Given that we are 96% similar ti chimpanzees... That 1% deviation that we are talking about should be tightened up a little bit. Unless you're planning on a rewrite of planet of the apes where they come back as soldier-slaves of our Alpha-Centaurian overlords.

Oh.. and your abbreviation accomplishes the same thing on the wire, but not the same thing in practice, which is to get the machine to look at it's defined port for RDP and connect over it. I'm sure there is a command for that as well, so your point stands. My caffeinated self had to engage in that little bit of pedantry.

Totally get it. Those shortcuts were added after the fact. Which is closer to what I was trying to insinuate. The older I get the more I find that the adage, "People that do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." is true.

TBH, MS is coming a long way with their operating system concepts. Enough that I often consider getting back into working with the OS, but I am busy enough with Azure products and APIs that I doubt that I will bother.

Since the Powershell team has stated multiple times that they are emulating the bash shell in feel, and the Windows Terminal team is emulating the Linux/OSX look and feel... Why not work with the BSD utils (to be clear of GPL fears) and really get on the damn road to awesome?

But seriously. I get the reason that commands and arguments are as terrible as they are.

It is pretty hard to argue that this:

Test-NetConnection MyRDSServer.contoso.com –CommonTCPPort RDP

is more intuitive than this:

telnet MyRDSServer.contoso.com 3389

The top looks more readable, but requires a lot more typing and the command itself is pretty clunky. Again, it seems designed by folks that use an IDE all the time, and never have to hop through multiple systems where keystrokes can take time or tabs can be a little unreliable. For instance, helping a customer with software installed on an Azure instance over a shoddy home line on their side over Zoom.

The design principles of economy of typing/effort in older operating systems seems like a waste when you can have longer commands, but then you require a feature to deal with the extremely long camel cased command... and then the robustness of the system starts to decline.

Oh yeah. I'm still sleepy from staying up too late.

Hafnium. Another potential hellhole of a hack, that will still continue because of incomplete fixes coming from that pristine supply chain.

The appearance of security is NOT the same thing as security. Yes, developers can be tricked into shenanigans (the exploits you linked) but guess what? Many developers are portable across OS's... I'd be more worried about systems that are inherently designed in insecure ways, to be implemented by folks that have only cursory knowledge of the system they are installing into, which is what MS designs for. [The much vaunted 'usability']

If only a default Windows install actually described a usable workstation. However, it doesn't, no more than a Linux install.

You WILL have to install some kind of custom software onto that platform, perhaps an EDR (CB, Crowdstrike), then some kind of location management VPN (GlobalProtect, FortiClient, AnyConnect), collab tool? [Slack, Teams, Skype, Jabber?] and then you get into the real esoterica like custom apps for CRM, weather forecasting, accounting (not just excel).

At the point that you have a professional workstation, usable by someone, the toolchain that you describe for Linux IS also in play on your Windows box. The Solarwinds hack was dependent on two things:

1. leverage of permissions and functions in o365 mail and Azure
2. Toolchain for a piece of software that mostly runs on Windows

Consider that the largest, most comprehensive hack in the history of hacks used your pristine toolchain.

Or perhaps consider that toolchains are what you make of them. Solarwinds LEM's success is based on the fact that it is a pain in the ASS to build a reliable monitoring system that includes Windows. There are dozens of software companies that owe a measure of their success to fixing the bumbly crap that is Windows logging and monitoriing (Splunk, Solarwinds, Winlogbeat, etc, etc)

I stopped working on Windows servers a LOOONG time ago because I saw them as creating economies based on incomplete product, compelled by their desire to not be compatible or usable [text log files? Ye Gods NO!]. I stopped supporting them other than occasionally sending a powershell script at someone after MS completely blew people up with an undocumented "fix" to the SCSI subsystem in Windows 2k SP5 that literally cost companies millions of dollars because "they" decided that it was ok to change up storage without documenting it in the update.

Some people are happy working in that ecosystem, and more power to them, but the complete lack of care wore me out. [It is nice to see little sparks of fun and excitement like the windows terminal project, but then I remember that it's just 'me too-isms" to convince developers that Windows is just as cool as Linux or Mac.] Hell, even the lead developer for powershell recognized that bash was doing a lot of things way better. I think the structure of the command elements is a cool-ish idea, but one that is incompatible with how people thing and more geared toward IDE's or other assistive tools.... which brings us full circle.

Have a great day... play with linux more.

That's a hideously specious bit of twisted logic there. San Diego has never been subject to the wide variance in temperature extremes as anywhere in TX due to the mitigating effects of the Pacific Ocean.

