Heh, you're a good one to ask. I am not, and should not be confused for, a DB admin - in fact, I hate it. Oh, I've had to fight with them before and I suck at it. I've gone on about the "wizard" who did the job for us. I am forever grateful for his skills, to the point where is peculiarities did not bother.
At any rate... Am I reading this summary properly? Is this summary saying that, prior to now, you could not update data that was in the database?
For years, PostgreSQL users would ask when their favorite open source database system would get the UPSERT operator, which can either insert an entry or update it if a previous version already existed. Other RDMS have long offered this feature. Bruce Momjian, one of the chief contributors to PostgreSQL, admits to being embarrassed that it wasn't supported.
Err... You couldn't update an entry if a previous version already existed? So, umm... What if the user changed their password? Did it create a whole new field to store the (hopefully) hash? Did it depreciate the old field somehow?
I'm thinking that it is either poorly written (and that I'm not too bright in the ways of a database) or that all the hype that I've read about Postgre has not been very honest.:/
Have I read them? You might want to see who the author of those posts was. There is no irony there. Not one shard of it. I'd wondered where you were going with that. Now I see... No, there's no minimizing, the words speak for themselves and you can interpret them as you wish. I dare say you've some strange ideas about what freedom is and what it isn't but that's a topic for another day and this really isn't about you.
But no, the words are there for those who wish to read them. It's pretty hard to misinterpret statements about open-source being a "mistake" and the use of "freetard." You can willfully misinterpret them if you wish, that's the great thing about freedom, but that doesn't actually alter reality. In fact, the link to the post and the invitation to expand the thread and read it yourself are there for a reason. Just because it's likely that people will try to misinterpret them and it's better to have the actual source.
However, thanks for sharing what it is that you were trying to express. I find it a curious interpretation and I wonder if it might be due to some personal biases on your part but, alas, this isn't really about you. Unless, of course, you're him and posting as AC? That's rather unlikely, however.
At first blush, I'd think you fit just fine. Even though I use the term "Socialist Libertarian" it's more about effect than about the method. I do not, for example, want more government. I'd prefer less but I'd prefer more effective government. An example: I do not mind taxes. I mind them being used to bomb little brown men who are no threat to my country.
I like the idea of a social safety net, of single payer health care, and inexpensive but good education. Why? A society that's educated, healthy, and able to take risks is more likely to be better able to enjoy their liberties. If you're unable to buy a printing press then you're not really as capable as you might be to utilize your freedom of speech. I prefer that people be able to make the most out of their lives, enjoy the things that I enjoy, and have an equal opportunity to try to reach those things.
Unfortunately, that doesn't really fit on a bumper sticker and it's way too long for Twitter. But yeah, you'd fit under the tent based on what you expressed. Quite a few people would happily fit under the tent but many people are stuck at the door thinking that the party is full of ultraconservatives, selfish, maniacal, idiots. To be fair, quite a few people expressing themselves and claiming to speak for the party do fit that description. It'd be a bit antithetical to kick them out or take away their microphone.
That and it's not root access. It's just the bootloader. It's not even a very valuable security tool to use. There are few reasons to even have used that feature and to rely on it solely seems foolhardy. I could see it in use at a kiosk but one shouldn't be allowing physical access to the computers there nor allow users to issue reboot commands from there. All-in-all, a bug but not a very important bug and overblown by people who seem to think it gave potential "root" access by itself. It's not their fault that they were misled, it's their fault that they didn't actually take the time to learn better.
Let me preface this by saying that I am not, by any means, a professional Linux administrator. I did, on the other hand, admin a bunch of servers as a part of my profession but those were mostly Unix and then Windows and then I hired competent professionals.
That said, I'd love to hate SystemD. I love me a good hate-fest. I keep pre-pitched torches at the ready and carry a fold-away assault pitchfork. I have various servers at home, some running on real server hardware, and a whole network of computers. (What self-respecting geek doesn't?) I have more VMs than I possibly need, doing things that I have no idea what I was thinking at the time, and am connected to my system in Maine via the most convoluted route possible. I have co-lo equipment that sits mostly idle and houses a few friend's sites and that's about it... It doesn't really do much of anything but, damn it, I have it!
You know what almost all these various computers have in common? Oh, they've got a whole host of distros on them - I'm not even sure I can quickly figure out which one is which any more. My topography looks like it was designed by a crack-addled five year old with admin privileges. I'm currently using a Live USB (Lubuntu), through a VPN, to my house, in a VM, to the 'net, through a VPN - and I'm skipping a few steps to keep it simple for you. This thing, for lack of a better word, shouldn't even run - never mind be stable. But this thing, with all these distros, has that one thing in common that I asked about. It's SystemD.
Yup. I guess they all have Linux in common but they sure as hell don't all have the same version of the kernel. So, there's that. But, they do all have SystemD (except for a few VMs - those are BSD, Minix, Indiana, and a few others but those don't actually get booted very often) for the most part. The all seem to work. Oh, I tried to hate SystemD. Yet, it's not caused me a single problem yet. I learned a few new comments, I've surely done something that should have broken it by now, and I've even read parts of the man pages.
Oh, I know it's not the Unix Way. Well, except it could be 'cause the Unix Way has exceptions. I know, it's got binary logging but - you can actually read those logs with a few different tools if you need to. I haven't needed to so I won't say that they work well but I'm told they work well enough. Yes, it does more than it needs to and it's not what we're used to. Meh, I'm okay with that - staying static is nice for some things and avoiding monolithic things is a good idea. Yet, it works. It works fine for me. I know, I am not everyone but I suspect the vast majority of the people complaining haven't actually used it. Even Hairyfeet complains and he's a Windows user - he's an ardent opponent of SystemD but he's probably never even tried a distro with it.
So, yeah, my pitchfork is starting to get rusty and needs to be sharpened again. My torches were lit but I just dunked 'em in water 'cause there didn't appear to be any monster that needed slaying. It's too bad, I had enough torches to go around. I want to hate it - I really do. It's not that I have some great skill that keeps it working - it works DESPITE my best efforts to screw things up. Oh, I screw up lots of things but it's not yet been the fault of SystemD nor has it prevented me from repairing my mistakes.
I dunno... I notice lots of lists of things people hate. I notice very few anecdotes of how it has harmed them. I've noticed even less actual compilations of data concerning it. If it's that bad then, well, we should have some data and someone would have compiled it. (The data, not systemd.) If a bumbling idiot, such as myself, can manage it - and not have a problem, then it seems only logical that smarter folks can figure it out, no? I mean, hell, I'm in a Live USB environment because I hosed GRUB again and I've not yet rebooted after fixing it. You'd think that, by now, SystemD would have been a problem for me. I kind of wish it had, then I could blame my mistakes on it.
