I use graphene not for security but because it doesn't come with any Google surveillance stuff.
Let's be realistic if some 3 letters agency really want some data about me, there's not much I can do to counter that unless I'm ready to go to extreme lengths.
On the other hand KDE isn't very pretty and is a bit unstable.
But Dolphin is the only file manager that I can tolerate and last time I tried Gnome (43 on Fedora 37 beta) it couldn't handle switching of my second monitor (it made a mess of my virtual desktops).
Honestly Gnome isn't bad, you just have to adapt your workflow: instead of putting apps to the foreground by clicking on them in the taskbar just use a virtual desktop for the different activities.
> MySQL is a pretty poor database, and you should strongly consider using Postgres instead.
It's not like it's an industry secret either: when I started my CS training in 2007, the first course was about relational databases and one of the first things the teacher told us was that MySQL was pretty sucky.
Seriously, are you uninformed or trolling ? The French wikipedia page [0] (sorry it's not as detailed in English) lists 8 terrorists attacks (3 failed attempts) for the year 2015. I don't want to become an interesting target !
> Do you live in Paris?
I don't and Hervé Cornara[1] didn't either.
So I'm not cowering in fear, ready to accept "fortress Europe" [2] however I'm legitimately (or so I think) worried.
It would be irrational to be scared of him just because he's a Muslim. For the record I have several other Muslim colleagues that are absolutely not worrying me.
I don't find it irrational to be scared of someone that shows signs of radicalization.
I'm not completely disagreeing with you, I know that the probability of dying in a terror attack is small.
But I have a Muslim colleague that went to Mecca last year. He came back transformed, not smiling anymore, refusing to shake hands with female colleagues and has been surprised praying in the toilets and in a bus (he's a bus driver) and made a big scandal about having to take of his woolly hat (which apparently he attached religious significance to).
So now I wonder if one morning he'll decide to come at work with an AK-47. And living in France, I'm sure you would agree it's not irrational to think that.
> [...]suggests the challenges in identifying would-be terrorists and preventing further attacks in the fluid, digital and transnational world of today, especially when they are European citizens.
> Likewise, Mr. Abaaoud exploited Europe’s porous border system,[...]
> [...]where he and another man took a ferry to Patras, Greece, Italian officials said. “We are talking about citizens with regular European passports and with the right to travel freely,”[...]
I guess they're trying to explain us that Europeans have too much freedom ... better take it from them, for the children you know.
> Rental companies in Belgium don’t vet clients as long as their driver’s license, government identification and credit cards are valid.
Of course every rental company should ask their customers if they plan to commit a terrorist act before renting a car ... lying will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law !
> [...]Appart’City hotel, where clients have access to a secondary stairwell that leads directly to a parking lot without ever passing the front desk. The two-star hotel doesn’t require guests to register their cars to use the parking lot. Nor does it have security cameras.
A pity, with cameras and registration they surely could have thwarted the attacks (do I really need to put a sarcasm tag here ?).
This is not journalism, it's pushing a political agenda and a shitty one at that. You don't need to watch all EU citizen to prevent terrorism.
By the way, I'm French but I refuse to be guided by fear.
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