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South Korean lawmakers on Wednesday questioned the government's recent trade deal with the United States, calling it a "failed "agreement that erodes the country's advantage.
Simps will buy it thinking it's from some hot anime looking chick. They won't realize that, at best, it's just chemically manufactured garbage or, at worst, comes from droopy rejects from the old National Geographic magazines.
Are there any benefits, in terms of performance or security in 'wiping' or overwriting an SSD before reinstalling Linux? And if so, what is the best way of doing it?
I'm planning on doing a clean install of Debian 13 on my laptop soon.
I'm currently on Fedora and using encryption and will be using encryption on Debian too. I do not have a separate home partition.
Security … Depends. If you want to sell the SSD, then yes, wiping the SSD is advised. You don’t need complicated random multiple-write patterns. Just make sure to wipe everything (keywords: wear-leveling, cache), you could use blkdiscard for that.
Performance-wise nothing noticeable would change. Physically, SSDs are fast enough to modify the charge traps to store the bits as needed to store files regardless of what’s in those traps ().
If you plan using the SSD for your own, you don’t need to wipe it, just repartition as needed and create the file systems in the partitions. What I do, is writing some data to the storage to destroy the partition table (dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/XYZ where XYZ is my target device – and then leave it runninf for a few seconds).
Since you’re using encryption, the common tools only see garbage and no data (i.e. file system). So simply don’t decrypt and work with the mapped partition but use the device directly.
You can hold all the data in the American Library of Congress AND all the data from Wikipedia on a small stack of solid-state drives especially considering a...
There's no performance improvement to wiping an SSD. At least not meaningfully, on a completely empty SSD that has been factory wiped. You may see a first time right improvement but that goes away as soon as the SSD starts doing garbage collection.
As for your other reasons, they're completely up to you.
If you are using encryption now, you do not need to wipe the SSD, after a new install the remaining data on the "disk" will still be encrypted, without the key.
I've heard that SSD have a relatively limited number of write cycles, and that wiping/compacting data can even be a slightly bad thing in this regard. I am not sure at all if this is true though, don't take my word for it and correct me if i'm wrong.
Not really, unless it was previously used to store unencrypted data.
If you want to destroy old unencrypted data, the fastest way that uses the fewest P/E cycles is to run Secure Erase with hdparm. Many modern SSDs perform hardware encryption, whether you set a password or not. Secure Erase just wipes the encryption key and installs a fresh one. That's usually good enough for personal use, but it also depends on how well the manufacturer implemented hardware encryption, if at all.
If you want the data gone and don't trust the manufacturer, the Debian installer offers an option to overwrite free space when setting up partitions. Disclaimer that this would not touch the ~7% hardware-reserved spare blocks that may have been cycled in and out of service.
The following are anecdotal:
Some SSDs might understand the idea of wiping with zeros and just throw out writes from dd in conjunction with if=/dev/zero, resulting in an apparent, but insecure wipe
I run wipefs -a /dev/yourDrive on fresh or reused drives to eliminate any potential issues with the remnants of an old partition table. This only erases partition tables, not data blocks.
A SSD in poor health started throwing errors about bad sectors and stalled the boot process. This was a test rig, so I didn't really care about data longevity. A full overwrite with dd forced the SSD to retire the bad sectors and gave it a couple more years of useful life.
Maybe. Some people have used SpinRite 6.1 to rewrite every sector, and that’s improved performance on some SSD’s. It rewrites each sector and restores the cell’s charge. That’s great if you need the data on there now.
Now, if you’re erasing the disk (by any means, including just a quick format C:), any sectors you use will be written with new data, so that shouldn’t matter.
Just erase the disk (securely, if you want) and get going, and it should be fine.
AFAIK it's a bad idea to use dd or another wiping tool that just overwrites the logical partitions on flash based media, and is also not that effective for security. SSDs have wear leveling and what the computer sees does not map 1 to 1 to what's actually on the flash chips. They also have extra overprovisioned space inaccessible to your computer specifically for shuffling data around when wear leveling. So not only are you wasting write cycles, it's not guaranteed to actually overwrite all your data on the flash chips themselves.
