Yes, you are right, thank you.

I'm always a day late and a dollar short. Figures any hyperbole about the US government being incompetent would be surpassed by reality!

They already lost basically everything. I mean shit man, they got all the spies on the payroll and everyone's mother's address when the OMB hack happened. Didn't they also lose the B2 Bomber plans to the Chinese. Shit, at this point we ought to just pay the Chinese to host our fucking military servers. They'd probably be more secure.

NetBSD is my OS of choice. It's not as hardened as OpenBSD, but I like it better for other reasons. No RCEs there, either. Linux and Windows probably should get the lion's share of attention, just because they are very popular. Like a 80's DJ, I expect the hits will just keep on comin'!

I don't often agree with you. This time, I *definitely* agree with you.

This and the Linux bugs are all LPEs. They aren't that big of a problem if you don't have untrusted users unless more advanced ways to pivot on them emerges. I'm not saying it's nothing or there haven't been recent problems in all operating systems. I'm just saying, recently, there has been only the one NFS exploit for FreeBSD that's an RCE.

My other observation is "Hey tough guys, where's the RCE bugs in OpenSSH?" Almost as if others have already been the shit out of them with static analysis tools and been stuffed (or found and fixed issues now long before the AI bug-apocalypse) and the AI LLMs can't get a leg up on them.

As if. You never resist. You always have to have the last word and talk endless shit. Gimme a break, dude. You've never been "done" as long as you have someone else's time to waste.

Uhm, no I don't know what you were saying. "Like not at all". It seems like you're saying "Jesus, I wish he wouldn't have brought that up and made me look so stupid... again!" which is understandable, you did just look quite foolish after saying "admit that all the vaccine skepticism since then has been dead wrong". Yeah, no, it hasn't dumbass and those examples are the proof, inconveniently for you.

"trust me bruh, I know". Nice try.

I've traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, North and South America. I doubt you've been anywhere except a cruise with your step-mom to Mexico when you were 8, but hey, you're "done" with me. I'm sure you won't respond to that cheap potshot or the ashes of your arguments. You're too big for that, lol, you've got red armbands to sew!

I've complained about censorship by leftist elites, I didn't limit that to government censorship. Censorship of threats of violence are not the same thing as being allowed to have technical or merit-based debates about science. Science includes immunology. Debates about political policy, fairness, scientific merits, free-speech itself and anything that even touched on CV19 with even slightly skeptical or refusenik vibes were censored heavily by Youtube, Apple, Meta, Google, Twitter, and the list goes on. It certainly wasn't just the government pushing it and the negative impacts weren't just on consumers of government services. The censorship was heavily documented, though. Any search engine will bury you in it.

I doubt that was the reason they censored. Most were under threat or coercion by the government in addition to any internal political bias or authoritarian leanings they had themselves. Private entities in this case were mostly social media (whom the government leaned on). They simply want engagement and they get that mostly by riling people up with politics and other controversy. So, I'm not convinced at all a single one of them cared about the well healthy being of their users. That's like arguing cigarette companies would never act against your health because they'd end up killing you which was, in fact, one of their arguments amusingly.

Actually, I'm doing so quite effectively. Elites are those who control the government and the majority of private industry. That's exactly who I've been talking about and building the case against. You know... the very well documented and easy to present with lots of facts and figures because it happened so much..... yeah, that case: the one for a coordinated censorship during covid.

I'm arguing for vigorous debate. I'm arguing for freedom of speech. "You're arguing" as a censorship apologist. "You're arguing" to censor and shut down skeptical discourse in favor of quivering nanny-state cooperation with corporate fascism and fearful authoritarianism. Didn't much care for your attempt to put words in my mouth so how do those words taste in yours?

If you like Freedom you're a Trumper. If you care about the poor, you're a Wokester. If you hate corporations, you're a Communist. If you love free speech you're a fascist terrorist. If you hate everyone you're a nihilist. If you notice taxation is theft you're an anarchist. If you value hard work you're a bootlicker. If you question endless wars you're an isolationist. If you defend due process you're a rape apologist. If you prefer merit over equity you're a bigot. If you notice biological sex is real you're a transphobe. If you want women's sports to stay fair you're a bigoted TERF. If you reject compelled pronouns you're an extremist.

