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I had Windows on a 4 Tb hard drive in my old Mac Pro and I could use only 2 Tb — because Apple's early EFI can't boot Windows natively, only with BIOS emulation — so MBR it is. Having half the space wasted is very annoying. And yes, there is GPT with protective MBR, but in practice this configuration is very frail — Windows updates could ruin the partition table, they usually create a recovery partition at the end of the disk so if system in your main partition stops booting you could boot off the recovery one. And software updates update not only the system in the main partition, but the recovery one too and if that partition isn't big enough to accommodate the update… A new bigger one gets created! 🤦 I had to keep the partition table backed up and a few times I had to restore it by hand because the newly created recovery partition wasn't in the backed up GPT table 😩
It's not as bad when it works. I really enjoy being able to just copy the bootloader as EFI binary — as a file, instead of having to write into a specially defined sector, being able to have multiple binaries in one partition, so I can boot several operating systems without having to use a separate bootloader for it — yes, booting particular operating systems requires their own extras, but it can all happily reside in the same small partition.
I was messing with x86 real mode assembly programming in my teens, but I've never went that far. And when it comes to MBR… I once wanted to change the order of partitions in the partition table — most don't care what order they have, so I didn't know where to look, nowadays you can easily export the partition table with gdisk, edit the file and recreate the partition table with different order — again with gdisk. But at the time partitioning software was very limited so I wrote a C program that rearranged them 😅
It's not that it's complex, but why bother? Sure, UEFI has its shortcomings, but having this higher level of abstraction — at least having a concept of partitions at this boot stage, being able to work with files… I think it's good!
@mirabilos i switched to gpt when i got a 4tb ssd. actually i just copied my old system over there and then got shocked when i saw its not giving me the full size of the disk. then i realized i had to switch
also, a max of 4 partitions is annoying for some use cases
I recently received an email that at first glance appeared to be a well-crafted phishing message, warning that my Microsoft Entra ID was going to expire in a month if I didn't make a purchase. The only piece of information in the message was my supposed Entra ID.
After checking with Microsoft it appears this automated message is legitimate, and it is in reference to a Microsoft Teams trial account I created for a day and then abandoned. But apart from the Entra ID, which isn't mentioned in any prior communications from Microsoft, there is zero context for the user.
How hard would it be for Microsoft to include just a tiny bit more information in each message? Like, "Hey, this message is about an account created 5 years ago, for Teams" or something. Otherwise these marketing messages train users to fall for phishing scams.
Microsoft are one of the MVPs for spouting how important it is to be on the lookout for random emails, then sending random emails that look phishy as hell.
I should add that whilst I was waiting for a response from Redmond, I suspected it probably was in relation to that old Teams account, reset the pwd for that account, and then looked at the "entra id" referenced during the login and it was a different number.
the only way this email will be improved is if some product manager comes up with a new SKU you have to rent in perpetuity to get those better email notices.
Perhaps those assholes can also make a "Useful Debugging Output In The Web UI P1" SKU for Intune whilst they're at it.
usually the only way I can identify these sketchy but legit emails is because of my longstanding practice of making up single purpose email addresses. How otherwise would I determine PayPal really wants to give me $5 and not a scammer who scraped/stole my address?
Anybody less technical is lost. As shown by the constant questions I get from my parent.
> How hard would it be for Microsoft to include just a tiny bit more information in each message?
I don't know specifically about Microsoft, but from my experience it could be quite hard indeed. Not technically, but organisationally: marketing teams often use their own systems with very loose coupling with production systems, and any non-trivial export needs a lot of extra legwork. CSV files are involved.
It's a hallmark of #enshittification that "legitimate" emails (i.e. not malicious, but still not kosher either) look more and more like phishing and phishing looks more and more legitimate... take from that what you will. 🤷♂️
@GossiTheDog got this, too and thought that it is related to an Azure subscription that I created to test something years ago. Fine for them to kill. If my 365 family stops working I’ll be mad.
@GossiTheDog I received one of these too a few weeks back. It looks like it was from when I was playing around with their hosted virtual Windows 11 PCs.
Tangent on training people to fall for phishing scams. Piss poor phishing emulation programs.
Congratulations: you've gotten people to fall for a highly specific link that is an internal email from a legitimate HR account that has no external banner like you've trained people to look for, have no reporting and review mechanism for end users to get help checking unclear emails, and then rick rolled them.
If HR is pwned there is so freaking little my account has to offer an attacker. And under some vague circumstance there was... WTF WOULDN'T YOU WALK THROUGH THAT SCENARIO instead of a lazy ass rick roll?
Corporate email and communication etiquette is so brain dead in general I'm surprised anything of value ever gets accomplished.
I've got one basic rule: When I receive a mail that could or could not be phishing, I visit their page, login and check from there. I recently got a message from Dropbox telling me that there are problems with my credit card - and it really looked phishy. Luckily after logging in there I saw the same message.
I really don't understand why companies often don't refer to their pages to validate the mail from there.
Recently received a text from an unrecognized number stating that it was a medical bill and a link to click. Obviously, did not click the link. Friends indicated that it is a legitimate medical bill. Either way, it is a stupid idea. I ignored it and a couple of weeks later a paper bill turned up in the mail.
