Finally got my Linux laptop at work
I work in a corporation with an IT-department that is all in on whatever Microsoft is offering. My team has for some time gotten more and more autonomy in tooling as IT is overloaded and forced to relinquish some control, but we still rely on them for supplying compliant machines that have access to our resources.
I requested a Linux machine just over 5 months ago, and I finally got it this week. It is running Ubuntu with GNOME, not my first choice, but the only thing that is Microsoft Intune compliant as far as I know.
So far it is such a relief. A better specced machine with less bloat running on it. It should be far between any OOM-issue I get now... Slightly annoying having to use Edge for any service requiring corporate SSO, but I'll swallow that pill...
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The United States Using Drones Modeled on Iran’s “Shahed” UAVs
The United States Using Drones Modeled on Iran’s “Shahed” UAVs
The United States is now operating a squadron of attack drones known as “LUCAS,” which have reportedly been built through reverse engineering based on Iran’s Shahed drones.KhabarOnline News Agency
Israel 'bulldozed bodies' of Palestinian it killed at Gaza aid sites into unmarked graves
A CNN investigation based on video footage, satellite imagery and eyewitness accounts found a 'pattern' of mishandling bodies
Israel 'bulldozed bodies' of Palestinian it killed at Gaza aid sites into unmarked graves
A CNN investigation has revealed that Israeli soldiers bulldozed the bodies of Palestinians killed while trying to access humanitarian aid near the Zikim crossing into northern Gaza.Tamara Turki (Middle East Eye)
GB News pays damages after airing 'untrue' claim by UAE influencer about Islamic Relief
British broadcaster GB News has apologised and paid "substantial damages" after it broadcasted false claims made by an Emirati influencer that the UK-based charity Islamic Relief had funded "terrorists".
The claim by Amjad Taha, who often appears in right-wing media outlets advancing Emirati talking points, was made during the 16 February edition of the The Camilla Tominey Show.
Taha incorrectly said Islamic Relief "is sending money all the way to some terrorist groups in the Middle East…"
In September, GB News issued a clarification, which read: "We accept the allegation that Islamic Relief has funded terrorist groups is untrue.
Stacktower: An Accidental Deep Dive
Stacktower: An Accidental Deep Dive
How an XKCD comic led to teaching myself graph theory — a journey through NP-hard problems, PQ-trees, and layered graph algorithms.stacktower.io
Maduro is a monstrous dictator. He's just not the kind of monstrous dictator that Trump likes. Like, y'know, Putin.
The person that won the Nobel Prize recently--Machado--ain't exactly a great person to be leading Venezuela either, but the odds appear to be pretty damn high that she would have won the 2024 election in a blowout landslide, had she not been barred from running, and the vote count being entirely fraudulent by Maduro.
Letter from a British political prisoner for Palestine
As a prisoner, you learn three things. First, no one tells you anything. Second, you’re usually the last to find out information pertaining to yourself. And third, requests and complaints are shut down with two words: “security reasons.”
Take the example of my library job, removed without reason on 1 August 2025. I was checking my timetable when I noticed the unemployed marker. At my previous prison, HMP Bronzefield, I was security-cleared to work as a Shannon Trust mentor, a one-to-one role helping other prisoners improve their reading skills. I was working as a peer right until my sudden and immediate transfer to HMP Peterborough. It was not until day eight of my hunger strike that I gained clarity behind the decision.
On Monday the 18th of August, I learned that the Filton 24 were being monitored under JEXU, the Joint Extremism Unit. The library role was deemed inappropriate due to “the views” I hold.
Letter from a British political prisoner for Palestine
How banning Palestine Action has led to the banning of Palestine in prisons.The Electronic Intifada
Introducing Proton Sheets
Introducing Proton Sheets: Protect the data that drives your business
Proton Drive now includes Proton Sheets, giving you secure, encrypted spreadsheets for safer collaboration, organized data, and aligned teams.Anant Vijay (Proton)
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Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.Ece Yildirim (Gizmodo)
Dumbest excuses/stuff your family/other people told you about Privacy on the internet and degoogle?
My mom claims there is no problems into being tracked and stuff and that "Every normal person will use gmail";
My brother says you only should hide your data if you are a criminal or something.
