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Comment Could be a good thing. We need smaller companies (Score 5, Interesting) 164

That sounds like a good thing. We need more smaller businesses to provide things instead of huge companies that can just take over industries making it harder for startups to compete. Let dozens of smaller companies provide tech to get more innovation and competition. The number of billion dollar companies a country has can have many meanings.

Comment Re:Accurately (Score 1) 126

Yea, This information is useless without details.

Even if it identified false positives at the same rate, there would be more false positive targets. It would need to be much better at not getting false positives. And then for the false positives that are found, Are they the same rating of false as human targeting or worse (school instead of house, etc).

Comment Likely most not going to get patched... (Score 1) 36

Most families I suspect don't know enough to do it or think of routers as set and forget (If they get it to work, then job accomplished). I bet if you took a poll of all households 1 mile around me in an urban area, A less than a few percent are checking their routers at all to make sure they are up-to-date and a lot of them likely don't remember how to since setting them up years ago. To be fair though... I would think most homes are using ISP provided routers which typically are updated by the ISP. ISPs... you are updating them quickly correct?

Router manufacturers targeting homes and small business which likely might not have the skills to secure them really need to step up and have secure by default settings and only allow disabling of updates with lots of warnings about results like this with pop ups. Security updates need to be provided for quite a long time too for that target market (8 to 10 years).

Comment I suspect complaints incoming on that change (Score 1) 66

The switch was very hard to accidentally switch it on. It did happen once though for me. With the new scheme where all it takes is a long press to put it in silent mode, That seem way more likely to be accidentally triggered. Phones are in pockets and purses, etc quite often. It will be way more likely for a button to get held in in on accident compared to an inset switch.

Comment Gnome... needs more extension update/install work (Score 1) 114

I have used Gnome on RHEL as my desktop from the beginning when redhat first started using it... It really needs some work in some areas.

Want to install more extensions? You do that through the web browser but there are complications... You get this notice on RHEL 9...
"To control GNOME Shell extensions using this site you must install GNOME Shell integration that consists of two parts: browser extension and native host messaging application."

Ok fine... install that extension which is pretty painless. Now you get a new notice...
"Your native host connector do not support following APIs: v6. Probably you should upgrade native host connector or install plugins for missing APIs. Refer documentation for instructions."

I just install extensions manually to get around that... that has issues too though...
Want to update an extension manually, With Wayland desktop manager, it appears you have to logout of your session and log back in.

Comment I like the service... does that make me bad? (Score 1) 97

I like that I don't have to think about when to get more ink (made that mistake many times). The price turns out to be cheaper than what we were paying before. I could care less if they disable third party ink because I want to use their service. I get that some might not want that though. For me though... the service has been working well. $5 a month is all I usually spend. Sometimes I will up that to $10 if I print more.

Comment Looks like stock trading/crypto apps ban coming (Score 4, Interesting) 42

Even if you call the company, They have stated to me that they cannot delete the account because of regulations requiring them to keep that info for tax reasons. I am assuming they were not lying but they could have been I guess. Deleting all of the data would remove traceability.

Comment Gnome Extension updates/installs require re-login (Score 1) 86

Gnome has gone backwards in this respect. You used to be able to restart the gnome-session with X11 but with wayland, You can't do that. You have to log out and log back in for newly installed/updated extensions. You can live-patch a kernel but you have to log out and log back into the your GUI session to add a gnome extension?

More info...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.gnome.org%2FGNOME...

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