you can't add to your claim because they could do useful work and separating the costs gets really hard.

Comment Re:Plants (Score 1) 7

Sounds like there are plants within Mozilla, in addition to all the other problems. So it's effectively as shady as Edge or Chrome now. Having to comb through the menus to turn off anything trying to give me AI or coupons, and still never really being sure.

Don't forget about the ad tracking that's on by default as well. Mozilla bought an ad-tech company founded by Meta ex-employees and enabled ad tracking by default.

Comment Re:This is all so embarrassing (Score 1) 33

Yes!! And:

...got the macro breakdown wrong even after the reviewer manually edited entries to include exact brands and amounts...

The fact that the user hand-edited the inputs and it *still* got it wrong, tells us that the company doesn't actually care if their product even works.

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