Comment Re:Systemd (Score 1) 49

by mexsudo on Sunday August 23, 2026 @10:10AM (#66303100) Attached to: Debian is Voting on Whether to Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

I dunno, if that's how people vote, that's how it should be.

Though there is a big question of how they plan to run a vote with multiple options. I hope it's a Condorcet system to avoid the risk of watering down one side with similar competing options...

do a little research, the voting system is well documented In short: Debian uses a ranked-choice, Condorcet-based system designed to find the option with the broadest overall support rather than simply the one with the most first-place votes.

Comment Re:Will this be a real vote? (Score 0) 49

by mexsudo on Sunday August 23, 2026 @10:07AM (#66303096) Attached to: Debian is Voting on Whether to Allow AI-Assisted Contributions

Unlike the systemd vote where they deliberately skipped asking a lot of people?

please explain that. It is a vote of Debian Developers as stated

Comment Re:OS versioning tool (Score 0) 14

by mexsudo on Monday June 06, 2022 @10:06AM (#62597012) Attached to: Linux Mint Takes Over Development of Backup Tool 'Timeshift'

Maybe it's something you don't care about, but for a lot of people being a quick reboot away from having a working system after a bad update or upgrade is very useful.

true, to some extent. but it is buggy, does not always work as intended. - However, Stable distributions such as Debian are not prone to the "bad update/upgrade" problem that is quite common with the Linux Mint bugfest*. === *unfortunately LM does not have the manpower to test before they push it up, so the users are all Beta Testers. This is exactly why I went to Debian

Comment this is the direct result of a New Sanction (Score 0) 53

by mexsudo on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @11:51AM (#62546124) Attached to: Google Subsidiary in Russia To File for Bankruptcy

The US Government has just now blocked Russia from paying on their debt. They have plenty of cash on deposit, but they are prevented from using it to make the payments due. does it Hurt Russia? not at all. ...well maybe little does it hurt the Bond Holders? YES ... they are Screwed none of the sanctions have been effective for their stated purpose.

Comment fake news (Score -1, Flamebait) 40

by mexsudo on Sunday May 08, 2022 @12:14PM (#62514190) Attached to: Russia Hit With 'Unprecedented' Breaches By Pro-Ukrainian Cyberattackers

that's all

Comment researchers at the Stimson Center are ignorant (Score 0) 23

by mexsudo on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:03AM (#62486588) Attached to: North Koreans Are Jailbreaking Phones To Access Forbidden Media

this is Very Old News. hacking for access has been common around the world for at least a decade.

Comment Re:source code (Score 0) 9

by mexsudo on Thursday December 23, 2021 @10:02AM (#62109087) Attached to: Microsoft Notifies Customers of Azure Bug That Exposed Their Source Code

OK, so those "less than competent" people put something into _their code_ that should not be exposed to the public? ... lets out those Specific People and ignore this "OMG they can see the CODE!" thing or is there something else going on here?

Comment source code (Score 0) 9

by mexsudo on Thursday December 23, 2021 @08:14AM (#62108905) Attached to: Microsoft Notifies Customers of Azure Bug That Exposed Their Source Code

"the source code was also exposed online" and What is the problem with that?

Comment Re:Get the popcorn ready... (Score 0) 103

by mexsudo on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:13AM (#61862555) Attached to: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded To Scientists Whose Work Helps Predict Global Warming

We're going to see lots of angry slashdot conservatives commenting soon here about how this is politically biased against them and how certain they are that global warming is a hoax. Will this article set a new 2021 record for most comments?

Probably not. the linked article is pay-walled so

Comment $5.5 million is miniscule (Score 1) 13

by mexsudo on Friday August 27, 2021 @08:36AM (#61735131) Attached to: Facebook Used Facial Recognition Without Consent 200K Times, Says Watchdog

For a Huge company like Fecebook $5.5 million will just be lost in the ledgers as a minor cost of doing business. These penalties are intended to make the offender Notice and correct their ways.

Comment Re:A NEW VERSION "has been released" (Score 0) 40

by mexsudo on Sunday August 15, 2021 @06:19PM (#61695635) Attached to: Debian 11 'Bullseye' Released As Stable

This is confusing: "One of the oldest and most renowned distributions of Linux has been released!" Presumably it means "The latest version of one of the oldest ...."

read again: "Debian 11 'Bullseye' Released As Stable" FYI: Bullseye was the Testing version for the last two years.

Comment Re:Kewl! (Score 0) 40

by mexsudo on Sunday August 15, 2021 @06:08PM (#61695617) Attached to: Debian 11 'Bullseye' Released As Stable

Ubuntu is as bad as Windows anymore. I'll install Ubuntu on a device at work and 5 minutes later apt will complain that something in /var is locked. Do a ps and see that the unattended upgrade service is running without me asking. This service is enabled by default.

It's been installed by default in debian since stretch (2017). You can configure it via the gui or https://wiki.debian.org/Unatte...

true, unattended upgrade service software is installed bu default. The part you overlooked is that it is Not Activated. The user has to purposely do that if they so desire.

Comment Re:Internet is a series of tubes (Score 0) 78

by mexsudo on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:08AM (#61675939) Attached to: UK Broadband Rollout Trial To Target Hard-To-Reach Homes Through Water Pipes

Why? Government is paying (taxpayer money), so economy is not a concern. Free Market is more logical... Here in Baja California, Mexico our local fiber lines are on the telephone poles. It works just fine. The local telco (Telnor) has been hooking us up at no cost. [no public finding] Fiber inside the home to a wall jack, then conventional tele wire to a new modem. I now have had stable 50 down and 20 up service since 24/6/2021 ... BTW I pay 389 Mexican Pesos per month. (less than $20 US). it sure beats the old DSL we have had for the last decade or so

Comment Re:Automated source tools (Score 1) 96

by mexsudo on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:38PM (#59691614) Attached to: Serious Flaw That Lurked In Sudo For 9 Years Hands Over Root Privileges

Just curious, how on earth do you do "root" stuff then? Sometimes you just have to be root so how do you do that without sudo? Is that secure?

So I'm not going to give you too much flack, I'm just going to say it's unlikely that your means of privilege escalation is as safe as sudo, even with this bug. I suppose it's possible to do all sorts of complex stuff with setuid bits and captive utilities, but sudo is going to be way more secure and more easily logged to trace back to who did what (if you care about such things).

RTFM hint: $ su -

Comment "human-caused"? (Score 0) 256

by mexsudo on Monday April 17, 2017 @10:20PM (#54253929) Attached to: For the First Time On Record, Human-Caused Climate Change Has Rerouted an Entire River

"human-caused"?