...an article worth considering from Princeton University's Zeynep Tufekci:
We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives
Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.
Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology â" research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world â" no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.
So the Wuhan research was totally safe, and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission â" it certainly seemed like consensus.
We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratoryâ(TM)s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been terrifyingly lax.
And no snaps or telemetry.
Mozilla ESR repository works just fine. I've been using it for a near decade, even before snaps, as I wanted more control as to when I'd shift versions and prefer the slower pace of ESR.
I began shifting to Linux Mint about 5 years ago and the same Mozilla ESR repo works great there as well.
Trust but verify.
Direct link to video at just the right time:
https://youtu.be/EyjnoksVSL4?t...
Yet again, the Babylon Bee nailed it....
..."making DOS-literacy portable."
I believe it was when MS-DOS 5.0 came out and my dad purchased a copy at the beginning of the summer at Fry's in Sunnyvale. I read the instruction manual for the commands cover to cover. I used to commute with him during the summer to the Silicon Bay Area and would use his laptop to try out all of the commands and learn all of the flags. Bored teenager about to enter high school, but learning "archaic" commands like this has served me well.
When other kids were taking typing classes in HS, I was doing self-study learning NetWare (all from books), and then I'd get home and dink with our home server. I was fortunate to get a job the day after graduating HS in the Silicon Bay Area with my skills, and the sky has been the limit since then doing what I enjoy.
As much as I dislike many of BG & MS monopolistic and "crush all competition" practices, I do owe him some thanks for MS-DOS and the timing of the PC revolution. Having a PC of my own, even if it was a "Blue Chip" clone with Hercules monochrome was pretty amazing having MS-DOS and GW-BASIC to learn on. I typed up a ton of free BASIC games found in free trade magazines available at Fry's. I'm pretty sure this was the model I had, but no modem (that came a year or so later):
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1...
It's a publicity stunt to pump up the book sales of his new Source Code book.
HA and Kasa doesn't require any cloud/IoT access. It works 100% local.
I guarantee you that the vampire power draw of many devices, especially gaming consoles and entertainment systems, dwarfs the power draw of a Kasa smartplug.
I've implemented dozens of these throughout the house. All blocked from any cloud access, and only deployed where the power savings outweighed the cost of the device factored over 5 years of savings, including the constant power draw of the Kasa device.
Why did the intern have access? Why was a smartphone allowed into an area with top secret files and without controls to block it from being connected? So many fails.
"Rich kids" - if you mean people just above the poverty level. Even then, I see people on welfare with the latest iPhone.
Cost of living may be higher, but there are plenty of ways they're flat out living beyond their means. What is in their pocket, on their wrist? I'm betting the cell phone, car keys, and even watch is well beyond their means. Further, it's not like it is a one-and-done financial mistake, it's a lifestyle of excessive overspending and upgrading.
I'm a Luddite. I still have a wrist watch my wife bought me 20 years ago. When I take it for a battery replacement, jewelers are surprised to see such an old model in great shape. I will keep my cell $250 ($100 off) phone 5 years and only upgrade because I require my devices to have security updates. I finally purchased a new car, cash, because my 27 year old SUV had 3 different issues and was going to cost more than double what it was worth to fix. But I'm also not broke, own everything, no debt, and will retire at 55.
Yup, Linux Mint 22 has security patch support until April 2029. It'll run faster than Windows 10 ever did.
How many Bavarian Illuminati does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Three: one to screw it in, and one to confuse the issue.
