They are UNIX systems, they don’t need an entire team to be managed once installed and running.

I’m only half joking. It’s not UNIX but I’ve been working with “legacy” systems like IBM i mainframes, and those things don’t need much to run. Sure, you have to update the system and the software once every few months, manage backups, role switches, etc., but it can mostly be done by a few people. But yeah, systems like this were (are) insanely expensive so most of his budget probably went there.

They will need 3 or the warrior cast, 3 of the religious cast, and 3 of the workers cast in order to make balanced teams.

Gates has always used philanthropy as PR. He doesn’t give a shit about climate change, famines or infant mortality. He was doing it for the PR while still investing and making money. Now that the political wind has changed and he doesn’t need to pretend, he can just be neutral and still seem like the “good billionaire”.

But you have to at least lay them over the backrest so they don’t become too wrinkly. At first. Then when it becomes unmanageable you can just pile them on.

Simone Giertz built herself a chair for this exact purpose.

Have you worked as a Customer Advocate for a hosting company at some point? Because that looks like the training material they showed me when I did this job.

It’s one of the things that made me prefer using Linux a long long time ago. It’s nice to be able to rename, move, and delete files while they are used.

The heads have been taxidermized and arranged in a semi circle so that I can have a conversation with them.

There’s no space for them in the fridge anyway, as it’s indeed full of rotting leftovers. And even raw ingredients!

In my case they’ll just rot in the fridge.

I don’t want to seem unkind but a lot of people are not choosing between paying rent or being homeless just because they should/could reduce the usage of their cars.

I know poorer people rely on car dependency and that taxing their gas is genuinely upsetting. However, the average Canadian monthly payment for a new car is $1,019. Some people can buy cars of $60 000 but the gas to feed it is too expensive and threatens their food or housing safety?

Again, this is going to sound incredibly disconnected and privileged, but I changed city and moved somewhere with public transit and an expansive network of bike paths so I don’t have to pay eternally for a car and its polluting fuel. It’s what made me afford my rent while being poor. It also has the benefit of polluting less.

More than 80 percent of Canada’s population live in urban centers. Some have public transit and is actively being cut. Some have bike networks where car drivers criticize every inch that’s not theirs. Most people living in those urban centers could reduce their car usage, but they chose to drive cars, whine about gas prices, parking costs, cyclists, and vote for politicians reflecting that.

Lost, confused, disturbed, unsettled, baffled and eve a bit turned on.

This could describe every decon scene in ENT.

The sad thing is that people are voting for those politicians.

In Canada, the Liberals introduced the carbon tax around a decade ago. But one of the most popular points of the Conservatives was “axe the tax”. Seeing how popular the slogan was, amd wanting to be re-elected, the Liberals did just that. They removed their very own carbon tax.

It makes gas cheaper so people want that. Cheap gas to power their ever bigger pickup trucks and SUVs. Who would vote to keep higher gas prices and use a smaller car? Or even worse, who would vote for bike lanes and public transit?

Politicians are pretty much just doing what people expect of them. They have to make sure gas is ever cheaper, that growth stays infinite, while also pretending to do something about the environment.

I had the same experience as OP when I tried Matrix a few years ago. No hate on it but it was not easy and I gave up because I already had a simple IRC setup that’s working for me and my friends.

Some IRC clients are now web based and it’s been enough to keep a few of my friends there instead of Discord. We use The Lounge. It can keep a history, display images, videos, play mp3s, and show previews of most URLs. Like, we can simply copy/paste images into a channel and they are uploaded on the server and displayed in the chat. There’s also push notifications and it’s mobile friendly.

Convos also does something like this. Apparently it can also do video chat but I’ve never got it to work.

I’ve recently been thinking about giving Matrix another try but I’m pretty sure my friends are going to stay on “modern” IRC anyway.

No. I still bring my reusable bag to the store. I never had a car, use a bike or public transit. I 've always been very careful. But it’s just very disappointing to see some moderately rich asshole ruin all of my lifetime efforts in a day. Also, the pandemic showed me that most people don’t give a fuck and just wanted to go back to “normal” polluting.

In fact, the whole plastic industry convinced people over the years into cleaning and recycling it instead of reducing its use. Also, I’m sure some of you know that lots of reusable bags are just thicker plastic, that they need to be reused a whole lots of times before being “ecological”, that some people like to collect them, and that it can ends up being worse than using disposable ones.

We just can’t stop the consumption, but somehow, bringing a reusable bag will remove the guilt.

I still feel very guilty and like it’s a failure every time I have to use a car, but that’s just me because everyone is encouraging me to get one and use them. Just get an electric one. They are heavier and require like tones of batteries to move 1.5 person around, and their reusable bags, but they are “ecological”!

Google’s emissions have risen by 50% in a few years, mostly because of AI. So I try to avoid using “AI”. But apparently, most people don’t have those concerns.

When I see all the ways the people around me pollute, consume and dispose, the reusable bag is low on the list of things I feel guilty about.

I’m sure the millionaires and the billionaires are telling themselves the same thing while sitting in their pritave jet en route to the ‘grocery’ store.

We can only wish that some people can get what he’s trying to convey with his song.

However we had a band here that made a song about climate change 18 years ago and people just sing along without much more action. They also made popular songs about inequalities and social issues. Some of the songs became very popular and were played repeatedly in the media. The band is supposedly a big part of our culture.

But after all those years, it’s just that. Songs. They are sad pieces of warning, and people just treat them like anything else; a commodity to be used, and eventually replaced by a newer thing.

He is not a merry man.

It’s also worth saying that as much as I don’t have an antivirus on Linux, and that I’m generally not too worried about malware and viruses, I have backups, follow the 3-2-1 rules, and my OS can be scarified if there is ever a problem.

But I must admit that being infected is not always detectable and taking extra care probably wouldn’t hurt.

The starting point of the attack is an email message containing a RAR archive, which includes a file with a maliciously crafted file name: “ziliao2.pdf{echo,<Base64-encoded command>}|{base64,-d}|bash”

Doesn’t it mean that a rar archive contains the malicious file?

It’s worth noting that simply extracting the file from the archive does not trigger execution. Rather, it occurs only when a shell script or command attempts to parse the file name.

I’ve been using Linux for more than 25 years and never had an antivirus. I’m also trying to just keep to official repos. From what I’ve seen over the years it’s not viruses or malware that are the most dangerous on Linux, but vulnerabilities found in some software, that usually only requires you to update your system.

Maybe I’d be more careful if I was installing obscure packages from weird places, but I’m about as conservative as Debian when it comes to new software and bleeding edge, so usually the stuff that I install has been tried and tried again.

It’s a good explanation and analysis of what it is and what it does.

There’s just one thing that I didn’t see mentioned and it’s about the prevalence of having a software installed to extract rar files in the first place.

AFAIK there’s nothing installed by default on Debian to open rar files. You kind of have to go out of your way to extract one. Unless this changed with the latest release.

I’m not much of a distro hopper so I’d be curious to know, are there distributions where opening and extracting a rar file only requires to click it?