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Kiev attacked tankers in the Black Sea to disrupt negotiations, – Zakharova
Kiev attacked tankers in the Black Sea to disrupt negotiations, - Zakharova
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ strikes on tankers and ships in the Black Sea were carried out with the aim of disrupting the process of resolving the armed conflict in Ukraine.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
Attacks on tankers in Black Sea reflect Kiev's terrorist nature — MFA
Attacks on tankers in Black Sea reflect Kiev's terrorist nature — MFA
Maria Zakharova explained that these actions are driven by a segment of the Western minority, which has declared a reconfiguration of the current global order - particularly within the energy sectorTASS
Seven Billionaires, One Storyline
Seven Billionaires, One Storyline
When the same people who build the spy tools own the news, ordinary people are not “informed”. They are managed.Neil Zhu (Grumpy Chinese Guy)
Keir Starmer Machine Ran a Secret Campaign to Demonetize Breitbart News and Other Opposition Outlets
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39857447
Ryan Grim
Dec 03, 2025
As Keir Starmer rose to power in Britain, the political machine responsible for his rise ran a behind-the-scenes campaign to demonetize the U.S. news outlet Breitbart. The attacks on Breitbart were part of a targeted campaign against media outlets on both the left and right considered hostile to the centrist faction of the Labour Party, according to a trove of documents that expose the operation. Many of the documents were revealed for the first time in my recent book – called “The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy” – and are expanded on significantly there.The campaign succeeded in effectively destroying the left-wing British outlet The Canary, which is only now recovering. Breitbart News persists.
Keir Starmer Machine Ran a Secret Campaign to Demonetize Breitbart News and Other Opposition Outlets
Ryan Grim
Dec 03, 2025As Keir Starmer rose to power in Britain, the political machine responsible for his rise ran a behind-the-scenes campaign to demonetize the U.S. news outlet Breitbart. The attacks on Breitbart were part of a targeted campaign against media outlets on both the left and right considered hostile to the centrist faction of the Labour Party, according to a trove of documents that expose the operation. Many of the documents were revealed for the first time in my recent book – called “The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy” – and are expanded on significantly there.The campaign succeeded in effectively destroying the left-wing British outlet The Canary, which is only now recovering. Breitbart News persists.
Keir Starmer Machine Ran a Secret Campaign to Demonetize Breitbart News and Other Opposition Outlets
Starmer’s current chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, served as the head of a machine that targeted media outlets on the left and right, foreshadowing the UK’s crackdown on dissent.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
Keir Starmer Machine Ran a Secret Campaign to Demonetize Breitbart News and Other Opposition Outlets
Ryan Grim
Dec 03, 2025
As Keir Starmer rose to power in Britain, the political machine responsible for his rise ran a behind-the-scenes campaign to demonetize the U.S. news outlet Breitbart. The attacks on Breitbart were part of a targeted campaign against media outlets on both the left and right considered hostile to the centrist faction of the Labour Party, according to a trove of documents that expose the operation. Many of the documents were revealed for the first time in my recent book – called “The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy” – and are expanded on significantly there.The campaign succeeded in effectively destroying the left-wing British outlet The Canary, which is only now recovering. Breitbart News persists.
Keir Starmer Machine Ran a Secret Campaign to Demonetize Breitbart News and Other Opposition Outlets
Starmer’s current chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, served as the head of a machine that targeted media outlets on the left and right, foreshadowing the UK’s crackdown on dissent.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
Israeli collaborator Yasser Abu Shabab reportedly killed in Gaza
Israeli collaborator and militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab, the man most wanted by Hamas, was reportedly killed in Gaza on Thursday, according to local media.
Several Israeli outlets carried the reports, though none provided details on who killed him.
Some accounts said he was killed in an ambush, while others claimed he was shot by a member of his own militia or during internal clashes.
The notorious convicted criminal was armed and provided with air cover by Israeli forces.
Since emerging as a militia leader, he had operated from eastern Rafah, an area under full Israeli control.
Israeli collaborator Yasser Abu Shabab reportedly killed in Gaza
Israeli collaborator and militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab, the man most wanted by Hamas, was reportedly killed in Gaza on Thursday, according to local media.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Not personally, no.
Big fan of his work, though.
Rubio: Venezuela is a Base for Iran and Hezbollah in South America
Rubio: Venezuela is a Base for Iran and Hezbollah in South America - Sada News Agency
SadaNews - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that Venezuela has become a foothold for Iran, the Revolutionary Guard, and even Hezbollah, pointing out that Iran and its allies have a growing presence in South America, and that one of their main…Sada News Agency
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Enjoy ProtonMail's premium custom scheduling & custom snoozing for free
Using this userscript I made : git.kaki87.net/KaKi87/userscripts/protonmailWithoutAnnoyances
ProtonMail allows scheduling and snoozing messages for free at preset times, e.g. tomorrow, next Monday, this weekend, etc., and always at 8, but makes people pay to choose a customized date and time.
