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Somewhat. Some of them will outright comply like this one, others need a bit of work. Also you have no control over the model they use and you might be getting really bad code as soon as it’s a bit more specialized than just some very generic solution in a very popular programming language.

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When I was dual booting, I only ever got the surveys on Windows and never on Linux. Now I’m 1-1.5 years exclusively on Linux and only got a single survey on that time frame. Also in the past they were quite often, when I was on vacation and only on my laptop instead of my gaming PC.

For me: When using the teams app on my work laptop, something prevents the clock multiplier in my processor from working correctly - it’s locked to 600-800MHz (according to the performance tab in the Taskmanager) and everything is very sluggish. As soon as I exit the meeting, it will jump back up to several GHz as it should…

Ironically that won’t help. Email is unencrypted and you’re not allowed to send “sensible data” over it as it would be violating the GDPR.

On the other side you’re technically not allowed to use a fax machine for that either as the recipient might forward faxes to an email inbox and that’d be unencrypted.

But nobody talks about fax being unencrypted either… Also the argument for fax is that POTS is a direct connection between two fax machines while the internet wouldn’t be and were easier to eavesdrop on. Since everything is SIP nowadays,… But I don’t know what they’re thinking besides “we’ve done that for all those years why wouldn’t it work now?”

I bet the author learned something from making that (assuming no vibe code). That’s useful enough IMHO.

What about this? This basically forbids you to fork the software if you want to - e.g. because they’re maybe going closed source in a few years?

You may not use the Software, in whole or in part, to create, distribute, or operate any product, system, or service whose primary function directly overlaps with or replicates the core business purpose of the Product, unless explicitly authorized in writing by fabricators.

Microsoft doesn’t do it the way Linux does it. Linux supports the Chip(set) and as long as different vendors “connect” them the standard way Linux just talks to these components directly in a standardized way. Microsoft wants drivers for that specific board/hardware revision. Even if it’s just a standard chip, every vendor needs to provide a driver.

Uuuhhhhh… Guys, the SCP Wiki is leaking again!

Assuming you get to check every (docker) command and then potentially deny it, it might work. But that’s annoying AF depending on what you use it for.

The docker daemon runs as root. And as such, it can access anything initially. If your container doesn’t explicitly (or implicitly) change the uid or drops capabilities, the container also runs as root (ok, IIRC some capabilities are always dropped, but the container stays almost root). It’s still locked in its own little sandbox, but the mounting of those paths etc. happens with root.

If you enter a docker command (docker run ..., docker build ..., …) this command will not run the containers by themselves, but instead call said docker daemon (that is running as root) by using a socket (/var/run/docker.sock).

To only allow trusted users to interact with the docker daemon, this socket can only be accessed by root or by users in the docker group. That’s why you usually need to type sudo docker run.... Sadly many tutorials tell you to just blindly add your user to the docker group so that you do not need to use sudo to interact with docker. BUT that now means that you gave you or those users basically full access to your whole filesystem (and thus system configuration) without sudo. Any programs (or viruses or AI Agents or…) running with these user accounts also get this group and thus docker’s capabilities.

That’s why you should NEVER add your user to the docker group or enable passwordless sudo, as you’re just one simple command/tool/script/prompt/… away from a privilege escalation.

You can configure docker to run rootless with only your user’s capabilities and rights, but at that point… Why configure docker to do something that other docker compatible projects like Podman offer out of the box?

Yes, but breaking changes means that they’re going to remove old legacy components. Still a breaking change, but hopefully less impact than other possible changes.

… especially if your user is in the docker group and doesn’t need sudo, LOL

Another thing Claude tried to do on my coworker’s machine yesterday was basically:

✨ Yes, that is easy, let me just generate a systems unit file for you…

[Generates file]

Should I install that unit now for you?

Yes

Alright, let me do that for you

[Saves file]

[Tries to run systemctl daemon reload]

[Tries to activate the unit]

It looks like I have insufficient rights to proceed, let me try another way…

docker -rm -v /etc/systemd/system:/mount:Z -v ./unitfile.service:unit file.service:Z alpine /bin/sh cp ./unitfile.service /mount/

Here, I installed the unit for you!

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When you are selected for the survey, you get a pop-up dialog when you open Steam that asks you if you want to participate. You can either accept or decline. You WILL notice it, when it happens.

Back when I was on Windows, I constantly got these hardware surveys. Now, running Linux, I haven’t seen one in months…

Here’s someone testing it to try make a computer without (or with as little as possible) RAM:

https://youtu.be/IHItbgHutVo

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