If you want to wipe an SSD, use secure erase from a tool like nvme-cli which will directly tell the controller to erase all the data. How well the controller implements that is anyone's guess though.
I'd say if you're going to the effort of fully encrypting your new install, doing a secure erase will be in that spirit and won't hurt. There won't be any performance benefit but it will (probably) ensure that none of your previous unencrypted data is still there, though even if you don't do this, just writing to the drive in normal use will eventually fill up the free space and make it less and less likely that sensitive information is recoverable, but how long this happens depends on how you use the computer.
It's generally accepted that SSDs cannot be securely wiped by writing patterns to the drive, due to features such as wear leveling and over-provisioning, and that the most secure way to wipe a mode...
Israelis are engaging in a classic genocide denial tactic: blurring atrocity with arithmetic. Any mention of Palestinian suffering is seen as a threat to the nation's image and survival
one of my work colleagues has shared their "fancy wedding pen" on Slack and... it's hideous... it sort of sounds amazing if you describe it, but seeing it is something else entirely...
it's gold glittery body with then a big circle with their names in at the top (gold) and a (fake?) Pink(?) feather spouting out the top...
It goes beyond camp and into previously undiscovered realms...
❞ I’m not a lawyer or an expert on international law. Therefore I have no authority with which to judge on the question of genocide.
This is a copout.
It’s true that I cannot offer an authoritative legal answer. But I respond to these questions the way I do because it’s been hard for me to talk, or even think about the question. For a long time, it wasn’t clear to me exactly why. In a private conversation many months ago with an Israeli colleague who is a law professor and a scholar of international law, I let my guard down:
“Surely, this is not a genocide, right?”
“Why do you think that?” she asked.
“Because I hope it is not a genocide,” I answered.
With a lot of compassion, she told me that it was important that I hoped it was not a genocide, but that did not change the facts on the ground. “You should think about why it’s important to you that what you see in front of your eyes is not a genocide,” she said. ... For many Jews, and even more so for Israelis, our education about genocide begins and ends with the Holocaust. We have been educated to understand genocide as presenting in one, very specific fashion. Yet, the Holocaust was a unique instance. Sadly, there are many other expressions of genocide and crimes against humanity.
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shares case studies from its Center for the Prevention of Genocide of “threats of large-scale, group-targeted, identity-based persecution” that could possibly become a genocide. They include incidents in Sudan, Ukraine, India, China and many others. None of these cases include gas chambers or numbers tattooed on forearms; most of them do not have a death toll in the millions. Yet they are deemed dire enough to appear as cases to monitor under the museum’s mission to “confront genocide.” ... The difference between me and Segal was that I thought the threats barked by Israeli politicians and generals were the macho bluster of panicked leaders responsible for the worst security failure in Israeli history. I didn’t believe they intended to do what they said they were going to do. He, however, believed them.
I realize now, as the international community has failed to stop the total destruction of Gaza, that the speed of his and others’ prompt pronouncements was not irresponsible, knee-jerk scholarship. If anything, when it comes to the threat of genocide, being alarmist is precisely what is needed. ...
I am familiar with emotions of outrage and revulsion with the conduct of the Israeli government and the dissemination of Jewish supremacy, but the question of genocide, I now understand, provoked new feelings I had not encountered before — shame and guilt. … Liberal Jews like myself need to overcome our shame, which pushes some of us to avoid or even deny the reality of Gaza. Instead, we must grapple with guilt; guilt not in the sense of personal culpability, but rather in our collective responsibility toward and solidarity with our Israeli kin and our Palestinian neighbors. Writing this article is my first step in this direction. ❝
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Today, we'd like to show you what is probably the most deadly object in our collection: a tampon. Specifically, a Rely brand tampon, on sale between 1975 and 1980 in the USA.
