They're having a horrible time right now keeping tabs on Kash Patel, who goes on random road trips without notice and is often too drunk to answer the phone.

I wonder when it's gonna start making more sense to start opting for land routes for new cables, when possible. The bad actors can still try to attack them, of course, but they'll be easier to monitor and repair. When conflict erupts, you could probably protect a land cable reasonably well with drones.

The author likely wasn't even alive in 1993.

https://xkcd.com/712/

Actually, this script supports profiles - one of which seems like a good fit for desktop Linux. From TFA:

Profile descriptions (from --help):

    minimal Core filesystems + essential kernel modules only
    conservative Minimal + common server/VM drivers (default)
    desktop Conservative + WiFi, Bluetooth, audio, video drivers

conservative is the right choice for virtualised or bare-metal server Linux. desktop is for laptops and workstations where WiFi, Bluetooth, audio, and video drivers must be preserved. minimal is for environments where you have full control over which drivers are loaded and want the smallest possible baseline.

The script lets you supply your own whitelist, and it also offers some generic profiles that try to cover use cases like "Linux desktop". Since it generates its own separate blacklist file (/etc/modprobe.d/modulejail-blacklist.conf), it's simple enough to roll back if necessary (or you could even automate it so that file is removed on shutdown or on boot, I suppose).

Basically it seems like an easily reverted, low risk approach. I think I'll be looking into this further, for our student lab machines - during the quarter, I can't just reboot the machines whenever I want.

Do you get equally upset when someone talks about a chroot jail on Linux? /j

Yeah, the "it's actually different agents" theory simply doesn't work with the movies themselves. Such as when George Lazenby's Bond resigned in anger (which Moneypenny intercepted) - as I recall, he nostalgically looked through momentoes of the past cases. Or when Barbara Bach's XXX upsets Roger Moore's Bond by mentioning his murdered wife.

Well, this last movie - like all the preceding Bond movies - did end with the teaser "James Bond Will Return". But Amazon's in charge now., so maybe they'll do some stupid alternate universe thing, have 007 show up in Middle-Earth or something.

I've always enjoyed the Bond movies (even the bad ones - turn off your brain and enjoy the car chases), but I don't have high hopes for the franchise going forward. I'd love to be proved wrong though.

"Yes, you did pay to delete the backup... but not the redundant copy."

Well, odds are the people in charge at Instructure are relatively stupid themselves. It's like the old Sherlock Holmes quote: "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself" - the Instructure leadership probably can't fathom how anyone smarter than them could exist.

Given how people keep stupidly paying these ransoms... maybe it's time to criminalize that act.

GoogleBook never sleeps! It is always watching...

Uh, out for you! Yeah, that's it. It is always watching out for you.

Well, it wasn't just Apple. Google was cynically playing that tune on repeat for marketing purposes - while not letting anyone on Android who wasn't using Google's own apps to encrypt RCS either.

Translation: Guy whose company has made untold billions from AI is telling people to embrace AI because it'll solve everything.

I remember our university had what amounted to a showroom - a place we could go to see all the different varieties of computers which were available to campus people (students, faculty, and staff) with some sort of discount from the manufacturer.