Amazon is this super well oiled machine. People never think of it that way. They just think: 'Amazon: Oh yeah that e-commerce store where I buy my gadgets and groceries'. But it's so much more complex and nuanced. What I always loved about it is the self-dogfooding that happens with AWS. The fact the store uses it means they get to use AWS for free (in a sense). It's pretty clever.
That is why I think we are still in early days of the (fediverse-powered) web. All this fringe tech will blossom eventually and we can live the 'decentralists dream' we all seem to be pushing for. Give it time. Yes, effort is still needed, and we all need to do our part to make it work, but simply being patient too, waiting for all this tech to bloom will be worth it.
Pretty much the same applies: I'm quite happy with my Linux desktop, I don't need it to dominate the world to be useful. (for social stuff of course additional network effects apply, but if you are in the right communities that's easily hit)
Linux desktop/laptop is actually pretty usable nowadays - installing Ubuntu on a laptop is much less of an "adventure" than it used to be, with fewer incantations needed to get things working.
In fact I just installed Ubuntu on a laptop this evening, and it worked really well. (I did make sure others had met with success with this specific model of laptop before I tried it though.) Things have come a long way since "linux on the desktop" first emerged as a meme.
FWIW I've considered Linux better for my purposes since 15 or so years ago and easier than Windows since over a decade ago when I had to spend 4 hours to "configure" an OEM install.
(That included everything from I clicked the button until I had uninstalled McAfee and every other useless thing but still.)
Only learning now that that site is built using a thing called LBRY[0]. What a fascinating thing to learn about. I should have known about it earlier. Might build a few things with this...
Yeah, I was also curious about it. I was kinda hoping for a service that I can simply replace a youtube link with another one and watch it without sharing my details directly with youtube (a proxy, I guess...). But I guess it's too much to ask.
Browse with JS disabled by default. Then in uBlock Origin you can temporarily whitelist the page and browse it with JS enabled if it really requires it.
Good OPSEC practice using Medium for your anonymous parody ramblings. I know some people genuinely wanting to be anonymous and their full legal name is in the whois records of the domain!
It would be wise not to disclose it, if you do decide to microdose for the purposes of productivity. There are many people who don't tell their coworkers that they take certain medicine in order to be functional. LSD is no exception. It's a tool like any other molecule or medicine.
There was that time I licked a few flakes of mushrooms out of the bottom of a bag and about 15 minutes later I felt "slightly crosseyed" and couldn't focus on a computer screen for 7 hours or so.
Shrooms actually help with visual acuity (at least according to Terrence McKenna). I recall him saying it in a talk. His 'stoned ape' theory suggests that people used to take shrooms before hunting to give them an unfair advantage.
I think sometimes people manage high hand-eye performance under the Serotonin 2A trip, but a person "tripping balls" probably has their irises opened by the drug effect, causing a little blur to begin with and then some pattern matching PLL goes haywire causing the walls to breathe and at higher doses you might see a lot of geometry and lines that aren't there or the flowers are blooming and spraying you with sex energy and you'd better run...
At that point you are not experiencing better visual acuity -- half an hour or a day later, however, the story might be different.
There is a clinic in Israel that publishes record numbers of case reports about young people who took L.S.D. or such and now they perceive things differently so they are exempt from the draft. I think they are a bunch of quacks and malingers unlike the town in Poland where the drunks discovered that 1-propanol and 1-butanol are possibly safe and certainly more cost effective than 1-ethanol; reports from the e-room confirm the toxicity is similar to that of ethanol.
It defaults to the GTK display: https://down.loaded.ie/Lb9RDi3.png. See the -display section in QEMU(1) for details and other options. My favorite is -nographic, which forces VGA output to the terminal; very useful when there is no X session or similar.
Edit: I realised GUI might mean creating and managing virtual machines; virt-manager might be good? Take a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libvirt for the setup needed. (I think it's easier to learn to use vanilla QEMU, though.)
