I like to go to the nearby shop and pay the guy to put one together for me. I don’t know nearly enough to keep up with the industry, so I’ll defer to expertise.

This seems like propaganda to pit us against the strikers.

Defense in depth is a thing. You don’t give up just because someone made it through the first layer.

That is infuriating. Leaving those keys available to the user means that worms can later use you to compromise additional machines. It turns a local problem into a much bigger one. There’s a recursive script out there that automatically scans your ssh files and attempts to access all hosts in your history…name escapes me at the moment.

Those comments really do get tedious. But there’s no billion-dollar company pushing desktop Linux and buying podcast ads and whatnot, so … there’s really no other way to get the word out.

Yeah, that’s a relatively easy issue to debug. It goes to show that it’s really about where your familiarity level is.

Tell that to my Windows desktop support coworkers, hah.

It’s really all about what you’re familiar with.

“Linux is hard” but godawful reg key hacks are fiiiiine, eh.

Cheaper is a kind of better.

Didn’t windows XP have a similar bug? Related to the windows uptime counter, iirc.

I expect it won’t be long before they start including cellular modems.

NOPE

The torment nexus is very profitable.

Hymn of Breaking Strain, Kipling

1 The careful text-books measure (Let all who build beware!) The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff—the Man! 2 But in our daily dealing With stone and steel, we find The Gods have no such feeling Of justice toward mankind. To no set gauge they make us— For no laid course prepare— And presently o’ertake us With loads we cannot bear: Too merciless to bear.
3 The prudent text-books give it In tables at the end– The stress that shears a rivet Or makes a tie-bar bend— What traffic wrecks macadam— What concrete should endure— But we, poor Sons of Adam Have no such literature, To warn us or make sure! 4 We hold all Earth to plunder— All Time and Space as well— Too wonder-stale to wonder At each new miracle; Till, in the mid-illusion Of Godhead 'neath our hand, Falls multiple confusion On all we did or planned— The mighty works we planned. 5 We only of Creation (Oh, luckier bridge and rail!) Abide the twin damnation—
To fail and know we fail. Yet we–by which sure token We know we once were Gods— Take shame in being broken However great the odds— The Burden or the Odds. 6 Oh, veiled and secret Power Whose paths we seek in vain, Be with us in our hour Of overthrow and pain; That we–by which sure token We know Thy ways are true— In spite of being broken, Because of being broken, May rise and build anew. Stand up and build anew!

Supposedly this is wreaking some havoc among their military, which uses WhatsApp extensively for logistics.

I miss boibgboing. Never been able to get into it since they paywalled commenting.

Yeah, I’d worry that they’d ask for my social media and get confused and angry.

Haven’t been to the USA since 2016, unlikely to ever go again. :(

I also agree, but … it’s an attitude that gets you in trouble fast and it only works once. Throwing hardware at a problem never works for very long, and hardly ever gets you the order of magnitude increases that reevaluated algorithms and data structures will get you. No amount of hardware gets you past an O(n^2) for long.

The basic idea is that it can stem from the incel world, the attitude that if they can’t have women, they can become them. It can be a way to affirm hypermasculinity, not challenge it.

So it ends up being dominance, forcing men into subservience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQmpH9NHmjI

Just a bit misgendery for my tastes. Also some right wing people have glommed onto the whole femboy thing. There is 100% a femboy-fascist pipeline.