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arstechnica.com

Google is now rolling out a system where Chrome directly tracks your activity and shares its summary with advertisers. Also [Firefox is faster](https://treeherder.mozilla.org/perfherder/graphs?timerange=31536000&series=mozilla-central,3735773,1,13&series=mozilla-central,3412459,1,13) as of like two months ago. It takes five minutes to switch browsers, and the difference is so little that you'll often forget you did it.

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I am trying to re-learn assembly. I have been trying to find a tutorial for assembling a program using NASM on Windows, on a CPU with the x86_64 architecture. I have been unable to make any of the provided examples work. I am asking to be provided: - A piece of code to assemble. The resulting program should output a message into the CLI. - CLI commands to make an object file and to do linkage of that into an executable file. This should preferably be done using NASM, on Windows, on x86_64 architecture, but I'm at my wit's end at this point, so I guess I will be fine with another assembler. I intend to analyze the example and to use this as a starting point in my process of getting back into assembly.

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[linky](https://xcancel.com/adamjohnsonCHI/status/1846523280196350135) why would grocery store need facial recognition ![shrug-outta-hecks](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F7cc4b291-507e-4aa2-9ba6-35d81eb4a08a.png "emoji shrug-outta-hecks")

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i have a 4tb sdd with everything i ever had or saved from every computer i've ever had. i am right now paying for a cloud service to keep it backed up, just in case, because there's lots of stuff on there i would be very sad to lose but i'm sorting, adding, deleting, renaming, etc on the drive and the backup service isn't flexible enough to keep up. i don't need it exactly backed up all the time but i'd like to be able to back up the changes more often. also i can't really afford the cloud service anymore anyway i have a 4tb external hard drive that could keep it backed up safely as long as my house doesn't burn down in a forest fire. my question is, is there a way to make it easy to keep a external drive the same as my internal ssd when i want without copying all the files using copy paste? i'd like it to prioritize the changes on the ssd so if i delete a file on the ssd it will get rid of it on the backup (the cloud service doesn't do that, it only adds to the data on the cloud.) i'm sure it's pretty easy but i don't know how. i'm using windows 10 right now. if i NEED to use linux i sometimes boot mint on a usb, but i'd rather get it working on windows 10 because i'll be using windows 10 until they stop supporting it (not enough free computer time rn to make the switch)

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https://xcancel.com/elizlaraki/status/1846252781851890026

![awooga](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F12dc28f7-b63c-4d62-a1ff-6e3cd6e73c28.png "emoji awooga") ![](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F4d470f28-3720-49c8-ad85-1386bb7897e9.png)

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thehackernews.com

In case someone missed this (i did :(, story from a week ago), forks also should be updated by now ![meow-floppy](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F9875e349-be09-463a-b8fd-4d9315e3ac30.png "emoji meow-floppy") Mozilla has revealed that a critical security flaw impacting Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a use-after-free bug in the Animation timeline component. The issue has been addressed in the following versions of the web browser - Firefox 131.0.2 Firefox ESR 128.3.1, and Firefox ESR 115.16.1.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12btf2Oq820

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21439893 > Meta has a Palestine problem. If you use Facebook or Instagram, you’ve probably seen the censorship yourself. Dena Takruri uncovers an internal culture of censorship, intimidation and fear within Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook. > > She speaks to Meta employees who’ve tried to fix the problem or speak out, and say they were silenced or even fired. She also investigates Meta leaders’ deep ties to Israel, which may explain why it’s suppressing and censoring Palestine content for billions of users around the world.

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fosstodon.org

![some-controversy](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Ff058f1e7-8e52-49a5-9e77-68c35b52d55c.png "emoji some-controversy")

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thehackernews.com

> China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has doubled down on claims that the threat actor known as the Volt Typhoon is a fabrication of the U.S. and its allies. > > The agency, in collaboration with the National Engineering Laboratory for Computer Virus Prevention Technology, went on to accuse the U.S. federal government, intelligence agencies, and Five Eyes countries of conducting cyber espionage activities against China, France, Germany, Japan, and internet users globally. > > It also said there's "ironclad evidence" indicating that the U.S. carries out false flag operations in an attempt to conceal its own malicious cyber attacks, adding it's inventing the "so-called danger of Chinese cyber attacks" and that it has established a "large-scale global internet surveillance network." > "The U.S. military base in Guam has not been a victim of the Volt Typhoon cyber attacks at all, but the initiator of a large number of cyberattacks against China and many Southeast Asian countries and the backhaul center of stolen data."

