“Do backups” - Fixed the title

Is this a troll post?

has gotten better in a lot of ways

Feel free to name them…

I just updated to Windows 11 and oh boy has it gotten worse when compared to 10…

The UI, useless spacing in between items, 2nd context menu, gigantic bars on top, the somehow missing create folder button, OneDrive Integration, “Pin to quick access” everywhere, freezing up when creating thumbnails, constantly somehow resetting the layout of the user home and I’m just getting started… But hey it got tabs now

Get a blocklist and set it up.

Literally all of the IPs are known bots for up to 3 years:

• https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/134.19.178.167
• https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/213.152.162.5
• https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/134.19.179.211

Oh and maybe also a rate-limiter…

What’s did you get?

The website is actually hosted on GitHub pages.

Just type in a random non-existing path and it shows the GitHub pages 404 path.

I’m having no problems with donating to OSS projects, yet what always prevents me from doing so is when such projects are not transparent where my donation money actually goes.

Yet, the average donations we receive are around 100 euros per month. A sum that doesn’t even cover server costs or the resources we use.

Well, I see no linked explanation where this money goes or why the server costs are so high, which is immediately a red flag for me.

under Wikipedia’s entry for Secure boot

What’s the first thing under the “Secure boot” section? The section that it automatically scrolls to when clicking my link?

Well the website (and the guy maintaing it) is pretty old. I think the blog posts reach back till Windows Vista. The guy itself wrote some books about Win95 so he has some experience.

The site is quite popular in Germany and the information is usually good summarized and helpful IMHO.

Anyway as always I recommend an adblocker when using the internet.

It’s so secure that the first thing under Wikipedia’s entry for Secure boot is Secure boot criticism

Yes this is a real, I’m not joking.

You’re in linuxmemes did you not expect a meme? xD

Also: Yes it’s a meme based on a true story (see the other comments for more details)

The meme itself is based on https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/historical-battle-shitposts-decisive-victory

AFAIK a new battery + entering the Bitlocker recovery key fixed the problems.

Usually these batteries hold for years. I have a 15+ year old laptop where I had to replace the battery after ~10 years.

However the affected laptops are now a few years old, aren’t designed properly (I heard weird stuff happening like adding additional RAM somehow causes the display to fail) and somehow just have a CR2016 battery installed, not a bigger CR2032. And yes these are buisness-laptops designed for companies -.-

Yes, multiple of our Windows laptops today couldn’t boot and displayed a BitLocker error message and all affected laptops somehow had an empty BIOS battery…

Lemmy is open source, so feel free to go back to Reddit

IP based blocking is complicated once you are big enough

It’s literally as simple as importing an ipset into iptables and refreshing it from time to time. There is even predefined tools for that.

While AI crawlers are a problem I’m also kind of astonished why so many projects don’t use tools like ratelimiters or IP-blocklists. These are pretty simple to setup, cause no/very little additional load and don’t cause collateral damage for legitimate users that just happend to use a different browser.