The attacker did release updated versions but your other comment suggests you already realized that but I'll explain for anyone else.

They removed the hacked versions and rolled the project version back to the good version. I'm saying they should increment the version number of the clean version to be higher than the hacked versions so the systems which had already installed the compromised packages will recognize the clean version as newer and having priority over the hacked one. In some cases automatic updates might even cause the hacked version to be replaced with a clean one automatically.

The desire to 'detect' an attack [or at least that they were temporarily vulnerable so they can look for one] is the only case for not doing that which I can think of. My contention is that minimizing the window of vulnerability at scale is more critical, anyone who is looking to see if they were running the vulnerable version is exactly the level of informed they'd need to be know to look at logs which indicate they HAD been running the vulnerable version. The vast majority probably aren't informed and won't check anything and they'll sit vulnerable until the compromise triggers some kind of alarm or the version number finally organically increments over what the attacker used.

Otherwise systems won't automatically treat the clean release as newer and replace the contaminated ones.

"So deepfake porn of people without their consent, and without adequate regard of age."

Without regard for age would be illegal content so that would be blocked. As for deepfakes... they are fake and therefore the person they look similar to has no more claim than to images of any of the thousands of similar looking people walking around. I see no reason they need to have an 'erotic mode' but for adult users adult content and other perfectly legal content should not be blocked. In fact, generally speaking the company shouldn't be liable for what people do with the service anyway but also required to operate as a common carriers without imposing THEIR interpretations of morality or law upon the third parties using the service.

This technology is about 0.0001% technology and the rest is data which doesn't belong to these tech companies. I actually think that is fine as long as the models are open and have at least two unrestricted implementations available [or can be readily run by consumers] and their output is exempt from copyright on its own [the output is considered a format shift of the prompt(s)].

Cool. Where are your receipts?

"Yeah, according to the epstein files, the little girls are the ones that the president rapes."

Okay, which file says that. By all means show us something that isn't related to one already public and debunked claim that everyone knew all along but the media and clowns on bluesky kept repeating like it was newly found and damning evidence with each release.

"Rollins, Collins, and Wright have stayed out the news mostly - that probably suggests they are doing a good job too because CNN can't find reasons for 20 min hate every other day."

That suggests the opposite to me. We didn't elect Trump to just be another uniparty player, everything he does should be horrific to them and result in their pet media freaking out. Nobody is interested in a swamp or legal structure the leftists can find purchase in [or even that would allow them to be elected in the next few decades] remaining in the end. Our hemisphere needs subdued and our allies need to understand in no uncertain terms that their autonomy does not include trade with China or Russia. There is no playing us against them in negotiations because the friend of our enemy is our enemy. Period.

"What in the world are you talking about. In the recent I'm buying greenland tantrum of orangey, gold/silver seemed to be the goto, not btc."

It is clear you have no idea what I'm talking about. I was referring to BTC as a way to settle debts between nations... a hypothetical Greenland purchase is just an example of the concept. Any details of a real proposed greenland purchase or events surrounding it are unrelated.

"Warsh is not the guy you'd expect trump to go with really."

Correction, he isn't the guy YOU'D expect Trump to go with. Based on your general tone it seems like you are infected with severe TDS. But have no fear, I've no doubt that despite whatever cognitive dissonance you face when Trump once again does something good instead of crazy will shortly be overcome as your TDS rationalizes some reason the good thing was actually a bad thing after all.

"it is almost a given our old friends which we have alienated will be reducing their purchases of US debt"

lol Yes the benevolent parasites who leave us to pick up the check for them on defense, healthcare, and multiple recent european bank bailouts and then generously help us handle the resulting debt by loaning us the money it saved them... in exchange for future interest. They've been publicly shit talking us while essentially being on US Welfare since WW2.

If they feel alienated by us wanting fair trade and big hunk of more or less uninhabited ICE in the arctic then they can go fsck themselves. Let them sink themselves and just before China or Russia swarms in to take them, we'll save them via annexation. Because we have nothing to fear from Russia, China, the EU, or anyone else or even all of them together if it comes to that.

"Without the fed buying T-Bills, you have to find someone who will"

We are buying high rate T-bills selectively. Because we can afford to at the moment due to growth. That's hardly a bad thing. If we reissue domestic banks are thrilled to buy these shorter term and lower rate bills to have as assets on their books and which basically amount to free money. This is how we shrink our total liabilities.

The plan is not to find a way to dig ourselves in much deeper with higher rates that discourage growth, that's death spiral. We all saw how badly high rates wrecked us under Biden.

"Especially it is almost a given our old friends which we have alienated will be reducing their purchases of US debt."

You mean purchasing US debt with OUR money. That's how we got here. We don't need higher rates so we can get our 'old friends' to buy debt generated bailing out THEIR BANKS so we can pay them back for the privilege with interest. We don't need unfavorable trade terms to give them to the cash to buy our debt. We certainly don't need to subsidize their medical and drug research costs or pay their defense bills. The reality is that if you can't defend your own territory your sovereignty is a delusion pending someone bursting your bubble. The idea the United States should subsidize the sovereignty of inferior arrogant ungrateful elitist pricks to our detriment just so they'll call us 'friends' while doing nothing but shit-talking us for decades is preposterous.

Getting rid of the parasites is the cure, not the disease. We will grow at their expense because the alternative is them growing at our expense.

