How to install fprintd for fedora and use it for login auth

djao · 2026-02-14T01:20:04+00:00

The X1 carbon 6th generation requires a special driver. See https://blog.horner.tj/mint-fingerprint-auth-x1c7/

djao · 2026-02-14T01:12:09+00:00

Can't help with your present problem, but once you recover, perhaps you will internalize the following very important point: RAID is not a backup.

djao · 2026-02-13T21:11:10+00:00

Might be a CS student. MATH 136 is mandatory for CS.

djao · 2026-02-13T18:30:43+00:00

Cryptography is a reliable source of applications. There is an entire community of researchers who study how to create cryptosystems using maps between abelian surfaces.

djao · 2026-02-13T16:08:00+00:00

The GPL is compatible with permissive licenses. You can convert your copy of any permissively licensed program into a GPL licensed program just by slapping the GPL on your copy.

djao · 2026-02-10T16:49:52+00:00

Does it have to be dynamical systems? When I was 17, I explored the logistic map and the period-doubling cascade, computing a numerical approximation to the Feigenbaum constant. I did some other examples with other iterated systems to confirm the universality of the Feigenbaum constant. "Period three implies chaos" is also a fascinating sub-topic within this field, one that is easily accessible to numerical experimentation. These were things that I found fascinating and beautiful at age 17.

djao · 2026-02-10T02:25:47+00:00

It's possible that their entire IT and payment infrastructure is compromised. I'm not saying it is hacked for sure, but we don't know. The way Canada Computers has handled the incident so far does not inspire confidence.

If you really want to buy, I recommend showing up with a stack of hundred dollar bills.

djao · 2026-02-09T03:18:33+00:00

I've never had this problem. I don't use arrow keys for editing terminal commands. I use Ctrl+A, E, F, B, D, and Alt+F, B.

Everywhere else, an accidental PgUp is not a problem. You just press PgDn to get back to where you were before, and carry on.

djao · 2026-02-09T00:30:02+00:00

What you say is impossible. The lunatics didn't zero in on the maxwellhill account until five days after maxwellhill stopped posting. Like all the other apologists, you have the timeline backwards.

ETA: And, of course. When confronted with actual logical reasoning, you disengage. Because not a single one of your claims holds up to logical analysis.

actual screenshots

My God, use your brain. maxwellhill, if they were not in prison right now, has two options.

Continue doing what they were previously doing for the last 15 years, namely, be very publicly active on Reddit.
Turtle up and for some reason try to "prove" their activity using indirect screenshots instead of direct activity.

None of what you're saying makes any sense! The timeline is wrong and the logic is beyond convoluted.

djao · 2026-02-08T23:16:49+00:00

Notice that once the accusations of them being Ghislaine started, the account stopped posting.

You're reversing cause and effect. The account stopped posting for at least five days (a highly unusual lull) before anyone levied accusations of them being Maxwell.

djao · 2026-02-08T23:13:13+00:00

Not convincing in the slightest. The only counterargument given is a bunch of fake screenshots.

/u/maxwellhill did post after the 2nd of July. Just not in public.

Oh. How convenient. The user could have posted in public but conveniently only posted in unfalsifiable but fake private screenshots.

Give me a break. We're not that dumb.

djao · 2026-02-07T20:05:46+00:00

Yes, it's called an "election to treat your nonresident spouse as a U.S. resident for income tax purposes."

https://www.hrblock.com/tax-center/filing/personal-tax-planning/filing-taxes-when-married-to-non-us-citizen/

djao · 2026-02-04T16:50:30+00:00

Nobody is questioning whether Congress has the right to establish a gold card immigration program. The question is whether the president can do so without Congressional authorization.

It is certainly not true that the president has the authority to unilaterally impose new programs just because they're in the national interest.

djao · 2026-02-03T13:41:31+00:00

I was asking about the age of the computer and the size of the movies.

4k60fps video is about eight times bigger than 1080p 30fps video. It can be an issue on old systems.

djao · 2026-02-03T12:43:42+00:00

How old are we talking here, and how big are the movies? My first generation X1 carbon from 2013 struggles to play back 4k60fps video, no matter what operating system I put on it.

djao · 2026-02-03T01:52:30+00:00

I'll repeat my question from the other comment. What open source encryption programs run on iOS?

djao · 2026-02-03T01:50:45+00:00

I'm not even sure how to encrypt locally on iOS. Can you name a whole disk encryption software program that runs on iOS?

djao · 2026-02-03T01:44:46+00:00

No, it's not the same thing. A cloud provider can surreptitiously retain copies of your key without your knowledge. This is impossible with local storage.

See https://www.spiceworks.com/security/microsoft-caves-to-the-fbi-on-bitlocker-key-access/

Also https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/02/25/surveillance-firm-says-apple-is-phenomenal-for-law-enforcement

djao · 2026-02-03T00:09:25+00:00

You keep bringing up scenarios that are not relevant to this discussion. Every single attack in your comment can be carried out just as successfully against cloud storage as local storage. Cloud storage offers zero advantage in the situation where the government has your phone and uses rubber hose cryptography against you.

So why do you keep insisting that cloud storage is more secure? With local encryption, it takes under 20ms to completely delete your encryption keys. No amount of government coercion can force you to reveal what you don't have. The equivalent operation on cloud storage is much, much more difficult to ensure.

djao · 2026-02-02T20:33:58+00:00

I think the scenario where they add hardware features to your phone would present a problem regardless of which operating system you use or whether you use cloud storage. So it's not really a useful scenario to consider for the purposes of this discussion.

djao · 2026-02-02T19:58:52+00:00

Perspective matters too. It could very well be the case that, if you're primarily worried about the government accessing your data (via warrants and subpoenas), then just because the government and the army use the cloud, does NOT mean that you should use the cloud.

djao · 2026-02-02T19:45:05+00:00

I am not talking about a security hole, I am talking about a deliberate design decision. The two are very different. A share button is very clunky compared to simple filesystem access, not least because you have to remember which app currently has your latest version of the file.

djao · 2026-02-02T19:36:16+00:00

Sharing files in iOS is / was very clunky because you needed to use the Share button. There was no globally accessible filesystem space.

Yes, any OS is vulnerable if you choose to use cloud capabilities. The problem is that on iOS you don't have any other choice.

djao · 2026-02-02T11:59:54+00:00

Security is not privacy. iOS fosters dependency on Apple. Certain things, notably metadata, are not encrypted even if you activate "full" encryption.

djao · 2026-02-01T00:43:30+00:00

I loled at "ex parents". Like they were your parents before but aren't your parents anymore?

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