Is Meta even active in China or are they blocked by the CCP? If so you can remove 1.4 billion people from the list of potential users, meaning an even crazier market saturation

I think the specific hash algorithm used doesn’t matter much, except that MD5 is quite fast to calculate. A modern hash algorithm would buy some time by being more expensive computationally, but wouldn’t change much otherwise. From how I understand the article, they effectively did a sophisticated dictionary attack on the passwords in the database, not brute force attacks on individual hashes. Probably starting with all the known common passwords and then continuing with some generator based on common password patterns. Otherwise I couldn’t explain how they cracked 48% of the passwords in under 60 seconds and needed the remainder of an hour for just another 12%.

Regardless, that’s no excuse for still using MD5 hashes today. The problem is that a sizeable chunk of IT professionals have no fucking clue what they’re doing. They might have heard that storing passwords as plain text is a bad idea, so they use the first hash algorithm they come across which happens to be MD5, unsalted of course. Unittests pass, everyone’s happy, software gets shipped, black hats are happy.

Win 10 being murdered is the important distinction. It’s not the first time Microslop released a shitty and unpopular Windows version, but previously you always had the option to stay on an older still supported version.

“Patents decide” is a very thin veil around the personal data grab this really is. If parents so decide, they are perfectly capable to set up the correct ages for their children without handing any sensitive data over to bog tech. And if they decide to not care about age restrictions, they could still use their personal info to verify as adults on their children’s devices. This bill only benefits those, who can collect even more data then

I know that the year of the Linux desktop is a bit of a meme but that’s why I was referencing it. That said, the year of the Linux desktop has long come for me personally and only my desktop PC still has a Windows partition but I don’t know when I last booted into it. I won’t immediately ditch my Android phone, but I’m excited to test the viability of a Linux phone for me personally

I have the new Jolla Phone preordered and I’m excited to see how it plays out. Maybe 2026 is the year of the Linux Phone

New business venture: sell computers that totally aren’t routers, pinky promise, but just randomly happen to run OpenWrt perfectly and have all the needed hardware.

Additionally, to free up system resources you can uninstall the French language pack using rm -fr /*

There are 15.43 million artist on spotify, so they’d get about $836,000 each.

I never tried this but your comment made me wonder: there are probably some programs that run better using WINE in WSL than running them directly in Windows 11.

To be fair, that’s an issue for both torrent and usenet. If it’s popular enough, you will still find seeder or reupload 15 years later but if it’s not, you may be out of luck either way

The real issue is that they pulled Windows 10. When Vista was shit, you could use XP until 7 was released, when 8 was shit, you could use 7 until 10 was released. Now 11 is the only supported version and you have no choice if you’re for some reason stuck with Windows.

Windows 11 was released 4 years ago and you still can’t move the task bar to a different edge of the screen. If Microsoft can’t implement simple feature of a core part of Windows in 4 years they most certainly can’t replace their entire C/C++ codebase in 5 years

Voyager’s link preview to the rescue

There are already quite a few immutable distros you could use today like Bazzite or Fedora Atomic. The main advantage of SteamOS is that it’s tailor made for specific hardware, an advantage it would automatically lose as a general purpose OS.

Possibly, but there was a major cloudflare outage today that probably caused it.

The numbers are a bit misleading here: the overall share of Linux devices has increased massively. The gain of 0.41% points is a relative 15.5% increase from 2.64% share before. Even though SteamOS has a smaller share of this larger Linux share, the overall share (of all devices) of SteamOS increased from 0.290% to 0.315%.

Is this even legal in the EU. The majority of phones in the EU are Android phones so this effectively gives Google control over what apps can be installed to the majority of phones. I thought the Digital Markets Act was designed to prevent exactly this.

A major version of 0 isn’t necessarily any statement regarding the projects maturity, it can also be a hack with semantic versioning. Normally, any change that is not fully backwards compatible requires you to increment the major version, but if the major version is 0, you may only increase the minor version. Because of this, many projects stay at the 0.x.y versions, so they don’t need to release version 2.0.0, 3.0.0, 4.0.0 and so on just because of minor but breaking changes as many users might expect significant new features from that version steps.

From that chart Qobuz seems to be the all round best deal. Is there any catch?