Suggesting that her risk is going to drop by dropping soothing words for the lefty radicals falls to acknowledge the danger from righty radicals. Having the Cheeto pasting a target on her back means that such words will merely inflame the right even more.

Awww. /s

Jeez. No certainty Russia will pay damages to Kiev, either. Isn’t that the point here?

Web search engine of your choice.

Keep in mind that every open source project scratches a different itch… they don’t exist because people wanted to collaborate for collaborations sake… they exist because someone (or some people) wanted a particular software capability. This means that many of them started because one person had that itch, but there are millions of itches so the projects that need your help very likely won’t fit into a convenient “top 100” list. Think about what you are interested in and search for open source software related to that topic.

The best approach is to not run untrusted software. Second best is to be a security expert and run it under the control of a debugger and analyze each instruction before it runs.

This is probably not what you wanted to hear, but every sandbox has flaws and software that is written by someone aware of those flaws can conceivably exploit them.

Tools like firejail are often useful early to mid software life cycle… before exploits become common for them. But there eventually comes a point where a zero day exploit is released and your peace of mind leads you to think you are safe. Their utility varies over time, and it is the nature of zero day exploits that they surprise you.

I think flatpak is a configuration management tool… not a security sandbox… but really the question comes back to what is your use case… do you want to become a security consultant, or are you just looking for a bit more protection from common exploits? There is no magic bullet… even dealing with the minutiae of locking down specific system calls will not protect you perfectly yet it can significantly increase the hassle of onboarding new software. Simply relying on signed software packages most of the can reduce the chance of encountering malicious software significantly over using unsigned packages if you are an ordinary computer user… and getting wrapped up in security issues when you are not aiming to be an expert can just add overhead to your life without making you significantly safer. Beware of the rabbit hole… it can feed your hypochondria rather than protect you if you let the wolf in through the front door and hope the locks scattered around will stop it from harming you.

They told the same thing to the rocks on Venus.

seeing this will almost certainly top whatever stress she thought she had before.

No Kings is apolitical except for the idea that autocracy/royalty is un-American. As soon as you put it into a political box it will alienate a bunch of people.

Just because you have OS install media and hardware does not mean the hardware functions. In fact, old hardware often fails MEMTST.

Like when someone sends you a 500MB Excel file and M365 (32bit) on your 64bit work computer (where all your other apps are 64bit) won’t open it and IT doesn’t want to upgrade M365 because some add-ins they haven’t made a list of won’t work if they do?

Sometimes I just can’t excel…

Cute! But “Toto Airways” involves a lot of collisions with random objects… am afraid this is under-armored.

Do you expect the orange to read past your first sentence?

Sufism, I think.

Not that unusual, really. Regardless of whether you agree with that law or not, it prohibits certain devices completely. Whether you choose to comply via some collection process or use some other method of disposing of or rendering the device non-functional is up to you.

Laws that disadvantage certain people always suck for them. And not all laws are obeyed.

FWIW I have always been ambivalent on this topic, but the increasing frequency of mis-use of such weapons is starting to become quite troubling for me.

I have no “proof of reality” to offer you (Plato had similar thoughts with his “shadows in a cave” analogy), but in all cases I have heard of pursuing these hypotheticals too far simply feeds neuroses rather than uncovering the Illuminati. The current US paroxysms of conservative conspiracy theories are IMO the product of failing to rein in such unproductive thought… do you really want to go down this road?

Your 26th century bit reminds me of the Continuum tv series. Entertaining story, but not likely to be worth building your reality on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoelace_formula

But don’t do this on the fly… do it before you compile your program and use a lookup table at runtime.

I wasn’t aware that ABC was the government. They may be acting like Trump’s personal toadies, but I am pretty sure they are a private organization.

Vasectomy is like inflation… when it is zero the value we assume is described doesn’t go up or down.

Odd…

Edit /etc/default/grub to include a timeout so the grub menu will be displayed before the default OS is run.

whoosh!