I run all my services on Linux locally on my own hardware. It isn't that I don't care, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that I started a few years ago to have it all internal to my own location on my own hardware. They can ask all the want but without a warrant they get nothing. Email, web server, sip phone/asterisk, chat, nextcloud, etc., everything that I can house here that's what happens.
All my computers run Linux except my router which runs pfsense. I value my privacy even as others keep trying to give it away. You want privacy you can have it. I don't have to worry for myself but I'm sure others do and I feel for them, but you all have access to high speed 24/7 internet and lots of spare hardware. Don't even remotely think that maintenance is a nightmare. I rarely even look at the systems and when I do I can.
Major censorship. Absolutely horrendous. And you know it. Banning people for making statements that don't fit the leftists ideologies. The CEO of Reddit changing user posts. Banning groups. Allowing people to scream things like execute Trump and Jr. for treason while muting and banning people for pointing that very fact out. I've seen it all. Reddit has become a horrendous cesspool even if they are still allowing some controversy.
This is pretty much irrelevant. People protest against a lot of things. Just because some shady entity promoted and backed it doesn't mean the people were fooled into action. They protested because they already believed in the protest.
US politicians are obfuscating the fact the events often accreat with the participants having little knowledge as to who backs, funds and organizes it. Soros funded protests are a perfect example. Frankly, that is pretty pathetic if you ask me.
So the claim is that the Russians instigated the people to protest using deceptive tactics. This is happening in the US all the time. American political parties and other organized groups are doing exactly the same thing -- inciting a portion of the population to rally and protest for political reasons.
You know what else? Neither group broke the law in doing that. Both groups did the same thing. What these accused Russians did wrong was they stole identities and used those identities to defraud American businesses, and because it was more than one person it is considered a conspiracy to defraud. The American media isn't helping the situation because they are allowing the obfuscation to stand unchallenged as they have a political agenda usually tied to that of their powerfully rich owners.
If you go through your life making claims that Americans are dolts and can't work out the good and bad in any situation and you make claims that constantly gives rise to Russia and foreign interference you are doomed to a life of uncertainty and conspiratorial leanings. Some will always be deceived by others. To think that the number deceived is impacting that itself is to be deceived.
The media did it to themselves. The media discredited itself. The media is private business. The media is often owned by billionaires whom are some of the richest people in the world. Jeff Bezos is a perfect example. Bezos owns the WaPo and is either the richest man in the world or he is second in line. He has no need for the WaPo as far as profit is concerned as it is a loosing proposition. The richest man in the world owns the WaPo to fulfill his agenda. The media did this to themselves. The American people see that far more clearly than they are given credit for.
Reddit is covering to justify their massive partisan censorship campaign. They censored to silence anyone with an opinion contrary to the party line. This is what happened. Now they are just using this story as justification for their actions. It is McCarthyism. They silenced and blacklisted people claiming it was the Russians. Utter bullshit and I'm happy to call them out on it.
I've seen a couple of antivirus distributors include VPN as a choice in their offerings. Kaspersky is one of them. Avg is another. If you want to remain anonymous then don't use those from your VPN provider. Intel actively participates with the US government so using their VPN likely gives the US government access to your activities when using the VPN. I would question their av product as well.
A company that I'm consulting for currently has 28 e1 licenses. They pay nearly $300 a month. The only feature they use is email. That's it. They are paying far too much.
I'm setting up (currently nearing finalzation and runs well) a Linux postfix email server with dovecot (imap and pop3), spam assassin, virus scanning, backup, a additional web interface, all without local accounts. The server is configured to handle multiple domains.
In my own business I have this set up with it constantly running for the past few years with only minor problems typically requiring only a reboot to resolve.
It took a few days to set up and has been in testing for a couple of weeks, but it will save the small business thousands of dollars a year and require little to no maintenance.
The biggest threat is incorrectly assessing and overreacting. The threat is there but making it out to be a bigger boogeyman than it really is can and will set in motion consequences both internal to the nation and outside it that will be extremely dangerous and difficult to walk back from. Don't let politicians influence you with their unbridled suspicion and fear. Remember these experts are paid by someone and they have personal incentives that drives their outspokenness.
Linux is perfect for the average person. It doesn't require tweaking unless you choose to do it.
A base install of linux requires no more tweaking, adjusting, preening, correcting, or anything else than windows does. Claims to the contrary are demonstrative of an inexperienced emotional user.
There are few if any driver issues that exist. The desktops are easy to use and stable. The os requires little to no administrative access. Programs are installed from well established trusted and tested repositories (which is what online stores actually are).
It installs fast taking you to a full desktop capable of performing just about every task you want.
