Link files will show the .lnk extension on Linux and it should be obvious from the icon that it's not a video file. If you have wine installed, then double clicking one will run it and malware can still cause problems when run in wine.
If your torrent client has the option to run a script or command when a download completes, you could have it delete all .lnk files in the download directory. Something like find /path/to/my/download/directory -type f -iname "*.lnk" -delete would work.
Just add another digit and watch the entire country break down because they can't find someone to update their 40+ year old software written in COBOL.
It's still faster than most lithium batteries can charge. They still have a long ways to go to reach the charge rate of super capacitors though.
Yeah, I'm not paying for pirated content.
When the drive is mounted noexec it's not possible to run any programs on it. You can also mount any user writable directories noexec so they can't copy the program somewhere else and run it.
Yes, Linux has autorun and some distros have it enabled by default.
It seems like they could be rendered ineffective by simply disabling auto run and forcing removable drives to mount noexec.
It will come down on its own eventually.
Does anyone still use it? I just use markdown if I want basic formatting, otherwise I use Libreoffice.
That's for sure. I already assume ads contain malware and consider and ad blocker to be essential for security and privacy.
It could be 24fps video sped up to 25fps for PAL. If it was 25fps sped up to 30fps, it would be very noticeable and the episodes would be about 3 minutes shorter.
The blue background on metal film resistors makes it really hard for me to read them. I wish they would have stuck with tan and found another way to indicate the type.