You're being unfairly downvoted, so allow me to actually answer your first question.
QEMU doesn't have much of a GUI to speak of. It's a virtualization framework with some CLI tooling on top of it. Frontends/management UI's/etc are left as an exercise to the community so you can find one that suits your needs.
A recent Windows build used GTK3 decorations; I was very surprised to see that appear. You are right that it is quite low on functionality, its menu allows powering off and rebooting the VM, and gives access to the serial console as well as a command-line interface for the emulator.
QEMU does have a quite primitive GUI while it's running that lets you change disks and so on. But really, it's not a graphical emulator. You specify everything via command-line switches. (They're fairly intuitive, mind you. “-hda drive-c.img -m 16 -cpu 486 -soundhw sb16,adlib -vga cirrus” does what it sounds like.)
There are of course tools that provide a friendlier GUI wrapper if the command-line isn't your thing.
To pass files into VM I use lsyncd. It synchronizes changes to even big source trees over plain ssh and rsync. Of cause with big tree the initial copy takes time, but there is no security implications of exposing files to potentially untrusted VM.
It's not very damaging though. What good is `the last four digits` of a credit card? Also: Although PII was leaked, how useful is that, when previous breaches have exposed half the planet already? If I want someone's SSN to do identity theft, then I can access that very readily and easily in other breach corpuses, and they don't need to be in this breach.
It would be useful for social engineering, though I'd hazard a guess that a lot of DO customers are going to be more aware of that kind of thing. I've seen email and phone scams where the scammer gets info from a data leak and uses it to lull the target into a false sense of security before trying to extract more useful information.
"Hi, I'm calling from Bank of America about your debit card ending in XXXX. We've noticed some suspicious activity. Did you make a purchase for $200 at SomeOutlandishlyExpensiveStore? Oops, I need to verify your identity first? Can you give me your SSN?"
There you have two pieces of not-very-public information from the leak, and some bait to incite a little bit of panic, which might impede their judgement enough that they won't be too suspicious.
"Hello Joe Smith. This is amazon. We had an issue processing your card ending in 1234. Please send us and updated credit card details or we will have to close your Amazon account."
Something along those lines. Someone more creative could craft a better message.
“Who cares about PII leaks when there have been other breaches” is a weak argument.
Aside from being helpful for phishing, leaking the last 4 is enough for the issuer to pull the card, which is a major annoyance if you have other things billed to that card that will now all need to be updated.
There seems to be a lot of people very focused on keeping a lot of tabs open in their browser. For me, I browse the web, hit CTRL+D for a site that I would like to visit again later, and then close all my tabs automatically by simply quitting the browser. Why do people hoard URLs in the tabstrip? I guess that's how people use the web+browsers now, and my approach is very unique and unpopular.
I know for me I have several Firefox profiles for different things, and doing cumbersome things like creating a new Firefox profile for task `x` is too much for people, but splitting sessions up is a big win both for privacy and productivity. If I'm in a browser tailor made for email, there is a better chance I will focus only on email and not trying to do something else.
Compartmenting your browsing like this is good for privacy because secrets can't spill over into other sites since your more sensitive browsing is done in a separate session, insulated from work email, and cookies can't correlate activity, and build a profile of you. Bonus points if you do all your political browsing in things like the Tor Browser Bundle or use privacy-aware browsers like Brave or Firefox. But that's just me!
I swing between some kind of superhuman 'do all the things' productivity freak, and a singularly focused person all the time. When the circumstances are right, I will go full `sprint mode` and achieve a lot in a small amount of time. Other times I am in `marathon mode` where many-littles-make-a-lot and something much more complex is completed.
I have no exact number of projects, since my work is so intertwined with other projects, so the number varies often wildly as time goes on. But if you wanted to force a number out of me I would say 6-7 major projects and many mini sub-projects which get better over time due to gradual microhabits being cultivated over time.
