I actually like the audio. (I’ll leverage faux tape recording effects and plate reverb on occasion with music I write.)

And honestly, it was kinda refreshing to watch Charlie Chaplain again.

Sorry, I couldn’t quite get the feeling you described. It’s partially because I have seen that before and partially because it still looks old and the sound quality was reminiscent of a cylinder phonograph.

Good try though. ;)

I have been working through my “must watch” list with my teenage daughter recently. While all the movies are absolutely new to her, that hasn’t stopped the occasional snickering about how “old” some of the stuff is. (And honestly, I can’t disagree. I had a few “ah fuck I’m old” moments rewatching Predator and Blade Runner recently.)

So, in spirit, I 100% agree with you. In reality, nobody can quite escape how old some movies actually feel.

If you did, the phone-home beacons are super easy to spot and block. Appliance manufacturers don’t think of their products as computers so they don’t bother to hide anything.

On the flip side, it seems that laptop manufacturers think of their products as appliances, so they don’t even hide their beacons either.

Spoiler: Acer ties it’s proprietary fan control drivers to"NitroSense" that loves to beacon home with your geo location and serial numbers. If you insert a random python webserver for it to connect to, it will just blurt out its API keys for the Acer CMS. Connecting back to their CMS manually allows you to inject as much shit data into their CMS as you want.

I am all for the news about Mars, as long as it has nothing to do with Husk. If that fucker wants to go, he can take his groupies and go. Well, I would also tune into the news if it turned into a pseudo-Last Recall story and some alien artifact collapsed the exploitive oxygen trade.

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Right-wing politics basically requires one or more sub-cultutes to demonize. It’s hate and blame politics, pure and simple.

As long as the politicians have someone to wag a finger at and blame for all problems, it rallies their supporters. Nazis had the Jews, Republicans have everyone else that they declare different.

Just by looking at it, this model should scale easily in the slicer. (Scale up by 21.5% if my math is correct.) It may look odd, but even scaling up one axis (Y) may work too.

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Wustite, ferrous oxide, is black. FeO.

Typical rust, usually found as hematite, is Fe2O3 and is red/brown. Also an iron oxide.

Magnetite is also another black iron oxide, Fe3O4.

There are quite a few other flavors of iron and oxygen too.

“the gays” in Russia:

When? That shit is already happening.

Conspiracy theories were supposed to be fun and not really taken seriously. Once “groups” like Q-Anon showed up, all the nutters quickly linked everything to politics and the conspiracy theories that may have had a believable hint of truth just got destroyed by complete bat-shit crazy rambling.

Sorry if it sounded like my rant was directed at you as it absolutely wasn’t. Your comment triggered me, because I absolutely fully agreed with yours as well. ;)

setenforce 0 is much cleaner, I have found.

Its just complex

When a security mechanism becomes more complex to manage than what it is supposed to protect, it becomes a vulnerability itself.

If you had a minimal system that you built from the ground up yourself and wanted to only have that system function in very specific ways, SELinux would be perfect. I would go so far as to say it would be nearing perfection in some ways.

Sorry, but in the real world, ain’t nobody got time for that shit. If you use auto configuration tools or pre-canned configs for SELinux on a system you are unfamiliar with, it’s more likely to cause application issues, create security gaps and will likely be shut off by a Jr. admin who really has no fucking clue what he is doing anyway.

It’s just easier to keep your system patched and ensure basic network security practices anyway.

It’s not impossible to manage these days. In the early days it was, but most everything is automagic now. If I am not mistaken, SELinux can be enabled to ‘log only’ which would give you data better handled by a HIPS anyway. (Don’t quote me on that.)

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Holy fuck you are whiny. You really don’t understand the fundamentals of how these platforms work, do you?

I mean, sure. You are exploiting your whining for attention, so you understand that, at least. To everyone else, you just seem like you are stirring the pot because you like it. That is just toxic.

Acktually, this is a decent last resort if you have an alkaline battery leak all over a PCB. Hot water is probably not a good idea as you run the risk of warping a board.

A tooth brush and an isopropyl bath is probably a better option unless you have a good ultrasonic cleaner.

An isopropyl bath after a water bath is also good as to remove all the water from places you can’t dry easily. (Evaporation of the IPA is hella better than using a hair dryer because again, warping.)

You want me to do what now?

(Sudo, the cat.)