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Even if my machine won't boot afterwards?

The 19.10 bump was to get some fresh base libraries to build something as I recall. I think it might have for Remmina. Otherwise totally agree with you, LTS is always preferable

The bootloader was broken for this laptop model in 19.10 and I've been deferring going through the same pain upgrading to 20.04. Totally aware of the support situation and upgrade …

Because I'm running it of course.

Are there any known surprises coming from 19.10?

It would probably only take a handful of engineers to mount a solid DoS attack by requesting approval for every shell script they write, home Ubuntu ISO they install, or neighbour'…

This sounds like a needlessly strict interpretation of GDPR. Taken from the UK regulator's site: > The lawful bases for processing are set out in Article 6 of the UK GDPR. At least…

The biggest difficulty I've experienced is "librification", where some common code ends up in a little library, and soon that library is not so little any more, and not long after …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

Antithetical? High fees are all but a feature :)

I dislike RMS' opinions, therefore.. the GPL is dead? A little bit of a leap there buddy. Cloud providers profiting from free software is an important issue, but it is largely orth…

> Is there any technical reason why it is not supported? No familiarity with these devices, but there is at least a slim chance if it was an embedded device, they needed the flash …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPKGbg16ulU

Put another way, you're about 38 times more likely to develop a blood clot than win the UK's national lottery.

Gentle reminder when receiving something for free, it's useful to keep in mind what the other party is receiving from you in return, and in this case, from all your users through y…

The article is dated and somewhat misleading, > Since its introduction in 1973 and refinement in the 1970s and 80s, the model has become the de-facto standard for estimating the pr…

Seems we're both triggered by this emphasis on "_very_", or even use of that word at all. Obviously Iran has a variety of technical capabilities, such as evidenced by their nationa…

> Compared to 90% of the other nation-states out there Iran is a _very_ competent cyber-actor. . > Given your exposure in this geography can you name any of it's neighbors Saudi Ar…

> _very_ competent cyber-actor Please elaborate on this. As someone with direct exposure to this area and in this geography, my experience could not be described this way at all. L…

It's a fabulous resource, I've already used it to identify unknown numbers sending me messages on Signal

I guess a leak requires private data to be exposed, this is just a collection of public data.

Running certain ML models in VMs Running CUDA in VMs Running transcoders in VMs Running in VMs