The size of the user base becomes a diminishing factor as more people adopt it. So the "until Linux gets larger" argument is moot. Linux has close more than 100 million users world wide, nearing 200 million as the share has nearly doubled in the past year. Adding another 100 million though good will not have the same impact as the first 100 million.
Linux development is geared toward both the desktop user and servers. Thats the beauty of not having a central entity controlling development. You get more developers working on more aspects of the OS over a greater period of time resulting in a more complete, secure and stable platform for both desktop users and servers.
When Windows becomes just another piece of rental software acting as a thin client web app much like the mainframe terminal that PCs replaced Linux will still be developing full feature rich desktop experiences while still supporting cloud access, and will be free of cost and will continue and extend your privacy and security.
Driver issues have been long past resolved on Linux.
Do people have selective memories? Windows has had massive driver compatibility issues over the years and still has them to this day with Windows 10. I fix computers for a living and the last batch of computers that have come in are units that wouldn't load Windows 10 because of drivers. Lets not even start in the limited support for hardware on the OSX
Most Windows releases have had spectacular driver issues. Linux has had by all measure a fraction of issues with drivers for hardware. I'm someone that fixes computers for a living and have for decades and I use Linux on my desktops throughout my business and at home. There's a reason why. It is because Linux is so stable and free of malware and other crap/bloatware. It isn't even funny.
I agree that Linux is meant to be unique, however I vehemently disagree with your supposition that it isn't meant to be something your grandma can use. I would venture to say that it has already accomplished that. I have installed Kubuntu on many elderly people's computers, sometimes in place of Windows 10 (and obviously earlier versions). It currently is, imho, a matter of only a few apps & a learning curve that holds a lot of people back.
I have both Macs and Linux PCs. The opposite is generally true in my experience. The Mac generally becomes unstable faster, whether that is due to the underlying OS is debatable yet seems true.
Can you say at what point a buggy app indicates the failure of the OS? Your example is incomplete as it doesn't include how the app was run under Linux? Was it a port or was it running on an api layer or was it native?
You know the official reputation he has with them? You do know he was referred for criminal prosecution over lying to congress? No so Sterling in my opinion.
It is important that you read the memo itself and then explore who these people are, what their actual role was and why that is important to currently affairs. If you don't you will not understand what really happened.
For instance, Comey knew about the dossier and testified before Congress stating it was an unconfirmed salacious work, and that work was partially paid for by the FBI and later by Hillary and knowing this he signed off on using it to obtain a fisa warrant. Bear in mind also that he was sending worrying tweets prior to the memos release and when he found out what was in the memo he seemed relieved, indicating he was expecting so thing else. Also Rod Rosenstein signed off and he was the man that appointed the special counsel. He had been involved from the beginning and either personally signed off or knew it was being signed off by others. Bear in mind also that the dossier was used by the Obama administration's doj & fbi to surveil a campaign member because he "went" to Russia for a meeting, and that permitted them effectively to surveil the whole campaign. Also bear in mind that they knew even before the fisa warrant was issued that Hillary had paid for the dossier, that Steele had been fired for leaking to the press and that Hillary paid for the dossier.
Is it not a crime for a civilian to threaten jail? Are they not impersonating the police and courts? It is up to the authorities to make the determinarion to charge, prosecute, and try.
We know that the citizens back then thought it was the cats. Cats were thought evil so they killed off the cats. Since cats were the predators of the rats, rats began to thrive. They got into everything. They were everywhere. We know that people would dump their chamber pots in the streets and that would flow into the rivers, streams and lakes. We know that personal hygiene was terrible as there were few facilities for running water. Using precious water on bathing was considered bad. So yes, we know humans were partially the cause. Still, fleas would jump onto clothing when the rats rustled through them. Rats would get into the food supplies.
As people became sick fewer and fewer people were available to wash and clean clothes, beddings, and homes. Since it isn't disputed that the disease was spread from human to human and that was due to ignorance about personal hygiene and clean living plus ignorance about how disease was spread (they killed the natural predators of the rats and other rodents) we can't just conclude it was only human to human but instead it was that theory and the past theory combined that resulted in the black plague. Humans have lived with filthy hygiene for millennia and I'm sure there were plenty of lesser plagues but because people were living closer together during this period that's what made it worse.
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Adding x to y patent doesn't make it novel and thus would invalidate the combo x and y patent. Derivative works are not patentable.
I run all my services on Linux locally on my own hardware. It isn't that I don't care, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that I started a few years ago to have it all internal to my own location on my own hardware. They can ask all the want but without a warrant they get nothing. Email, web server, sip phone/asterisk, chat, nextcloud, etc., everything that I can house here that's what happens.
