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They could also just be spawning Windows VMs directly in AWS, no point doing nested virtualization for something like this. Pretty sure they have a service for doing exactly what you described. No need for a VPN, it can spawn your VM on the right network already (they call it VPC). They can even put real GPUs for AutoCAD and stuff on those things.

It’s going to depend on how the access is set up. It could be set up such that the only way into that network is via that browser thing.

You can always connect to yourself from the Windows machine and tunnel SSH over that, but it’s likely you’ll hit a firewall or possibly even a TLS MitM box.

Virtual desktops like that are usually used for security, it would be way cheaper and easier to just VPN your workstation in. Everything about this feels like a regulated or certified secure environment like payment processing/bank/government stuff.

None, it’s just a terminal emulator like xterm or Konsole or alacritty or whatever else. It doesn’t actually emulate anything.

It’s all native ARM binaries shoved into a container pretty much the same as Docker. The performance hit is basically zero. Android runs the Linux kernel, it’s just a fancy chroot to make it look like regular Linux.

Just looks like this for me

Just need a well lit room for light mode and at least the white of the background bleeds into black text making it grey rather than the blurry mess of white on black.

Unless you have astigmatism, dark mode is a nightmare to read when your vision is not good.

At least they’re transparent about it, unlike american companies that hide behind convoluted terms of services and then sell the data behind your back but it’s technically legal.

China’s like “yeah we collect everything”. I can appreciate the honesty.

It doesn’t forget requests, but NGINX will drop them after it times out if it takes too long.

FPM uses a request queue, so when all workers are busy they wait in line until a worker frees up to process it. With just 1 worker, this can take a long time to catch up, but with a reasonable number of workers you’ll only wait a few seconds or even milliseconds depending on the app and how fast it can process requests.

The setting for that is listen.backlog which defaults to 511 on Linux.

This being lemmy.ca, I could see some value having a community focused on privacy and privacy laws in Canada given the others are mostly US centric. The laws are different and your rights and adversaries to protect against are all different.

A pinned post suggesting that community would make sense however!

I’m aware of that one but it’s not that active especially compared to the big reddit communities like TalesFromRetail, AITAH, MaliciousCompliance, TalesFromTechSupport, etc which is where all the good stories come out of on Reddit.

I’d say more likely just:

• Not enough users to see that many stories being posted
• Not that many users to make it worth sharing detailled stories
• Lack of communities for that kind of content

You’re just not gonna see a lot of tales from retail in a place dominated by chronically online people, engineers, nerds and somewhat older userbase.

I found the setting to turn that off in the settings so that checks out with what you said. Good to know!

No FOSS clients, nobody’s got time to reverse engineer it as it happened so fast.

As for privacy, well, it uses plain HTTP for at least all the media, so, not very private. It requests less permissions than Meta’s apps however, and only asks when the feature is needed (for example, the Nearby page requests GPS which makes sense). It does seem to like to paste my clipboard which is not very cool, no idea what it’s doing with it. I use a VPN for it.

It’s still a chinese app under the control of the CCP. Personally, I’d rather China have my data than the US, because at least for China it’s useless whereas with the current administration in the US, who knows what they do with that data.

As for the app itself, it’s pretty nice. Don’t expect free speech, but the rules also make it for a rather respectful and positive experience overall. For what it’s intended to be (share cats, recipes, makeup, and other entertainment content) it’s pretty good and a breath of fresh air compared to the non-stop political fighting on other platforms. That said it’s not as censored as some assume it is: if it’s presented tastefully you can usually get away with it. Respect and honesty gets you far on there whereas lies and aggression gets you banned. I’ve seen guns, LGBTQ, cars, religion, politics, comparing capitalism and communism. They’re talking about Elon’s nazi salute on there and all.

The massive cultural exchange going on there is quite enjoyable. People from all sorts of countries are trying out new recipes and adapting them to their local taste. Turns out mandarin isn’t so bad to learn either. Very welcoming community. Rumors are it made the chinese government consider relaxing the great firewall. The sentiment is very anti-war as people from enemy countries are building online friendships.

I approach it with caution, but I’ve been rather please with what I see.

“We’re going to be demanding respect from other nations,” Trump said.

Respect needs to be mutual. He sounds like the typical asshole uncle that always acts like they’re owed respect be have never showed any in return.

I wouldn’t be surprised they do, but at the same time if they do that it’s a major red flag.

I literally won a “silent but deadly” award at a company retreat of which the premise is, I’m a very quiet person but when I do speak up you better pay attention because it’s important. I hate talking so when I talk I’m not talking about my weekend, I’m talking about why we can’t do that because systems Y and Z will blow up.

For the most part, this happens because those programs check if stdout is a pseudo-terminal (pty) and automatically disable color output because if you’re doing say ls -l and try to parse it, you’ll have all the ANSI escape sequences mixed in, so for safety and predictability they disable color.

It is unfortunately a per-program thing. It is possible to fake it using script or unbuffer according to https://stackoverflow.com/a/32981392

Looks like socat can also be used for that: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/157463

Technically a lot of the newer chips used in datacenters support encrypted VMs which encrypts the RAM too, although you still have to trust that the hosting provider uses that feature.

Yes it does, I’ve regularly updated my system that way. It is a bit buggy at times though, I ended up uninstalling the backend.

But it’s still useful for managing Flatpaks and stuff.

The camera is straight up disconnecting from the USB bus. A bad driver could cause it to get confused and reset itself. And that would be the uvcvideo kernel module, userspace shouldn’t be able to crash the camera.

Since downgrading the kernel didn’t help, and it also doesn’t work on other distros, I’d consider the possibility your webcam just died.

Are you able to make it work on any distro, or even Windows?

For the driver quality issues, make sure to filter out Windows vs Linux reviews. Intel has historically been way better under Linux than Windows, and they use translation layers under the hood on Windows which is something we’re used to on Linux. I heard it’s a bit better on Linux.

Kinda like Windows vs Linux for AMD cards, sometimes it’s just better on Linux. Only NVIDIA have mostly identical drivers for both platforms and thus is about on-par with performance and stability.