I thought it was supposed to natively support upgrading without needing to reboot.:/ I should probably read the article but I have standards. To me, that's the most interesting thing. It can be done with kexec right now (I think?) but having it native and automated would be kind of nice. I might never have to reboot again! That'll save like 30 seconds every month! Or, more seriously, just let me keep doing what I'm doing without feeling an urge to reboot and load the new kernel.
For the record, I have kexec installed on this computer but I don't think I've ever bothered reading the man pages and using it. I probably should.
You're free to view the thread and share this missing irony. Well, there's irony there - it's just probably not intended. Expand the thread and have a look. It's not like I'm making this up, took the quote out of context, or even altered what he said. The dude used and abused the group to get what he wanted and now is happy to deride them, as a group, and as a pejorative. I haven't got a nickel invested in it - just read it for yourself. 'Snot like I have the capacity to go edit his comments.
Oh silly you. I don't own it to impress you - I own it because I want it. I have a bunch of cars, actually. The BMW is just one tool for one particular job. I don't expect you to recognize the value of an old Volvo, a really old Jeep, or a Saab from the early 1990s. It's okay - I'm not trying to impress you. I'm enjoying myself. Silly you. You think your opinion matters in regards to my purchasing habits. Nope. The BMW is an awesome driver's car and a bunch of fun. It's even low-key. Unless you recognize it as what it is, you'd not have a clue how fast it goes or how much it cost. That's one of the reasons I bought it - I don't *want* your approval. I want *my* approval. Silly rabbit.
I can only presume that many of these folks have yet to drive in Maine. In Alaska, the State trucks have sensors that they use while plowing in low visibility conditions. However, they've mapped the roads very, very precisely. There's a Modern Marvels about Alaska that has some details. They're still not autonomous, they just have some very advanced sensors and a nifty display. Hell, the graphics on 'em are like a 1980s video game.
Wow... This is two days in a row where I get to suggest that you'd probably die if you lived where my home is. (I'm cheating and spending this winter in Florida.)
Seriously, if you stop traveling because there are a few inches of snow on the road - you're gonna die. We have periods where it simply doesn't stop snowing - for days. We have times when I, a private citizen, go out and help with the plowing, pull people out of ditches, and generally help clean things up. What would you do it you got four feet of snow over ten days and the power was out for half of that and then a week after the storm stopped?
No, you don't have to be a "rugged individual." Even old ladies do just fine. You? You're gonna die.:/ Don't move here. We lose a few people like that every year. We lose a few that are outside and unprepared, a few on ATVs, and a few on snowmobiles but we mostly do just fine so long as you think ahead and learn a few things to help keep you alive. My electricity, for instance, is such that I consider my mains connection as my backup.
I have two generators (and a third one that can be put into use), underground diesel storage, solar, and wind - and then mains if things get problematic. I have not one but two plow trucks. While I've yet to put it to good use, I now own a restored tow truck. There are a couple of four-wheelers and two snowmobiles. Why? 'Cause not being able to get out in inclement weather will kill you.
The last time I mentioned this was yesterday (I think) when someone said that you don't have a backup for your fridge and stove. Err... Yes, yes I do. I'd have to be straight up retarded to not have a backup for that. I even have backup food suppliers as well as backup food supplies. I grow, hunt, and fish for a lot of my food. I have neighbors with farms (for some vague term of neighbor - it's a bit different in Maine as to what is a neighbor). I then have a village in either direction where I can go get food. I'm not sure but I'd actually probably consider the village and the grocery stores to be backups and my own food to be my primary - that's what I prefer to eat just 'cause it's enjoyable and tastes nice. (Yes, yes I would eat Bambi's dad. If I get a permit, I'll eat his mother too.)
Seriously, if a few inches of snow on the road means you don't drive then you would die. Depending on the vehicle, I tend to hunker down when the snow gets to be greater than a foot unless I've got the plow on. If I've got the plow then I'm good for a couple of feet, maybe a bit more. I don't have a giant dump truck or anything so I can't tackle huge amounts of a couple of feet of heavy snow. They usually don't let it build up more than a foot. I've seen storms where there were three plow trucks (the big ones, on dump trucks, that had sanders and were owned by the state) off the road between my house and the village. The grader that they brought out to get them out of the ditches was stuck on a hill.
Truth be told, it's a blast! You can pretty much do what you want on the roads - so long as you don't hurt anyone, and the cops don't care. They're busy. There are usually giant snowbanks so you don't get hurt. Don't think of it as a scary thing - think of it as an adventure. It's like going sledding except you've got the radio and heat. I keep an old Volvo 245 (from 1982) just for this very type of weather. Oh, it's horrible in the snow if you don't know what you're doing - it's RWD. However, it's about as much fun as you can legally have with your clothes on to push it through a foot of snow. It's like a tank once you figure out how to drive it.
Heh, yeah, you'd probably not enjoy it much if you stay home because there's a few inches of snow. Some of us wait until there are at least a few inches of snow before we bother going out. I guess it's a matter of perspective.
I used to drink - and drive. Oh, it was probably reasonably safe - as I was usually not on the road. I no longer do this, by the way. But, 'tis time for a Gramps Story...
At any rate, a buddy and I were out drinking and driving. I'd chosen a Subaru for this journey - this Subaru had one purpose in life and one purpose only. I bought it just to put it places that it was not meant to go - and it might surprise you the places that thing went. Oh, it'd get stuck but a bumper-jack and a winch would usually take care of anything.
Alas, one day we're out in the spring... This is post-retirement, when I really was old enough to know better but too drunk to care. I was up atop a nearby mountain and decided to take the back way into a town called Eustis. (You might want to look at a map - my home is up above Rangeley, a bit to the *West* of Rangeley.)
Now, in the summer you might, and I do mean might, be able to get through there with a nice 4WD with good clearance. That's Subaru territory. There's something to be said about a Subaru that you don't mind beating all to hell. This is not even a good place to walk - never mind drive. But - there are "roads." By road, I mean an old logging trail known as a "tote road."
So, we're happily drinking and not hurting anyone except ourselves and the Subaru when we manage to get so stuck that not a jack nor a winch will get us out. That's okay, we don't mind. We've got a bunch of beer a couple of bottles of rum and a granola bar.
