That works for science. But for biographies? What makes a biography "verifiable"? The longer someone has been dead the harder it is to verify any claims. Ultimately you're relying on historians or whomever wrote the history books and more often than not they've been wildly biased in favor of the viewpoint of the historian. It's not supposed to be that way, but it is.
I can point to several "sources" for George Washington chopping down a cherry tree and not lying about it. Doesn't make it "true".
Jesus? Mohammed?
Likewise, it's going to be difficult to find legit sources for some historical claims. (and that doesn't even get into Wikipedia's arbitrary judgements on what makes a source reliable)
At the end of the day Wikipedia is just following human tradition - "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

The good old says were when there were about 60 million people on the internet and it was new and unknown.

I think it wasn't social media that changed it for the worse, at least not perse, it was the internet-connected phone.

Moderators are a special kind of special.

I got banned from the entire site for "circumventing" subreddit bans, which was because some of my alts were fed subreddits by the algorithm that I was not supposed to be on.

So are we talking about just Servers or any PC that has UEFI... EG, every native Windows 11 install?!
I've got network boot turned off on my PCs (I think, I need to check now) so this is probably not a critical concern for Grandma and Grandpa's Windows PCs... maybe... There's not enough info to go on, here. But I can only presume all Wintel devices are potentially compromised? How about Macbooks? Phones of any flavor? You kind of HAVE to leave network boot on for them. Do any of them use some flavor of the UEFI compromised code?!

"Point us to an post about a guy given a job he is clearly unqualified"

That's literally my point -- the post isn't about the person in charge of the ministry! It's about them testing Collabora and the users just having too many issues with it. I guarantee if it was the same exact story and the minister had a male name none of you would have done this deep dive and criticism.

And why do you think she is unqualified? The Minister of Digitization doesn't need to be an expert on digitization, they need to be competent at high-level management and understanding how laws and policies work. Did she do something wrong? Would someone else have somehow convinced the 37 or however many employees who tested it not to hate it?

Yeah but for some reason Slashdot commenters jump to targeting people mentioned in the stories when they have a female first name.

Audiophilles will be convinced they can hear a difference. They can't, but they will be convinced of it.

"And the UK handed you the brand new computer industry on a plate by destroying all the computers it had built during the war while not requiring that you do the same with the licensed copies you had built."

The UK decided to destroy its computers on its own, don't blame us for your idiocy. "Require"? What were you going to "require" we do? And how were you going to enforce this "requirement"?

And what licensed copies are you talking about? Britain shared the Bombe (which was basically an upgraded version of the one the Polish built, but of course Brits insist they're the geniuses who broke Enigma), but ENIAC was a US production.

Business school is a 2-year cocktail party.

Given how most of the rioters are masked, and many of them are clearly white, I don't think iTs AlL iMMigAnNTSS is proven.

In any event, the French riot constantly, and have for decades, well before you saw large increases in immigration.

"She" is also lying about being a French woman. It's just some right-wing propaganda bot farm content.

I really wanted to like the game but even a few hours of gameplay showed that it was repetitive and kind of bleak and depressing.

You'd think one of the stockers or managers of the store would've noticed the freezer aisle is suddenly very hot and do something like... oh I dunno... unplug them?

Google says that patent expired in September of 2025, as it was filed in 2005. Yes, we are getting old.

Personally, I prefer the old rectangular Thinkpad charging connectors.

There are people still using VMWare?!?!? And their main issue is COST, rather than the fact that VMWare is like a thousand years old?