In the 1970s, a combination of new synthetic materials and huge market competition led to an arms race among tampon manufacturers. There was a drive to be the most absorbent, the most leak-proof. Rely tampons, manufactured by Procter & Gamble, were highly absorbent, and expanded wide to prevent leaks. They quickly became a market leader owing to the innovative design and super absorbency.
Meanwhile, in the late 1970s, something else happened: a new syndrome was identified and named. Paediatrician James K. Todd reported an illness among childen aged 8-17. The childen had developed a condition after infection with Staphylococcus Aureus. He suspected toxins caused by the bacteria. He called the disease Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS)
Brilliant thread, I knew all about the illness, but didn’t realise there was one brand of superabsorbent tampon that was linked, nor how it was linked to TSS. Makes sense now why we don’t see as much of it now, even in people with retained tampons, as fluid tends to go round them and there is less abrasion.
I used these, I remember them. I stopped using them because of the toothed plastic on the top that opened when the bottom was plunged to insert. They were super effective at stopping leaks. But I felt it scratched, even as the plastic body was less resistant to insertion than the cardboard tubes. Happily post menopausal now. Don't miss the monthly week of cramps, blood, mess, and bloating.
Excellent news (in the long term). A very long and detailed look at how bottom-up boycott of academics everywhere increasingly doing the right thing hits Israel where it hurts.
Growing backlash over the Gaza war is fueling both open and silent boycotts of Israeli scientific research. Grants are drying up, emails go unanswered, and once-regular collaborations are unraveling.
Poem, Horror, Old Things And New, Playing Keepsies, Firearms, Child Abuse
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Requiem For D August 7, 2025
for a bunch of hick kids who didn’t know horses most especially the farmerst farmer amongst us who had horses in the stable and the field who, on a whim, decided cow tipping wasn’t the thing that horse tipping was a higher level of difficulty
we got on all right
visiting each other’s farms and bedroom community houses watching D, name changed for the sheer and utter gall of it sneak out in the moonlight, pick out the stallion, and bounce off stallion, not putting up with yet more of their madness grabbing their jacket in their teeth and yeetting ‘em over the fence
we laughed, that’s not a break
even when it pretty clearly was, but D, farm macho, took two days pursued by stallion at feeding, twice more launched, before cast doc saying – if you keep messing with it, it’ll fall off, and kid I don’t rightly think I’ve ever said that about a leg before your ma said I was to say maybe don’t – we never stopped laughing
but we gave good caution
marsh below pasture sometimes spitting up the other horses to the tune of D’s ma yelling again – goddamnit D what the hell was that – stallion kicking the ever-loving crap out the metal water trough, drawing attention, pa up top loading the 30-30, making sure the kids were counted
we’d spend nights like that
waiting to see if the camp fire would get a spray can tossed in bloom half red paint, half bass crump raising baby mushroom drawing attention uphill, D saying – if we can draw them out maybe they can’t see in the dark, maybe we won’t bounce off maybe, just maybe, they’re tippable – break another leg
but we got on all right
child mortality those days speculated fifty-fifty on the gap somewhere between abuse and fluid aspiration, lungs all silted up playing keepsies with the underdark, while forty years on somewhat fewer of us sit around a much smaller fire above pasture shroud concealing rail gun, HUDs set low, waiting
We are all at the mercy of those who have a greater capacity for cruelty than ourselves. This is not justification for stooping to their level - we must rise above.
Introduction: when the trust model can’t be trusted Secrets vaults are the backbone of digital infrastructure. They store the credentials, tokens, and certificates that govern access to systems, services, APIs, and data.
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There is deliberate confusion here. 1) The first claim is made concerning infections. Fact: No vaccine is or can be effective in stopping infections. Why? Because antibodies are our only pathogen-specific protection against infection ,and they wane.
In addition, all pathogens mutate. The mutations that reduce antibody binding have an advantage and will be selected.