About a day later, we stomp out of the woods and get to my house. We sleep it off, wake up, get drunk again, sleep it off, and then wake up and remember that we left a car in the woods. Where? Fucked if we know. So, we hop in the truck and go looking. We spent nearly three full days looking for this Subaru (it doesn't help that it was brown.)
Eventually, through sheer luck, we finally spotted our footprints and were able to then work our way in the right direction and find the Subaru. The winch was broken, the jack was half missing, and it was very stuck. We spent a long, long time shoveling but it finally came loose.
So, point of the story is, it is possible to lose your car and it doesn't even take a parking lot to do it in. I'm not sure that a Tesla would have been a great help in that situation. I don't think autonomy will quite get a car into that position, so there's that. But, that's the story of the lost Subaru.:/ Yes, yes lessons were learned and no, no I don't drink any more really. I figured I'd better quit while I was ahead and before I killed myself, someone else, or got an OUI. It's strange how I went from being a functional alcoholic to a sloppy drunk right after retirement. Ah well...
You know, Ayn Rand wasn't so much a Libertarian, right? Aside from that, I'm a Libertarian and I like Musk just fine. I don't even care if part of his success is due to government intervention/assistance - but that's because I *am* actually a Libertarian. I know, no true Scotsman but the Randians are just plain idiots who, for whatever reason, decided to co-opt the term. You can safely ignore them. Well, maybe not. Feel free to mock them but at least *try* to learn a little about Libertarianism before lumping us all in together. Thanks.
Seriously, if you can read then try just the first four or so paragraphs on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, we can't really kick the Randians out and it's a rather big umbrella. But no... No... Not all Libertarians are like them and, if you want to have a day or two long conversation then I'll show you why I don't think they are all that suited to be called Libertarians to begin with. Suffice to say, they're idiots. You probably can't safely ignore them, as they might gain a little power, but you can safely mock them. Just try to not paint with a broad brush, please? *sighs* I, for one, have been involved in the party for about forty years and I'm probably further to the left of any elected politician (except maybe Bernie). I just hold those views because of different reasons than the typical left.
So yeah, if you're legitimately curious - I'll actually answer any question that I can, as best as I can. 'Cause your comment doesn't look much different than one that says "$minority does $bad_things." (Why yes, yes I'm also an ethnic minority - namely Amerindian, of the Micmac tribe. Those damned Injuns getting drunk and shooting up the town with arrows and raping the white womens!")
On a more serious note, I'm not kidding - I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have. Take a look at the Wikipedia article and, while I prefer the moniker of classic Libertarian, I'm probably best called a Socialist Libertarian. Once upon a time, the Libertarian was known as the "loony left." Propaganda (and idiots) have pretty much ensured that not many people have actually looked at the platform and philosophy. It also doesn't help that we're a bunch of lazy bastards who will let most anyone have the microphone. In our defense, we were probably quite stoned at the time. I don't think we ever expected anyone to take us seriously and, before we knew it, pow! We're Randians and on the Right-wing, conservative, side - and we didn't even do anything. Funny enough, I kinda like taxes and what they get me. Hell, I probably should pay more.
I have a nice shiny new BMW - it's even bespoke! I'm pretty sure that there's some automated driving bits available if I ever figure out the menu and wanted to enable it. The missus figured it out at one point? Basically, you tell it to try to drive with traffic but only go so fast. Then you tell it to stay in the damned lane and it seems to do that too. I gotta tell ya, I have no idea and can't imagine why I'd have bought a BMW only to have it drive itself. I find the very idea an abomination but I'm pretty sure it does a bunch of things. It'll slow down if it sees something that's going into the road or near it - the HUD will even alert you to it.
At any rate, I sure as hell didn't buy a BMW, manual shift, with two turbos and some ~450 ponies to have it drive itself. Unfortunately, no amount of begging could get it without some of the bells and whistles so I told 'em to cram 'em all in there. *sighs* I don't even want to use most of those things. The HUD is kind of nice and it is well done. I pretty much have to either stop or wait until a break in traffic to go adjusting things - I still don't know where half the things are and what a quarter of them do. If I could have picked it up with a much more mundane control system then I would have. I offered to pay quite well for it but the most I could get was directed to an after-market company who *might* be able to do so but it would void all warranties. I guess it's possible to tweak another ~200 HP out of it, though the same after-market, and they go ahead and strip out a whole bunch of things to make it lighter, they lower it a whisker, and they tighten up the suspension and put in five point restraints. That... That seemed just a bit excessive. Fun? Yes, but excessive.
I was invited to go to the factory and see it being built. They were gonna let me drive around Germany for two weeks and then they'd ship it here to the US. I wasn't even going to have to pay extra for shipping. I thought about it but declined. We've fine roads here and I watch enough documentaries to know how my car was made. I can always go back to Germany (I've been before) and just rent something, it's not even obscenely expensive. You can even rent something fancy, a coach, and hit the Nurburgring for not a whole lot of money. The best part is, if you crash then you don't even ruin your own vehicle. Drive it like you stole it, they've got insurance. I spent about a week, took some course work, spent some time with a coach, and spent a day each with a McLaren, Porsche, and Nissan on the track. I want to say that the whole thing was less than 20,000 Euro? A nice outfit - called RSR by the way. If you get the chance - jump on it. Well worth every penny but, holy shit, I digress...
What was the topic again? Oh... Yes... So, no, I didn't go see it getting built. I also don't see fully autonomous vehicles, for private passengers, any time soon. It just doesn't seem likely. The car I have with me does, sort of, have some autonomous capacity but I don't actually use it. I find the very idea of it an affront to my sensibilities! If you're gonna make an autonomous vehicle, do it to a Honda, a Ford, or something. If you're buying a BMW and you want it to drive itself, you probably shouldn't have bought a BMW. It's about as silly as an automatic transmission in a sports car. Sure, the automatic can actually perform better than a human now - but sometimes it's about the how and not about the destination.
I have no love for Musk but I must say, people seem to like him. I took a huge risk and bought 2000 shares in Tesla when they were $24 each. (I think that was the price. Somewhere around there.) I haven't actually checked the latest prices but that's because I have no desire to unload them yet and "there'll be time enough for counting, when the dealings done."
So, if you attract as much geek-glee as Musk and get a bunch of people to listen to you - then I might take a shot on investing in your scheme too. Unlike most, I have a fairly set-in-stone bail out time. I'll have made more than enough by then and it will be time to get out of the way and let someone else join in on the fun. Or, more accurately, be the one standing when the music stops.