I had a hunch that this restriction might only be implemented client-side, so I tried modifying the value in DevTools for the first time, and I couldn't believe it : that worked !
So, in order to automate this, I created a userscript that replaces the button press handler for the "custom" option, then lets you input whatever value you need, e.g. (next) Wednesday, (in) 30 minutes, (today at) 8 PM, Thursday at 7 (AM), etc.
Then, it lets the app believe that we're gonna schedule using the tomorrow preset, until it intercepts the request and swaps the time value with the user's choice.
Enjoy !
This is a cool user script. I don't want to take that away from you. Beckons me back to a more fun version of the internet. You're providing a useful feature to people.
However I do want to encourage anyone running user scripts on their email clients to be very careful. If your script auto updates you are opening yourself up to a delayed attack. And if you don't understand every bit of the script you are opening yourself up to exploitation. Determine your threat model and capability and proceed appropriately.
This is the privacy community after all.
Beckons me back to a more fun version of the internet. You’re providing a useful feature to people.
i had the same though when i read the title and it appealed to me because of it and also because i'm a proton user (for now).
i'd like to think this is safer than the other scripts that existed(ed) out there in that you can see the source for yourself, so maybe the threat isn't so extreme.
This is a cool user script.
Thank you !
I do want to encourage anyone running user scripts on their email clients to be very careful.
What about stuff that runs everywhere, including email clients ?
uBO for example, is a much bigger codebase that no random user is gonna read, yet it does run on ProtonMail and there's no way to be sure no malicious person injected something in there to read people's emails.
In addition, I also have userscripts that technically do run everywhere, but only do something concrete on some websites, that I don't have a finite list of URLs for.
For example, Fediverse redirector is a userscript that redirects any Fediverse app instance to the user's choice. But, any URL may be a Fediverse app, and I need to check it first. Same with Enhancements for Forgejo, this one adds features to Forgejo instances, but any URL could be a Forgejo instance.
if you don't understand every bit of the script you are opening yourself up to exploitation
Yeah, maybe I should add some comments, and also highlight the import of createFetchInterceptor (still my own code but in a separate file for reusability).
This is the privacy community after all.
* Piracy 😉
Can you get Clipboard History on Gnome+Wayland?
I wanted a simple clipboard history on Win+V.
I've installed CopyQ - it's ugly, starts with a lag and doesn't quite work on Super+V shortcut. I've switched to Wayland and it silently stopped working altogether.
Next, I've installed Gnome Clipboard History Extension - it looks good, fast, works on Super+V, but for some reason it can't paste into Kate text editor.
Is it possible to get a reliable clipboard history manager on Gnome+Wayland, or should I stop wasting my time? Maybe someone has a working solution?
I am a little but frustrated by the obstacles I encounter trying to get this simple feature.
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French Watchdog Fines American Express €1.5M Over Cookies
French Watchdog Fines American Express €1.5M Over Cookies (1)
(Updates with comment from American Express Carte France.)James Regan (news.bloomberglaw.com)
Do Ubuntu derivatives use the TPM out of the box for cryptographic operations?
The TPM could be used to generate a LUKS decryption key from a password or PIN.
That would tie that password to the hardware, but with LUKS you can have multiple ones, so a long password that directly unlocks the key should be possible in addition
This is probably the main reason every mainboard has TPMs now, since all common operating systems (Android, iOS/MacOS and Windows) do it.
From what I heard the Ubuntu installer offers a version that doesn't suck (if secure boot is enabled at install time) so using that is probably fine, but I would beware of trying to DIY it since it's easy to do incorrectly, most guides are wrong, and you will likely end up with easily bypassable encryption.
Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock | oddlama's blog
oddlama's personal web page and blogoddlama.org
TPM is great on paper, but in practice, there was little planning to ensure that cryptographic keys would be safeguarded by hardware manufacturers, and that's exactly what happened. Now TPM is considered weak as a means of securing data.
I'm not aware of any consumer distros that use TPM enrollment for anything out of the box, though the tools may be present.
Have a look at how Clevis works. That will give you an idea of how easy it is to work tish TPM in Linux.
Video - How the US media sold genocide
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Israeli Prison Guards Are Using Dogs to Rape Palestinians, Former Detainees Say
The testimony, collected by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), is the most recent of at least four reports of dogs being used in the sexual torture of detainees at the Sde Teiman facility and elsewhere.
