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Comment Re:How to check version for vulnerability (Score 1) 55

This is all weird to me, I have no vanilla Debian systems but on Devuan I have debian-goodies installed and it provides checkrestart, which needrestart was "inspired by". So I am running a Debian variant, I have the same functionality, but I do not have the vulnerable package installed.

Comment Re:You misspelled.. (Score 2) 30

Maybe. Considering the problems I've read about where there was NO benefit, I'm willing to believe that it was unintentional. But it's still OpenAI's responsibility, and they need to pay all relevant expenses, including any legal expenses (extra lawyer hours), etc., more expenses for additional court time, etc., etc. And there should be notice by the court that it MAY have been intentional.

Comment Re:Having Local Access (Score 1) 55

You will end up in a root shell

Not on my system you won't, but then I use ZFS with FDE.

P.S. You can get this with the installer on Ubuntu, or I think on the latest Debian. On Devuan I had to do it manually, but it was pretty easy even with the differences from the Debian instructions (if you understand at all what you're doing, it's easy enough to figure out how to make the changes.)

Comment Re:Next time pick one. (Score 1) 55

I would think the package manager would be the correct place to do this.

Sure, why not just make the package manager part of systemd while you're at it?

RHEL has a needs-restarting app as part of yum utils, but it only looks at core libraries and services.

Yes, that's another way in which Redhate is inferior to Debian.

Better an unnecessary reboot than a vulnerability because the admin can't keep track of the patches they are applying.

You said you wanted the package manager to do it, now you're blaming admins for not doing it manually. Why don't you pick an argument? And while you're at it, learn something about Unix. Having it in a separate program which is called by the package manager is doing it in the package manager.

Comment Re:This is not how ethical people do security (Score 1) 137

D-Link is refusing to issue a patch. I don't know all the details why so I can't judge.

wat

2/3 of these routers are still on sale! You certainly can judge. Fuck D-Link and fuck their trash hardware and fuck their EOLing routers which are still on shelves. None of this is news, though; D-Link has always been and will always be shit.

Comment Re:I know how this will end (Score 1) 137

Anybody in the situation would surely ask a "computer person" what to do and any computer person worth their salt would tell them to look for an alternative firmware, like OpenWRT or DD-WRT.

There are still Microsoft fanboys out there telling people that everything Linux is bad. Most people who think they're computer people actually don't know shit about shit, just like everyone else. They have limited scope, and know nothing outside of it, but because they know a lot within their scope they think they know a lot in general. Most people don't have experience generations of heterogeneous systems like some of us do here on Slashdot, so they have no basis for comparison.

Add to this that actual nerds tend to flock together because it's so exhausting trying to explain to people that they don't know shit, and most people don't actually know a "computer person" who knows anything, because those people don't actually want to talk to them. I long ago got tired of giving advice that wasn't accepted, only to have the same people come to me for advice again on the fucked up situation I tried to stop them from getting into to begin with.

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