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capibarazero.github.io

You can buy <5 USD fully built ESP32 modules on https://AliExpress.com Alternatively, you can support to original creators of ESP32 and buy their modularized premades. Includes pricier options with screens, audio + keystroke I/O, etc. http://m5stack.com/ Yes, that website doesn't have SSL, stop being a fucking nerd, Chinese company's websites generally don't have any

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Any software recommendations and stuff? I mainly want to use it for streaming videos and playing ps2 emulator, not so much emulating but just to try it out. Anti virus stuff, things in this realm- been using banana phone for years haven’t had android since high school.

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https://www.youtube.com/live/pIKI7y3DTXk?feature=shared&t=8568

tl;dr: One of the most critical steps in development of a rapidly and completely reusable rocket just worked perfectly on its first test in the real world: midair catching of the biggest booster rocket ever back at its launch tower. Okay, I'll start with the usual caveat that all my respect for what is happening within SpaceX is **solely** for the engineers and technicians and scientists doing the actual work and **not** for the know-nothing shithead who owns most of it. And that my excitement for the problem is solely for the **scientific** breakthroughs that can come from having a cheap and reusable super-heavy-lift rocket available. The link is for a reputable spaceflight youtube channel doing commentary on the launch, as SpaceX is now required by the shithead-in-chief to only stream video on twitter/x. If you'd like a palate cleanser, the same channel presenter did a [highly complimentary 94-minute in-depth documentary about the history of Soviet rocket engines.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-xyXDiC92s) And he loves Soyuz. The background: [Starship/Super Heavy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship) is the first attempt ever to build a rapidly and completely reusable launch system. It comes in two components: Super Heavy, the 10-metre-wide, 70-metre-tall, 33-engine booster. And Starship, the 10-metre-wide 50-metre-tall 6-engine ship that rides on top of it. The booster and launch tower are designed for rapid turnaround, like a jetliner at an airport. Launch, return, do a systems check, refuel, and launch again within a few hours. To make this work they have to minimize the time spent moving a landed booster from its landing site to the launch tower. So why not just have the launch tower catch the returning booster mid-air? That saves all the time and equipment needed to set up the booster again. Insane, right? But this morning they proved that it works. It worked on their *first try ever*. This is one of the massive early R&D wins that can take years off a development schedule. Now that they know this method definitely works with this tower design, they can build more launch towers of the same design and rapidly accelerate more launch tests. [And the Starship on top also did its job. It flew most of the way around the world, testing re-entry systems before doing a soft intact splashdown in the Indian Ocean.](https://www.youtube.com/live/pIKI7y3DTXk?feature=shared&t=11414) Until it exploded afterwards, but hey, it's a prototype! It's hard to overstate what all this can mean for space science down the road. First, a Starship variant is NASA's official lunar landing vehicle for the Artemis program. Or we could launch mass quantities of mass-produced probes and landers everywhere really cheaply, instead of one-offs every few years and having to have academic fights over where to send them and what instruments to include. We could put huge radio telescopes on the far side of the Moon where Earth's radio noise is completely blocked. We could put extrasolar-asteroid interceptors in orbit, ready to chase the ultrafast visiting interstellar rocks with massive fuel drop tanks. There's all sorts of science possibilities that open up when the cost of launch a hundred tonnes to low Earth orbit goes from several billion dollars to just several million. (Again, see caveat at the top. I'm just in it for the science.)

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www.mintpressnews.com

>Kape Technologies is a major player in the online privacy world, one of the three giants that collectively control the market. It owns many of the world’s top VPNs, including ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, Intego Antivirus, and a host of tech websites that promote its products. >This begins with its owner, Teddy Sagi. Born in Tel Aviv, the tycoon, who previously spent time in prison for financial crimes, is estimated to be worth $6.4 billion, making him among the top ten richest Israelis. >Sagi has a long history of working closely with the IDF and is rumored to be extremely close to Israeli intelligence. In 2019, he donated $3 million to fund hundreds of academic scholarships for discharged Israeli soldiers. “It is a debt of honor for us and for me personally to express gratitude and appreciation that all of Israel’s citizens owe to you,” Sagi said at the Friends of the IDF Gala. He also made a point of finding jobs for former IDF soldiers in his businesses.

