Re: [GTALUG] End of independent web browsers

2020-01-15 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 8:59 PM Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > The material takes somewhat extreme position, but it's curious that there are > only 3 "content decryption modules" out there, Widevine (Google), Fairplay > (Apple) and PlayReady (Microsoft), all of the vendors having

Re: [GTALUG] Any experience with "Linux on Windows"?

2020-01-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 07:53:31PM -0500, Paul King via talk wrote: > I have been running dual boot into Windows and Linus for decades, but had a > major problem with the latest Windows 10 in dual booting with Ubuntu. > Apparently, I have heard (can't locate the source) booting into Linux can

Re: [GTALUG] Any experience with "Linux on Windows"?

2020-01-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 09:19:47PM -0500, James Knott via talk wrote: > On 2020-01-14 07:53 PM, Paul King via talk wrote: > > It begs the question also as to how different are these distros from > > Cygwin? Sounds like these are just different attempts to duplicate what > > Cygwin is doing. BTW,

Re: [GTALUG] Any experience with "Linux on Windows"?

2020-01-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 02:19:51AM +, Peter King via talk wrote: > The real payoff is supposed to come Real Soon Now -- probably April:in WSL > 2, the Linux kernel itself will receive system calls, running on a trimmed > down version of the Hyper-V hypervisor, hosting files on a virtual ext4 >

Re: [GTALUG] I believe Amazon is leaking delivery information.

2020-01-15 Thread Don Tai via talk
These social engineering fraud methods are increasingly sophisticated. Why break into your house when you can do the same from the comfort of North Korea/China/wherever and a bit of location misdirection? I find these social engineering phishing methods quite fascinating. These big companies

Re: [GTALUG] Any experience with "Linux on Windows"?

2020-01-15 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
On Wed., Jan. 15, 2020, 10:15 Lennart Sorensen via talk, wrote:: > > I have X410 app for windows 10, so it does run X apps. > There's also a free X server for Windows 10. It's not accelerated, but will do in a pinch. The WSL1 terminal is awful compared to what most distros provide. Copy and

[GTALUG] I believe Amazon is leaking delivery information.

2020-01-15 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
When I order something from AmazonĀ  not long after I get emails from various phisherpeople claiming to be UPS or some other delivery company. The messages are coming through an old email address that is badly spam filtered. I would like to ask if people order from Amazon check your spam

Re: [GTALUG] I believe Amazon is leaking delivery information.

2020-01-15 Thread Don Tai via talk
It is also possible that you have researched the product from a browser and the browser is giving this info away, or that Google is leaking this search info to others. There are many ways ocmpanies could track your intentions! Try searching google from an anonymous browser, unconnected to your

Re: [GTALUG] I believe Amazon is leaking delivery information.

2020-01-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 03:00:36PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > When I order something from AmazonĀ  not long after I get emails from various > phisherpeople claiming to be UPS or some other delivery company. > The messages are coming through an old email address that is badly spam >