Wow, I'm really sorry to here that. I'm 8+ years removed from leading Canonical's product management team, but I still love Ubuntu.
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For me, Claude has brought the joy back to creating again. I have a very busy schedule -- working a full time job, managing a huge team, raising a family.
For many years (some have noticed the gap in git history) -- I haven't had the time to work on Byobu (or, my employment arrangement made it difficult to contribute to open source software).
But now, I'm employed by a company that welcomes open source contribution. And Claude has given me a small army of interns, for $20/month -- that have been working around the clock fixing bugs and adding features that I've always wanted to work on, but haven't had the time to do so.
However, the much bigger concern should be your phone, which has a mic, is internet connected, and almost always listening. You need to also disable the Google Assistant, Sciri, etc. there too.
Oh, and that doesn't just go for your home. That's in the office, at a client, on the train, in an Uber... Everywhere you take your phone.
But I will say...Sherry by itself is totally underated.
I spent a week in Jerez a few years ago studying Sherry and it is truly an art.
If you like Single Malt and Sour Beer, you owe it to yourself to seek out a Sherry bar and explore the magic of Fino, Amontillado, and the ever evasive Palo Cortado.
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Your face is your username, not your password.
Use it like you use your username. But never as something secret, personal, unknown like your password.
The same goes for any biometric. Fingerprints, voice, iris, gait, DNA, etc. No matter how much they try to sell you authentication through biometrics, it's total b.s.
@DustinKirkland
You can also edit the URLS variable in that file, to point to more, or different sources of MOTD news.
By design:
- Asynchronously, about 60 seconds after boot, a systemd timer fires which runs "/etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news --force"
- It sources 3 admin-editable config variables in /etc/default/motd-news. The defaults are: ENABLED=1, URLS="https://motd.ubuntu.com", WAIT="5"
- The admin can disable it entirely (ENABLED=0), change or add other MOTD news sources (your corporate IT team could run its own), and change the wait time in seconds
- If it's enabled, that systemd timer job will loop over each of the URLS (note, that it's important that these should be https with valid SSL certificates), trim them to 80 characters per line, and a maximum of 10 lines, and concatenate them to a cache file in /var/cache/motd-news
- Every ~12 hours thereafter (with a little bit of random timer fuzzing), this systemd timer job will re-run and update the /var/cache/motd-news
- Upon login, the contents of /var/cache/motd-news is just printed to screen. There was a bug (fixed now, working its way through the Ubuntu update process), in that an empty cache file was not getting, if the fetch failed, so the fetch was retried every time (and failed every time, with the $WAIT delay of 5 seconds). Obviously, it was a simple fix.
As I am generally responsible for this feature in Ubuntu (as the Ubuntu Product Manager for the design, and the Ubuntu Core Developer for the implementation) I'll also respond to the discussion about this feature being included in Ubuntu at all...
- Back in 2009, Ubuntu was the first distribution to add the concept of a "dynamic MOTD", by introducing the /etc/update-motd.d/* structure of scripts. I originally implemented it for Landscape (a commercial package management system by Canonical), but it has since also been adopted by Debian, Amazon Linux, and others.
- It's a flexible framework that enables distro packages or administrators to add executable scripts in /etc/update-motd.d/* to generate informative, interesting messages displayed at login.
- This was quite interesting, in that for almost 40 years of Linux/UNIX, the "Message of the Day" was anything but that... It was a message that was created at one point in time, when the distro released, and that's about it. And we managed to change that.
- If you look in your Ubuntu's /etc/update-motd.d/, you'll see a set of scripts. One prints the generic "welcome" banner. The next one prints 3 links, as to where to find help. You'll also find one that counts and displays the number of package updates available for the local system. Another tells you if a reboot is required.
- All of these are locally generated, based on local information available on the system.
- In Ubuntu 17.04, we added /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news. This is the script who's design is described above. The motivation is threefold:
* Sometimes, there's critical information that either we, the distro, or perhaps even the local IT administrator of a fleet of systems needs to communicate to users at login. Think, "ShellShock", "Heartbleed", "StackClash". This seems to happen every few months, in the current state of the world.
* Other times, we need to communicate something about the distribution. EoL messages, new feature availability, etc.
* And sometimes, it's just a matter of presenting a fun fact. News from the world of Ubuntu. Or even your own IT department. Such was the case with the Silicon Valley / HBO message. It was just an interesting tidbit of potpourri from the world of Ubuntu. Last week's message actually announced an Ubuntu conference in Latin America. The week before, we linked to an article asking for feedback on Kubuntu. Before that, we announced the availability of Extended Security Maintenance updates for 12.04. And so on.
- There is a team of engineering managers at Canonical (the ~ubuntu-motd team in Launchpad), all of who have shared write access to the source code repository (lp:ubuntu-motd in Launchpad). Going forward, we're going to review one another's proposed message merges. In fact, that's an open source repository. You're welcome to propose your own messages for merging, if you have a well formatted, informative message for Ubuntu users. We'll be happy to review and include them in the future.
As always, I'm impressed with the critical analysis of the HackerNews community. We, the Ubuntu ecosystem, are held by the HN community to a very high standard, and we're quite humbled by that. Thank you for the continued feedback and response.
Cheers, Dustin