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Much by way of discourse, some by way of advice; security from Clausewitz to Claude.
A brief historical narrative on the 1970 passage of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The act can be seen as a early reaction to an emerging appreciation for the power of mechanized (and then digitized) data analysis. The FCRA represents one of the earliest legal actions taken in realm of privacy and security.
In this brief tutorial, we'll cover how to create a Desktop Entry in Linux. We'll create such an entry for the ebook-manager Calibre by following the freedesktop (xdg) specification. By the end of the article, we'll be able to create arbitrary desktop entries that work with a variety of desktop-environments and launchers like kupfer!
In this brief tutorial, we'll cover how to set up and use multiple monitors with i3. We'll use xrandr and i3-msg to orient our displays and place the workspaces we want on whatever monitor we want.
Today we'll cover how to use the dbus interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism to integrate the Clementine music player into i3status. We'll write a small script in Python that determines Clementine's state using the dbus library, and then appends that state to the i3status bar. While we're at it, we'll also learn quite a bit about dbus!
In this, part 6 of our Linux Environment series, we'll cover how to install xscreensaver, and write a script that checks for full screen windows. Then we'll connect the two to stop your machine from going to sleep in the middle of movies!
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Buffer Overflow 0x01
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Utilize Tor to circumvent GDPR in Europe.