monnier

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That people voted against it is no evidence that it's a horrible idea. The article to which you reply at least tries to provide a bit of evidence for its argument. Also, I don't need a parliament that's "efficient" (whatever that can mean. Do you measure that in number of pages of new laws passed per months?), I need one that's fair and democratic. Wht has been happening sine the "liberals" got the majority is evidence enough for me that we should avoid non-coalitions as much as we can.

Actually, "is it encrypted" is just the tip of the iceberg: it's all too easy to encrypt in a way that does not provide security against the threats the users want to defend. E.g. maybe the answer to this question is "yes" because the connection is over https, yet the server sees and stores the data in the clear

Il me semble que de nos jours le désir indépendantiste n'est rien de plus qu'une opposition au gouvernement canadien actuel exacerbé par une rancoeur tirée d'iniquités passées. C'est malheureusement compatible autant avec le fascisme que l'antifascisme.

Just to be clear, I really meant to disassemble the fan until you hold in your hand the plastic thing that rotates (at which point you can really clean it, and take the opportunity to add a drop of lubricant on the axle).

The worst part of that era was the thick bezels wasting precious screen real estate. Older models (like the X61/T61) had much thinner bezels and it took some years for the bezels to get thinner again

I'm not familiar with this specific machine, but I've dealt with similar fan problems in 3 other machines (twice successfully (both Thinkpads) and once not (not a Thinkpad)) and I'd recommend you open up your machine and clean it, including opening up the fan itself, which is often not as hard as it sounds and saves you the trouble of having to find a replacement.

on Another SD card issue. · c/lineageos · 2 pts · 197d

IME, Android devices go the extra mile to not support SD cards formatted on another device (or with another OS). So maybe that's what you're seeing. The reason is probably some bogus "for your own security" crap.

I don't think it's a question of willingness to understand, but one of disagreement about the seriousness of the problem. Not to mention the implict idea that a "verified boot" is the only way to get that result. E.g. it's very easy to get to a "safe factory state" without that kind of locking, for example with an immutable boot loader, as is typically present in many ARM SoCs (Allwinner, Rockchip, ...). In that case you can revert to a safe state by downloading a known good OS image (using a trusted machine) and installing that image using only the immutable bootloader.

So AFAICT, in practice a locked bootloader makes no difference to the most common attacks I've seen on my devices and that of friends&family. Seems like a far cry from your original claim that "This means that the most essential feature for your safety, the metaphorical lock on the front door of your house, is left broken and loose."