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Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 5, Insightful) 86

Quora OTOH is the creeping fungus that's overrunning search results like Steven King's "Weeds", just like Pinterest used to do for images. Search for any kind of tech info on anything and you get a bunch of Quora crap poisoning your first half-dozen results. And since Google knows better than you, you can no longer exclude Quora results like you used to be able to when Pinterest was the big problem.

Comment Re:apt-get (Score 1) 25

For me it's a different thing, I couldn't care less about eye-candy, what I want apt to fix is (1) "some packages have been held back because we felt like it, no updates for you", and (2) the giant clusterfuck that is its key management, "some key you've never heard of can't be found/is untrusted/has expired, no more updates for you, ever". And none of the hacks and workarounds posted to screeds of forums where people have had the same problem work, you just end up with a system that can't be updated any more because apt won't let you.

Comment Re:MegaRAC.. (Score 1) 62

It's not even for servers, Lenovo laptops, and probably many others as well, all have the Intel Mismanagement Engine present, typically enabled by default and riddled with bugs and vulnerabilities. It feels like 90% of Lenovo's firmware updates have been to patch up the latest vulnerability in UEFI and IME.

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