There was that crusade thing when some blokes said that a book about some middle eastern hippy said they should actually pilliage the middle eastern countries for gold and jewels.

Detecting human movement is old. Identifying and tracking specific humans is new.

That’s easy, there’s a list. I think people call it the “Epstein files”. Those people.

The MAGA thing is literally what the oligarchs cooked up to insulate themselves. They aren’t even remotely secretive of their connection to it. It was “take two” of the tea party.

Their first “stable” release was 6 months ago and they are currently working on the next major version #, so yeah, focus on recent posts only or the info will be out of date.

And the biggest problem I have with Cron is already solved by Anacron.

Try https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii

Literally right at the top there is a bit button that says “prefer plain text?” And links to https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii

In the “old days”, when you got a shell account somewhere, they usually had Apache set up so that anything you put in your home directory at ~/public_html would get served up at http://their.domain.tld/~username

That was my website at my university for many years.

You got it. SDF and others were doing this for decades. During the pandemic, someone was bored and put a Linux VPS online and asked random people if they wanted shell accounts. Surprisingly, it sparked some really nice small communities of people looking to learn or do little art projects or whatever.

The main difference from the fediverse is a complete apothy for growth. No one is under any illusion large numbers of people are going to want a shell account, and no one wants to sysadmin that anyway. Its also expected that individual tildes will have a finite lifespan, unlike something bigger like SDF with their formal organisation.

Generally, these hidden prompts only work if they do something so subtle that even the slop peddler doesn’t know what happened when they are told to get lost.

Because people keep secrets on computers. You cave the combination of a tiny percentage of people who have secrets that are life threatening, and millions of people use bitlocker because its built into Windows. Its a tiny number times a huge number.

If I had to guess, that might include journalists who investigate authoritarian regimes, activists who keep their identity secret, and minorities who live in countries where their identity is a capital crime.

Then there are probably also governments who rely on bitlocker to secure the computers of people with state secrets like the identities of spies. Probably lots of other weird edge cases.

Its not even the benefit of the doubt. They still publish and name and shame at 1 month. Its just to avoid harm to the users who the security researchers are ostensibly working to protect.

That’s the difference between a security researcher who gives, and does not give a shit about peoples security.

The grace period is to protect people by giving the company time to send out patches. At 1 month, they publish the exploit to shame the company and get the cred either way.

Its a fine line between getting revenge on Microsoft and screwing over human beings that trusted them. I wouldn’t be surprised if a bitlocker zero day got someone killed, given the number of people using it around the world.

A huge part of the gains are propped up by a handful of companies that investors believe are just on the cusp of artificial general intelligence and have thus valued those companies as having the potential to entirely eliminate entire categories of labour in the next decade.

The moment they realize they have been duped, all those “gains” will evaporate overnight.

I have bad news about the chances you will ever become a billionaire.

Wiki’s and Libraries have never been profitable and always existed just outside the capitalists control. Or rather, tolerated. They may get hidden from mainstream view on commercial platforms, but they can’t fully kill them, only drive them underground. Even if they try that, the more people that know about them, the safer they get.

A) it’s the secondary braking system to ever better regen braking systems that are taking most of the energy, and b) my camper trailer weighs about that and can not only stop its self, but can drag the truck to a stop too.

Edit, to clarify, disk brakes were not invented for increased power but better heat dissipation - which isn’t an issue on an EV.

Honestly, an old truck is irreplaceable. Find somewhere to keep it and also get a small EV commuter (someday). Depending on where you are, you might even be able to get ultra cheap “classic car” insurance at 25 years for a truck that isn’t driven regularily.