Dolittle Samuel

I am just a guy hitting the right note for comments of likes so you are here reading this. I am just nobody, ordinary X user, amateur part-time programmer, daily drive is Linux, Japan animate, light novel and manga lover, learning Japanese, enjoy puzzle solving.

@Aditya_181105 You let us dominated and so obedience with all our decisions for so long, how is lesser power now hurt you? Refuse is pointless, give in, we will revert everything you tried to avoid from our decision eventually. You shall have lesser and lesser power. Like always, do not resist!

So microsoft decided you can't setup windows 11 offline. Well, time to go linux

In 2015 Lenovo shipped laptops with software that broke HTTPS for every user. Installed deliberately for ad revenue. Lenovo pre-installed a piece of adware called Superfish on consumer laptops starting September 2014. Its purpose was to scan every image you view on the internet and inject ads for similar products. To do that on HTTPS pages, it needed to intercept your encrypted traffic. So it did something catastrophic. it installed itself as a trusted root certificate authority on your laptop. Meaning your browser treated Superfish as a trusted source of certificates, the same level of trust as VeriSign, DigiCert, or your bank's own certificate authority. Everything you did over HTTPS- banking, email. shopping. medical records was being decrypted by Superfish, analyzed for images, and re-encrypted before it reached you. then it got worse. Every Lenovo laptop shipped with the exact same certificate and the exact same private key. The password protecting that private key was cracked in three hours by Security researcher, Rob Graham (Errata Security). The password was "komodia." The name of the Israeli company that made the code. Once cracked, anyone with that private key could impersonate any website to any Lenovo user on earth. your bank. your email. any HTTPS site. a fake page would show a valid padlock and your browser would trust it completely. Lenovo's initial response: "we have thoroughly investigated this technology and do not find any evidence to substantiate security concerns." Then the password was posted publicly online. Lenovo paid $7.3 million to settle the class action lawsuit. The EFF called it "catastrophically irresponsible." Crazy stuff.

Just like Snowdon said: "Privacy is Power. They don't want you have any." Without privacy, you don't have expression power.

@niwachoniturro @IntCyberDigest And Ubuntu can absolutely play games, it is not the question of mounting, but kernel/driver & gaming compatibility.

@SamDolittle @IntCyberDigest but it has no stable ISO, right? an average game consumer can't mount that so we're back to windows

‼️ Steam is hosting malware again, this time in a custom map for the game MECCHA CHAMELEON Loading the map quietly writes a Windows command file into the player's Documents folder, which then opens PowerShell in an invisible window and tries to download a second script from a server. The dropped file was recovered. The second stage 404'd, so nobody knows what it does yet. We're working on that.

@niwachoniturro @IntCyberDigest What exactly were you 'mounting'? ISO in a VM? Partition during install? Or you refer to driver / hardware compatibility? No stable ISO is a usual Linux behavior, you install and get update and move on. Nobara44 is one of the best optimized distro to play games, have you tried?

@niwachoniturro @IntCyberDigest No. Try Nobara 44.

@SamDolittle @IntCyberDigest we ain't playing in Ubuntu no where close 😭😂

Linux user do not needed to be pissed on this. Linux clearly are today go to platform for developing games, Linux EAC is a thing, developer chose W-EAC because they wanted users to stay there. Ultimately, they will get what they deserved.

@Pirat_Nation It is already a developer choice if you see Windows only anti cheat in the game. I hope players should begin to realize, all of their games should be on Linux and not on Windows, and I wish the developer should also see the same.

Some players testing the Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls beta have found that it can’t be played on Steam Deck or Linux. When trying to launch the game, they get the following Easy Anti-Cheat error: “No anti-cheat module has been found for this game and platform.” There’s no official word yet from Arc System Works or PlayStation on whether this is a beta-only issue or if support for Steam Deck and Linux will be added later.

👀 Look what’s here… First Steps With Linux is now available in paperback. 📚 firststepswithlinux.com/paperback

It’s out! 📚 First Steps With Linux is finally available in paperback. And I have to admit… Turns out I accidentally wrote a bible. Holding the finished book in my hands for the first time was a surreal feeling. If you’ve been waiting for a physical copy, it’s here: firststepswithlinux.com/paperback

💡 Quick Linux Tip #60 You want to search for text that contains special characters like `.`, `*`, or `?`. Run: fgrep "text" filename For example: fgrep "user.name" config.txt This searches for the exact text without treating special characters as patterns. Example output: user.name=tecmint You can also try: fgrep "127.0.0.1" hosts fgrep "hello*" notes.txt fgrep "[INFO]" app.log fgrep "admin@example.com" users.txt Perfect for finding exact text in configuration files and logs. Follow @tecmint for more #LinuxTips