However, I do wish him luck and am already set to go on the list for a Tesla come this summer. Mostly because I love automobiles and the thought of instant torque makes my testicles hum with joy. Seriously, you put your ear down there and I bet you can hear 'em. I might even see if I can get a set of slicks for 'em and bring it over to Oxford and see how it does on the track. Just the thought of that makes that dull humming rise a full octave. I'm pretty sure that Ludicrous Speed will make them break out into a full blown Gregorian chant while Mr. Helmet Head stands at full attention.
It might be a legal crisis but, for some definition, it actually works. Remember, if it's behind your B pillar - it's not your fault. People keep saying that Google's got it covered and citing a million miles. I'm a little rusty and biased but I'd like to think that, at one time, I had the world's greatest traffic sim game. This might sound like an appeal to authority (indeed, it kind of is) but it's gonna be a while before we get even a simple majority of private passenger vehicles that are fully autonomous and doing so is going to be a real kick in the privacy sack. I've typed it all out before and I've had too long a weekend to type it all again. Suffice to say, it's gonna be a minute.
That does not mean that Musk could not do a one-off of this in a few years. If anyone thinks that disproves my view (or even Google's many miles) then you probably haven't actually seen what goes into modeling traffic and don't understand the complexity. There are so many externalities to consider that even the color of the sky has a noticeable impact on driving style, speed, risk taking, and more - and that's not even counting physical aspects like visibility.
Ah well... I'm really not in a novella mood but I may just return with one.:/ I could probably just copy and paste some of my old comments but that'd be cheating.
Bruce doesn't belong speaking to anyone any more, concerning any OSS project. In his own words, open source is a mistake and he's not a "freetard" any more. I can only surmise that he's trying to burn all his bridges? I have no idea why he'd do that. (The citation for that quote is in the thread already - it's not taken out of context or anything, the links is posted too.)
Maybe I just hang out with assholes but, to be honest, if you showed up at a footrace with my group of friends then we'd probably call you names like Hop-a-long, gimp, and hide your crutches. Oh, we'd slow down and even carry you to the finish line if you couldn't make it yourself but you're gonna catch a whole ration of ribbing in the process. We won't let you lose all alone but, yeah... We're gonna call you funny names as we carry your crippled ass across the finish line - probably "dumb ass" 'cause you did something stupid enough to break your leg before a race. But, we'll be there beside you... I'm not sure that will work so very well with mental illness.
Yes, yes we are. Something Bruce said that you might find interesting:
I'll tell you another secret then. Open Source was a mistake. I am not a Freetard any longer.
And there's a good chance that some folks will not believe this was a quote from him, it was. Others might suggest that it is taken out of context, it isn't, I will cite it:
I'm assuming he too has gone off the deep end or, more realistically, has been using the movement to gain popularity and money and now has enough to disassociate with the movement, as it has served its purpose.
He just might be crazy. But he appears to be burning bridges as fast as he can.
It's a hideous orange but that's the color it came with from the factory. I'll grab a pic of it when I get home, if I remember, but I know I've put pics up online before - I just can't find 'em.
I have a 1973 Wagoneer, with a PTO even. It's not factory, however. It has a lift and different wheels as well as rack and brush guard - oh, and lights. They are still the correct shape! They just aren't the correct bulbs. They are still within the legal limits - I'm not an ass and I know it's a tall vehicle. It also doesn't spend much time on the road. Well, not what most people would call a road. When it's off road, there are a whole lot of lights to turn on.
It does still have factory sound. We don't need no stinkin' radio where we're going. It's a whole bowl of fun. I dread the day I get it stuck beyond what the winch is able to help with. It's actually fairly reliable but that's because I spend a bit maintaining it. I'd be comfortable taking it cross country. Well, assuming I had AAA and a tool kit.;-) Actually, I suspect it'd do fine - I'd just have it gone over with a fine toothed comb before taking off.
Oh! The PTO was hooked up to a sawmill at one point. It was used to saw some of the wood that is in my Maine house. It might only be the deck but it's still a fun thing you can do with a Jeep. They're all very specific vehicles for very specific purposes. The Jeep's for fun. It can do lots of things but mostly it's really good at making me smile.
Hmm... I can't be positive ('cause stranger things have happened) but a GIS for "1973 Wagoneer orange" looks like someone might have decided to claim they own my Jeep on Pintrest. It looks like they have older pics - after I'd had the lift and sneakers redone but not yet added the rack and guard. I dare say the pictures look an awful lot like I recollect the ones that I took. (I went digging a bit more to see if I could find pics.) Ah well... I should find 'em and send 'em a message, asking them if they want to sell.;-)
The law is broken, I agree. But, there's similar precedent with just the analogy you made. You can not, for example, use a shotgun booby-trap to keep a burglar from entering your house.
I kid but I must say it... With that sort of attitude, maybe you should buy a douche so you can wash the sand out of your vagina! (Yes, yes I had to say that. It's nothing personal.)
Heh... One of my faves - I've been using it for quite a while. (It was on Opera before it made it to Firefox.) There's also an HTTP Switchboard that's a bit of work but great after you put the work in. I just use uMatrix and uBlock most of the time. The author is the same for all three. Oddly, he doesn't seem to accept donations.
At any rate - you can backup (export) your settings. I make it a point to do so because I use more than one computer and it's nice to have a basic rule-set that works for the vast majority of places. If you're not doing so then you might want to. Although, before I did that, I actually got pretty good at visiting a few sites (right after install) and setting the permissions at my most frequently used sites.
It is whitelisting and it does take some time. But, once you've done it - it's done, as long as you keep a regular backup. It does take some time but, in my opinion, it is time well spent. It's not entirely unusual to see a site with a couple hundred of disparate things being loaded - from all across the 'net. I've kind of figured out what I need to do but I still have to tweak and poke. I sometimes do it for sites that I was only going to visit once but I almost always make my changes a few at a time and then refresh to see if it's working. After a while, you get pretty good at figuring it out.
They're too personal and everyone will have different needs but, really, I think it'd be interesting to have a repository that housed an oft-updated exported rule set to make things easier. A quick check indicates that I've got about 35 pages worth of rules.
I did so, for quite some time actually, just to prove that it could be done. I still functioned - pretty much like normal, and had no known malware compromises. I had no resident AV but would scan once in while (with multiple non-resident apps like AVG and MBAM) and was fine. Don't download things from bad places, use a firewall, get thee behind a NAT, do not allow scripting to run as a general rule, and use least privilege practices.
