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Pierre wrote: ⤴Thu Jun 13, 2019 10:45 pmMicrosoft Edge might come to Linux

What is Microsoft Edge? Is it yet another Chromium clone? Chromium is already in Linux.

RollyShed wrote: ⤴Wed Jun 12, 2019 5:21 amSo at 3 bits a second a 100 kb picture would take 9-1/4 hours to down load?

No! Not 9.25 hours. 74 hours to download. 100 kb means 100 kiloBYTES, not 100 kiloBITS

Portreve wrote: ⤴Tue Jun 11, 2019 6:56 pm"After profiling the target’s memory, we show how RAMBleed can leak secrets stored within the target’s physical memory, achieving a read speed of about 3–4 bits per second," the paper said.

OMG! Single secret photo of my cat will be read for about 2 months.

AndyMH wrote: ⤴Wed Jun 05, 2019 4:05 amI was about 5 mins into composing a reply to a post, hit preview and got

Since last millenium to now real old men (like me) never composing texts in reply pages of forums

Unable to find non-working query. Seems everything fixed. Thank you!

search engine in fault condition

"wifi", "week", "linux", "mint", "shutdown" - working
"systemd", "windows", "partition"- same error
Mystic?

Linux-Bill wrote: ⤴Sun May 05, 2019 11:00 amOn Windows it fixed itself after about 24 hours.

Windows 7 - not. Any other Linux - not.

A day and a half has passed... I hope that those idiots who was involved this accident are already fired but still there is no general fix.
What expired certificates are we talking about?

Strangely ... The "Broken Addons in FireFox" DOES NOT appear to be happening in FireFox installed on "Windows 10 Pro" ... I have 4 of these systems running. The "Broken Addons in FireFox" IS happening in FireFox on all of my "Linux Mint 19.1"s ... I have 3 of...

Don't panic. It is a Mozilla bug. Answer is: The Add-ons team is working on a fix for this. It looks like a certificate used to sign many popular extensions expired. (The verification process checks that certificate.) I don't know how soon re-signed versions of those extensions will become available...

xenopeek wrote: ⤴Fri May 03, 2019 12:08 pmThis is a side-effect of the phpBB security update installed

This is all about updating of Open Source soft. Level 4 ?

catweazel wrote: The admins are forcing us to give our email addresses to yet another data-gobbling service. I guess I'll just have to be faceless . . . I hate having to give my email out for this sort of thing. BigEasy wrote: Please, look your profiles,avatar setting. Now only gravatar and flags a...

Please, look your profiles,avatar setting. Now only gravatar and flags available. Mine you see, of course, because it is from gravatar.

Better DE is those DE that is better for your grandmother. It is MATE. Don't believe me? Try to install XFCE for her and wait.

Almost all forum posts on the topic of potentially switching to XFCE focus on how light it is as a DE. But then so many other people run XFCE on modern machines with 8gb RAM or higher. So, without focussing on the 'lightness' aspect, what are the other main attractions of the XFCE DE? I do not alwa...

When I read they lost control of their server and can't regain, I think: "what an idiots?" When I read it was a joke I think: "I was right".

catweazel wrote: ⤴Sun Mar 24, 2019 3:30 amDesperation?

Desperation. 4% against 4%

karlchen wrote: ⤴Sat Mar 23, 2019 8:46 am

BigEasy wrote: ⤴Sat Mar 23, 2019 8:36 amWhere should Nokia to send personal data? To Zimbabve?

To Finland of course!

Problem exists. Nobody wanth to pay for such data there in Finland!

Portreve wrote: ⤴Sat Mar 23, 2019 7:38 amHMD admits the Nokia 7 Plus was sending personal data to China

Google send to USA. Yandex to Russia. So, what? Where should Nokia to send personal data? To Zimbabve?