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What happened to all the love for Framework?

The honeymoon of Lego-brick replaceable USB ports is over?

Re:CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised on Saturday April 11, 2026 @09:15PM (#47735383)
It's as useful as self-signed certificates.
Webshitters don't "engineer" anything, it's insulting you would insinuate that.

Anyone who watched the Artemis landing yesterday would have been keen to notice all the Windows PCs in use at Mission Control — nearly all hosting remote Linux applications.

Not a Mac in sight.

They were using VLC on Windows in space.

If all the Macs in the world disappeared tomorrow, everything essential would somehow continue unabated.

Re:CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:35PM (#47721950)
Windows has this thing called digital signing with certificates that Linux users like to pretend doesn't exist or in the case of yesterday's Wireguard / VeraCrypt discussion, think it's an evil capitalist scheme to control the world.

Digital signing on Windows predates Mac developer certificates by years but arguably wasn't widely used outside of security-paranoid organizations.

Before someone says Linux offers GPG signing it's mostly useless without a central PKI. Developers offer the public key for download on the same server as the software. If someone uploaded compromised software, surely they would replace the key with their own.

If you want ZFS use Solaris not an ersatz system that imported OpenZFS code.
It's arguably the best non-Apple/non-Windows system to use to order an Apple or Windows laptop to replace it.

You might have to use an Ethernet connection though, as the Wi-Fi may not be supported.

Re:LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @02:08AM (#47686003)
Because they are hunting for vulnerable devices and the requests' existence are unique to an application. Like a VoIP appliance for example.

They usually request something deep like /foo/bar/login.html as part of their reconnaissance.

I'm up to 4 pages of filter rules after the massive IP blacklist.

These assholes are also scanning every address on the IPv4 internet and hoovering up the content.

To answer your first question: No, that's the OS's job. But some clever rules could be setup for filtering invalid requests depending on your web server.

Re:Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024) on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:13PM (#47678433)
Summarily ruined yet again by massive British sockets requiring removing 25% of the volume.

Brits build their homes around the sockets, not the other way around.