"Warsh is not the guy you'd expect trump to go with really."

He's not the guy YOU'D expect Trump to go with.

"Bitcoins total valuation is $1.5 trillion."

I might have overstated but these aren't static things. If the US were buying $1T [2/3rds] of BTC to effectively stockpile for the rest of time the supply would be diminished drastically [especially considering how much is in early lost wallets and burned in ether games] and the market would skyrocket. Forty-fold might actually not be an unreasonable new floor after the bubble pops. That would put the US in the black. At that point the US would control the world's reserve currency (USD) and 2/3+ of the world's reserve crypto (BTC) and the central bank can/will manipulate both to protect financial stability.

All of which is good for the US and the world.

"Not scalable. Very slow low bandwidth. Expensive to use."

These problems were solved a very long time ago.

"Not actually encrypted nor anonymous; actually a privacy nightmare mich worse than credit cards."

This is a feature for bitcoin, not a bug. Do you know how many undisclosed monero cracks there have been? Nobody does. But everyone who wants to hold bitcoin long knows there have been ZERO because not only could we all see it on the blockchain but we'd know where the money went. Bitcoin isn't ultimately for the likes of you and me. It's like high denomination bills never released to the general public; for nations to settle debts with nations.

The only reason there is still a crash is because of day trading dude bro speculators trying to make a quick buck. People who are serious don't care what the price does today, they care about the trend over decades. Do you think the US cares about the speculator price of gold? They haven't even bothered to update gold's value on their balance sheet since something like $3/oz. The US could erase it's national debt buying bitcoin with gold. Unlike the gold there is no risk of a giant bitcoin loaded asteroid crashing into Texas tomorrow and ACTUALLY impacting the scarcity and value of bitcoin. As long as bitcoin remains liquid they can use it to buy Greenland, regardless of any mistrust in the US and how it's managing its currency and Denmark or Norway can see into the blockchain 'bitcoin's fort knox' themselves and know the US is a qualified buyer for the negotiation and due to liquidity they know they can cash out in Euros or buy other goods. That is an innate value that transcends market rates.

It has nothing to do with R pedo vs D pedo... there isn't anything in these files that could convict the likes of Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, or any of these people in a court of law... not with the kind of lawyers they can afford. There's more evidence against Bill Clinton than anybody, they were obviously lovers and did everything together for years. That's just volume of material btw, I don't think anyone on the left is going to be damaged by Clinton being a horndog. You might as well have revealed JFK.

But there is no hard evidence of Clinton knowing or doing anything in the files. It was ever there, it certainly isn't there now. All that's there is the mountain of paper they've collected over the past decade and some of that mountain probably exists because Epstein's lawyers buried them in a mountain. Trying to pin something on Trump has always been about distraction or just continuing to imply bad stuff where evidence just doesn't exist.

It's literally a withdrawn claim from a discredited witness. Most of the contents of the documents are bullshit that isn't credible any random person with TDS who sent in a fake claim will be in the files. There is a reason they don't normally release this garbage.

"Tell us, is there any situation you can imagine where Trump... "

Not in relation to Epstein, the evidence overwhelmingly indicates Trump tried to be a witness and take him down. There were literally Dems in congress taking directions from Epstein to try to take Trump down because he was afraid Trump was the informant.

"Epstein was given a sweetheart deal by Alex Acosta who was Labor Secretary in Trump's first term."

Amazing, someone who has nothing to do with deals gave him a sweetheart deal.

"Clinton's the one who will take the fall. "

Clinton will take the fall if they find conclusive evidence but despite mountains of files there doesn't appear to be any evidence sufficient to support prosecution in the files, not on Clinton or anyone else.

"But yeah, "Clinton"

He is literally the lady Epstein hung over the toilet in his office and at the door... wearing the dress we used to think belonged to Monica and with stains we now know were likely from Epstein and friends.

"After all, as the documents show, he was there on multiple occasions"

You must be getting your news from bluesky. The evidence shows he never went to the Island, the girls literally testified that he was never inappropriate and wouldn't allow the underage girls into mar-a-lago [and Trump kicked him out before he was ever charged]. The only flights he was on with Epstein included his own wife and Epstein's. Epstein's own writings indicate he was paranoid about Trump because he refused to indulge and knew things.

"And it's "Her", by the way, not "Him"."

Get over yourself. In an anonymous context an author's own gender is acceptable as a genderless substitute and using male pronouns as anonymous pronouns is the oldest universal convention. Nobody cares about your jiggly bits and if you are one of those who wants people to respect your lack of respect for your own jiggly bits I care even less.

"I never began as a "proprietary UNIX guy" for two reasons; one is that I'm not a guy"

Everyone is a "guy" dude. You aren't special man.

"The problem with appealing to "the UNIX way" is that nobody really knows what that is, beyond a few vague generalities."

It's a general concept.

"It consists of 38 small purpose-built executables"

All of which are part of ONE monolithic solution to many unrelated problems. Exchange/Outlook/Office consists of many executables and yet is literally the most famous Microsoft monolithic solution there is.

"Anyway, I'd rather use a system that accepts changes than one that's doctrinaire and rigid and becomes ossified."

Change just for the sake of change isn't a good thing. Like you said, the Unix philosophy is very general, there is absolutely room to change the tools which fall under it. There was certainly room for an init replacement, if systemd had limited itself to scratching that itch then it might have been accepted and loved by the community.