Maybe so, but judging by some of the things that will get you banned from 4chan, 4chan doesn't really care about free speech either. They seem to mostly just care about protecting their own staff and little clique of insiders' ability to be abusive.

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.

Seriously, how much are the Russians paying you for this? Do they pay you in rubles or just sexual favors? Do you own stock in oil companies? Are they down right now?

Who the hell is worried about taxation when fascism is being rapidly implemented? Must be nice to be so confident it'll all work out for you.

None of that proves or even remotely backs up your assertion, and if you don't know that Hollywood is in the middle of the desert, you're way too uninformed to be convincing about this line of FUD and lies.

Seriously this is a bunch of stupid lies, and you don't deserve to add your karma bonus to it.

You've never spent any time in a desert, have you? First of all, kudzu is a forest plant and isn't a threat anywhere near these panels. Second of all, anything that might actually manage to struggle up on top of these panels will be quickly cooked to death before it can cover them. Third of all, weeding in the desert is generally going to be a trivial task, and will barely make a dent in the normal maintenance regime. Are they paying you for this stupid FUD?

I told you so. I fucking told you so.

Yea, that's so well known I find myself wondering if these idiots were even actually humans.

Computers were fine, it's the internet that was a mistake. At least, letting kids on it and people dumb enough to put their kids' info on it was.

Third parties don't belong in the kernel even on Linux. There IS an alternative.

That is up to you as the administrator to reject vendors who don't use the alternative and want to send you a custom kernel driver instead.

However... It's still possible for Crowdstrike to do something stupid that brings a system to its needs.

The software is able to block a file from being opened or read, for example. Now what happens if Crowdstrike suddenly detects _EVERY_ file as malicious and starts preventing the system reading any files at all? For example.. the Browser.. the Windows manager.. the Launcher, Desktop, etc.. Any programs that have to run in order for the user to successfully log in and use their system.

With proper auditing, you can use NPM just fine, pin a specific version

So Insecure by default then.

What we really need is to have catered repos which default to a pinned version, instead of requiring the user to pin one. And the version pin does not update until that version has been audited by a sufficient number of trusted authorities.

If no version has been audited and pinned, then new packages should simply be unavailable to anyone who is not running in a "dangerous insecure mode"

I mean that some system of package review is obviously necessary for all updates, and that which has not been reviewed should not be available. Otherwise it's worse than geocities -- a convenient malware distribution channel.

There's a difference between a "hazardous protein" and a "protein that doesn't cause damage until three generations into the future."

Eh? What about a protein that 3 generations into the future causes Production of a related protein that obliterates all life on the planet.
I would say these 3rd generation cases Cannot be safely ignored.