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[–] prof 2 points 1 week ago

You tell me, haha πŸ˜„

DNS usually is a bit of an issue when TTL is too high and the stuff the records point to isn't available.

[–] prof 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well... Afaik the AWS outage only affected a certain region. So the company could have just deployed their online service in two different regions for redundancy.

Or even better. Enable Offline Support 😐

[–] prof 11 points 1 week ago

See an example here:

Microsoft said both issues could allow attackers to execute code with elevated privileges, although there are currently no indications on how they are being exploited and how widespread these efforts may be. In the case of CVE-2025-24990, the company said it's planning to remove the driver entirely, rather than issue a patch for a legacy third-party component.

The security defect has been described as "dangerous" by Alex Vovk, CEO and co-founder of Action1, as it's rooted within legacy code installed by default on all Windows systems, irrespective of whether the associated hardware is present or in use.

New attack vectors are found constantly. Having no support can very likely result in a system that can be automatically breached in a few weeks to months.

As long as you don't have a public IP on your device and are in a trusted network you should be fine. But if you use a public wifi or somehow expose a port to the internet you're increasingly vulnerable for each day after the last security update.

[–] prof 4 points 2 weeks ago

Anyone having a screen reader read the alt text is going to have a quacking stroke.

[–] prof 3 points 1 month ago

Makes me wonder what problems they faced with a Client/Server architecture.

Scope creep maybe? Supporting lots of platforms can be very time consuming.

[–] prof 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Recently I tried to get some advice from some locals and posted in a larger subreddit.

Post got immediately removed because it's a duplicate of a year old post which is only remotely related.

That place can be so stupid.

[–] prof 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After a particularly tough week I can't thank you enough for posting this.

Gave me back a bit of energy.

[–] prof 14 points 2 months ago

I mean. I like compiling stuff myself but when I have to update 100 tools and all are source code to be compiled, then I can't use my pc for a whole day or so.

[–] prof 3 points 2 months ago
[–] prof 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm on vacation in the US atm and traffic is wild.

The worst drivers in Europe would be better than the best drivers here.

Everyone is constantly going 10-20 mph over the speed limit. You constantly get cut off and sometimes even pushed out of your lane. You can have your blinker on all you want, no one is ever letting you merge unlees you force your way in and yadda yadda yadda.

In the >6000 miles I've driven now I have seen one automated speed camera. There is a larger police presence than in the EU but they don't seem much interested in enforcing traffic laws.

To any US citizen reading this: This is not meant to be rude, but you guys could have it way better and way more safe than it is currently.

[–] prof 4 points 2 months ago

Lol yeah. Surprised no one made that yet.

[–] prof 2 points 2 months ago

Very good point. Didn't even think about that. At home we use a soundbar because of that.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by prof to c/pics@lemmy.world
 

If anyone has additional context please share.

 

I hope this doesn't come across as bragging, but I'm really looking forward to my expanded roster of warframes πŸ˜„

Admittedly I didn't farm them myself, I just bought the blueprints from the market. Saryn I randomly got this week from the circuit as only warframe I didn't have yet. But my Helminth will finally get something to munch on at least.

 

Totally not based on a true story.

 

Insert <it's not much but it's honest work> meme. It only supports ints and bools, some logic and simple arithmetics and it compiles to Java but damn was it hard to get that far.

Can you guess what everything does?

 

As the title says, you probably guessed it already. For work I mainly develop on the .NET platform using a Windows device, but at home I enjoy all the benefits of a good OS.

Now I kinda want to get my C# skills "sharper" and have some projects in mind utilising it, but I'm a bit miffed about the development tools and possibilities of deployment available for me on Linux.

Also I may want to coerce my boss to let me work on a device with my OS of choice.

Any advice from devs that are in a similar spot? What do you use for .NET development on Linux? And are there any cool multiplatform deployment possibilities (next to Xamarin/Maui) that actually let me build natively on Linux?

 
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by prof to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

... and I absolutely love it.

After my previous post where I asked for advice on distros I have tried Mint and EndeavourOS first as VM's and afterwards I gave them their own partition and tried it on my real hardware.

Something about EndeavourOS just sat right though and I promptly replaced my windows install with it. KDE Plasma also blows me away with the amount of customisation that is possible.

I've spent some time configuring today but mostly aesthetic stuff as my hardware worked 95% out of the box. Some odd dependencies were missing for steam to work properly but I'm really not missing anything that windows had right now.

I'm curious how my uni workflow will look like now, but I'm sure I can make it work.

Thanks a lot for the support and advice you've given me. I really love the community on here.

I'll get back to customising my bash prompt now. πŸ˜„

Edit: Due to popular demand:

I use Arch, btw.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by prof to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Hey guys, I'm an entry-level IT professional and tech enthusiast.

I'm getting a bit sick of windows for a multitude of reasons and want to try out some Linux distros.

I use my pc for web browsing, university (which uses office 365) where I study software design, software development (vs code, visual studio, jetbrains stuff) and gaming (99% of the time via steam).

My main concerns for switching are that I'll have a hard time with university work because we mostly use teams for video conferences and work together with word, and other office stuff. We also are required to do some virtual machine stuff where we use virtualbox.

Also I'm a bit worried that some games on uplay, epic and other platforms aren't available anymore.

For distros I've been mainly looking at Manjaro, Linux Mint or plain old Ubuntu. Can you recommend anything that might fit for me or will I maybe run into any issues with my chosen three?

Edit: Thanks a lot for all the replies. I've read through all of them even if I didn't reply and it was very helpful. I will test most of your suggestions in a VM before I jump into completely changing my OS. And I'll probably try booting from a USB Drive first. What I didn't mention is that I've already worked with Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS, so I'm not scared about having to use a CLI.

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