Imagine what? What was this comment again?

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… eww

Right but wow I didn’t want to imagine that.

It’s beautiful.

This isn’t even necessarily for nefarious reasons. I’ve actually had a case where HR was trying to help by putting in the words that they were stupidly required to find in a resume.

Still not a good sign of a properly functioning organization.

That’s a tough nut to crack. Even as a video game platform, they don’t write most of the software that they sell today. They would need to find some way to convince developers to write software for something that’s not the platform nearly all users are running.

I’m not sure that Microsoft ever did halt going down that path. My wife recently bought a PC that came locked down by default and required some fiddling to allow running unsigned apps. This was Windows 10, not sure about 11.

I think it could be more that broad compatibility with everything is their main selling point, and by doing so they were undermining their own ecosystem.

However, this is mere speculation on my part.

Valve is a Titan doing incredible work for the open source community and making money while doing so.

Successful open source software business model at work. Way to go.

Priority inversion sounds frighteningly subtle. You might not notice you’re under the effects of the spell because it manipulates priorities rather than bends will directly.

It still feels like your intent, but you’ve been rendered massively ineffective and it may take ages for someone to suspect magical involvement.

My first thought was: that’s it? Really that little?

But we continued to use the substances anyway because it was cost-effective.

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Titles like this make me angry. Sometimes it feels like an insult to my intelligence. Just tell me what it’s about and stop making stuff up.

I make a point of not clicking on such articles, or really anything with click bait titles if I can avoid it.

I think you mean for the rich that own them. Some of the most conservative people I know are struggling financially.

I don’t understand the term conservative. What are they conserving? They should call themselves regressionists.

Blood for the blood god.

Anything to not reduce consumption.

I was just thinking the other day why we don’t have standardized EV batteries with a swap process for instant refueling. It would open up so many use cases, particularly for those who can’t have something like that charge overnight.

Loads of complex code exposed to an assumed trusted network is the model of printers. They’re going to be full of security issues.

This stuff should be sandboxed and then never, ever exposed to the Internet.

Entirely personal recommendation, take it or leave it: I’ve seen and attacked enough of this codebase to remove any CUPS service, binary and library from any of my systems and never again use a UNIX system to print. I’m also removing every zeroconf / avahi / bonjour listener. You might consider doing the same.

Great advice. It would appear these developers don’t take security seriously.

The most reliable way I know is to seek documentation for the board. It’s up there with PCI lanes in that the board designer will know what has been configured to work with that physical connector. This kind of info is definitely part of your motherboard documentation.

I’m not familiar with dmidecode so unfortunately I cannot comment on that.

How about if it was all at the same time?