You can tell it's genuine Microsoft because a real scammer would never be so evil as to require you to make a repeat purchase every 200 days or withhold access to your data.
@vikki @GossiTheDog i dont want to frighten you kids, but you do know that emails can be read by pretty much anyone who is determined enough don't you? thats why your bank doesnt send anythin except generic info via email.
this video is bullshit this kike is ranting about mostly just people supporting trans rights and then one, ONE guy who is a convicted sex offender which sure call it bad but he was convicted he served his time i dont see how its relevant here it's just more kike chud grifter bullshit complaining about "degeneracy" of shit like, grouped among pedos, anybody lgbt, or shit like that, fucking nazi and he's ending the video by implying that anybody who disagrees with him or criticizes him for saying the linux community is a degenerate disgusting criminal haven for pedophilic sex crime must be a pedophile child rapist themselves i wish i could bash this fucking kikes jew skull in go back to talking about linux you hebrew piece of shit 109 countries just wasn't enough expelling wasn't enough i hope you die you probably hate autistic people too not just trannies fuck you nigger 🖕
Does the world of Linux and Open Source welcome and protect rapists, pedophiles, and general degenerates?More from The Lunduke Journal:https://lunduke.com/
After years of dominance in #ESET’s top #infostealer statistics, the era of #AgentTesla has come to an end. It finished H1 2025 in fourth place, its numbers having decreased by 57%. The reason? It is no longer under active development. The threat actors behind Agent Tesla have reportedly lost access to the servers with the malware’s source code. A successor appeared almost immediately – another #MaaS threat, known as #SnakeStealer or #SnakeKeylogger, has claimed the number one spot. Recommended as a suitable replacement directly in Agent Tesla’s Telegram channel, SnakeStealer now takes up almost a fifth of all infostealer detections registered by ESET telemetry. Between H2 2024 and H1 2025, its detections more than doubled. If you want to find out more information about this changing of the guard in the infostealer threat landscape, head on over to #ESETThreatReport: welivesecurity.com/en/eset-res…
The Wall Street Journal would have you believe its report on a “sheikh” who wants to form a Hebron “emirate” under Israeli control is a groundbreaking political revelation. But anyone with basic knowledge of Palestine will tell a different story.
today i learned that the average person has no clue what is going on on their computer and just clicks on stuff until it works, no understanding of how an operating system works whatsoever
i thought they would at least know what a driver or a binary is
Der Unfallatlas zeigt auf der Stadtautobahn Warnemünde stadtauswärts keinen Unfallschwerpunkt. Komischerweise steht da aber stadtauswärts gerne mal ein Blitzer.
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Wo passieren in meinem Wohnort die meisten #Verkehrsunfälle? Wer waren die Unfallbeteiligten? Das und mehr zeigt der interaktive #Unfallatlas.
Die zugrunde liegenden Daten können auch als #OpenData heruntergeladen werden.
How about we just start firing FBI employees until the Epstein evidence is put on a public server. Start at the top and just keep going until we have one of 3 outcomes:
1. The evidence is public 2. Admission the evidence was destroyed 3. The entire FBI is gone
Hmmm got my labs back from yesterday's Dr visit. Seems anemia is my next hurdle. Still not eating enough. Beef is a good tool to use to fight anemia along with vitamin c. Think I'm gonna go buy some pre chopped picanha (sp?) And some OJ
None of my local supermarkets have any picanha so I'm just gonna go with a burger patty, frozen veggies and half a can of beef broth and some tomato paste. Not gonna bother with spices as I cant taste them anyway...
YEKATERINBURG (Sputnik) - Russia's Minister of Industry and Trade, Anton Alikhanov, met with the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Central African Republic, Thierry Patrick Akoloza on Tuesday at the 15th International Industrial...
Heads up #Sharkey #admins! If you're not #caching #remote #media (a'la #mastodon) be sure to go into your Files Management page and clear out your remotely cached files anyway!
Holy crap I cleared up over 500GB of remotely cached media across all my #instances in doing so.
I guess at one point I inadvertently enabled remote media caching and forgot to turn it off or something happened and it still continued to cache for a while? #SharkeyAdmin #FediAdmin
'Medicine can be imported, doctors cannot': IDF killing of hundreds of Gaza medical workers deepens health system crisis haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…
When the American empire finally collapses, historians won’t be stunned by the greed of the elite; They’ll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor.
The working class didn’t just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them.
They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, defunded the schools of their own kids, plauded the ruling class for leaving them alone in time of need, supported masked agents kidnapping regular citizens, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions.
Not because it helped them. But because they were told it would hurt someone else.
And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without ever breaking a single law.
When you haven't been exposed to advertising for a while and it's no longer normalised, it's quite jarring. Not because it's annoying or shit, rarely lacking any artistic merit, begging and pleading and lying for attention and complicity - that bit you remember.
But because the only way this crap exists at all is through force, ramming it through devices without permission or consent. An entire industry based on tracking and surveillance to target assault.