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Hello again! Ya'll are my last hope for help! I've posted to both the proxmox forums and r/proxmox and nobody's responding. Here's the deal, I built this home media server about a year ago. Took some time to work out the bugs, but I got TrueNAS Scale and Jellyfin on it and started filling it up. A few weeks ago TrueNAS started freezing up, but would work for a little while after a restart, but then it stopped working. I poked around and I found that there needed to be some sort of new EFI boot thing established. I followed it and it worked. A few days later, jellyfin freezes, I can't access the pve GUI or anything, so I do a hard reset. Now proxmox can't launch pve, let alone the GUI. So I've been poking around and found that the drives are at 100% usage, and inodes are at 100% usage (see pic, disk usage is the same % as the inode usage). Digging deeper, I try to find the offending folder in /rpool/ROOT/pve-1, but there are no deeper directories listed. So I drill down into the other pig one /subvol-100-disk-0; this lead me to find a jellyfin metadata library folder with a bunch of small files using up <250 inodes each. I've searched all over the place and haven't been able to figure out what I could delete to at least get pve up and running, and work towards... idk, migrating it to a new larger drive? Or setting up something to automatically clear old files? At any rate, I'm running 2 old 512gb laptop drives for all the OSs on the server. I have it in a ZFS mirror raid. PS: Come to think of it, I've had to expand the size of the virtual drive for my jellyfin LXC multiple times now to get the container to actually launch. Seems I know just enough to get myself into trouble. Someone, please help me rite my pirate ship! ![pirate-jammin](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F55c52773-bf1d-4116-9c94-8a912196752f.gif "emoji pirate-jammin")

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I wanted to block Google's shitty AI results. Ok it looks like I can add `&udm=14` to the url to do that. Let me just add a custom search engine in Firefox... oh wait apparently you can't add custom search engines anymore. You have to install an extension for that. Ok I found an extension that does it but it makes Firefox say "search with [extension name]" instead of "search with Google" and the icon is different which is annoying. Should be an easy fix, just download the extension's source and modify the manifest.json to name it "Google" and change the icon to Google's. Alright now let's install it and... "This add-on could not be installed because it has not been verified." Wtf I have to sign my own add-ons just to use locally? Fine whatever download the shitty npm program to sign the add-on (it downloaded ***400*** dependencies btw). Oh wait I need an API key to sign the add-on to use it locally. I'm not getting a fucking API key to run local code. Oh good there's actually an about:config setting to disable add-on signing... and it doesn't work anymore. ![screm-a](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F120ccc38-035f-4901-8b34-fa93f333a6d6.png "emoji screm-a") AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Is there a good Firefox fork that undoes this bullshit but otherwise keeps up with the main codebase and isn't a pain to switch to?

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https://redlib.nohost.network/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1g11s6m/tesla_robovan/

![soypoint-1](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Ff60b272a-951c-4280-a407-a40408fc5aaf.png "emoji soypoint-1") WOOAAAAAUW OH MY GOD WAOW 📱![soypoint-2](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F2a3eda93-16bf-4eb8-a4a9-fe85ce53fe4a.png "emoji soypoint-2") LOOK AT THAT, THE MADMAN DID IT HE ACTUALLY DID IT ![yiiking-out](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F1c3aaf4b-dfb2-4d64-bfbd-832647f78505.png "emoji yiiking-out") DAE THINK THIS IS THE FUTURE? IT'S LIKE WE'RE IN BACK TO THE FUTURE ![so-true](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F16aee6ba-56ea-4262-855c-6ab37636b08a.png "emoji so-true") musk does it again! Please help. Send help please.

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I want names of the people that we know that are falling for this

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https://xcancel.com/internetarchive/

No I don't know who's behind it but I'd imagine fucking copyright holders are no doubt involved.

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