The whole “woke” buzzword thing is just dumb. It’s just the latest bigotry dogwhistle / Fox “News” Pavlovian Response Training, where chuds are trained to react with visceral disgust at any word.
They made the chuds flip about WelFaRe QuEeN, HilLaRy, bEnGaZi, SoCiaLiSM and LIbRuLS and now WoKe. Fox could train these people to hate the word TURNIP.
This is all I’ve run across on reverse engineering, so far but it is quite interesting.
https://bsky.app/profile/filippo.abyssdomain.expert/post/3kowjkx2njy2b
Well maybe they aren’t experienced info security professionals :)
I got ya, totally agree
We need to change our mindset in regards to anti-competitive practices.
It shouldn’t be so much about monopoly.
What we need is to focus on anti-competitive behavior. Just because a company doesn’t have a monopoly doesn’t mean it isn’t extremely anto-competitive.
We need to fight against that and against consolidation leading to oligopolies.
I get where you’re coming from but is he managing his risk or not?
Does he understand the risk? If yes, good. No? Bad.
Is he ignoring the risk? If yes, bad. No? Good.
Is he weighing the risks against the benefits he receives of using these apps and taking appropriate steps to mitigate those risks? If yes, then good. No? Bad.
Cyber security isn’t “lock everything down at all costs”. Otherwise I would insist you throw your phone in an incinerator along with all your computers, live in a bunker reinforced against nuclear attack with a small army to guard you, never leave it, never talk to anyone… Etc.
It is enabling one to achieve their goals with a tolerable amount of risk. That level of tolerable risk is different for everyone.
And aren’t corporations people?
What are you trying to achieve?
It’s kind of horrifying nobody thought that through. What else did they fail to think about?
Totally agree. Have been there and done that quite a few times too.
Urine biology?? Or marine biology?
What a fascinating analysis. And a captivating video. I think the idea of entropy in storytelling fits well. The notion of creative passion driving the project versus “corporate passion” for me gets close to the mark but doesn’t put a fine enough point on the contrast in motives.
Looking at the hollow, failed movies, video games, and enshittification of online products, I keep coming back to the idea that projects motivated primarily by profit are usually doomed to fail while projects primarily motivated by passion are more likely to succeed.
I’m sure each of us can easily think of examples of movie franchises where you can pinpoint when the motivation changed. When the greedy bastards in charge took the success of passion and tried to harness it, tried to make it into a money printing machine. It’s then that elements of the story are added to serve a purpose other than the story. And as the franchise continues, this happens more until you end up with something hollowed out and lacking meaning and impact.
Invariably greed blinds people from seeing that success isn’t due to the trappings, the window dressings, the quality of the CGI, the parts and pieces, but the story and its characters, and the quality of craft and art of telling that story and connecting us with those characters.
Hopefully people with more of a clue than me will chime in… Meanwhile, my best swag is the filesystem had issues and had to do an fsck? If that’s the case it would boot quickly next time assuming a clean shutdown.
Were there any errors during boot?
Fastboot enabled in BIOS or no? (Not sure if this has anything to do with anything I’m just trying to look useful)
PS: the weird active time could maybe somehow be related to the filesystem being borked needing fsck? I’m not sure.
That’s what I’ve started doing. Blu-ray and DVD are pretty cheap (for now) at the local thrift stores and eBay. Totally worth it for our favorite movies.
It would be technically illegal for me to burn those movies and put them up on a dedicated Jellyfin server running Linux on a 4th gen MicroFF PC where we could stream them from the local lan, kinda like rolling your own totally offline Netflix with slick UI and cross platform support (Mac, android, Linux, windows). It would be cool and I’m sure it would work brilliantly, not that I would know.
I’m not sure of the legality of putting all my CDs on there as well along with copies of e-reader compatible books.
I haven’t left the dock and hoisted the Jolly Roger but I totally understand why one would. Last time I sailed I was not an adult and couldn’t afford all those great C64 games. With the bullshit streaming companies are pulling they deserve what they get.
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Load average of 400???
You could install systat (or similar) and use output from sar to watch for thresholds and reboot if exceeded.
The upside of doing this is you may also be able to narrow down what is going on, exactly, when this happens, since sar records stats for CPU, memory, disk etc. So you can go back after the fact and you might be able to see if it is just a CPU thing or more than that. (Unless the problem happens instantly rather than gradually increasing).
PS: rather than using cron, you could run a script as a daemon that runs sar at 1 sec intervals.
Another thought is some kind of external watchdog. Curl webpage on server, if delay too long power cycle with smart home outlet? Idk. Just throwing crazy ideas out there.
Not op. I installed windows 10 on my custom built desktop and my kids custom built desktop, on VM, etc. Have not had a problem and it was pretty simple overall. I’m sure some folks do have issues, though. Shit happens. Is windows 11 shittier for install? I’ve never had the desire to try :)
I’ve also installed various Linux distros on the above and a few other computers (Mint, Nobara, Fedora). Aside from Mint not working with my AMD RX 6600, no problems there either, really. And these distros installed easily.
Again, ymmv. I knew Mint would probably fail because the 5.19 kernel does not seem to like my GPU. That’s why I switched to Nobara in the first place (iirc the 6.x kernel wasn’t available at the time)
Good to hear all that, and thanks! I will give it a whirl and see what happens. Best of luck on your project.
It is, yeah. Nobara has been great for the most part. Though it isn’t as polished as I’ve found Mint to be (without more contributors I don’t see how it could be). But really the only reason I switched was for GPU support that the 6.x kernel provided.
“When he reached the New World, Cortezh burned hish ships. Ash a reshult hish men were well motivated.” —Capt. Ramius, played by Sean Connery in The Hunt for Red October