The Slashdot logical form is: It's a false, or at least wildly disproportionate, equivalence presented as obvious cause-and-effect.

That's true at the moment. The US (my home country) blockade appears to be effective enough to shut down their oil trade. However, my question (aside from why violate a campaign pledge not to start new wars) is how long can we keep this up? It's a naval blockade and our Navy is expensive to maintain at this extended range. However, I don't rightly know. Perhaps keeping Navy ships on a mission to blockade Iran isn't much more expensive than cruising the coastline. After all, they are spending fuel and feeding/paying sailors in both cases and the US has the worlds largest military budget.

I'm skeptical of the Iran war. I don't think Iran was a threat before. I think Trump was lied-into-it but still should have known better and kept his campaign promise to stay out of dumb wars. He still keeps us involved in Ukraine and Gaza, too. I'm against any of it. Stopping foreign wars and military misadventure was what he ran on but that's been discarded utterly. The whole "eventually one will make a deal" might be true in theory but I doubt Trump wants this to last until the Midterm elections. So, when you consider the political risks he's taking, I think he will TACO and bail, possibly coming back "PSYCH! I'm back" after the elections. So, that's how Iran may actually "outlast" Trump.

I'm not going to cry for any dead Muslim Ayatollahs, presidents, supreme leaders, or any other politicians except for a handful that nobody listens to in my own country like Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and Thomas Massie.

"Just Look Around" by Sick of It All

The question they keep asking me
"How can one so young be so bitter and angry?"
Well, the answer is plain to see
Maybe if they wern't so blind they'd see what I see
I see the homeless livin' out on the street
On every corner they're asking for money
I try to help them whenever I can
But sometimes I can't afford to help myself
I see diseases and modern plagues of our times
The greed of our leaders has made them blind
To our problems, they spend millions overseas
People right here are fightin' wars everyday


I see the whites that hate the blacks Blacks against the jews Race against religion And they're all too blind to see

When we fight each other it puts all of them at ease
It keeps us so busy, so they can do what they please
Election time comes and they're out for votes
That's when you see and hear from them the most
This is what they're calling a democracy
That's just another word for hypocrisy
We keep fallin' for the bait
When we realize, it's always too late

I see the whites that hate the blacks Blacks that hate the jews Brother against brother And they're all to blind to see

As the rich get richer, the poor goin' hungry
I've seen the toll it takes on the workingman's family
Education system that's obsolete
Can't hold a kid's interest or keep 'em off the street
See a father's fear, hear a mother's cry
What kind of a nation lets their children die
Government's corrupt and full of red tape
Then you're gonna ask me why I hate

Why don't you (open up your eyes) so you can see
(Open up your ears) so you can hear
(Take a look around) and you will find
(Take a look around) and you will find out why

Cute. Well, this is one of those issues were body autonomy gets cross-ways with the whole "when is a fetus a human with rights?" question. So, it's the the best purity test. Libertarians are torn down the middle on this issue because the question is who's body do we stand up for? Should it be the mother who is a pre-existing human with rights today-right-now? Is it the poor baby with nobody to stick up for them who should have rights, but is being trampled?

So, it's one of these very hotly debated wedge-issues because it divides people neatly in half. Personally, I'm of the opinion that it's the mother who should have the call because her body existed already and was needed to support the baby (and that should be her call). However, many folks would definitely disagree saying the baby has it's own body autonomy. They have a point. I'd say since both parties have body autonomy other rights/issues should be used to break the tie. However, I suspect you were only asking because you thought it'd be a good "gotcha" question and because you assume anyone who supports individual rights would also be pro-life. In my case, no, I'm pro-choice.