Let me tell you about the time Sony put malware on 22 million music CDs. Sony the corporation, on purpose. 2005. you buy a CD at a music store. you get home. you put it in your computer. Windows autorun kicks in. Sony's software silently installs a rootkit on your system. It hides itself using the same techniques professional malware uses to evade detection. it runs constantly in the background. it phones home to Sony with information about what you're listening to. and it cannot be uninstalled. The removal tool Sony eventually released to fix it required your email address and installed additional software that introduced further vulnerabilities. the fix was worse than the rootkit. A security researcher named Mark Russinovich found it on Halloween 2005. published his findings. the internet erupted. Sony's President of Global Digital Business responded: "most people don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" things then got worse: other malware authors discovered that anything hidden using Sony's rootkit technique became invisible to antivirus software too. they started hiding their own malware inside the same hidden directory. Sony had accidentally created the perfect malware concealment system and shipped it to 22 million people. 50 artists had CDs with the rootkit. Celine Dion. Neil Diamond. Santana. none of them knew. Van Zant's album that started the whole investigation ranked 887 on Amazon. after reviews warned about the rootkit it dropped to 25,802 in three weeks. Sony recalled the CDs. settled with the FTC. paid millions. Mark Russinovich became CTO of Microsoft Azure. the rootkit is the reason we now consider autorun a security risk. Sony shipped malware to protect music. the malware protected nothing. the music got pirated anyway.

Broken Utility Box Eposes Hidden Cameras ------------------------------- After a storm knocked down a tree near the Chain Bridge that connects DC to Virginia, a utility worker in the DC area, spotted a box that was on the pole that was broken open. Hanging out were a pair of cameras that had been looking out of a window on the box. The window was disguised to look like a warning label like the one on the opposite side of the box. The power cable for this box had been run up the pole and into the head LED part of a street lamp and tapped into the 120v power from the lamp, which is unmetered, so nobody gets billed for it. The cameras were pointed towards the road coming from VA and going towards the Chain Bridge and the road that goes to the left where many diplomats live (Ambassador Residences).

@Pirat_Nation Can't they just separate regular user and AI usage for God sack? Stop using markets RAMs or GPUs, use special branches for AI, give those RAMs & GPU back to regular home user, Christ sack.

NVIDIA has reportedly raised the price of the GDDR6 and GDDR7 memory used in its GeForce RTX graphics cards. >GDDR7 memory prices have reportedly risen by 20–30%. >GDDR6 memory prices have increased by around 10%. >Graphics card makers that work with NVIDIA will have to pay more, and those extra costs could be passed on to buyers. The report also says these higher memory costs are one reason the rumored RTX 50 SUPER graphics cards have been delayed.

@IntCyberDigest What else are they doing underneath users' skin without users' consent or approval?

‼️ Windows Vice President Pavan Davuluri is taking action after LG used Windows Update as a delivery method to push bloatware/adware onto Windows computers without users' consent. He stepped in after Epic CEO Tim Sweeney tagged him to bring the story below to his attention. Davuluri responded: "We've connected with the team at LG and as an immediate next step, they have agreed to disable the McAfee pop-up from their app."

@Pirat_Nation Users are just slaves who paid for using "the company's" machine.

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows includes a Global Device ID (GDID), a permanent identifier automatically assigned to a PC during installation. According to Microsoft, the GDID is used for security purposes,The company says it is not used for advertising or tracking users across apps and websites. Unlike advertising IDs, the GDID cannot be disabled or reset by users, as it is designed to remain tied to the device for its lifetime. Microsoft publicly acknowledged the identifier only after it appeared in court documents related to an FBI investigation.

@Pirat_Nation You users should be asking, what else are installing without the users consent or knowing? What data collecting are happening without users knowledge or consented? What are they doing without your users approval or consented to the machine or to the software your users paid for?

Microsoft has stepped in after complaints that some LG monitors were silently installing the LG Monitor App Installer through Windows Update and showing McAfee pop-up ads on Windows 11. After the backlash, LG agreed to remove the McAfee pop-up. Microsoft's Windows chief, Pavan Davuluri, said the company is working with LG to make sure the experience is better for users.

More news about the Disc situation with Playstation: - Sony knew they would piss off fans and decided to step over them to show who decides the rules - They sent out the most strict rules they possibly can to employees - Employees are not allowed to adress fans no matter how they feel. There are serious consequences - Sony won't back down no matter how many fans they lose

We will side with big tech and bully those treasure true privacy.