This was the peak of hardware quality -- also including humans. While plenty of other gear made at that time was of poor quality, the very best space probes -- and the very smartest and best looking humans -- were made at that time. If you were not in the womb during Voyager 1&2 launches, you suffer from ongoing enshittification of everything. :p

China, while not nice internally, doesn't invade foreign countries every a few years, and can wait more than 10 years between launching new genocides. Muscovy, on the other hand...

The exploit specifically checks for being run via /usr/bin/sshd, and only on distros patched with systemd-specific code that's not present in either openssh's upstream nor in openssh-portable. It's also specific to amd64 and glibc.

It's high time to remove Muscovy from the UN Security Council. There's a precedent: a member of the permanent council has been replaced before.

But for that purpose, you need to be using email not gmail: the former is reliable (either delivers to the target or returns failure), while the latter keeps randomly losing mails from any server other than Google itself.

The local time already differs from solar time by 1-2 hours in most places, by more in eg. China. And use cases that actually care about accuracy already apply their corrections, with far more precision that legal time could reasonably do.

Not even that. It's a new keycap on the existing Menu key.

Meanwhile, Intel's Horse Creek is still vapourware...

You're too specific. What matters is:
> Nigeria
> weak and corrupt law enforcement
> fraud

When painted shells are valuable, fraudsters base their schemes on painted shells. There's even hardly link between this crook and cryptocurrencies at this point, it's just about money. Which equals power. You can have money and power without corruption, but that's not Nigerian way.

GPL2 to GPL3.

This. People buy the shittiest shiny thing based on marketing but not quality. Biggest proof: Windows.

Almost all cosmological data is not direct but is derived from some observation using constants assumed from *drumroll* LCDM.

Dark matter is obvious, it's anything that doesn't emit light. But the problem is with dark energy which to match observations would need many magical properties that are not only not detected but also contradict physics we know at home.

Polish far-right govt illegally sold almost half a million visas, they went for 5-6k EUR a piece. Here's the Wikipedia article, it says different numbers than Polish press.

In that country $5k USD is a fortune. You either have more than two years' salary worth you can move to a neighbouring country with, or buy a boat ticket to Europe from far-left criminals, or buy an EU visa from far-right criminals (like PiS govt was selling).

Yes, getting shipped by people traffickers is this expensive -- it's not poor fleeing refugees who get into Europe (compare eg. with Ukrainians, who are nearly all honest and hard-working, or Yazidis who are legitimately oppressed).

So starting a new life either in Europe or in a 4rd world country but with those 27 months of local salary in your wallet, you're far better off than you'd were if you returned that money.