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The explosion was an act of sabotage? I would have thought it were an event resulting from an act and not itself an act.

Maybe on Ubuntu. I'm talking about the ``manual'' installation to which everyone not using Ubuntu must resort.

Was this using Ubuntu or whatever it is they recommend or ``manually''?

What are TURN and STUN?

Setting up a Jitsi server is non-trivial; this is simple (git clone / cd talk / npm install / npm start). And, if you don't want to trust the programme, you can do this from a dedicated unpriviledged user.

If you have run the native programme (for me it keeps breaking up in the browser), run it from a dedicated unpriviledged user, without installing it on the system. (Run ./opt/zoom/ZoomLauncher.) If you have to log in (I couldn't change the input device without logging in), when your browser tries to open the not installed programme, copy the link and give it as a command-line argument to ZoomLauncher.

Looking forward to a working alternative.

It is also possible that certain styles of writing and clothing are felt by some to be more beautiful. It is not necessary to reduce every stylistic predilection to status or identity signalling.

One nice thing in zsh is that you can type `/u/lo/b<tab><return>` and be in `/usr/local/bin`.

Does that mean that a firmware backdoor is impossible or very unlikely?

Are you saying a librebooted machine is still probably backdoored?

It's easy to find x200 etc. used. Flashing is another story.

Blank keyboards also look better, especially these:

https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/

Simply putting on a clean shirt, some proper shoes and having a shave does wonders in this regard.

Just curious: what do you think of the view that such superficial acts are gestures of respect towards one's fellow man?

Do not use PDFs to present digital content that could and should otherwise be a web page.

To get decent typography, one needs TeX, and TeX produces PDFs, not web pages.

What exactly do you think he said? If I remember correctly, he expressed a valid doubt about a matter of fact.

Seems that in Germany too Apple was able to make the decision to resist quite risky. So maybe the question should be: is there any country where the target would be better protected and wouldn't have to risk so much to resist?

In what other countries than America would this sort of thing work? (Not a rhetorical question.)

https://www.bookdepository.com/University-Physics-with-Moder...

Is this the full book? I'm confused by some items' being marked as "third volume".

Yeah, I was thinking of custom window-manager setups. You can usually get a tty console by ctrl-meta-f1 etc., but that wouldn't help, since you'd have to enter a password. I suppose an advanced version could try different combinations and test each by entering a command that would be detected by the stick.

This will only work, I suppose, if the attacker knows beforehand a keychord that will focus a terminal.

That would only work on a known operating system and window manager with known keyboard shortcuts, unless a terminal is already focused.

depending on the OS, it's possible to craft a USB stick that copies files to a remote server as soon as it's plugged in.

Is this possible with Linux?

Kiernan then inserted a flash drive in one of the laptop's USB ports, with software that copied key files.

How exactly does this work? Is there a sort of software that runs automatically when you insert the stick, or did he have to click on it?

Qutebrowser with a Firefox backend would be nice.

No.

But if my machine were compromised, my 1password password would be compromised too, wouldn't it?

Why would I want to trust some company with all my passwords?

An open-source alternative that just uses GPG for encryption is "pass":

https://www.passwordstore.org/

What do you mean?

Also, there are a number of factors at play, a number of different futures that could have been resulted if there were no slashes just by chaos theory[1]. So, speculating in the hindsight is not fruitful.

This sounds like an argument that one should do whatever, because whatever can result from it.