So is the bot problem fixed? For the past few years every time I fired it up, it wouldn't take long for a cheater to show up and ruin the game. Script kiddies drove me away from Apex and TF. Would be worth the download to revisit some of my favorite maps if the bots are gone.

Fuck Putin, but he's not wrong here. I've personally good-hearted family members get radicalized by Facebook's algorithms. Juicing the masses up on hate filled posts makes FB $ billions. We'd have a healtheir society if our government recognized this problem and did something to address it.

My COVID-19 hobby was to try bee keeping. For the last year I've had homemade bread with my own honey for breakfast. Absolutely no change in allergies. Your quack allergy cure sounds like total hogwash.

Until they start using the servers to make sure the the infected clients are patched and/or user notified, a different bot net will take it over. The only permanity solution is to fix these zombie clients or shut them down. The threat is the standing army, not the generals.

So you give yearly donations to Mozilla right? Is that why you are on your high horse?

Your browser is one of the most complex pieces of software on your computer. It took thousands of man-hour years to develop. It takes a team of hundreds of developers to maintain.

They need a constant source of revenue. Could they have handled this better? Of course, but considering all the good they have done to protect our privacy, I'm willing to cut them some slack here.

Exactly, for example static analysis is great at catching copy/paste errors and will often show you the suggested fix. If I write a script that takes these results and submits a pull request, it's no different than if I manually take those actions. I,the script author would take credit, not Coverity or PVS Studio. This guys is out to lunch, thinking his tool is sentient and has legal rights.

This is the Right Thing To Do! So many times the Goody Two-Shoes so called "white hats" take out the botnets but rather that do this and patch the hacked machines, they just try to disable the current botnet. And surprise, surprise within a few months all the hacked machines are back in a new botnet, more fault tolerant botnet.

It's almost like these researchers realize that doing what this unsung hero did would hurt there job security. We should all celebrate this Russian hero. We need more like him.

With VLC, I've been able to play any video file you throw at it, even if your smartphone, tablet, or Android TV box doesn't have high-end specs or updated software. VLC is open source so i trust it and it doesn't display any ads.

Has anyone here actually used MX? Sounds like a downgrade to me.

I have an SSD and it boots instantly. Apps and game levels are near instantaneous. Speed isn't my problem. With games taking up 100GB now, even my 500GB SSD is constantly running out of space. When I do upgrade, I'll get a fast replacement, but size, not speed will be my primary requirement,

As a liberal and libertarian, I'm fine with *ADULTS* having access to any kind of content they want. If they want to take the no censorship, high road they sure as hell need to clean up their age verification system. I play counter strike and BF4(non-steam) with my 15yo. niece and I've seen his game library, and I know damn well many of his games are supposed to be over 18.

First hit of google on how to work around steams age restriction:

https://steamcommunity.com/dis...

> You can buy games on Steam no matter what age you are as long as you set your age to over 18 when a store-page asks for you DoB

So it pains me to say this, but until they fix this gigantic loophole, they are in the wrong here.

I've been "upcycling" my SGS3 for years now using it as our family primary smart Music player in the living room. But this "upcycling" initiative really grids my gears, because Samsung has locked it's phones to ancient versions of Android, making them artificially obsolete and insecure. So on the one hand they're artificially making hardware obsolete, and on the other hand they're pushing their old hardware for stupid ideas like bitcoin mining. I know people that have a drawer of old smartphones and still wasted $50 on a Google Mini. Off the top of my head, can think of so many better uses than mining.

* Dedicated home VoIP phone
* Home Music player
* Home Media player
* Google Mini / Echo Dot

Most old smartphone are perfectly capable of any of the above, especially if manufactures unlocked them to allow CyanogenMod/LineageOS

I'm writing this on Ubuntu 17.10 with a 1080p 13" monitor and 1.5 scaling that's perfect. How?

sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop

KDE's HiDPI scaling is as good as Unity's if not better. Also, why didn't you continue to use Unity? If you upgraded, Unity is still a desktop option, but my guess is that you are trolling or lazy.

I can run 30% more VMs on my Linux Host using 32-bit server images. I understand dropping desktop, but i686 for server still makes perfect sense. I have 30 512 VMs running with 16 GB of Ram. If I was forced to upgrade to x86-64 today, I could only run 21 VMs. Not sure Ubuntu was considering the wasted memory when they made this call.

Google sold Motorola at a $10 billion loss! Motorola had arguably better hardware design teams and arguably similar manufacturing capability as HTC. I've love to hear the argument from Google execs as to how and what they will do differently this time. And yes, I know Motorola was a patent play, but that still doesn't answer my question of how they will fix the mismanagement of the hardware teams.

So the same newspaper that broke Watergate, the same one that has won hundreds of Pulitzer, is somehow now become completely untrustworthy because they hired a columnists who happened to work for the DNC? Sorry but it doesn't work like that. If you really think they are lying about the facts, you need to show a systematic history of them misrepresenting reality. They have been around for over 100 years and you'd be hard pressed to find a dozen articles that are factually incorrect.

Go ahead, I dare you. Because if attacking a single contributing political columnist, is the best you've got you've only made me trust them more. If you really think they have a poor track record, try and prove it.