California has a far more stable climate and yet has all sorts of stupid issues. CALISO is a friggin disaster (having done a lot of work with various entities working with CALISO). Working to fix a problem? Like the collapsing dams? Disastrous water usage? The Salton Sea? The decaying and disastrous segments of the grid? Middle and upper middle class families not able to earn enough money to buy homes? It was great to visit the valley and to see all of the mobile homes rotating around the neighborhoods of Facebook, Google, Walmart [Digitial operations], etc etc. Oh, right CA is solving that problem by encouraging corporations to move to TX. Good move, give you more time to spray hepatitis infected human feces off of the sidewalk.

Texas shouldn't have the issues that they are having, just as Oregon shouldn't have had all the outages that they had... Or the entire Northeast in 2003, which was caused by a large section of the Eastern power grid (under Federal supervision) collapses under cascading failures.

In short, corporations and governments both have limited resources and will choose the amount of spend and risk to accept, as a consequence, people will die.

Part of that logic is the common pool of money held by the Federal government. Don't like it? Don't ask for aid for CA or OR when they are burning. Don't help OK when they have a once in 100 years ice storm (2006), or AK when they have volcano issues.... In short, dissolve the union or the federal powers, or your argument is invalid due to hypocrisy.

I've lived in London, Tokyo, San Diego, Los Angeles, Portland(OR), Las Vegas, Tulsa, Dallas, Austin, Houston, Washington DC, and towns you've never heard of in the Ouachita and Ozarks. Generally, I'd rather live in places least associated with the weird liberals that come from California. If they were more like Brits or Norwegians, they'd be far more likely to get some of their goals accomplished, but they wear their hypocrisy like a badge of honor, where cognitive dissonance is an goal.

Yes. Yes they are heroes.

When a system has shown that it CANNOT be changed through political means, it must be opposed in other means. This opposition used the system's unfair practices and convolutions against itself to the detriment of people who harvest wealth and sow suffering among people all over the world. They farm this pain and death upon people to increase liquidity by increasing the rate at which money moves through the market so that they can capture a percentage.

They are getting their justice by the hand of the people because a Congress that can engage in insider trading, has obviously been bought and paid for by their interests ( where are the unemployment benefits to folks affected by COVID? meanwhile look into the dollars flowing into the market to prop up these and those like them.

The current political system in a scheme to keep you involved and believing that you getting what you want while you get fucked by the oligarchs. How that ObamaCare working out for ya?

Actually, it DID go just like that. There were violent Communist Jewish activist groups that caused violence before and after the first World War, which is part of why the German people saw a two pronged threat in the Jews. It's referred to as the great stab in the back, afaicr, but it marked the Jewish people as being both separate and sympathetic to what was already known as a bloody and violent coup, as well as a growing greedy and violent regime (Bolshevik Russia.) [Further notes can be found by studying the German civil war of 1918-1919.]

The opposing factions grew more violent until one of them seized the upper hand and continued the arc of separation and violence. The fascist contingent won in Germany and started their gulags with an ethnic group that presented a fairly solid front in support of communism. Russia started their gulags with people who supported the traditional Russians who supported a monarchy that seemed [ to the people] to be modernizing. That grew into the Holocaust, purges, the Holodomor, the invasion of Finland, etc etc.

It has been said many times that because communism won that fight it FAR outranks fascism in stack chart for human death and suffering. Who knows, if fascism won we might be able point to Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, etc as fascists.

Letting any group exert violence and oppression on another group will result in more of the same on the merry go round that we like to call civilization. Sometimes, it's worth it, but more often it can be carried out in a civil fashion. For instance, the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. The practice was abolished. It was not force of violence, belligerent taxation, but the will of the people recognizing a right and just edict by a ruler. [This does NOT require a monarch, just someone who doesn't play the current game] If we act as reasonable a possible toward our opponents, then they are more likely to listen. If we do not, then they are more likely to listen to people who foment conflict for political gain. I recommend studying the political machinations of Arthur Finkelstein for more modern examples. His protege lead to the rise of Trump [Roger Stone] .

You're missing the ethos of his argument. He does not believe that Halloween should be celebrated due to his religious beliefs (which is common to Christian fundamentalists). This is consistent with his believe that the word 'marriage' should not be applied to same sex contractual partnerships.

I agree with him in principle and in practice. Forcing someone to produce a custom product that lies outside their demonstrated ethos (provided that ethos does not directly physically or financially harm another person) is questionable. Even when it really really hurts (things like pederast forums spring to mind. They get to talk about things as much as they like, even though it makes most of society either violently angry or violently ill, sometimes both.)