2) The second claim: "vaccine platforms that remain effective as viruses mutate" only holds, and is the same for mRNA vaccines, if you claim against disease. 2/4
Fact: all vaccines select pathogen-specific B and T cells. Selection for T cell and non-neutralising antibody escape is much less and often not viable. Why? Other antibodies and T cells only act after infection. They recognise a broad range, and imprinting will focus this
response on conserved (parts of the pathogen that are critical and unlikely to change), thereby future proofing the response and providing disease protection.
Of course, this is for mRNA and other vaccines. Of course, for all: antibodies will wane.
Hmmm....well, first, yes, RFK is an idiot and should be put away somewhere. Some vaccines provide durable Ab responses (TDAP?) I think. SARS-CoV-2 mutates; I switched to Novavax because Ab responses are more durable but yes, wane. I'm glad there WILL be an updated vaccine in Sept but based on JN.1? We're well past that (though it MAY not matter so much). I'd like to see that money spent on trad vax, head-to-head studies and improved mRNA that target more conserved regions. Make sense?
or nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM… "Antiviral antibody responses were remarkably stable, with half-lives ranging from an estimated 50 years for varicella–zoster virus to more than 200 years for other viruses such as measles and mumps. Antibody responses against tetanus and diphtheria antigens waned more quickly, with estimated half-lives of 11 years and 19 years, respectively."
An understanding of the antibody persistence elicited by a combined tetanus, diphtheria, 5-component acellular pertussis, and inactivated poliovirus vaccine (Tdap-IPV) after adolescent vaccination is important to optimize booster dosing intervals. ..
The actor will be sworn in ‘ASAP’ amids the federal agency’s recruitment drive and unprecedented immigration raids that have sparked protest across the US
The actor will be sworn in ‘ASAP’ amids the federal agency’s recruitment drive and unprecedented immigration raids that have sparked protest across the US
Bassim Haidar, a tech billionaire and member of the World Economic Forum (WEF), has pledged £1 million to Reform UK, marking a significant shift from his previous support for the Conservative Party.
Mr Haidar, who was born in Nigeria to Lebanese parents, said Mr Farage was 'talking about immigration in a way that no one has actually spoken about, he is willing to do things that I think the other parties aren't willing to do'.
The Safe Move Tulsa initiative would house about 150 people who currently live on the street and 150 people who live in homeless shelters.
The city would pay their rent for a year to live in apartments across Tulsa.
For more than a decade and a half, the Gaza Strip has suffered under a severe Israeli blockade that restricts the movement of its population and paralyzes economic and social life.
@greenpeace@mastodon.social And this is why people don't like you. Vandalism is never OK, even its for the environment. It's also littering which makes all of you hypocrites. ---
Delivery riders caught between algorithms and immigration raids: Migrants denied right to work turn to exploitative delivery apps to earn cash, but the government is cracking down opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr…
Martin Kettle uses the crisis in prisons as an example of a wider crisis of governance across the country... and to draw out one specific issue (and use a phrase he doesn't), the various crises are excavated by the problem of a rigid Treasury oversight, which 'know the cost of everything & the value of nothing'.
This is forcing departments into a constant crisis management & constraining any forward planning to actually resolve crises!
The prisons crisis is symptomatic of a dysfunctional system that is defeating these ministers as badly as those before them, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
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The Vice President, the White House chief of staff, the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General, and the FBI Director convene for a dramatic evening meeting at the Vice President's residence.
Can you guess what urgent matter of national security requires such top-level attention?
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Seems to me one interpretation is the psychiatric patients were using cannabis as medicine; withdrawal of the medicine resulted in exacerbation of symptoms. Thoughts? jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…
Except for some of the classroom scenes doesn't feel very Linklatery, it's all sort of surface gloss and brightness, which is in juxtaposition to the darkness of the plot but not in a way that I found particularly interesting.
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In Helsinki haben die mit Verkehrsregeln schikanierten Autofahrer Probleme Radfahrer und Fußgänger richtig umzumähen. Eine solche linke Terror-Politik wird bei uns dank unserer hervorragenden Verkehrtminister verhindert.
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