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Re:Fixes available in -proposed pocket for CVE-2026-98432 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:43PM (#50355314)
Like do-release-upgrade -d, which upgrades to pre-release versions that aren't triggered by do-release-upgrade.
Re:OpenSSL 4.1.0 on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:54AM (#50211057)
You need an image for the thumbnail that's essentially required for most blog templates and in social media.
They could actually help with the RAM and SSD shortage by extending support for Windows 10.
Re:Unicode 18.0.0 Beta on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @05:13AM (#48291639)
The internet needs a "tin foil hat" emoji, but two proposals have been rejected :(

Emoji proposals and status: https://unicode.org/emoji/emoji-proposals-status.html

Google has their own free ACME endpoint: https://pki.goog/
Re:Mozilla Thunderbolt on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:03PM (#47797205)
What's with the odd name? Apple already has a 15 year-old product called Thunderbolt. Mozilla already has a similarly-named but totally-different product called Thunderbird.
Re:Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds on Friday March 06, 2026 @05:52PM (#47282205)
Please stop using Scribd, which paywalls public documents.

Here's the Courtlistener docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72373888/nintendo-of-am...

Re:NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy on Monday October 13, 2025 @03:23PM (#45572302)
Has the word ChatGPT become generic? This has nothing to do with OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Waiting for Google to buy the rights to Ask Jeeves.
Re:Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:13AM (#43502061)
Healthline is not a trustworthy site- See Wikipedia discussion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/N...?
> OpenVox sounds like a text to speech engine.

Reminds me of the (bad) plot element from Star Trek: Picard where Picard's son became "Vox" and was able to control people on behalf of the Borg.

Re:New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120 on Thursday January 09, 2025 @05:19AM (#42643779)
Jeff,

Price is precisely linear, not polynomial! $5/GiB (price= $40 + $5 * xGiB)

The graph isn't spaced correctly on the x axis, which causes confusion.

Re:Attacking Unix Systems via Cups, Part I on Thursday September 26, 2024 @05:25PM (#41663577)
Is there a recommended (best practice) way to nmap scan your network for vulnerable machines, just to be safe?

From Red Hat's statement: > Red Hat rates these issues with a severity impact of Important. While all versions of RHEL are affected, it is important to note that affected packages are not vulnerable in their default configuration.

Basically, Red Hat machines aren't vulnerable unless "the cups-browsed service has manually been enabled or started."

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-response-openprinting...

Elon Musk says: "My commitment:

- We will never seek victory in a just case against us, even if we will probably win.

- We will never surrender/settle an unjust case against us, even if we will probably lose. "

And yet Elon Musk filed harassing lawsuits against his critics Media Matters for America and the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

Musk's SLAPP suits are contrary to his purported love of free speech. They are manifestly unjust.

People need to stop using the word "sideloading". It's just loading. The normal behavior is to allow apps to be installed from any source.

I noticed Microsoft's developer documentation uses the word sideloading a lot: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/windows/deploy...

Re:Bluesky signups are now open to the public on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @12:43PM (#39277639)
I've had some concerns about the namespacing issue.

Bluesky accounts should be permitted to have both a bsky.social username and one with a custom domain. If I am a company and want to use @myname.com as my username, I would not want someone @myname.bsky.social to fall into the hands of anyone else. So it sort of necessitates signing up for 2 accounts, if only to reserve your name so nobody takes it.

I had an issue the other day where I deleted a file through the web interface and saved a file with the same name using the Windows client. The file disappeared and was never uploaded. Would that be a manifestation of the problem, or is the problem a "files at rest are disappearing" issue?
Re:Mold Course on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:26PM (#38548349)
Ritchie Shoemaker is a quack with a long disciplinary history:

https://quackwatch.org/cases/board/med/shoemaker/consent/

Unlike mold-caused asthma and allergies, "Toxic mold illness" and CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome) are not real conditions, as described in a recent Australian report:

https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/biotoxins-i...

"Toxic mold illness" is a popular scam among the grifters who market themselves as integrative/functional/naturopathic: https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-is-the-internet-so-obsesse...

The CDC warned against urine testing promoted by the "toxic mold" scammers: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6406a7.htm

Here's a link to the ActivityPub Wordpress plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates on Thursday September 14, 2023 @05:49PM (#37515304)
Waldorf schools are dangerous anti-vax strongholds https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/nyregion/measles-outbreak...

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