No, because that would be false. For one, very early on, we saw multiple vaccines removed from the market for safety reasons. The AstraZeneca vaccine was subject to multiple suspicious reports of injuiry and was withdrawn worldwide starting May 2024. They admitted in court it can cause rare but serious thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome, blood clots + low platelets. Then there is the J&J vaccine with it's EUA voluntarily withdrawn and no longer available in the US as of June 2023. Note both happened well after 2021, confirming vaccine skeptics were justified for being skeptical. I personally know someone in .no who took the AZ vaccine and got thrombosis the next day. They EU issued an advisory about it. So, the idea that none of the vaccines were ever found to be harmful is just a big fat lie. Some were suspect early on (AZ was pulled in Norway in April 2021), others took a while like J&J.

You're moving goalposts here, but I'll play. It appears that mass-death and mass-side effects claims were, in fact, overstated by conspiracy minded folks and have weak or non-existent evidence. Of course, the claims of mass-death by CV19 are also hotly disputed and many statistics from the era seemed to be suspect (ie... flu deaths that disappeared during CV19). I don't personally agree with claims that "the vaccines" caused "mass death" or "mass side effects". I do think there are some well established cases of side effects, but they were too uncommon to be called "mass". The TTS effects of AZ and J&J were well documented but again, they were withdrawn.

As far as Vaccine Passports, the EU Digital COVID Certificate framework expired in 2023 (well after 2021). The US (unfortunately) still requires proof of vaccination for foreign visitors. Now, I don't call that a "vaccine passport" and as far as I know vaccination and medical info isn't tied to any official passport, nor is there some kind of required medical-info-passport-work-a-like. So, despite you trying lamely to change the subject away from censorship (where you've already been creamed) I'd say the "no mass death" thesis has some credibility.

Of course, the problem with your counter argument is that you completely ignored both the spirit and the content of my previous post. It's all just distraction and moving goalposts away from what I was clearly saying: CV19 increased censorship and negatively impacted the personal rights of body autonomy and freedom of movement.

There is a word for conveniently lying to deny facts you don't like. No lasting effects past 2021? YouTube maintains its very nebulous Medical Misinformation Policy and continues the censorship to this day. Facebook's core health misinformation rules still target vaccine skepticism,with automated systems and human review carrying forward pandemic-era frameworks despite 2025 Community Notes shifts: they still do it. Apple Podcasts continues hosting and algorithmic promotion decisions that deboost or limit visibility for episodes questioning COVID narratives, as seen in ongoing complaints and selective removals of skeptical medical podcasts. Ongoing, you amateur little liar, meaning ongoing RIGHT NOW. The FTC's Feb 2025 inquiry into tech censorship shows platforms still degrade access based on speech/content and they note a helluva lot more than just Google && Meta.

If you happen to be in the EU, well the Digital Services Act fines and pressures (on X in 2025 for example) tries to extend COVID-style "disinfo" enforcement globally, forcing platforms to maintain heightened moderation on health topics. Remember: everything authoritarians dislike is misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation and therefor subject to their nicely built-up censorship regimes. In the US, attacks on Section 230 with Sunset Bills all started during CV1984 and continue today. County/state health departments retain (meaning they did NOT go away after 2021, genius) expanded standing orders and emergency quarantine powers post-COVID: NC, NJ, CA still issue broad access mandates without full legislative oversight. An increase in state laws tying insurance to immunization schedules (such as CA 2025 updates) keep coercive incentives alive. REAL ID deadlines and biometric border expansions in 2025-2026 were build on COVID travel proof requirements. Expanded public health emergency powers at state/federal levels (standing orders, isolation rules) remain on the books and so do tech-government partnerships for "public health" surveillance normalized and not fully unwound.

How does it feel to have to lie for your side? How does it feel to be an apologist for censorship and authoritarianism? What will you have to ignore and shy away from to have any chance at a reply that doesn't look like pathetic tapdancing authoritarian bullshit?

I notice they say "reduce" not eliminate. This is your OS vendor, who's putting random advertisements (or maybe targeted ones too) on your Start Menu and probably other spaces they can try to distract your eyeballs. Think about that. You pay them like $100 for the OS tax then they stuff ads in your face, just for extra bonus / great justice. Thanks Uncle Microsoft. We love you buddy. Fuck us some more, please.