As some of the others have said, in a sense we're all just names on a screen to each other here... but your name has been showing up on this screen for a long time, and it's been above a lot of really good posts, and my time here has been the better for it. It has been a privilege. Thank you, and so...

Not sure it appeals to me. I really like sudoku, not sure i'll catch on with this though :D If you like Sudoku and are interested in the general idea, try Squardle: https://fubargames.se/squardle/ It doesn't quite have the elegant simplicity of Wordle, but the deductive reasoning works a lot more l...

For anyone who isn't aware of this story, Bellingcat managed to manoeuvre one of the (would-be) assassins into giving a detailed description of what had happened on the phone to Navalny himself, in addition to a lot of other very thorough evidence.

red assassin, thanks, so I see these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-ZenWiFi-Whole-Home-XT8-Life-Time/dp/B083QSG6QK 6.6 Gbps WiFi (it says), up to 230 sq m, £230 (I think they're saying : remove the BT router & connect this direct to the modem, possibly requires two for this? https://www.amazon.co.u...

@red assassin : what sort of wifi can handle 1Gb?, dtpsprt mentioned 5G can do 500Gb, wondering if the other part of BT's offer 'with Complete Wi-Fi' involving 'discs' dotted around the house, can handle it. If not I guess I'd have to dig out my super-long cable (& get another) to connect the 2 PC'...

I'm on a 500Mb line from Virgin. It is actually pretty impressive - I find a surprising number of things can actually cope with all that bandwidth. I can regularly sustain 40-50MB/s download speeds from services like Steam, package repositories and the like, which is pretty neat sometimes. Massive u...

Yep, that's a ridiculous conspiracy bingo. Short answer: literally none of that is true, good job. Excess death figures make it very clear that the pandemic is happening, not that I think you're gonna listen. This graph shows all cause death counts for the US over the last few years: https://public....

1) Things change. Alpha, beta, delta and omicron variants have all been more infectious than the original strain and previous variants, and later variants have started exhibiting some level of immune escape as well. Obviously this means that a control measure which works with some efficacy level aga...

Really? I haven't been able to get them in pharmacies for a while, but I just successfully ordered another box off the government website with no complaints.

Trying to understand your assertion. Do you mean that about 80% fully vaccinated + naturally achieved immunity doesnt equate to an r rate of less than 1 for covid and its variants? (That is my understanding of 'herd immunity'). I was under the impression that about 80% vaccinated was very much with...

If you want to access stuff that has geographical blocks on it, sure, give a VPN a shot for that. (Note that many places applying geographical blocks will also apply blocks for known VPN endpoints, though!) Otherwise, the answer is almost certainly no. It's not the noughties any more; nearly all tra...

Along with the massive amount of vaccinated we are surely at herd immunity now? I cannot emphasise enough the extent to which this is not true. The UK has 90% of the population over 12 with one dose, 82% with two, and 50% with a booster (though the booster rollout is happening in a big way right no...

For the record, I'm not actually recommending exploiting the vulnerability to patch it on random servers! Unfortunately it's a bit of a challenging vulnerability to mitigate on network in the general case, because you don't know where a value in traffic might end up getting passed to a logger somewh...

Fortunately, if you find any vulnerable servers, you can patch them with this handy tool... whether or not it's your server: https://github.com/Cybereason/Logout4Shell

Edge updates, continuing a pattern of being really annoying about a generally fine browser: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/11/microsoft-plans-to-integrate-a-buy-now-pay-later-app-into-edge/ Microsoft are integrating a short-term loan service into Edge. https://arstechnica.com/ga...

Good lord, guys, nuance is a thing. Having a URL scheme to open a specific app, e.g. Edge, rather than the generic handler for a protocol is a perfectly sensible thing to do. It's entirely possible to define shortcuts (.desktop files) in Linux which open particular apps rather than asking for the ge...

That article is from 2014 and is about an AMI BIOS. I have no idea if your system uses the same beep codes. You should check your motherboard manual, which ought to discuss beep codes, or failing that figure out what firmware your motherboard is using (nobody uses BIOS any more, thank god) and look ...

@red assassin: The principle differences have not changed, denying that is denying reality. https://fossbytes.com/pop_os-vs-windows-11-comparison/. Maybe one day Windows will be comparably safeto Linux. That'll be the day when it's desktop runs on a Linux Kernel, haha :-) (weren't there rumours a y...

https://www.techworm.net/2016/09/real-hackers-prefer-linux-windows-mac.html It's not 2016 any more. All major OSes have made serious security changes since then. Security is an incredibly fast moving field. In 2016 I would probably have agreed that Linux was the most secure option for a desktop pla...