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Like it’s trying to convince people Linux is inherently vulnerable.

I’m typing this reply from a machine running KDE Plasma on top of Linux Mint 22.

I’m not sure what precisely what you mean by “inherently” but I’d like to point that “Linux” has security problems all over the place; the kernel has issues, the DEs have issues, the applications have issues. It’s more secure than Windows but that’s not a very high bar.

You shouldn’t be doing anything interacting from a server anyways.

Ideally no but in the real world it happens, especially with with Windows Servers.

I don’t want to install “word webview” on a server in order to look at a large log file or peruse some XML.

I wouldn’t say “created by”, more like “failed to address”. Of course THAT particular brush puts as much, or more, paint on Republicans than it does the Biden Administration. Those buffoons wouldn’t even vote for the bill that they wrote because they didn’t want to give Biden a win. It’s another example of Republicans of putting the good of their party ahead of the good of the nation.

We used to have a word for people like that.

Because we’ve started mass importing them to make things more streamlined.

That’s a reasonably accurate description of what’s actually happening. The US opened up access to CBP One and there’s now about 43,000 immigrants a month coming across the southern border legally. Then there’s the CHNV Parole program that’s averaging about 28,000 more people per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

Add those together and its something like 71,000 people per month who are using streamlined processes to legally come into the United States.

Those are official numbers from US Customs and Border Protection by the way. They’re in the August 2024 monthly update which you can read at this link.

I’m not complaining about it either. My grandparents got here through Ellis Island and I’ve spent years arguing that US Immigration Policy needs to be much closer to what it was back in the '50s.

The Biden Administration has been working closely with Mexico to grab these people and put them on “El Carrusel”. .

With as many as 700,000 northern bound migrants already in Mexico and more arriving daily I don’t think Mexico can afford to play along with this for much longer.

That Russian pilot was entirely dependent on the American pilot not experiencing “Air Rage” or having an untimely “weapons malfunction”. There’s a 100% chance that an AIM-9, which that F-16c did have on board, would have wrecked that Rooskies day.

Beyond that if the Russian had fucked it up and actually hit the F-16 all hell would have broken loose.

I dunno, with Healthcare the larger the organization the more serious they take it. A small practice may basically ignore it but by the time you get to be the size of UMC, the Hospital named in the article, they’re typically spending many millions of dollars annually on CyberSecurity.

The problem is that they’re stuck playing defense. They have to get it right every time but the attackers only have to get lucky once. They could successfully repel 10,000 attempts Monday through Saturday but then on Sunday they only repel 9,999 'cuz Bored Bob the maintenance guy clicked a new zero-day in their email and now they’re in the news.

I have to chuckle, I didn’t think anyone would take my comment about “count the hairs on someone’s head” so literally! You are correct though, there are no satellites with that kind of resolution. We have…other toys…for that. :)

The US intelligence apparatus had better information which is really no surprise. The US has satellites that can count the hairs on someone’s head let alone see missiles being moved around, fueled, and / or prepared for launch. Israel doesn’t have those, or at least not nearly as many of them as the United States does.

The IDF is now saying that missiles have been launched.

Right now Brent Crude is just 71.28. Oil prices are going down.

Additionally Russia does not have the technical ability to fix all of the refineries that Ukraine has been blowing up nor do they have the ability to fix all of the upstream production problems being created.

Productions of raw products is dropping fastand those declines are going to both continue and accelerate.

O&G is not going to be propping up Russia’s economy for much longer.

I think you’re suffering from recency bias. Yes right now it seems they’re all related to the AfD but you don’t have to go back very far to find other examples such as Gerhard Schröder.

There’s always people who will sell out their country for money.

Vaterlandsverräter

In this case wouldn’t she be a Vaterlandsverräterin?

Edit: Oh I get it, you’re referring to Maximillian Krah.

This is the dumbest damned thing I’ve read about all month. What the absolute fuck???

WTH? The House can’t pass a budget or deal with any of the other pressing issues but they have time for THIS?

Law Enforcement, remember this article is about a Cop, isn’t “just anyone”. There’s two reasons for people being riled up about this, one of which is criminal and the other is user error / training.

Ignoring the criminal aspect of what he’s doing the Cop literally cannot fire that weapon without endangering himself and his fellow officers. He also can’t fire that weapon a second time without manually manipulating it because he’s using it in a manner that WILL cause it to mechanically malfunction.

It’s fucking stupid (and criminal) all the way around but it has nothing to do with the points you are making.

How the fuck is this legal?

Glock, an Austrian company, uses a variety of common sense safeties that are automatic in nature.

With a manual safety the user has to remember to engage / dis-engage it as appropriate. This means a weapon can be left in an unsecured state simply because the user forgot (or elected not too) engage the manual safety. Conversely if the user forgets to disengage the manual safety the weapon will not fire when they need it too, which makes an awful lot of sense when you know that Glock designed these weapons for Law Enforcement.

To work around the weaknesses of a Manual Safety Glock designed what it calls its “Safe Action System” which you can read about here.. In a nutshell a Glock will not fire unless the trigger is intentionally pulled in the correct way.

Other pistol manufacturers will have some, or all, of those feature and may have other things such as “Grip Safeties” where you have to be holding the pistol both correctly and tightly enough before it can discharge.

There’s quite a variety of automatic safeties in use in the pistol world. If you are interested you can read about them here.

On balance these kinds of automatic safeties are at least as effective as a manual safety and there are valid arguments with empirical evidence showing that they can be safer.

Any of the folks who place more value in their ability to end another person’s life on a split second than the safety of their own children want to chime in and explain this one to me?

Could you explain why you are using such inflammatory language? NO safety can or is meant to make a loaded firearm safe from a child. It’s arguably easier for a child to flip the selector lever on a manual safety than it is for one to grip a firearm a specific way or pull its trigger in a specific way (or both).

Loaded weapons, regardless of their type(s) of safety mechanism, should not be left where they can be handled by children.

“You don’t rise to the occasion, you fall to your level of training.”

The point of the article is clearly the unacceptable behavior of the officer but damn does it make my teeth itch when Journalists fail basic fact checks like Pistol / Revolver. I always wonder what else they got wrong.