All my computers run Linux except my router which runs pfsense. I value my privacy even as others keep trying to give it away. You want privacy you can have it. I don't have to worry for myself but I'm sure others do and I feel for them, but you all have access to high speed 24/7 internet and lots of spare hardware. Don't even remotely think that maintenance is a nightmare. I rarely even look at the systems and when I do I can.
Major censorship. Absolutely horrendous. And you know it. Banning people for making statements that don't fit the leftists ideologies. The CEO of Reddit changing user posts. Banning groups. Allowing people to scream things like execute Trump and Jr. for treason while muting and banning people for pointing that very fact out. I've seen it all. Reddit has become a horrendous cesspool even if they are still allowing some controversy.
This is pretty much irrelevant. People protest against a lot of things. Just because some shady entity promoted and backed it doesn't mean the people were fooled into action. They protested because they already believed in the protest.
US politicians are obfuscating the fact the events often accreat with the participants having little knowledge as to who backs, funds and organizes it. Soros funded protests are a perfect example. Frankly, that is pretty pathetic if you ask me.
So the claim is that the Russians instigated the people to protest using deceptive tactics. This is happening in the US all the time. American political parties and other organized groups are doing exactly the same thing -- inciting a portion of the population to rally and protest for political reasons.
You know what else? Neither group broke the law in doing that. Both groups did the same thing. What these accused Russians did wrong was they stole identities and used those identities to defraud American businesses, and because it was more than one person it is considered a conspiracy to defraud. The American media isn't helping the situation because they are allowing the obfuscation to stand unchallenged as they have a political agenda usually tied to that of their powerfully rich owners.
If you go through your life making claims that Americans are dolts and can't work out the good and bad in any situation and you make claims that constantly gives rise to Russia and foreign interference you are doomed to a life of uncertainty and conspiratorial leanings. Some will always be deceived by others. To think that the number deceived is impacting that itself is to be deceived.
The media did it to themselves. The media discredited itself. The media is private business. The media is often owned by billionaires whom are some of the richest people in the world. Jeff Bezos is a perfect example. Bezos owns the WaPo and is either the richest man in the world or he is second in line. He has no need for the WaPo as far as profit is concerned as it is a loosing proposition. The richest man in the world owns the WaPo to fulfill his agenda. The media did this to themselves. The American people see that far more clearly than they are given credit for.
Not only white liberals. All liberals.
He was intellectually honest and went with what he knew to be the truth without exhibiting fatalistic tendencies. He did the right thing.
There are always trolls.
Reddit is covering to justify their massive partisan censorship campaign. They censored to silence anyone with an opinion contrary to the party line. This is what happened. Now they are just using this story as justification for their actions. It is McCarthyism. They silenced and blacklisted people claiming it was the Russians. Utter bullshit and I'm happy to call them out on it.
I've seen a couple of antivirus distributors include VPN as a choice in their offerings. Kaspersky is one of them. Avg is another. If you want to remain anonymous then don't use those from your VPN provider. Intel actively participates with the US government so using their VPN likely gives the US government access to your activities when using the VPN. I would question their av product as well.
A company that I'm consulting for currently has 28 e1 licenses. They pay nearly $300 a month. The only feature they use is email. That's it. They are paying far too much.
I'm setting up (currently nearing finalzation and runs well) a Linux postfix email server with dovecot (imap and pop3), spam assassin, virus scanning, backup, a additional web interface, all without local accounts. The server is configured to handle multiple domains.
In my own business I have this set up with it constantly running for the past few years with only minor problems typically requiring only a reboot to resolve.
It took a few days to set up and has been in testing for a couple of weeks, but it will save the small business thousands of dollars a year and require little to no maintenance.
The biggest threat is incorrectly assessing and overreacting. The threat is there but making it out to be a bigger boogeyman than it really is can and will set in motion consequences both internal to the nation and outside it that will be extremely dangerous and difficult to walk back from. Don't let politicians influence you with their unbridled suspicion and fear. Remember these experts are paid by someone and they have personal incentives that drives their outspokenness.
Yes he can and likely he does as I do the same thing. Easy.
Much of what you said is sophistry.
Linux is perfect for the average person. It doesn't require tweaking unless you choose to do it.
A base install of linux requires no more tweaking, adjusting, preening, correcting, or anything else than windows does. Claims to the contrary are demonstrative of an inexperienced emotional user.
There are few if any driver issues that exist. The desktops are easy to use and stable. The os requires little to no administrative access. Programs are installed from well established trusted and tested repositories (which is what online stores actually are).
It installs fast taking you to a full desktop capable of performing just about every task you want.
The size of the user base becomes a diminishing factor as more people adopt it. So the "until Linux gets larger" argument is moot. Linux has close more than 100 million users world wide, nearing 200 million as the share has nearly doubled in the past year. Adding another 100 million though good will not have the same impact as the first 100 million.