His actions on his beliefs were/are consistent. Just as my wife and I will not ask a Christian minister to preside over a ceremony where we retake our vows because we are both opposed to the existence and practice of Christianity, but we achnowledge that forcing our beliefs on others is one of the reasons we oppose Christianity.

What you propose is the tyranny that you prefer, which is the normal human condition of rationalizing preferences as moral superiority. Rather, we should try to be logically consistent with both legal rhetoric and enforcement. People will tend to cluster into groups of like kinds, with areas where people who prefer to 'mix it up' and areas where people tend to be more insular. As long as the differences are respected and expectations are acknowledged, there is no reason that this could not be the case other than politicians exploiting people's baser instincts to force their beliefs on others to gain political power.

PS. I don't understand why the government has anything to do with marriage on a Federal level anyway. These are the perversions that are brought into being by a convoluted tax system.

That's a bit of a rigged statistic. GDP is a measurement of the movement of money. When labor prices decline, then the barrier to demand is lowered and capital moves. So, slave economies with a strong bifurcation between the slave class and the earning class with highly liquid capital (lots of credit) will show a high GDP as the capital sloshes around, not necessarily increasing the wealth and opportunity of the workers.

Interestingly, that exactly resembles the US economy, especially in the hot spots that have made major moves to embrace the slave economies. This strategy has contributed to the growing gap between the top and bottom of the earnings scale.

Heh. And public school systems don't indoctrinate?

    There is a reason that required attendance is important to socialist economies. It frees up adult workers thereby expanding the labor pool, it creates jobs for some of the labor pool that is so inclined, and decreases attachment to the familial social structure, allowing a more malleable and mobile work force (no people fighting to keep their ancestral homes).

As we see with this legislation, the primary concern of the oligarchy, whether with a socialist or capitalist bent is to enrich and empower the oligarchy. When the profits or possession of the oligarchs is threatened whatever was 'good' before becomes 'bad'.

The opinion that you present is true, but in the wholly specious manner that the people in power use to manipulate you. It is not the only thing that is true. For instance, in my generation we have 12 home schooled children. 4 are raised in a Northern european heathen household, 2 are raised in a Native American centric household, and 6 are raised in an Evangelical household. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with a mixture of cultures, races, political and religious beliefs without concern for any indoctrination. We talked about which grandparents would be hosting the next sleepover, which art day was the best at the local children's museum, and when would be a good time to do a Yule bonfire.

Your narrow image is the one that your masters wish you to have, because your dependence on the system ensures their mastery.

His context may have been anti-fascist, but he was also anti-authoritarian of any stripe. He was making the political rhetoric of all authoritarians clear.

The meaning and application of his writings are far more applicable in a human context that his particular political or activist leanings. You're reducing him and by example you would have to reduce the writings of Solzhenitsyn, Voltaire, Hume, Bacon, Camus, Sartre, Plato, Babeuf, Nietzsche etc etc to their various political leanings which is ridiculous.

1984 was instruction on how authoritarian groups twist meanings to garner the support of the people, whether those people are supporting fascism, communism, capitalism (look at the bullshit we are fed in the US), socialism or whatever. In this statement, we agree, his works were a dialectic on the power of twisted language.

To say anything else is to be intentionally obtuse and obstreperous. Do not destroy knowledge for the sake of your opinion.

Or, we could break the giant elitist system into smaller parts, where the locals could have more influence.

George Washington was the USA's first millionaire, and he had very particular ideas about how to set up a government to protect the elite. Look at the Constitutional convention, usually seen as a good thing, but really it was a bunch of elites holding the voters hostage so that they would get paid back from the public coffers for a system (revolution) that mostly benefited the elites.

So, really, it hasn't changed that much at all.

Wrt racism, GW once said the below, and given the history of slavery in the US since, it is apparent that a slave economy is what was desired and designed for. It continues to this day.
"If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mahometans [Mohammedans/Muslims], Jews, or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists.

Yeah, it's crap. Use Zoom and Slack instead, you'll be happier and healthier.

Upsides:
- Integration with MS Tools
- Apparently free so people who use it only for single threaded chats like it.

Downsides:
- Performance: On a single Windows workstation it's "OK", on Mac or Linux it is monstrous, like 10's of GB monstrous, and it doesn't seem to decrease once it's hit a peak, so killing it is the only way.
- Features: On MS the feature parity is higher, but the Linux and Mac clients do not allow remote control, and for our instance file sharing within a meeting chat (for outside entities) On Zoom, this is one of my most used features, to provide a text file fix for a problem rather than risking c/p doom. (Also, background manipulation seems to be broken for Linux and Mac)
- Performance: Yeah, that again, but this time we're talking about large meetings. Meetings of greater than 10 people causes it to die in multiple horrible ways.