u/GreggN

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/10/connected-cars-are-a-surveillance-platform.html

Decided to blow away my installation of Fedora XFCE 43 and install Fedora Workstation 44. I don't think the developers ever considered that someone would install while they weren't able to connect to the Internet. After the question about third-party repositories, the setup just hangs. No user has been created yet and can't launch a web browser to connect to captive portal wifi. I finally got past the bug by using hotspot from my phone.

Someone needs to explain to the developers what the word "review" means. "Practice your Spanish words" shouldn't be giving me a list of 5 words that I've never seen before.

Until now, I've avoided sending pictures of my driver's license over the internet. Recently a financial institution suspended my credit card and texted me a url. They wanted me to provide a selfie video including my driver's license. The url domain was not one that I recognized from my many months of working with this bank. For now, I'm sticking to my principles since I think that the driver's license contains too much private information for me to risk it falling into the wrong hands. There are other banks and other credit cards. Am I fighting a losing battle, though? Is a video with id card becoming a standard practice?

Looking forward to learning if this outage was caused by an attack or just some internal mistake.

Tried to start story mode today on PC platform. Even "offline" play doesn't work. Rockstar status page says something about PC platform being broken. Got to say: WTH Rockstar? Why would a game require connectivity to their servers for "offline" solo play? And why do they keep pushing updates to this old game when I never play online anyway?

Edit: fixed spelling mistake

Wouldn't a LLM (AI) be more useful if we didn't use any fiction to train it? Training an AI on sci-fi may be entertaining and fun, but for serious answers, maybe we should stick to sci-fact.

Setting a bad example for our youth. By paying the ransom, they are funding criminal activities and making the world a worse place for everyone. "the hackers have said they deleted the data and promised not to extort any students or institutions" - - and the company behind Canvas decided to trust the word of criminals!?

Vulnerabilities in linux get a lot of attention from people who seem to be saying: "see! your OS isn't secure either!" And yet, these are privilege escalation not remote code execution. When it comes to desktop linux, a privilege escalation isn't going to worry me a lot. Glad they found it and will fix it - but the sky is not falling.

twice today I've finished a lesson, pressed the button to complete it, and the button just turns into the 3 dots that rotate. The first time this happened I tried leaving the app, closing other apps, returning to Duolingo - but still didn't register that I completed the lesson. Finally closed and reopened Duolingo - but even though it took me to the next lesson, the daily quest for completing the section didn't register.

There are other problems with display elements that now don't disappear when they should.