https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/machine-id.5.html

/etc/machine-id is used to decide whether a boot is the first one. ...

See those black lines? They totally stole that technique: https://ramble.pw/f/anime/1248/blown-away

That is on version of OS from a few revisions ago : 11.0.1, not 11.2.x from nowadays.

I think its a big deal, but has no practical value in the wild.

Probably only a little deal because 11.0.1 stopped shipping long ago and LOTS of patchess since 11.0.1 :

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201260

See? Current is 11.2.1, not 11.0.1, as per Apple

And many updates between.

If you bought a M1 computer 2 weeks ago it is shipped from China with OS : 11.1 (not 11.0.1) and Also 2 weeks ago firmware version is "6723.61.3". Also if you plugged in that computer, it tries , if you let it, to immediately install a giant new OS update. The update removes ability to run old sideloaded iPhone apps on m1 macs, so some might stick with 11.1 (not 11.0.1) for a while before letting apple force 11.2.1

THOSE HACKS IN THAT LINK might not have value, if they only work on 11.0.1 version of older OS

This should have been implemented decades ago. Creating the solution is not difficult in the slightest, and cookies have been a known privacy concern for a long time.

Same garbage approach really as Google took when transferring itself to Alphabet then calling various chunks of it's cash cows different companies.

This is all to stave off anti trust issues and pretend like different operating units.

Facebook however doesn't get this game at all.

It buys brands, folds them in, then shares data with the motherships and does tracking all over the place.

You destroy Facebook's tracking and eliminate their advertising to you, all they have left is any tracking collected in very sneaky ways.

Time has come for everyone to have a proper gateway router at the doorway to your internet connection. Full Linux feature set. The day of nulling and blackholing whole AS Numbers has come.

My solution, do away with all gun permits. I don't care what you want to carry, handgun, long gun, rifle, sword, spear, etc.

Everyone must open carry. You carry concealed, you break the law and could be prosecuted.

I point directly at little experiment since 1980's in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Amen.

This dude rocks!

It is all about perceived socioeconomic status. But it is as-is about simpletons on about race. Ya'all discriminate, so let's cheat and discriminate to make it fair to those people 'victimized' by such prior.

No. Let's not.

Don't people that get this sh!t and have been hired under flawed affirmative action ever take a sane look in the mirror? Don't they ever realize likely unqualified and have no business being where they are.. that likely in fact performance and relative experiences makes them inferior?

A big dose of humility is needed for race pimps.

In b4 Apple fanboys soft sell this as no big deal :)

That's a 2018 incident filed, with 2019 on that article.

Question is were all these things fixed since then.

Bad Apple is a pretty good choice to display on this 'screen'.

or this https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/12/02/massive-apple-security-vulnerability-allows-hackers-to-take-control-of-iphones/

So explain something like this? https://cntechpost.com/2020/11/18/security-vulnerabilities-in-apple-m1-chip-devices-iphone-12-pro/

encryption does not equal security

Javascript creation is decent competition. If Planned Parenthood were holding an adult termination program I'd select both of them.

Richest woman in China (at least use to be).... Ran a recycling business. Specializing in electronics. Exactly how she became wealthy. Removing precious metals from often US exports of electronic waste.

Environmental mess from this as practiced there and in India is horrendous and destroyed watersheds and basic land and water poor locals depend upon.

Thanks for showing real world use case for these.

Food stamp thing was replaced by food cards in many States. Same fraud still goes on - just walk down to store with you. Hand you card. You shop. Leave store, give me back my card and my cash.

Worse is corner stores aka bodegas where such handouts are outright misappropriated by filthy owners who cash exchange food funds at 50% or less of value. Many of these stores are owned by foreign nationals.

My old church used to give these kinds of gift cards to community members in need around the holidays (but with like $200, not $10 on them) so people could afford holiday meals, but they didnt want addicts buying alcohol instead of feeding their kids. Seemed like a great gesture at the time, but now that I'm old enough to be aware of people who sell food stamps for drugs I see how this could have easily been used for the same thing.

FUCK this guy... UNCLE HAIR SNIFFER.

Out protecting the illegal invader sex offenders now? This guy is the worst.

Heels up Harris waits in the wings. Remember people, it's 4 years. One term. One and done.

PS: Jeffrey Epstein isn't dead.

It's terrible that this data exists. Well intentioned pathway to hell these IDs are.

It's incomprehensible that anything has or can get access to such values. Such should be lock boxed and only root accessible. Definitely nothing a browser or other shi!tware should be able to retrieve. Yet they can and do. Speaks for the need of standardized JAILS for all programs in any computing environment.

This is a good reference to give distro hoppers a fair chance and reduce search and research fatigue for SystemD-less distros: https://www.slant.co/topics/18348/~linux-distros-that-don-t-use-systemd

Awesome, I'll add that to the blog post. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing. Another good reason to not run systemd !

Im running mxlinux with sysv init.

->cat /etc/machine-id

cat: /etc/machine-id: No such file or directory

😊

That's true. I've set a cronjob to change it every 2hours. Even more reasons to finally move to Artix.

Furthermore, I just tested Tails and they DO change the machine-id after every reboot. I'm downloading Whonix right now as well to test, but I've got shit rural internet so that'll take some time.

I'll update the blog with my finding when I do.

The fact Tails randomizes it after each reboot should be enough to hint that it's likely a good idea to not have any identifying ID tied to your system...

Good to know. I'm planning to switch over to Artix anyway. But for now I'm going to apply the suggested fix.

I think at the time MSN and ICQ were a thing that existed, Win98 was already obsolete. But I could remember wrong.

As far as I remember, Win98 wasn't even capable of connecting to the Internet out of the box.