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bubblesnorton Brazilian court orders suspension of X

They can't. I can easily use a Brazil endpoint to establish a tunnel elsewhere and browse X, formerly Twitter. I suppose they could try fining the VPN service provider. (But even then they won't be able to prove what's going on.)

bubblesnorton Grandma trapped in elevator for six days survived by rationing groceries

This happened in 1988. Tomorrows grandma would make trapped selfies and boost her subscribers by live vlogging the situation. She'd be out in 15 minutes.

bubblesnorton Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files

Combinations of bwrap, chpst, env, setpriv, and setsid can become unreadable gibberish but otherwise work fine. There's lots of similarly useful stuff that can be combined for specific needs.

bubblesnorton One Laptop per Child

The displays were readable outdoors by daylight. That was a killer feature right there and it didn't catch on.

My octa-core 'phone' with OLED display is useless in sunlight. I tried using it as a sat nav last summer and there were situations of panic near freeway exits when the screen got illegible.

bubblesnorton Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing

Their self-checkouts run MS-Windows 7. That's just one step up from Vista. Their payment terminals run ancient OpenSSL versions. Their website until recently blocked searches for products whenever a substring matched a generic catch-all SQL injection blacklist.

And their in-store discounts require you to have an Android or Apple device and install their proprietary app on it from Google Play or iTunes, and sign up for an account using your e-mail address and personal cellphone number (landlines and non-geographical numbers are disallowed). It also collects your data and sends it to Google and Facebook.

This is the worst IT of any store I've seen.

bubblesnorton Golang Interpreter Written in PHP

I wonder if you can run FrankenPHP in this.

bubblesnorton Is your website Secure!

Broken with JavaScript enabled too

bubblesnorton Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October

Care to explain what went wrong?

bubblesnorton “Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after MS update

Because last time I installed MS-Windows 10 it had the most beautiful unlimited blinking cursor in the corner and nothing else. Until I installed GRUB from a GNU+Linux live CD whose root fs wasn't an actual device and that broke grub-probe. But fortunately grub-mkconfig is a shell script.

I don't know why it failed but it did and Grub saved the day.