Recordad amiguis, vox suelta imbecilidades solo para que hablemos de ellos. Es su mecanismo de propaganda. Nos indignan con chorradas ridículas y sus seguidores piensan que dan la batalla.
No caigáis en darles casito. No hay debate, solo ruido.
Samvel Karapetyan is just the first — but certainly not the last [to be removed],” Semyon Bagdasarov, a prominent political scientist and director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Central Asia, tells Sputnik, commenting on the recen…
Here is my recipe for an absolutely PERFECT breakfast burrito w/ sausage & bacon!00:00 Intro00:49 Cooking sausages & bacon1:49 Cutting potatoes2:32 Cooking p...
mozilla, part of the problem or part of a solution
automation stupidity in rapid development
For those of you using librewolf you may have noticed that color coded tab grouping has been in effect. You just right click a tab and add it to a group, or create a new one with spcific name and color code. Fine, that doesn't appear unreasonable and remains optional for the use to configure. Now mozilla is coming out with automatic grouping of tabs, based on what criteria, Ai?
Firefox automatically groups your tabs and suggests names based on what you’re working on. It helps you stay focused, find things faster, and reduce clutter.
I sure hope the librewolf gang will have this disabled at build time
Argentinisches #Wirtschaftswunder. Der Wohlstand wächst: Dank #Milei erreichte das Pro-Kopf-BIP Argentiniens mit 15.161 US-Dollar, den höchsten Stand seit Einführung der aktuellen Ermittlungssystematik im Jahr 2004.
Was meinst du? Erstmal ist Praesident Milei ein YGL (Young Global Leader): weforum.org/people/javier-gera… aber scheint wohl nicht gegen sein Volk zu arbeiten, indem er die Wirtschaft seines Landes zu gunsten der US-Wirtschaft abwuergt. Das scheint bis jetzt auszubleiben.
Und er scheint wohl auch nicht all' zu 100% anti-russisch zu sein - siehe im Gegensatz dazu Frau #Baerbock ...
Agreed. I hope this gains even more traction. Building a digital economy around support and service of free open source software with the requirement of personnel being local seems like the best way for Europe to finally become competitive.
Look, folks, I’ve been hearing a lot, a lot, about this thing called Linux. Ever heard of it? Sounds European, doesn’t it? Probably invented in Brussels, or Sweden, maybe Russia, I don't know. Total disaster. I call it Socialist Windows, because that’s what it is! It’s chaotic, no one’s in charge. Total mess. Bernie Sanders running an IT department, terrible. Meanwhile, Windows, great American company, by the way, very successful, very strong.
I mean in the server space Linux has already won and is doing just fine. Imo it is actually the reverse and sad that it needs this level of turmoil to get Europe to even think about software and digital infrastructure as fundamental. And even with all that's going on they are just dipping their toes into it rather than properly comitting to a radical shift. Hell, even with all that's going on some parts of the police here in Germany are still getting into bed with companies like Palantir.
That's a joke...I remember downloading opensuse, there was a warning that forbids me to use if I was in a country targeted by the USA something like that 😆 IMO, If you really want independance dont use things from corporations. Many people complains about overstaffing in administrations, so why not have them work on a distro from scratch ?
ich spreche jetzt mal - was ich selten mache - als Chefin: ein Bruchteil dieser Liste würde in jedem normalen Arbeitsverhältnis genügen, sich von der Person zu trennen. Plus: zu prüfen, ob hier nicht grobe Fahrlässigkeit vorliegt - also volle Arbeitnehmerhaftung. From: @arnesemsrott chaos.social/@arnesemsrott/114…
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Alle Vorwürfe gegenüber Spahn. Die ultimative Liste
@fragdenstaat: https://fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exklusiv/2025/07/die-milliarden-konnten-wir-uns-spahn/
Israels Regierende formulieren immer klarer ihre Vertreibungspläne für Gaza. Die historische und polit-ökonomische Dimension der Kriegführung gegen die palästinensische Bevölkerung war Thema eines Symposiums in Berlin. nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192453.…
TEHRAN, Jul. 09 (MNA) – Deputy commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Ali Fadavi warned that Iran will deliver a surprise response to any fresh act of aggression or miscalculation by its enemies.
I do enjoy that starting with V1C3 the girls seem to be making friends with others from the different schools. I hope we get something like Mika becoming friends with Aru, though that might be too much silly in one room
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in reply to mirabilos • • •I was messing with x86 real mode assembly programming in my teens, but I've never went that far. And when it comes to MBR… I once wanted to change the order of partitions in the partition table — most don't care what order they have, so I didn't know where to look, nowadays you can easily export the partition table with gdisk, edit the file and recreate the partition table with different order — again with gdisk. But at the time partitioning software was very limited so I wrote a C program that rearranged them 😅
It's not that it's complex, but why bother? Sure, UEFI has its shortcomings, but having this higher level of abstraction — at least having a concept of partitions at this boot stage, being able to work with files… I think it's good!
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in reply to mirabilos • • •@mirabilos i switched to gpt when i got a 4tb ssd. actually i just copied my old system over there and then got shocked when i saw its not giving me the full size of the disk. then i realized i had to switch
also, a max of 4 partitions is annoying for some use cases