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Dendrobatus Azureus

Today I learned the following. Journaling and journaling are two separate distinctly separate manners of keeping file systems in Sync.

When microsoft talks about journaling in NTFS you should never, ever think about the robust journaling system that Ext4 has

In comparison EXT4 journaling is a god while en NTFS journaling is not even an ant

I have EXT4 file systems connected to an extremely unstable machine. This thing crashes to green screens more than 64 times a day.

{It's a Gigabyte Mini PC in case you're interested never buy those. The machine came with overheating errors from the beginning. The factory installed a fan for the APU which is not even suitable for a GPU that was made a decade ago}

I've not even lost one bit of data on those EXT4 file systems.

Those NTFS file systems with journaling? I lost all of them. All NTFS file systems were lost

I didn't lose data because I have backups the file systems just keeled over simply because the machine kept rebooting

Thank you for being so robust EXT4

#Journal#filesystem#EXT4
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Jürgen :verigreen:🌗🪐🌌

Vieleicht eher #unpopularOpinion:

#DonaldTrump ist DAS BESTE was Europa (längerfristig gesehen) passieren konnte!

Auch wenn gewisse Dinge dadurch momentan (sehr) schwierig sind, aber die Ambitionen die sich nun entwickeln sich ENDLICH loszulösen von den vielen US-Abhängigkeiten ist schon mehr als zig-Jahre überfällig!

"#KritischeInfrastruktur? Das machen die Amis für uns." 🤦‍♂️
Sorry, aber als nicht IT-ler muss ich fragen: wie blöd kann man eigentlich sein?

Ohne #Trump hätte man sich noch mehr in diese Abhängigkeit gegeben, weil es ist ja einfach, da kümmern sich andere drum. 🤦‍♂️

#Digitalesouveränität, sooo extrem wichtig, aber niemanden hat es bisher gestört.
Wird zwar noch etwas dauern, aber Trump verändert hier wohl NACHHALTIG etwas zum Guten.

#UnplugTrum#Microsoft#ClosedSource
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Hans-Christoph Steiner

"Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private..."

Looking again at androidauthority.com/google-an I really think that was a PR piece, e.g. #Google's PR firm put together the story for #Android Authority. Its got all the markings, the "Exclusive" part, the uncritical eye "Google is simply consolidating its development efforts into a single branch", minimizing harm to custom ROMs, "custom ROMs will largely also see little change" etc

Android Authority · Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's whyGoogle has confirmed it will move development of the Android OS to behind closed doors. Here's why it's doing it.
#AOSP#PublicRelations#FreeSoftware
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Dendrobatus Azureus

@dmantis

That's a point that I've looked at for decades and just like you said; it's much worse because the audio is something that can be so extremely intrusive when it is violated and sent somewhere else

For example most of the major providers of so-called social media, have a client in which they have a clause for usage that is literally saying that they can turn on the microphone, at will, and you can't do anything about it. They obfuscuate the message by putting it in legalese

That is more than frightening

#Infosec#Android#webcam
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Dendrobatus Azureus

For some odd reason people consider it to be normal to be very very violated when it comes down to their personal privacy.

* No one should point the camera at your face without your permission.
* No one should sell you a device which has a camera pointed at your face 24 hours a day and you just accept it
* No one should sell you a device with a battery permanently sealed in it but that's another story and another storyline
* No one should ever sell you the snake oil telling you that it's normal to have a camera pointed at your face 24/7

It's not 🚫 normal!

Now go and protect your identity cover that lens!

#Infosec#Android#webcam
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Dendrobatus Azureus

When was the last time you've properly used the camera on your Android?

No I'm not talking about the camera which points at the scenery, I'm talking about the camera which points straight to your face 24 hours a day every time you pick your Android up.

¿Well? I'm waiting.

About 990 out of 1000 people will answer this wrong.

The only proper way of using that camera is making sure that it can only record images of your face when you absolutely want to

That means that you need to put a piece of electrical isolation tape in front of the lens of the camera and it should be like that for most of the day.

Any other manner means that you do not know anything about securing yourself and about protecting your identity.

Do you consider it normal to have a barrel of a firearm pointed at your face 24 hours a day?

The question is rhetorical

Now please follow suit and do like I have done it for decades;

The only time when the camera is pointed at me, is when I want to; if I don't I either cover it, or shove the person who puts the camera in my face in such a manner that they drop it immediately, or else!

#Infosec#Android#webcam
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Christoph Schmees

@mago

Eher friert die Hölle zu.
Vor allem müssten erst Voraussetzungen geschaffen werden, von denen 🇩🇪 Lichtjahre entfernt ist: Eine sichere digitale Verwaltung auf der Basis von FOSS, so wie in 🇩🇰 oder 🇪🇪 .
Noch gilt bei uns dies:
pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/2

www.pc-fluesterer.infoWollt ihr die totale PKZ? So nicht! | pc-flüsterer bremen
#foss#privacy#privatsphäre
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