“They know once they rape someone with a dog or with a stick that these people won’t be able to carry out their jobs or live their lives normally,” Basel Alsourani, international advocacy officer at PCHR, told Novara Media. “It’s part of their genocidal intention to destroy [Palestinians].”
“We were stripped completely. Soldiers brought dogs that climbed on us and urinated on me,” he said. “Then one of the dogs raped me – the dog… inserted its penis into my anus, while the soldiers kept beating and torturing us and spraying pepper spray in our faces.
Israeli Prison Guards Are Using Dogs to Rape Palestinians, Former Detainees Say
As evidence mounts of Israel’s widespread sexual violence, human rights groups have published testimony detailing a particularly disturbing form of torture. Joshua Carroll reports.Novara Media
Israeli Prison Guards Are Using Dogs to Rape Palestinians, Former Detainees Say
The testimony, collected by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), is the most recent of at least four reports of dogs being used in the sexual torture of detainees at the Sde Teiman facility and elsewhere.
“They know once they rape someone with a dog or with a stick that these people won’t be able to carry out their jobs or live their lives normally,” Basel Alsourani, international advocacy officer at PCHR, told Novara Media. “It’s part of their genocidal intention to destroy [Palestinians].”
“We were stripped completely. Soldiers brought dogs that climbed on us and urinated on me,” he said. “Then one of the dogs raped me – the dog… inserted its penis into my anus, while the soldiers kept beating and torturing us and spraying pepper spray in our faces.
Israeli Prison Guards Are Using Dogs to Rape Palestinians, Former Detainees Say
As evidence mounts of Israel’s widespread sexual violence, human rights groups have published testimony detailing a particularly disturbing form of torture. Joshua Carroll reports.Novara Media
South Korea developing app that shows real-time location of stalkers
South Korea: Government developing app showing real-time location of stalkers
Critics have voiced concern over the pervasiveness of stalking and violence against women in South Korea.Koh Ewe (BBC News)
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Critical RCE Vulnerabilities Discovered in React & Next.js
Critical Vulnerabilities in React and Next.js: everything you need to know
Detect and mitigate CVE-2025-55182 and CVE-2025-66478, critical RCE vulnerabilities in React and Next.js. Organizations should patch urgently.Gili Tikochinski (Wiz.io)
i stg, using images from different points in time
trotsky 1919
stalin 1919
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Does this show up as a live stream in voyager?
Jeena
in reply to cyberwolfie • • •Congrats! For me it also has bin godsend that the company allowwes Linux for developers as an exception. In my case it also means that you yourself are responsible for everything yourself, backup, upgrades, security, etc. The only thing they make sure is that the Cisco VPN is also working (it's shitty but anyway) with Linux.
But that is exactly what I want. They do offer a corporate Ubuntu image, which I used one time but hated it, so I blasted it and installed Arch (btw.).
I still need to run MS office and Teams, but I do that in the Browser (have to use Chromium for it because it doesn't work well in Librewolf). But like you say, those pills are much easier to swallow compared to winning Windows 11 on a daily basis, especially as a IT professional.
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in reply to cyberwolfie • • •cyberwolfie
in reply to Daniel Quinn • • •Yeah, but it has also required many hard fought battles internally, and I can be happy with my coworkers and team lead for taking the charge in several of those. It helps having had multiple examples of their policies getting in the way of getting stuff done, and that we are able to accomplish our jobs when we get our way.
Worst part is that we're not a terribly big company - but the IT department can still make it feel like I work in a multinational megacorp some times. I can only imagine what it is to actually work in one of those....
SayCyberOnceMore
in reply to cyberwolfie • • •mumblerfish
in reply to cyberwolfie • • •cyberwolfie
in reply to mumblerfish • • •Yes. Using it through Edge with no issues so far.
Internal team communication goes outside of Teams though (we self-host Mattermost).
ETA: No more issues than the native app under Win11, I meant to say.
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in reply to yaroto98 • • •How does that even work? Just wine it?
yaroto98
in reply to leftascenter • • •Nah, there's an official package/repo for ubuntu. It just requires an enterprise microsoft license.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defe…
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux - Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
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in reply to yaroto98 • • •I think most decent EDR/XDR support Linux.
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in reply to chloroken • • •cyberwolfie
in reply to chloroken • • •Someone has obviously not been forced to work with Windows 11? 😛
It's a massive upgrade and miles better than what I came from, and while not ideal, I'm certainly not letting perfect be the enemy of the good here. Edge is just for those MS365 apps I need to work with once in a while (and a couple of other services that rely on SSO, most annoyingly GitHub). I'll live
Also, I'm a KDE person, but so far I don't hate GNOME.
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