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Linux@lemmy.ml•What are some bare minimum concepts beginner Linux users should understand?English
1·2 months agoIf it can’t be done in the GUI, it’s not worth doing. If that includes something a basic user would need, the that’s a failure of the OS.
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Science@beehaw.org•Scientists Are Testing a Vaccine for Food Poisoning. It Can't Come Soon EnoughEnglish
101·2 months agoExactly the kind of thing our dumbass-in-chief would ban.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Game Pass Price Hike Announced, Will Cost $30/Month For UltimateEnglish
141·2 months agoAnd now that you’re going to cancel, you will be left with nothing. If you had taken the hundreds of dollars you spent on GamePass and just bought the games instead, you would have still had a library of games you own.
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Technology@beehaw.org•I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachableEnglish
13·5 months agoIt’s still your fault for lying in the first place.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Bluesky may soon add blue check verification | TechCrunchEnglish
43·8 months agoMoving even further away from decentralization
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Gaming@beehaw.org•WotC DMCAs ‘Stardew Valley’ BG3 Mod, Despite Larian’s EndorsementEnglish
3·8 months agoThe retraction doesn’t make it ok that they did it in the first place.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•The most influential video game of all time - BAFTAEnglish
13·9 months agoMario is at least an order of magnitude bigger than GTA, it’s not even close
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Xbox Boss Surrenders In The Great Console WarsEnglish
3·10 months agoMicrosoft has always been the niche player here. Nintendo is usually the one on top when you look at the actual numbers.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Mozilla's New AI Detector Add-On for FirefoxEnglish
2·10 months agoMade by people that either:
- don’t understand how reinforcement learning works, or
- are lying for publicity
Because there is not now, nor will there ever be, nor CAN there ever be, an effective AI detection tool.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.English
1·10 months agoYou think that the bill being completely moronic is a reason congress wouldn’t pass it? Oh sweet summer child…
The internet is growing more hostile to humans… TO READ THIS STORY, SIGN IN OR START A FREE TRIAL.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Trump announces $500B funding for Stargate AI project following Biden executive order on AI safety - Collaboration between OpenAI, Softbank, and Oracle. English
2·11 months agoNot likely, the idiots that voted for this are still out there, and they didn’t learn from the last time either.
It doesn’t, and never will
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Technology@beehaw.org•Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.English
1·1 year agoIncorrect.
Vivaldi, which is Chromium-based, has a built-in ad blocker.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.English
1·1 year agoExcept Vivaldi has a built-in ad blocker
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Technology@lemmy.ml•An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers - WebventuresEnglish
3·1 year agoSafari is also irrelevant, the article is just showing some of the reasons why
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Palworld will not change to free to play model, dev claims [VGC]English
1·1 year agoThey never said it was going to be F2P or live service.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Intel comes roaring back with new Lunar Lake chips to battle AMD and Qualcomm with all-day battery, AI, and serious gaming performanceEnglish
13·1 year agoIntel comes limping back, hoping that everyone forgets that most recent time they screwed everyone over.

You are correct and most of the commenters here are wrong, UAC is a feature that IS secure without a password and Linux does not have any equivalent.
Windows can safely control privilege escalation through a secure elevated prompt that only the user can interact with.
Because Linux doesn’t have any kind of secure elevated prompt like that, any process could impersonate you to log in as your user if it didn’t have a password, so you just have to have a password on Linux if you want it to be secure.