Intel already has a micro code OS on the chip that runs separate from the main OS such as Windows. So tracking is very easy to setup. The micro code has access to your network, keyboard, and other hardware even with the PC turned off (but still connected to power and Ethernet/WiFi).

The original intention of the Intel Management system was for corporations tracking their assets in the field for admin purposes and blocking stuff if stolen.

But as with any backdoor it was hacked in 2017 when hackers found that whn sending a null password to chip remotely, the device would grant full access to the system.

I now disable/deactivate that in BIOS, and future purchases will be AMD chip.

My intel system got hit by the null password attack, windows event logs showed it granted access without credentials on several occasions and they’d turned my camera on at a low system level in a way where the camera on light did not show.

A random teams meeting got me investigating after coworkers said they could see my video feed even though I toggled it off.

Had to search online for a command line string to turn camera off at a lower level because the apps and windows GUI settings did nothing.

i wonder the same. I have a son with Down Syndrome and my coworkers know about it. Some of them still use the r-slur, even with constant reminding. I grew tired of correcting so instead just broke contact with them altogether.

Nothing people are hysterical herd minds. It played out how it only could I think.

Had everyone just gone hush quiet the park staff might have had a chance to move harambe away.

He wasn’t at first though. The full video Harambe was acting concerned, checking if the boy was OK, etc. But you have everyone screaming and shouting, creating a much worse situation .

You can imagine the reverse a gorilla baby falls to you. The gorillas are calm so you help them, vs every gorilla launching a loud noisy assault like they are goinf to attack…You’d be like fuck nah time to run.

If the crowd would have just shut up it would probably have been fine. At first Hatambe was acting like the gorillia in this video.

Did you forget /s

I found certain hardware to be a problem with Debian based distros and had to install Fedora or OpenSUSE. There was a bios bug that those distros worked around, the debian distros either failed the install process or threw bug on boot that killed everything.

So sometimes you are forced to distro hop.

Not confusion, they closed it again because Israel is still attacking Lebanon.

It does not

You don’t have to be autistic to get stuck on a view, look at the MAGA base while the leopard eats their faces

Some Iranians I know said their family members protesting the regime were shot and injured and 1000s of citizens killed.
They drive by and seek out people using starlink type systems that communicated with the outside world, due to the communication ban , internet ban. While the Iranians don’t want to be bombed they want their oppressive government out of power and were welcoming invasion originally.

Because people weren’t testing to work on the various browsers, which is pretty much what happens now with many sites and Firefox. People don’t adhere to the webstandard so Firefox doesn’t always work, but if we see a huge surge in Firefox then websites might put effort into them working in hope to catch some revenue of oerson doesnt have a blocker

Check if your mobile browser has accessibility settings for Simplified Web Mode. It gives you a popup notice to view page, and bypasses paywll.

Or install Firefox, it has immersive reader mode icon next to URL that does a similar thing.

That’s going to change though with ad blocker not working on chrome, more people will install Firefox for android.

Your phone, display size, apps installed, language, android build version etc etc make your anonynouse device unique when they query the browser.

They want the security patches that you don’t get with free version I guess. And maybe support.

Sorry, yes we do sales, so sell also means a SaaS subscription. That was my implied meaning of seeking to sell Ubuntu to Users.

So now you have a free update, but a note if you want certain security patches you have to pay for Pro

Well I’d tell that to the person that splatted onto the parking lot from a bungee jump crane, but they can no longer hear anything. Staff misjudged the weight and bunjee length. No elastic return if you don’t reach that limit.

When Canonical partnered with Microsoft to work on WSL, I figured Caninical was gaining something too: like tips how to license and sell Ubuntu instead of being free.

OpenSource is different than Free OpenSource