Linux development is geared toward both the desktop user and servers. Thats the beauty of not having a central entity controlling development. You get more developers working on more aspects of the OS over a greater period of time resulting in a more complete, secure and stable platform for both desktop users and servers.
When Windows becomes just another piece of rental software acting as a thin client web app much like the mainframe terminal that PCs replaced Linux will still be developing full feature rich desktop experiences while still supporting cloud access, and will be free of cost and will continue and extend your privacy and security.
Driver issues have been long past resolved on Linux.
Do people have selective memories? Windows has had massive driver compatibility issues over the years and still has them to this day with Windows 10. I fix computers for a living and the last batch of computers that have come in are units that wouldn't load Windows 10 because of drivers. Lets not even start in the limited support for hardware on the OSX
Most Windows releases have had spectacular driver issues. Linux has had by all measure a fraction of issues with drivers for hardware. I'm someone that fixes computers for a living and have for decades and I use Linux on my desktops throughout my business and at home. There's a reason why. It is because Linux is so stable and free of malware and other crap/bloatware. It isn't even funny.
So whats with the selective memory.
I agree that Linux is meant to be unique, however I vehemently disagree with your supposition that it isn't meant to be something your grandma can use. I would venture to say that it has already accomplished that. I have installed Kubuntu on many elderly people's computers, sometimes in place of Windows 10 (and obviously earlier versions). It currently is, imho, a matter of only a few apps & a learning curve that holds a lot of people back.
I have both Macs and Linux PCs. The opposite is generally true in my experience. The Mac generally becomes unstable faster, whether that is due to the underlying OS is debatable yet seems true.
Can you say at what point a buggy app indicates the failure of the OS? Your example is incomplete as it doesn't include how the app was run under Linux? Was it a port or was it running on an api layer or was it native?
Linux is about Linux. There is an an api called wine, even then it isn't there to make Linux Windows and Mac compatible.
I think most users want their Linux PC to be unique. They don't want their machine to be a Windows PC or Mac PC.
You know the official reputation he has with them? You do know he was referred for criminal prosecution over lying to congress? No so Sterling in my opinion.
Wrong! Authorities exonerate. That would be the FBI and DOJ.
Steele told Isakoff and the administration used Isakoff as corroboration of the Steele dossier to obtain the warrant.
That is impressively stupid and cunning.
Little of this is accurate and seems to be somewhat of a rewrite of Wikipedia except it was written with a much more hostile bent.
Page hasn't been charged with any crime. On the other hand Steele was referred for criminal charges by congress.
It is important that you read the memo itself and then explore who these people are, what their actual role was and why that is important to currently affairs. If you don't you will not understand what really happened.
For instance, Comey knew about the dossier and testified before Congress stating it was an unconfirmed salacious work, and that work was partially paid for by the FBI and later by Hillary and knowing this he signed off on using it to obtain a fisa warrant. Bear in mind also that he was sending worrying tweets prior to the memos release and when he found out what was in the memo he seemed relieved, indicating he was expecting so thing else. Also Rod Rosenstein signed off and he was the man that appointed the special counsel. He had been involved from the beginning and either personally signed off or knew it was being signed off by others. Bear in mind also that the dossier was used by the Obama administration's doj & fbi to surveil a campaign member because he "went" to Russia for a meeting, and that permitted them effectively to surveil the whole campaign. Also bear in mind that they knew even before the fisa warrant was issued that Hillary had paid for the dossier, that Steele had been fired for leaking to the press and that Hillary paid for the dossier.
Sure they would.
Is it not a crime for a civilian to threaten jail? Are they not impersonating the police and courts? It is up to the authorities to make the determinarion to charge, prosecute, and try.
We know that the citizens back then thought it was the cats. Cats were thought evil so they killed off the cats. Since cats were the predators of the rats, rats began to thrive. They got into everything. They were everywhere. We know that people would dump their chamber pots in the streets and that would flow into the rivers, streams and lakes. We know that personal hygiene was terrible as there were few facilities for running water. Using precious water on bathing was considered bad. So yes, we know humans were partially the cause. Still, fleas would jump onto clothing when the rats rustled through them. Rats would get into the food supplies.
As people became sick fewer and fewer people were available to wash and clean clothes, beddings, and homes. Since it isn't disputed that the disease was spread from human to human and that was due to ignorance about personal hygiene and clean living plus ignorance about how disease was spread (they killed the natural predators of the rats and other rodents) we can't just conclude it was only human to human but instead it was that theory and the past theory combined that resulted in the black plague. Humans have lived with filthy hygiene for millennia and I'm sure there were plenty of lesser plagues but because people were living closer together during this period that's what made it worse.