This is possible to do with Windows, albeit a bit tedious to set up and practice at first, but whitelisting approaches help as do general safe hex methods. I'm not, currently, much of a Windows user but I imagine I could do the same again with just some trivial research. I do not, of course, recommend this - this was simply a bit of mental masturbation in cause and results. As an AV is not always effective - it's also good to be alert for symptoms that indicate that you might have an infection.
It was effective and lasted until I switched back to using a Unix-like operating system. I still practice many of those same practices and I still don't use an AV application. The difference now is that I don't really need to scan every week or so. I do still keep an eye out for behaviors that might indicate there is a problem. As I've multiple systems, I will sometimes let Wireshark sit and check for outbound (or inbound) traffic that might indicate the system is doing something that I did not give it permission to do.
Basically, good security starts in the chair and the chair is best armed with someone that understands what it is that the system should be doing. Security is a process, not an application. It's also about accepting and mitigating risks because all actions are, by their very nature, risky. You need to accept a certain level of risks and decide if taking those risks is worth the benefit of achieving those goals. When you run without an AV on Windows, you learn to really think about the actions you take.
The only safe computer is one that you can't turn on. Now, that's a crazy definition of safe. Once you get past that, you determine which levels of risks you'll take based on how valuable you see the reward. To use a fairly recent example, I do not value the content at Forbes enough to accept the risks of allowing them to execute code on my system. I do not accept the risks based on the reward. I'm okay with that choice, if I wasn't then I'd change my practices.
That said, it's a very individual thing. What is important to you is probably different than what is important to me. What risks you take is also up to you. What risks you're willing to take to accomplish something is also very different than what I'm willing to risk. There are probably things that I value more than you and thus I'll probably accept more risks. What I use for a layered defense is likely very different then what you use. What you'll accept is very different than what I'd accept and I'd suspect your defense to be different than mine.
Hopefully you, and others, have put the effort in and decided what risks you'll accept and how you'll manage those risks. It's pragmatic and realistic. The greatest asset one can have is understanding - even if basic. "What can happen if I do this? How can I avoid doing that? Is it worth it for me to do that when I know that this might be the outcome? How can I lower the risks to make doing this safer?" Questions along those lines are how one needs to think if they're going to use a computer but they're much more important to ask (and answer) if you're going to do it with an AV.
And no, I didn't switch (back?) to Linux because of security issues. I switched because my brain was turning into mush and I was not learning anything new. I'm not suggesting that anyone do anything in specific - other than asking them to think about risks and rewards and to accept that security should begin with the ass in the seat and not with a piece of software. I am also not suggesting that a Windows user operate their system without resident, updated, quality anti-malware protection. It's possible but not easy. It gets easier as you go along. Using a whitelist approach and being sure to back those settings up is a good idea.
Pfft... Sync to the internet? I don't... I use 47 Lithuanian boys, who mimic the chittering of squirrels, to carry my packets back and forth. When one of them brings back a bad packet (one to sync with one of those newfangled cloud thingies) I beat him with a stick until he learns to filter it better!
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Heh, you're a good one to ask. I am not, and should not be confused for, a DB admin - in fact, I hate it. Oh, I've had to fight with them before and I suck at it. I've gone on about the "wizard" who did the job for us. I am forever grateful for his skills, to the point where is peculiarities did not bother.
At any rate... Am I reading this summary properly? Is this summary saying that, prior to now, you could not update data that was in the database?
For years, PostgreSQL users would ask when their favorite open source database system would get the UPSERT operator, which can either insert an entry or update it if a previous version already existed. Other RDMS have long offered this feature. Bruce Momjian, one of the chief contributors to PostgreSQL, admits to being embarrassed that it wasn't supported.
Err... You couldn't update an entry if a previous version already existed? So, umm... What if the user changed their password? Did it create a whole new field to store the (hopefully) hash? Did it depreciate the old field somehow?
I'm thinking that it is either poorly written (and that I'm not too bright in the ways of a database) or that all the hype that I've read about Postgre has not been very honest. :/
Have I read them? You might want to see who the author of those posts was. There is no irony there. Not one shard of it. I'd wondered where you were going with that. Now I see... No, there's no minimizing, the words speak for themselves and you can interpret them as you wish. I dare say you've some strange ideas about what freedom is and what it isn't but that's a topic for another day and this really isn't about you.
But no, the words are there for those who wish to read them. It's pretty hard to misinterpret statements about open-source being a "mistake" and the use of "freetard." You can willfully misinterpret them if you wish, that's the great thing about freedom, but that doesn't actually alter reality. In fact, the link to the post and the invitation to expand the thread and read it yourself are there for a reason. Just because it's likely that people will try to misinterpret them and it's better to have the actual source.
However, thanks for sharing what it is that you were trying to express. I find it a curious interpretation and I wonder if it might be due to some personal biases on your part but, alas, this isn't really about you. Unless, of course, you're him and posting as AC? That's rather unlikely, however.
At first blush, I'd think you fit just fine. Even though I use the term "Socialist Libertarian" it's more about effect than about the method. I do not, for example, want more government. I'd prefer less but I'd prefer more effective government. An example: I do not mind taxes. I mind them being used to bomb little brown men who are no threat to my country.
I like the idea of a social safety net, of single payer health care, and inexpensive but good education. Why? A society that's educated, healthy, and able to take risks is more likely to be better able to enjoy their liberties. If you're unable to buy a printing press then you're not really as capable as you might be to utilize your freedom of speech. I prefer that people be able to make the most out of their lives, enjoy the things that I enjoy, and have an equal opportunity to try to reach those things.
Unfortunately, that doesn't really fit on a bumper sticker and it's way too long for Twitter. But yeah, you'd fit under the tent based on what you expressed. Quite a few people would happily fit under the tent but many people are stuck at the door thinking that the party is full of ultraconservatives, selfish, maniacal, idiots. To be fair, quite a few people expressing themselves and claiming to speak for the party do fit that description. It'd be a bit antithetical to kick them out or take away their microphone.
That and it's not root access. It's just the bootloader. It's not even a very valuable security tool to use. There are few reasons to even have used that feature and to rely on it solely seems foolhardy. I could see it in use at a kiosk but one shouldn't be allowing physical access to the computers there nor allow users to issue reboot commands from there. All-in-all, a bug but not a very important bug and overblown by people who seem to think it gave potential "root" access by itself. It's not their fault that they were misled, it's their fault that they didn't actually take the time to learn better.
