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  • Once again you seem to be calling for not bothering with any security effort of there's even a remote chance of some other vulnerability happening.

    The whole point of security is that it's always a multi-layered thing. Nobody sane is pretending that encrypting web traffic with HTTPS is a panacea that's going to solve all your data security needs. But it is sure as hell a million times better than having all of your data transmitted in the clear, with absolutely no assurance that you're are talking to the system you think you're talking to, or that the data hasn't been tampered with in transit.

    And don't pretend https is a huge burden. It's dead simple to get SSL/TLS certs, and the additional load of encrypting and decrypting the traffic is barely even a rounding error on modern CPUs.

  • Your Experience with Linux, BSD etc
  • AMD GPU just works, no fussing about, get straight to fragging on Xonotic and Counter Strike

    Unless you have a monitor that requires HDMI 2.1 to get full resolution/refresh. Then it only works partially.

    Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, and I've been using it on my desktops/laptops for almost 30 years at this point.

    But there are still issues to deal with on a regular basis, same as Windows or OSX.

  • Happy 30th birthday to RFC 1631 ("NAT"), the "short term solution" we all rely on
  • I have the same issue (TRIPLE NAT'd! One of which is the CGNAT). Unfortunately I have external family that accesses from media boxes/TVs so those won't work for me.

    Thankfully I was able to get a small VPS server for $2/mo and set up some reverse tunnels with auto-ssh. Seems to be working fairly well so far.

    All that said, I longingly look forward to the future when I don't have to worry about NAT.

  • It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register
  • Because up until Broadcom bought them, it was a good product with a ton of useful features, endless supported integrations with 3rd party software and hardware, relatively easy to learn/use, with good support, all at reasonable and flexible price points depending on your needs.

    Of course Broadcom has now thrown all of that into the toilet...

  • Democratic US lawmakers introduce bill to bar foreign payments to president
  • (Art. I, 9, cl. 8): "[NJo Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State'

    Unfortunately this doesn't sufficiently cover things like 'Random Russian Billionaire Oligarch" so long as there is the slightest modicum of a veil of separation from "any King, Prince or State".

    So for example, as long as Putin secretly tells his billionaire buddy to go pay off Trump and to keep it hush hush, this clause is even more toothless than it already is in practice.

  • What is the weirdest flavoured thing you've had?
  • They have one called "Pink Drink". It's not available bottled, The only place I ever had it was at Austin City limits Festival a few years before the pandemic. It's kind of a Prickly-pear Lemonade flavored soda. It was without a doubt the most delicious, refreshing beverage I have ever consumed, and the fact that I've never been able to find it since then is actually one of the biggest disappointments of my life.

  • What is the weirdest flavoured thing you've had?
  • I had garlic ice cream at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California. Everyone leaving the free sample line had the exact same expression on their face as they tried the first taste:

    Slightly scrunched up have with an expression that said, "I was really expecting this to be horrible but it's not bad. Not great, but not bad."

  • Google accidentally deleted a $125 billion pension fund's account
  • There's a phrase you might give useful/insightful.

    "Trust, but verify"

    I use auto pay extensively so that if I forget (ADHD, yay) it still gets paid. But I do (try to) check every month that all the auto pay stuff did trigger properly.

  • A Diamond-perfect Moment

    We got lucky and the clouds parted just in time in my corner of Texas.

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