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Comment Editorial question: answer (Score 1) 78

https://reviverestore.org/proj...

The tundra and much of the taiga – the sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes – were once a grassland ecosystem known as the “mammoth steppe.” It was home to abundant grazing herds of antelope, deer, caribou, horses, bison, and woolly mammoths. At the end of the Pleistocene, these herds vanished leading to an ecosystem conversion away from abundant grasses toward a more shrub-dominated community.

The tundra ecosystem that arose in the absence of these large grazing species is now affected by and contributing to human-driven climate change. Without large animals to compact and scrape away thick insulating layers of winter snow, extreme winter cold does not penetrate the soil. That fact, coupled with significantly warmer summers, accelerates the melting of the permafrost and the release of greenhouse gases that have been trapped for millennia. From a global carbon perspective, the carbon release from the melting of the world’s permafrost is equivalent to burning all the world’s forests 2 ½ times.

The work of Dr. Sergey Zimov shows promise that tundra can be converted back to grasslands with the introduction of grazers even 10,000 years after their disappearance.

Comment Re:When the Keystone Kops learn to code... (Score 4, Insightful) 92

One alternative is simply, practicing best security practices, keeping your systems up to date on security patches, not exposing unnecessary services and hardening your systems manually, proper admin training. Rather than relying on some bolted on top software to keep the computers safe. Those people have neither of these problems.

Comment Slightly less bad than it could have been (Score 5, Informative) 90

OpenSSH’s release note for version 9.8/9.8p1 indicates that successful exploitation has been demonstrated on 32-bit Linux/glibc systems with ASLR enabled. They state that the attack typically requires 6-8 hours of continuous connections to the server.

While exploitation on 64-bit systems is considered possible, it has not yet been demonstrated. The advisory notes that these attacks will likely be improved upon.

https://www.openssh.com/releas...

Comment Re:Net neutrality (Score 2) 54

Comparing a national security issue like banning all users from tiktok to twitter and facebook de-platforming some users for political affiliation shows that you are either dishonest or don't understand the issues involved. Even democrats are for changing the leadership of or banning tiktok. https://www.axios.com/2024/04/...

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