Let me preface this by saying that I am not, by any means, a professional Linux administrator. I did, on the other hand, admin a bunch of servers as a part of my profession but those were mostly Unix and then Windows and then I hired competent professionals.
That said, I'd love to hate SystemD. I love me a good hate-fest. I keep pre-pitched torches at the ready and carry a fold-away assault pitchfork. I have various servers at home, some running on real server hardware, and a whole network of computers. (What self-respecting geek doesn't?) I have more VMs than I possibly need, doing things that I have no idea what I was thinking at the time, and am connected to my system in Maine via the most convoluted route possible. I have co-lo equipment that sits mostly idle and houses a few friend's sites and that's about it... It doesn't really do much of anything but, damn it, I have it!
You know what almost all these various computers have in common? Oh, they've got a whole host of distros on them - I'm not even sure I can quickly figure out which one is which any more. My topography looks like it was designed by a crack-addled five year old with admin privileges. I'm currently using a Live USB (Lubuntu), through a VPN, to my house, in a VM, to the 'net, through a VPN - and I'm skipping a few steps to keep it simple for you. This thing, for lack of a better word, shouldn't even run - never mind be stable. But this thing, with all these distros, has that one thing in common that I asked about. It's SystemD.
Yup. I guess they all have Linux in common but they sure as hell don't all have the same version of the kernel. So, there's that. But, they do all have SystemD (except for a few VMs - those are BSD, Minix, Indiana, and a few others but those don't actually get booted very often) for the most part. The all seem to work. Oh, I tried to hate SystemD. Yet, it's not caused me a single problem yet. I learned a few new comments, I've surely done something that should have broken it by now, and I've even read parts of the man pages.
Oh, I know it's not the Unix Way. Well, except it could be 'cause the Unix Way has exceptions. I know, it's got binary logging but - you can actually read those logs with a few different tools if you need to. I haven't needed to so I won't say that they work well but I'm told they work well enough. Yes, it does more than it needs to and it's not what we're used to. Meh, I'm okay with that - staying static is nice for some things and avoiding monolithic things is a good idea. Yet, it works. It works fine for me. I know, I am not everyone but I suspect the vast majority of the people complaining haven't actually used it. Even Hairyfeet complains and he's a Windows user - he's an ardent opponent of SystemD but he's probably never even tried a distro with it.
So, yeah, my pitchfork is starting to get rusty and needs to be sharpened again. My torches were lit but I just dunked 'em in water 'cause there didn't appear to be any monster that needed slaying. It's too bad, I had enough torches to go around. I want to hate it - I really do. It's not that I have some great skill that keeps it working - it works DESPITE my best efforts to screw things up. Oh, I screw up lots of things but it's not yet been the fault of SystemD nor has it prevented me from repairing my mistakes.
I dunno... I notice lots of lists of things people hate. I notice very few anecdotes of how it has harmed them. I've noticed even less actual compilations of data concerning it. If it's that bad then, well, we should have some data and someone would have compiled it. (The data, not systemd.) If a bumbling idiot, such as myself, can manage it - and not have a problem, then it seems only logical that smarter folks can figure it out, no? I mean, hell, I'm in a Live USB environment because I hosed GRUB again and I've not yet rebooted after fixing it. You'd think that, by now, SystemD would have been a problem for me. I kind of wish it had, then I could blame my mistakes on it.
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I thought it was supposed to natively support upgrading without needing to reboot. :/ I should probably read the article but I have standards. To me, that's the most interesting thing. It can be done with kexec right now (I think?) but having it native and automated would be kind of nice. I might never have to reboot again! That'll save like 30 seconds every month! Or, more seriously, just let me keep doing what I'm doing without feeling an urge to reboot and load the new kernel.
For the record, I have kexec installed on this computer but I don't think I've ever bothered reading the man pages and using it. I probably should.
You're free to view the thread and share this missing irony. Well, there's irony there - it's just probably not intended. Expand the thread and have a look. It's not like I'm making this up, took the quote out of context, or even altered what he said. The dude used and abused the group to get what he wanted and now is happy to deride them, as a group, and as a pejorative. I haven't got a nickel invested in it - just read it for yourself. 'Snot like I have the capacity to go edit his comments.
Oh silly you. I don't own it to impress you - I own it because I want it. I have a bunch of cars, actually. The BMW is just one tool for one particular job. I don't expect you to recognize the value of an old Volvo, a really old Jeep, or a Saab from the early 1990s. It's okay - I'm not trying to impress you. I'm enjoying myself. Silly you. You think your opinion matters in regards to my purchasing habits. Nope. The BMW is an awesome driver's car and a bunch of fun. It's even low-key. Unless you recognize it as what it is, you'd not have a clue how fast it goes or how much it cost. That's one of the reasons I bought it - I don't *want* your approval. I want *my* approval. Silly rabbit.
I can only presume that many of these folks have yet to drive in Maine. In Alaska, the State trucks have sensors that they use while plowing in low visibility conditions. However, they've mapped the roads very, very precisely. There's a Modern Marvels about Alaska that has some details. They're still not autonomous, they just have some very advanced sensors and a nifty display. Hell, the graphics on 'em are like a 1980s video game.
Wow... This is two days in a row where I get to suggest that you'd probably die if you lived where my home is. (I'm cheating and spending this winter in Florida.)
Seriously, if you stop traveling because there are a few inches of snow on the road - you're gonna die. We have periods where it simply doesn't stop snowing - for days. We have times when I, a private citizen, go out and help with the plowing, pull people out of ditches, and generally help clean things up. What would you do it you got four feet of snow over ten days and the power was out for half of that and then a week after the storm stopped?
No, you don't have to be a "rugged individual." Even old ladies do just fine. You? You're gonna die. :/ Don't move here. We lose a few people like that every year. We lose a few that are outside and unprepared, a few on ATVs, and a few on snowmobiles but we mostly do just fine so long as you think ahead and learn a few things to help keep you alive. My electricity, for instance, is such that I consider my mains connection as my backup.
I have two generators (and a third one that can be put into use), underground diesel storage, solar, and wind - and then mains if things get problematic. I have not one but two plow trucks. While I've yet to put it to good use, I now own a restored tow truck. There are a couple of four-wheelers and two snowmobiles. Why? 'Cause not being able to get out in inclement weather will kill you.
