Yeah this project has nothing to do with security... it's just the Ubuntu developers are REALLY REALLY tired of hearing the FSF folks say "it's GNU Linux" every time they turn around.

Yup, that was actually was I was going to do next.

Funny thing, though. After I eventually let go of the power button (it may have even been 2 minutes that I'd kept it depressed) with the intent of physically unplugging that box - the progress bar finally started moving, and the machine installed the various updates which it had staged.

We bought some Dell towers last year where even the long press of the power button can apparently be overridden by software.

I was updating several dozen of them using fwupdmgr (followed by a reboot), but one of them never completed the update after rebooting. I gave it 24+ hours, after which it was still showing a firmware update progress bar (at 0%). At that point, despite the on-screen warning, I decided it was time to power it off. Well, I ended up holding that button down for more than 60 seconds without the machine ever shutting off (or visibly changing state at all). I assume this is a safety feature to prevent people from interrupting a firmware update...

I'm sure you're making a joke, but I'm not sure what the punch line is supposed to be.

That's storage ("disk" space), of course. It's only got 16GB of RAM.

Something tells me they would be more profitable with a store called Vice that sold tobacco, booze, adult toys, and typical corner store stuff.

Radio Shack was a zombie for an incredibly long time.

You'd think that an AI store manager would be able to determine a good list of products to carry. There are so many levels of fail here.

[human clerk] Felix, Felix, Felix, Felix... but then suddenly we're talking about some mystery person named Carson who "handle[s] the physical work". So Felix doesn't do the physical work?

You'd think that Slashdot, with its current practice of including almost all of an article in the "summary", could include some sort of introduction to any new characters.

Not to mention that, in a month or two, we'll probably learn that credit card info from the ticket purchase was somehow "mistakenly" tied to this database and was also exposed. And, in addition...

... but it's unclear whether the data had already been copied or abused.

Don't worry, I'm sure these researchers were the first to discover this. :rolleyes:

I think this is how celebrities feel, stalked by cameras. It is what killed Princes Diana.

Then we have this guy, "Mom! People are taking my picture in public!"

Around 2029 we'll see that a ride is available for $16 or $31 with a driver.

Rider's choice. I'll guess it goes about 80/20.

He seems like a real scumbag but it's worth keeping in mind that the people who told us that have a massive incentive to pin their crimes on a scapegoat.

Since we pretty much know that FTX was the #1 donor to a party's political action committee with money laundered through Ukraine, he would have been smarter to wait for that conflict to conclude.

The people who benefited from the crime also prosecuted him which is never reliable.

It might not be FedSlop but unless it is proven that both parties didn't benefit we shouldn't trust this government either.

We do know that Ladybug Graham got $18M straight into his bank account from Ukraine so there is certainly smoke.

It's only since a dead man can't sue for libel that people are willing to print that nugget now.

Not in a Corporate Democracy.

The people who would prosecute OpenAI want to use OpenAI to maximize their power and wealth at your financial and legal expense.

Remember when they tried to extradite Gary McKinnon for twenty years for looking at a spreadsheet when he accidentally got RDP access to an unsecured NASA desktop with a simple Perl script? Intent is not relevant for prosecutors (mens rea should be an element in a Constitutional case).

The legal basis is there but the will to power is not.

Two systems of courts for different classes of people (yet again). It would be an error to call that a Justice System.

n.b. the Culture War psyop is there to try to convince you that the classes are something else.

All of them at once? That'd take one hellacious car crash...

As one who's seen quite a number of relevant tech news items over the past few years - I'm not sure I'd agree with that self-assessment.