So they're willing to freely admit that third-party app stores are typically cesspools of spam and malware.

"We're making this decision because we'd like to be in trouble."

I have had Gemini (unrequested) suggest non-working code as a solution to a relatively simple problem expressed by a google search as recently as this month. There's a difference between "$handle" and "[ $handle ]" and Gemini clearly doesn't understand that, so... I suspect Block's downfall will be quite exciting with lots of lawsuits and collateral damage.

I have no idea why this isn't already upvoted to 5 and beyond. There are vape rigs that have a built in ssh server now for pete's sake.

Most of the things these other people are talking about probably don't use telnetd at all but instead simply use an inet superserver (inetd/xinetd) that launches their whatever.

There's just no reason to be using telnetd unless someone is expecting people to login like it's 1996 or something,

Uhh... You had me until you got to this:

One doesn't solve those kinds of problems by simply mandating that someone else do something that's virtually impossible. That's unworkable and a bit ridiculous. One can however, make it strictly illegal for companies operating in the US to attempt to track users online. Good luck getting lobbyists to stop writing checks to prevent that.

So it almost created a working compiler.

Do try to remember that "almost" only counts with hand-grenades and horseshoes.

Unfortunately, that's never what "at will" meant. Those are actually the states where you can be fired at any time for any reason.

I doubt that will be something that will convince them, but if they're going to play these kinds of games that's fine. With this in mind if ICE tries to stop me, I'm going to treat it like the deadly threat to my safety and liberty that it clearly is. I suggest everyone else do the same.

Users being asked to change their passwords generally means they're going to change them to another bad password--likely one that's also already been leaked.

There's no acceptable "middle ground" for this. Either we've got free speech, or we're giving Trump and the GOP the ability to sue any provider that allows users to say things their administration doesn't like. The only thing trying to reach a "middle ground" accomplishes is fine-tuning how many lawsuits they'll need to file to silence dissent.

This is why I'm waiting for someone to make a dual-DIN Android head unit with the source available so we can rebuild it free of nonsense like unwelcome ads. They don't have to warranty it. Just make some decent hardware and gimme the source, and I'll handle the rest (and sing their praises endlessly).

I could build one but I literally don't want to.

It's not like verifying the age of people who are under 18 is hard or something. Just because they have almost no digital footprint or legal records to check against and can be talked into posing in front of a webcam pretending to be someone else for thirty seconds for in exchange for an ice cream cone should pose no problems whatsoever.

If anyone's still running Windows 8 at this late date, please seek professional help. There is no need for you to continue to suffer like this.

If for no other reason than any number of Linux distributions can run readily and well on that same hardware, and we know you're not tethered to needing Microsoft Word around.

I mean, most of these air filters say right on them the size of the least minuscule particle they'll pass through, generally not significantly more than 10 microns. People are way bigger than that, so I'm pretty sure 99.999% of the filters on the market today will not have a problem filtering humans out of the air.

It's a very simple error. You have a codebase that allows high muckity-mucks to make phone calls and yell at people until they delete the parts the the muckity-muck didn't like, and the code didn't stop that from happening. Just completely normal access control things. Totally normal.