The last time I mentioned this was yesterday (I think) when someone said that you don't have a backup for your fridge and stove. Err... Yes, yes I do. I'd have to be straight up retarded to not have a backup for that. I even have backup food suppliers as well as backup food supplies. I grow, hunt, and fish for a lot of my food. I have neighbors with farms (for some vague term of neighbor - it's a bit different in Maine as to what is a neighbor). I then have a village in either direction where I can go get food. I'm not sure but I'd actually probably consider the village and the grocery stores to be backups and my own food to be my primary - that's what I prefer to eat just 'cause it's enjoyable and tastes nice. (Yes, yes I would eat Bambi's dad. If I get a permit, I'll eat his mother too.)
Seriously, if a few inches of snow on the road means you don't drive then you would die. Depending on the vehicle, I tend to hunker down when the snow gets to be greater than a foot unless I've got the plow on. If I've got the plow then I'm good for a couple of feet, maybe a bit more. I don't have a giant dump truck or anything so I can't tackle huge amounts of a couple of feet of heavy snow. They usually don't let it build up more than a foot. I've seen storms where there were three plow trucks (the big ones, on dump trucks, that had sanders and were owned by the state) off the road between my house and the village. The grader that they brought out to get them out of the ditches was stuck on a hill.
Truth be told, it's a blast! You can pretty much do what you want on the roads - so long as you don't hurt anyone, and the cops don't care. They're busy. There are usually giant snowbanks so you don't get hurt. Don't think of it as a scary thing - think of it as an adventure. It's like going sledding except you've got the radio and heat. I keep an old Volvo 245 (from 1982) just for this very type of weather. Oh, it's horrible in the snow if you don't know what you're doing - it's RWD. However, it's about as much fun as you can legally have with your clothes on to push it through a foot of snow. It's like a tank once you figure out how to drive it.
Heh, yeah, you'd probably not enjoy it much if you stay home because there's a few inches of snow. Some of us wait until there are at least a few inches of snow before we bother going out. I guess it's a matter of perspective.
I used to drink - and drive. Oh, it was probably reasonably safe - as I was usually not on the road. I no longer do this, by the way. But, 'tis time for a Gramps Story...
At any rate, a buddy and I were out drinking and driving. I'd chosen a Subaru for this journey - this Subaru had one purpose in life and one purpose only. I bought it just to put it places that it was not meant to go - and it might surprise you the places that thing went. Oh, it'd get stuck but a bumper-jack and a winch would usually take care of anything.
Alas, one day we're out in the spring... This is post-retirement, when I really was old enough to know better but too drunk to care. I was up atop a nearby mountain and decided to take the back way into a town called Eustis. (You might want to look at a map - my home is up above Rangeley, a bit to the *West* of Rangeley.)
Now, in the summer you might, and I do mean might, be able to get through there with a nice 4WD with good clearance. That's Subaru territory. There's something to be said about a Subaru that you don't mind beating all to hell. This is not even a good place to walk - never mind drive. But - there are "roads." By road, I mean an old logging trail known as a "tote road."
So, we're happily drinking and not hurting anyone except ourselves and the Subaru when we manage to get so stuck that not a jack nor a winch will get us out. That's okay, we don't mind. We've got a bunch of beer a couple of bottles of rum and a granola bar.
About a day later, we stomp out of the woods and get to my house. We sleep it off, wake up, get drunk again, sleep it off, and then wake up and remember that we left a car in the woods. Where? Fucked if we know. So, we hop in the truck and go looking. We spent nearly three full days looking for this Subaru (it doesn't help that it was brown.)
Eventually, through sheer luck, we finally spotted our footprints and were able to then work our way in the right direction and find the Subaru. The winch was broken, the jack was half missing, and it was very stuck. We spent a long, long time shoveling but it finally came loose.
So, point of the story is, it is possible to lose your car and it doesn't even take a parking lot to do it in. I'm not sure that a Tesla would have been a great help in that situation. I don't think autonomy will quite get a car into that position, so there's that. But, that's the story of the lost Subaru. :/ Yes, yes lessons were learned and no, no I don't drink any more really. I figured I'd better quit while I was ahead and before I killed myself, someone else, or got an OUI. It's strange how I went from being a functional alcoholic to a sloppy drunk right after retirement. Ah well...
You know, Ayn Rand wasn't so much a Libertarian, right? Aside from that, I'm a Libertarian and I like Musk just fine. I don't even care if part of his success is due to government intervention/assistance - but that's because I *am* actually a Libertarian. I know, no true Scotsman but the Randians are just plain idiots who, for whatever reason, decided to co-opt the term. You can safely ignore them. Well, maybe not. Feel free to mock them but at least *try* to learn a little about Libertarianism before lumping us all in together. Thanks.
Seriously, if you can read then try just the first four or so paragraphs on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, we can't really kick the Randians out and it's a rather big umbrella. But no... No... Not all Libertarians are like them and, if you want to have a day or two long conversation then I'll show you why I don't think they are all that suited to be called Libertarians to begin with. Suffice to say, they're idiots. You probably can't safely ignore them, as they might gain a little power, but you can safely mock them. Just try to not paint with a broad brush, please? *sighs* I, for one, have been involved in the party for about forty years and I'm probably further to the left of any elected politician (except maybe Bernie). I just hold those views because of different reasons than the typical left.
So yeah, if you're legitimately curious - I'll actually answer any question that I can, as best as I can. 'Cause your comment doesn't look much different than one that says "$minority does $bad_things." (Why yes, yes I'm also an ethnic minority - namely Amerindian, of the Micmac tribe. Those damned Injuns getting drunk and shooting up the town with arrows and raping the white womens!")
On a more serious note, I'm not kidding - I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have. Take a look at the Wikipedia article and, while I prefer the moniker of classic Libertarian, I'm probably best called a Socialist Libertarian. Once upon a time, the Libertarian was known as the "loony left." Propaganda (and idiots) have pretty much ensured that not many people have actually looked at the platform and philosophy. It also doesn't help that we're a bunch of lazy bastards who will let most anyone have the microphone. In our defense, we were probably quite stoned at the time. I don't think we ever expected anyone to take us seriously and, before we knew it, pow! We're Randians and on the Right-wing, conservative, side - and we didn't even do anything. Funny enough, I kinda like taxes and what they get me. Hell, I probably should pay more.
I have a nice shiny new BMW - it's even bespoke! I'm pretty sure that there's some automated driving bits available if I ever figure out the menu and wanted to enable it. The missus figured it out at one point? Basically, you tell it to try to drive with traffic but only go so fast. Then you tell it to stay in the damned lane and it seems to do that too. I gotta tell ya, I have no idea and can't imagine why I'd have bought a BMW only to have it drive itself. I find the very idea an abomination but I'm pretty sure it does a bunch of things. It'll slow down if it sees something that's going into the road or near it - the HUD will even alert you to it.
