Tamil just makes my eyes glaze over when I see it on street signs in Malaysia or whatever.

Haha, the language of Malaysia is Bahasa Malaysia, and it's written with Latin script - the same 26 letters as English. You really are clueless.

Changing who they host the public GitHub service doesn't change that. You should just see the addresses change, e.g. binary downloads moving from Amaon AWS to Azure.

You're missing the point of why Microsoft migrated Hotmail from BSD to Windows NT4 and IIS. They knew it was going to be disastrous and require a lot more hardware. They did it to get first-hand experience with everything wrong with running a major web application on the Microsoft server stack. They used the experience to identify the most important areas to focus on in order to get Windows taken seriously as a web server OS. In the end, they did achieve their goal. Window 2000 and 2003 were much more successful than NT4 in that space.

It should not be possible for this sort of bug to occur in a modern language with garbage collection

Sure it can, it's called an object lifecycle issue. You forget your objects are still referenced somewhere. I remember a team that was considered promising in a DARPA self-driving car challenge had their car crash (both the software and physically) because it was leaking event handlers. They thought they didn't have to worry about leaks because they were using C#.

If I start a compilation job that's going to hit swap, I want it to actually finish, not to get killed when it starts actually using memory. All earlyoom does is make my life harder than it should be because it's one more idiotic thing to remember to turn off.

For the 150 to 250 ton lunar habit, can you give any sort of breakdown of what is included in that design, how many astronauts it supports, what equipment it has, etc.?

If it wasn't completely obvious that you're full of it, that would be a real pick-me-up to environmentalists everywhere. They get pretty used to the idea that all of their efforts are for nothing. It takes immense effort to just get even a little token effort from government, corporations, the public, etc. to actually get anything done. They normally feel like Sisyphus, or someone chipping off little pieces of the visible part of the iceberg, knowing that 90% of it is underwater, and they're barely even making a scratch in the part that's visible above water. But here you are providing them with heartening evidence that what they do and say can make a difference... except of course that, as stated, you're just a pathetic liar.

I certainly do not. In any case, the more relevant data is the count of e coli in the actual supply water. What I can say with relative confidence is that a hot water wash with soap is going to remove the vast majority of all bacteria from the non-stick surfaces inside the typical washer. It's generally not enough to be completely sterile, but it will almost certainly be clean and the water supply, while also generally pretty clean will have a massive volume relative to the 3-dimensional volume over the surfaces where a biofilm could develop in the washing machine. Not to mention that the clothes from the washing machine go on human skin. After washing, they're going to be cleaner than the human surface that they are going on.

The ones I've seen in apartment buildings have a dedicated network for the cameras that isn't connected to the Internet at all - separate cabling, etc. The cameras and consoles in apartments couldn't phone home even if they wanted to.

The bigger systems, like the ones designed for apartment buildings, don't do that, though. They have a local server appliance thing that requires an admin to configure, update, etc. I can understand the low-end stuff being designed to "just work" for people with no IT skills.

That minimal part is still a major target for exploitation, and checking commands is one of the areas most prone to vulnerabilities as we've seen numerous times. Having something to mitigate vulnerabilities in that minimal part is an advantage out here in the real world.

You recommend sudo, but that's a critical component where we keep finding vulnerabilities. It's also a nightmare to configure properly without inadvertently opening holes. It's mainly used for "allow these users to get root" but even that use case has had plenty of vulnerabilities that were only publicly disclosed recently.

Talking about changing the POSIX security model is all well and good, but what's your proposed replacement? Linux kernel capabilities are now seen as not being flexible, scalable or maintainable. No-one seems to like the Windows model either. In fact, people complain it's too complex to use properly, and then just elevate to local admin. So lazy developers send back to the same bad situation you have with POSIX.

And SELinux doesn't add global restrictions unless that's what you configure it to do. Most people run it with a "targeted" policy where it only applies restrictions to the specific things you configure policies for. Anything you haven't configured policies for gets the usual permissions model with no additional restrictions.

I know who Gritty is. I've seen every episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

I know nothing significant about the city, any regional accent, or its culture. I don't know anyone who does beyond some sports fans who know the teams... and it's hardly the only city they know in that way. I don't recall the city even being mentioned on any of the other shows I watch, I don't see it in the news more often that other cities.

If you're from there, good for you, I'm not putting you down... it's just a big world that has a lot more than Philadelphia in it.

I recognize the issue, but short of walking into the woods and living in a canvas tent while foraging for berries until I die of some random illness or animal encounter... or survive long enough to freeze to death in the coming winter... there's not much I can do.

I recycle, and that's mostly bullshit. I try to reduce my use of things that are difficult to recycle, but even as we're told plastic is bad, more and more products come in plastic bags or blister packs. Sometimes there are multiple layers of plastic packaging - and none of it is accepted by my municipal recycling program.

My home is fairly well insulated, but my furnace burns natural gas. It has to, because there's no way in this climate I could afford a heat pump that could keep my home warm in February.

I drive a car with an internal combustion engine, because an electric costs $40k and won't make the trip to my parents' house. I drive to work because 99% of this country is built around the assumption you are driving... even as we build housing with insufficient parking and tell people they should take public transit options that don't exist.

I'm middle aged and approaching 'senior' status. I'm done beyond voting for the best option I can at the polls. It's the kids' turn. Fight you buggers, fight. You need the planet for longer than I will.

You need root to change your UID. This means that any service that needs to impersonate users needs a component running as root. SELinux mitigates the impact of vulnerabilities in that component that are exposed during the time between when it starts and when it changes to the target UID.

The trouble is, the POSIX model is broken. You need root to do all sorts of things, but once you get root, it doesn't just allow you to do the thing you need to do, it allows you to do anything. This gives bugs a lot more exploitation potential. SELinux lets you check that programs are only doing the things they're supposed to be doing, and not accessing something they shouldn't.