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Thanks for saving me 40 minutes.

Same, but I accidentally bought Mindustry instead, so I guess I saved $20.

Boeing might be too big to fail. Even if they fail all the time, they have guaranteed government money. Defense and space are lucrative.

This was one of those must-have tools that made windows bearable back before windows 8.

Not to say it doesn't work passed windows 8, just that windows became unbearable to me.

Easy answer: say no to Microsoft and TPMs.

You can buy a computer with Linux installed, today!

Ubuntu is easy, so is kubuntu.

You can do anything on Linux that you can do on windows and most of the time it's child's play. The past is the past, give up on windows.

Two days too late to comment this. Think about how many people could be employed. It would be a lot too because they could only work for 45 seconds each.

This is awesome. What kind of hardware are you using? If you don't mind.

We do know with 100% certainty there is a backdoor built in to the hardware. [0] The only question is who gets the extreme pleasure of using it.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/exploit-used-in-mas...

This is equal parts amazing and terrifying.

Genuine question, why does this matter?

Not trying to be rude, but this doesn't seem like anything anyone would care about, but this definitely not the case.

There are a lot of comments that are nice and thoughtful, which isn't uncommon or anything but surprising to me. I guess forgery is pretty cool, but an old apple badge for some plain Jane apple person?

I have to be missing something.

I think this is bang on. Let's give it more surface area :/

Systemd isn't just one thing lol

I am not sure you are a good fit for the internet. Keep your bigotry at home.

I hope to see it too. This is equal parts cool and foreboding.

I haven't tested it myself, but it appears that it does[1].

1. https://www.tiktok.com/@alan_drives/video/733200801928426628...

> Amazon... ...does not care if you sell cheaper elsewhere

I can't find a good source for it, but Amazon is very sensitive to prices for the same goods on other sites. My understanding is they automatically match lowered prices on a number of competitors. They are also getting sued by the FTC[1] for punishing sellers that sell lower elsewhere.

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-amazon-forces-customers-...

The internet some of us grew up with has been gone a long time. Even back in the early days of AOL/Yahoo chat rooms, people were inappropriate with children though.

We must refuse the Khala to maintain our individuality. Like the Nerazim.

Parents allowing children to have limitless, unmonitored access to the internet is more to blame than any given platform.

Only because the platform also has kids on it. Both groups still exist. My guess is both groups will just spend more time on other platforms like Roblox.

This is the only take that has any merit.

I am hearing "engineers are fungible." But any company can just outsource whatever they want. Why hire anyone from your own country for any reason?

And why hire people in silicon Valley where they cost double what they would pretty much anywhere else?

> A disturbing trend I think it's inevitable and probably not completely bad that hardware vendors are taking responsibility for vulnerabilities in their products.

I know I would prefer something like that for my non-savvy people. Considering there are smart light bulbs with vulnerabilities which are years away from the landfill. The only question is which botnet will they join the next time they power cycle.

I welcome the opportunity to be enlightened. I can see people are mad about something, but usually that's the extent of it. Someone complained that there are no discounts on spinrite, even though it's old. Some people talk about how much salt you take Steve's words with.

I have yet to read anything that explains the haters that come out of the woodwork with the shit posts any time he pops up.

SQRL and SpinRite are current, and his main works. SpinRite has a new version on the horizon supporting UEFI.

Shields Up is timeless, but doesn't do IPv6 and probably never will. There are some smaller apps that were done recently, less notably. Security Now podcast is ongoing.

Yep, that's what it does. A person can just use whatever DNS is provided by their ISP, which is the fastest in some cases. Or they can test and find out for sure.

I always imagine all the Gibson haters are still stuck on this drama from the XP days. Not sure why it was so polarizing, but for what it's worth I don't think "Microsoft understands security." It's not any one person or one thing, it's the culture. It's the laissez-faire attitude. It's the lack of investment. And the ubiquity of their software compounds all of it.

Doesn't sound like you have used Spinrite, but if you don't think it's worth the money don't buy it. Not sure what makes you think a developer has to reduce the price of their software, just because it's old. Adobe has done no such thing. The software still does what it did when it was first made. If you have a bug report, file it, my guess is that you don't.

My guess is that you didn't need it anyway, and we didn't need your baseless ad hominem.

Ah yes, the test code that you have to write test code for. That's just what I wanted.

I imagine there are some situations where the maintenance cost is better after the upfront investment. Seems like betting against one's self to me.