thomasjudge

There is a youtube laptop repair show I follow that specializes in Dells and he *HATES* liquid metal, causes soooo many problems when it leaks

Bettridge's Law of Headlines: "No."

>The USPS is also, ahem, rather incompetent,...

Just as a datapoint, the USPIS has a >= 98% conviction rate for cases that go to trial

I think it is worth mentioning that at least a couple of these bases are pretty critical from a natsec standpoint. Fort Huachuca is a big IT and secure communications installation (United States Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, the United States Army Intelligence Center, Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Directorate); F.E. Warren AFB is one of the three AFBs that operate the strategic nuclear ICBM fleet. Not saying that any classified systems were potentially hacked/at risk in this situation

Are there lots of people doing development on mobile devices?

who is Jamie Brandon

ELF is used as a plot tool in the Nelson DeMille novel "Wild Fire"

well this is overdue

Anyone else is this the first you've heard of "Deezer"?

Would love to have some experts in the field comment on this

Could you bypass this with a VPN?

The comment in the "high level overview" section - "(just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU-Linux®)" is an amusing reference

Related: (parody): if you haven't seen it, this is a critique - from microsofties I think - of MSFT product branding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k

To me the single nic/double nic decision is a tradeoff between simplicity and complexity, and where you want that complexity to live. A single nic may be physically "simpler" but you need additional software complexity with VLANS and a VLAN aware switch. A double nic is mabe physically more complex but it allows you to have a simpler software setup (no VLAN's)

lol I was having the exact same thought

There are a number of US states that have moved off Microsoft (mostly to G-Suite) and a number more that are considering it. And yes it won't be EVERYone (you can pry excel out of accountants cold dead hands) or everyTHING (obviously mainly Windows) but it's at least a blow against the pricing and quality issues from MSFT

"aol.com"?

Closure rescinded https://x.com/FAANews/status/2021583720465969421

Will malware/virus scanners detect any bad software?

Today I learned of the existence of "organic, wheat-based cat litter"

It took me a while to figure out if this was a really elaborate satire or not

"..for all of Trump’s ills, I see him as a sign of the underlying dynamism of the US. Who else would have elected so whimsical a leader to this high office?"

"Whimsical"