Trying the full download now, the download link is broken and the torrent is stuck at 5MB of 127GB, so I'll give Lite a try...

Foreign language searches on DDG are abysmal. I think Google or Microsoft will win out in worldwide results. And MS has the edge with Edge.

Famouly, Cloudflare has a lava lamp random generator in a wall in its HQ, but they don't use it anymore.

I keep wondering why the EU doesn't use its infrastructure to provide services to people in authoritarian regimes - think Russia, Iran.

You could think of free-to-air EU sponsored TV/Radio channels for those countries similar to what the US did with Radio Free Europe. Another one might be a Starlink competitor operating worldwide to provide secure internet access (looks like they're only talking about connectivity in the EU for IRIS2).

The EU is sadly somewhat timid about going forward with this...

Why don't you enlighten us? GP says EU needs Ukraine for grain, parent argues against that.

All you put forward is an ad hominem attack, I prefer arguments.

No, it's not. This is for requesting a new driver's license, filing your taxes, looking at your medical records, etc.

Why would I want anyone else but the government involved?

Your perspective from thousands of miles away must be spot on!

You'd need permission for that, which you'd never get anyway. Even if you had that you'd need budget, which you'd never get anyway. The easiest way around that is to never ask for anything and do whatever you feel like.

Remember bureaucrats have the permission to say no, never yes.

In my experience with security-heavy organizations, they are so anal in some respects about security that they end making things way worse.

In one case security was so "strict" that it took months to get a login account, so people just installed their own linux boxes to work on, or shared their passwords. Password strings had to comprise of 27 (!) characters. People just ended up writing them on pieces of paper kept under their keyboards.

At one car manufacturer I worked at, security absolutely demanded that a certain security software was installed on every linux system, even though the software didn't work on linux. But hey, they could tick off a box on an Excel spreadsheet.

Not to mention that some of them are truly awful. SPSS makes me shudder.

Unnecessary modules take up memory. That doesn't matter much on a system with 16GB RAM, but it does for an embedded device.

The vulnerability discussed in the article proves modules that aren't needed are best left out - otherwise the vulnerability would be present and active in every Linux machine in the world.

Modules can be loaded on demand, for instance when a "file" in /dev is read. These files are accessible to anyone - even if you don't have permission to read them, just attempting to do so can load the module. With so many vulnerabilities coming our way this is a brilliant and easy fix.

I hope he gets a shout-out at the next FOSDEM, which is held in Brussels. Judging by his name he won't live far away.

Depends on the EU country. In mine they'd have to show they're doing a reorg, but that's a low bar. Employees who get canned have the right to outplacement services, etc. Older employees can sometimes get pre-pension status where the company pays until they retire.

They'd have to make an agreement with the unions too, who are the ones negotiating the above.

Correct, which means they're entirely deterministic: the random generators are entirely deterministic too.

Researchers and trainers actually use this as a feature: by reusing the same seed to the PRNG every time they can test the models predictably.

This.

OP made an hominem attack without (as AC said) giving an example.