In fact, the intention was not to stop tracking. The EU’s “cookie law” (formally the ePrivacy Directive of 2002, amended in 2009) was originally aimed at preventing unwanted software and data being stored on users’ computers—especially malware from driveby downloads. However, the EU law was drafted so poorly that it inadvertently covered cookies as well. Only later, at the national level, were (tracking) cookies explicitly brought under its scope.

Must say I haven't seen cookie banners/walls lately, Brave Browser does a great job working around them.

We went with Alma as well.
CentOS was created by Gregory Kurtzer. We all invested in CentOS. Kurtzer then cashed in by selling to Red Hat, which got us into a lot of trouble. I'm not investing in Rocky Linux, with the risk of Kurtzer screwing us again.

Dear anonymous coward,

Allow me to rephrase.

"If the unvaccinated want to get sick and die, that's their problem, and the rest of society doesn't need spend money to try to help them because they made a poor decision because of their low IQ."

"If the drug users want to get sick and die, that's their problem, and the rest of society doesn't need spend money to try to help them because they made a poor decision because of their low IQ."

"If the smokers want to get lung cancer and die, that's their problem, and the rest of society doesn't need spend money to try to help them because they made a poor decision because of their low IQ."

"If athletes want to break their neck and die, that's their problem, and the rest of society doesn't need spend money to try to help them because they made a poor decision because of their low IQ."

I hope you understand that the path you're going into is a very slippery slope and will eventually exclude everyone from having health care for some reason. Even though you're paying for said health care through insurance and/or taxes.

First they came for the unvaccinated
And I did not speak out
Because I was not unvaccinated

Then they came for the drug users
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a drug user

Then they came for the smokers
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a smokers

Then they came for the athletes
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a athlete

Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

You're right, it was never *just* about IT stuff. It was about IT stuff, culture+IT stuff, politics+IT stuff, ethics+IT stuff, privacy+IT stuff, and so on. Political discussions about net neutrality. Discussions about ethics in technological advancement, such as autonomous weapons. But at the heart of every topic was some technology.

Nowadays, a significant portion of the posts has zero connection to technology. Like this very post, which almost looks like it could have originated from "the Onion".

Does anyone here remember when this used to be a tech blog that wrote about IT stuff? I used to read stories about computers, Linux, IPv6 adoption, the very first bitcoin info. Now it's just another woke social justice warrior blog half the time.

No, you flipping fake news outlet! Mockery was NOT the reason to change the name. The people living in Fucking are actually proud of their village.

The original sources clearly state the sole reason to change the name is the constant theft of the town signs. Even after they started using special measures to lock the signs to the poles, people started to just cut off part of the pole.

Fucking is a village of about 100 people. Having to replace the signs every few days imposes a heavy cost on the small village. Some businesses may benefit from the name, but clearly not enough to outweigh the costs.

As I know from first hand experience (broadpwn), Samsung SGS8 will get its update in one and a half month after stock android received its patch. Samsung SGS7, SGS6 will get it in 3 months. And SGS5 (which was still for sale just a year ago) will go unpatched for so long that the few users that had one, switched to a brand new iphone.
Yup, no more samsung in my company.

I'd like to remember you of this piece of Lenovo crapware that survives reinstallation.
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Just don't buy Lenovo if you care about privacy or security.

Nope, switching to mysqli will not magically fix sql injections. The functions mysqli_query, mysqli::query and even mysqli::prepare allow for idiots to create broken code. Only if programmers are forced to separate the query from the data, it will be fixed. But that will never happen.

I think the 404 doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong with the WP 404 handler. It could have been generated by the malware itself with <?php header("HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found"); ?> Seeing a 404 in the logs will probably make a lot of victims believe that line was not related to the intrusion.

While you should not use NAT in 99,999% of all situations, there are still very good reasons to use NAT anyway.

For instance, hotspots usually redirect traffic to a login page, NAT is great for this. NAT can be used for transparent proxying to a regular squid proxy or a http/mail virusscanner. I've also used it to temporarily redirect traffic to work around server issues.

Therefore any serious operating system should have NAT capabilities.

And it includes me. Android is getting bloated more and more with every release. Also, every release is more Google-focused and less user-focused.

You mean like the common name of the ssl certificate used to connect in the first place? Combine this with a client-connect script to update dns and/or the ifconfig-pool-persist option and you've got a great solution.

And there is a few lines of code to convert the byte array to a mp3 file:
#!/usr/bin/python
import binascii,re,sys
try:
                s = re.sub('0x','',re.sub('[,\n]','',open(sys.argv[1], 'r').read()))
                open(sys.argv[1]+'.mp3','w').write(binascii.unhexlify(s))
except:
                print "Usage: "+sys.argv[0]+" trkNdata.h"

I think I found their lost band member: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...