No comment on the level of PFAS aside from

though the levels were low

This is just feeding the outrage machine to get clicks. If it was a story they’d be citing concentration guidelines and telling you what concentrations were found in the products. It’s not a story, it’s rage bait.

Eh, you’re being lazy. Just compile the kernel from source.

OK, so this is one of those comments that’s either “wtf, of course everyone knows that” or “oh shit, ok”, but generally wake on USB is a bios setting. Have you looked around in the bios to see what your options are?

Doesn’t explain the weird behaviour, but may be a good way forward.

OK then, I guess we see differently to you.

Have a great day.

So you saw the part where he shows how massively it’s changed and literally says that it doesn’t even look like the same program?

Did you watch the first 30 seconds of the video?

Paul Erdos has entered the chat.

Also worth saying 99.9% of air gap failures are due to some idiot getting lazy with a usb stick or a phone. They’re a bitch to work with.

(Another 0.09% are someone plugging the wrong cord into the wrong switch by accident or stupidity)

The old answer is a chroot jail, the new answer is a Docker container or VM if Docker won’t cut it.

I’m lazy, so Virtualbox is my VM software of choice. I keep a machine with a fresh debian install and just Clone it to make throwaway VMs.

Keep in mind that malicious software on a VM might be isolated from the host in many ways, but if it’s allowed to communicate on your network then it can still be dangerous, especially if you have samba shares, or services you don’t expose to the outside internet with weak or default passwords. (Did you change the admin password on your router’s Web interface?)

Creating a VM with no network interfaces is “mostly safe”, but you hear about VM bust out exploits now and then.

In reality, gold standard is a separate physical computer with no network connections to anything but other untrusted physical computers, and no wireless adapters (Bluetooth or WiFi). This is an “air gapped” network, but if you’re dealing with shit that makes you want an air gap, either you already know more than you’re gonna learn on Lemmy, or you’re bout to get your door kicked in by men in black suits :D