Your welcome but that’s the point he was making even if you build everything on your own. The backdoor would be in the compiler. So even if you built /bin/login for example he would just inject it at compile time when compiling your code. But then you asked I will just compile the compiler but you have to compile it at some point and he can inject the code back into the compiler at that point.

If you read this you will never trust anything again. If you aee not familiar with him that is Ken Thompson one of the father’s of Unix.

Its why they call it a vain not what it really is a poop tube in shrimp

Yeah the problem with that model is the overhead to pick who gets the money would cut in to much. My thought is you want it you buy it. They could do it like humble bundle and have a slider to pay more if you want.

I 100% agree with this what we need is a centralized store like steam that is a non-profit. Where they make it easy just to buy the software. I love distros as much as the next person but having it centralized between all distros gets people paid. My only concern is how do we get the devs of libraries used by those apps use paid. And yes i know it sounds crazy it’s open source how can you charge? Nothing in free and open source says you have to not charge. You just have to given them the source when you do so.

Even if someone can build it themselves for free. If you make the store a great experience to use. People will just buy. It’s likely this i can go out and pirate any games I want. So from a monetary perspective it’s the same. With a little work I could have my games for free but steam is so good i just buy the game.

It’s important to remember when they say US intelligence is also the combined intelligence of US allies with intelligence sharing agreements. Whenever things were working before it was all blown up the intelligence worked so well because NATO+ block worked as a unit. That’s why it was so important for Putin to deploy his operative to blowing up that alliance.

I kind of think of it like big give a penny take a penny tray.

Yeah you are right, i blocked them . thanks I guess I lost my head there for a second.

I don’t want it as it makes posts feel hollow and evaporates any desire to engage. Since the Ai is not going to have a real option i value. So it just adds to noise and just looks like more sophisticated spam.

Agreed

Yeah the company I work for is unlimited pto and it’s the UK so i can deduct my UK tax from my usa tax. The weird part of not having an uk income. But die to having dual citizenship i don’t need to show an income for immigration.

This is 100% correct but it’s good as I got older it’s the characters that make it interesting so the mystery is just a bonus.

Nextcloud handles most things. I heard good things about Zetaoffice

Tyrian

It’s groundhog day with a different coat of paint

If I have a remote job in the US but also have dual citizenship with the country I’m moving to do I still have to pay taxes on that income or does my employer have to do anything for my move.

Yes but for me it was 1998. There was so much hope the internet was coming into it’s own web 1 was peaking. PC gaming was unreal. Diablo , half life , quake 2 were in heavy rotation. Online was fresh and new. Heat.net was such a cool place to dial into. The world had its problems but being able to communicate across borders was ment to heal the world’s problems. This was before the internet got centralized and the powerful could use it as weapon.

Smashed pennies

I would think he would want to have anyone that can to donate blood

Just make sure to not post bugs to the upstream project and keep them at the distro level