i have a 4tb sdd with everything i ever had or saved from every computer i've ever had. i am right now paying for a cloud service to keep it backed up, just in case, because there's lots of stuff on there i would be very sad to lose

but i'm sorting, adding, deleting, renaming, etc on the drive and the backup service isn't flexible enough to keep up. i don't need it exactly backed up all the time but i'd like to be able to back up the changes more often. also i can't really afford the cloud service anymore anyway

i have a 4tb external hard drive that could keep it backed up safely as long as my house doesn't burn down in a forest fire. my question is, is there a way to make it easy to keep a external drive the same as my internal ssd when i want without copying all the files using copy paste? i'd like it to prioritize the changes on the ssd so if i delete a file on the ssd it will get rid of it on the backup (the cloud service doesn't do that, it only adds to the data on the cloud.)

i'm sure it's pretty easy but i don't know how. i'm using windows 10 right now. if i NEED to use linux i sometimes boot mint on a usb, but i'd rather get it working on windows 10 because i'll be using windows 10 until they stop supporting it (not enough free computer time rn to make the switch)

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Meta has a Palestine problem. If you use Facebook or Instagram, you’ve probably seen the censorship yourself. Dena Takruri uncovers an internal culture of censorship, intimidation and fear within Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook.

She speaks to Meta employees who’ve tried to fix the problem or speak out, and say they were silenced or even fired. She also investigates Meta leaders’ deep ties to Israel, which may explain why it’s suppressing and censoring Palestine content for billions of users around the world.

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why would grocery store need facial recognition

In case someone missed this (i did :(, story from a week ago), forks also should be updated by now

Mozilla has revealed that a critical security flaw impacting Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) has come under active exploitation in the wild.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a use-after-free bug in the Animation timeline component.

The issue has been addressed in the following versions of the web browser -

Firefox 131.0.2
Firefox ESR 128.3.1, and
Firefox ESR 115.16.1.

You can buy <5 USD fully built ESP32 modules on https://AliExpress.com

Alternatively, you can support to original creators of ESP32 and buy their modularized premades. Includes pricier options with screens, audio + keystroke I/O, etc.

http://m5stack.com/

Yes, that website doesn't have SSL, stop being a fucking nerd, Chinese company's websites generally don't have any

China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has doubled down on claims that the threat actor known as the Volt Typhoon is a fabrication of the U.S. and its allies.

The agency, in collaboration with the National Engineering Laboratory for Computer Virus Prevention Technology, went on to accuse the U.S. federal government, intelligence agencies, and Five Eyes countries of conducting cyber espionage activities against China, France, Germany, Japan, and internet users globally.

It also said there's "ironclad evidence" indicating that the U.S. carries out false flag operations in an attempt to conceal its own malicious cyber attacks, adding it's inventing the "so-called danger of Chinese cyber attacks" and that it has established a "large-scale global internet surveillance network."

"The U.S. military base in Guam has not been a victim of the Volt Typhoon cyber attacks at all, but the initiator of a large number of cyberattacks against China and many Southeast Asian countries and the backhaul center of stolen data."

Any software recommendations and stuff? I mainly want to use it for streaming videos and playing ps2 emulator, not so much emulating but just to try it out. Anti virus stuff, things in this realm- been using banana phone for years haven’t had android since high school.

Kape Technologies is a major player in the online privacy world, one of the three giants that collectively control the market. It owns many of the world’s top VPNs, including ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, Intego Antivirus, and a host of tech websites that promote its products.

This begins with its owner, Teddy Sagi. Born in Tel Aviv, the tycoon, who previously spent time in prison for financial crimes, is estimated to be worth $6.4 billion, making him among the top ten richest Israelis.

Sagi has a long history of working closely with the IDF and is rumored to be extremely close to Israeli intelligence. In 2019, he donated $3 million to fund hundreds of academic scholarships for discharged Israeli soldiers. “It is a debt of honor for us and for me personally to express gratitude and appreciation that all of Israel’s citizens owe to you,” Sagi said at the Friends of the IDF Gala. He also made a point of finding jobs for former IDF soldiers in his businesses.

Context if you missed it:

https://jalopnik.com/teslas-beer-serving-optimus-robot-was-controlled-by-a-h-1851670923

tl;dr: One of the most critical steps in development of a rapidly and completely reusable rocket just worked perfectly on its first test in the real world: midair catching of the biggest booster rocket ever back at its launch tower.

Okay, I'll start with the usual caveat that all my respect for what is happening within SpaceX is solely for the engineers and technicians and scientists doing the actual work and not for the know-nothing shithead who owns most of it. And that my excitement for the problem is solely for the scientific breakthroughs that can come from having a cheap and reusable super-heavy-lift rocket available.

The link is for a reputable spaceflight youtube channel doing commentary on the launch, as SpaceX is now required by the shithead-in-chief to only stream video on twitter/x. If you'd like a palate cleanser, the same channel presenter did a highly complimentary 94-minute in-depth documentary about the history of Soviet rocket engines. And he loves Soyuz.

The background: Starship/Super Heavy is the first attempt ever to build a rapidly and completely reusable launch system. It comes in two components: Super Heavy, the 10-metre-wide, 70-metre-tall, 33-engine booster. And Starship, the 10-metre-wide 50-metre-tall 6-engine ship that rides on top of it.

The booster and launch tower are designed for rapid turnaround, like a jetliner at an airport. Launch, return, do a systems check, refuel, and launch again within a few hours. To make this work they have to minimize the time spent moving a landed booster from its landing site to the launch tower. So why not just have the launch tower catch the returning booster mid-air? That saves all the time and equipment needed to set up the booster again. Insane, right? But this morning they proved that it works. It worked on their first try ever. This is one of the massive early R&D wins that can take years off a development schedule. Now that they know this method definitely works with this tower design, they can build more launch towers of the same design and rapidly accelerate more launch tests.

And the Starship on top also did its job. It flew most of the way around the world, testing re-entry systems before doing a soft intact splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Until it exploded afterwards, but hey, it's a prototype!

It's hard to overstate what all this can mean for space science down the road. First, a Starship variant is NASA's official lunar landing vehicle for the Artemis program. Or we could launch mass quantities of mass-produced probes and landers everywhere really cheaply, instead of one-offs every few years and having to have academic fights over where to send them and what instruments to include. We could put huge radio telescopes on the far side of the Moon where Earth's radio noise is completely blocked. We could put extrasolar-asteroid interceptors in orbit, ready to chase the ultrafast visiting interstellar rocks with massive fuel drop tanks. There's all sorts of science possibilities that open up when the cost of launch a hundred tonnes to low Earth orbit goes from several billion dollars to just several million.

(Again, see caveat at the top. I'm just in it for the science.)

If I was still in California, I'd be very tempted to get right in the face of devout computer touchers that still worship King Bazinga and laugh obnoxiously loud in their face in a way that might provoke a fistfight.

That's how I feel right now. For some reason, this many layers of blantant lies with no consequences and credulous techbros still buying into it sort of entertains me but also pisses me off enough that throwing hands, just once, might feel good.