At any rate, I sure as hell didn't buy a BMW, manual shift, with two turbos and some ~450 ponies to have it drive itself. Unfortunately, no amount of begging could get it without some of the bells and whistles so I told 'em to cram 'em all in there. *sighs* I don't even want to use most of those things. The HUD is kind of nice and it is well done. I pretty much have to either stop or wait until a break in traffic to go adjusting things - I still don't know where half the things are and what a quarter of them do. If I could have picked it up with a much more mundane control system then I would have. I offered to pay quite well for it but the most I could get was directed to an after-market company who *might* be able to do so but it would void all warranties. I guess it's possible to tweak another ~200 HP out of it, though the same after-market, and they go ahead and strip out a whole bunch of things to make it lighter, they lower it a whisker, and they tighten up the suspension and put in five point restraints. That... That seemed just a bit excessive. Fun? Yes, but excessive.
I was invited to go to the factory and see it being built. They were gonna let me drive around Germany for two weeks and then they'd ship it here to the US. I wasn't even going to have to pay extra for shipping. I thought about it but declined. We've fine roads here and I watch enough documentaries to know how my car was made. I can always go back to Germany (I've been before) and just rent something, it's not even obscenely expensive. You can even rent something fancy, a coach, and hit the Nurburgring for not a whole lot of money. The best part is, if you crash then you don't even ruin your own vehicle. Drive it like you stole it, they've got insurance. I spent about a week, took some course work, spent some time with a coach, and spent a day each with a McLaren, Porsche, and Nissan on the track. I want to say that the whole thing was less than 20,000 Euro? A nice outfit - called RSR by the way. If you get the chance - jump on it. Well worth every penny but, holy shit, I digress...
What was the topic again? Oh... Yes... So, no, I didn't go see it getting built. I also don't see fully autonomous vehicles, for private passengers, any time soon. It just doesn't seem likely. The car I have with me does, sort of, have some autonomous capacity but I don't actually use it. I find the very idea of it an affront to my sensibilities! If you're gonna make an autonomous vehicle, do it to a Honda, a Ford, or something. If you're buying a BMW and you want it to drive itself, you probably shouldn't have bought a BMW. It's about as silly as an automatic transmission in a sports car. Sure, the automatic can actually perform better than a human now - but sometimes it's about the how and not about the destination.
I have no love for Musk but I must say, people seem to like him. I took a huge risk and bought 2000 shares in Tesla when they were $24 each. (I think that was the price. Somewhere around there.) I haven't actually checked the latest prices but that's because I have no desire to unload them yet and "there'll be time enough for counting, when the dealings done."
So, if you attract as much geek-glee as Musk and get a bunch of people to listen to you - then I might take a shot on investing in your scheme too. Unlike most, I have a fairly set-in-stone bail out time. I'll have made more than enough by then and it will be time to get out of the way and let someone else join in on the fun. Or, more accurately, be the one standing when the music stops.
However, I do wish him luck and am already set to go on the list for a Tesla come this summer. Mostly because I love automobiles and the thought of instant torque makes my testicles hum with joy. Seriously, you put your ear down there and I bet you can hear 'em. I might even see if I can get a set of slicks for 'em and bring it over to Oxford and see how it does on the track. Just the thought of that makes that dull humming rise a full octave. I'm pretty sure that Ludicrous Speed will make them break out into a full blown Gregorian chant while Mr. Helmet Head stands at full attention.
It might be a legal crisis but, for some definition, it actually works. Remember, if it's behind your B pillar - it's not your fault. People keep saying that Google's got it covered and citing a million miles. I'm a little rusty and biased but I'd like to think that, at one time, I had the world's greatest traffic sim game. This might sound like an appeal to authority (indeed, it kind of is) but it's gonna be a while before we get even a simple majority of private passenger vehicles that are fully autonomous and doing so is going to be a real kick in the privacy sack. I've typed it all out before and I've had too long a weekend to type it all again. Suffice to say, it's gonna be a minute.
That does not mean that Musk could not do a one-off of this in a few years. If anyone thinks that disproves my view (or even Google's many miles) then you probably haven't actually seen what goes into modeling traffic and don't understand the complexity. There are so many externalities to consider that even the color of the sky has a noticeable impact on driving style, speed, risk taking, and more - and that's not even counting physical aspects like visibility.
Ah well... I'm really not in a novella mood but I may just return with one. :/ I could probably just copy and paste some of my old comments but that'd be cheating.
Bruce doesn't belong speaking to anyone any more, concerning any OSS project. In his own words, open source is a mistake and he's not a "freetard" any more. I can only surmise that he's trying to burn all his bridges? I have no idea why he'd do that. (The citation for that quote is in the thread already - it's not taken out of context or anything, the links is posted too.)
Maybe I just hang out with assholes but, to be honest, if you showed up at a footrace with my group of friends then we'd probably call you names like Hop-a-long, gimp, and hide your crutches. Oh, we'd slow down and even carry you to the finish line if you couldn't make it yourself but you're gonna catch a whole ration of ribbing in the process. We won't let you lose all alone but, yeah... We're gonna call you funny names as we carry your crippled ass across the finish line - probably "dumb ass" 'cause you did something stupid enough to break your leg before a race. But, we'll be there beside you... I'm not sure that will work so very well with mental illness.
Yes, yes we are. Something Bruce said that you might find interesting:
I'll tell you another secret then. Open Source was a mistake. I am not a Freetard any longer.
And there's a good chance that some folks will not believe this was a quote from him, it was. Others might suggest that it is taken out of context, it isn't, I will cite it:
This is the relevant link.
I'm assuming he too has gone off the deep end or, more realistically, has been using the movement to gain popularity and money and now has enough to disassociate with the movement, as it has served its purpose.
He just might be crazy. But he appears to be burning bridges as fast as he can.
It's a hideous orange but that's the color it came with from the factory. I'll grab a pic of it when I get home, if I remember, but I know I've put pics up online before - I just can't find 'em.
I have a 1973 Wagoneer, with a PTO even. It's not factory, however. It has a lift and different wheels as well as rack and brush guard - oh, and lights. They are still the correct shape! They just aren't the correct bulbs. They are still within the legal limits - I'm not an ass and I know it's a tall vehicle. It also doesn't spend much time on the road. Well, not what most people would call a road. When it's off road, there are a whole lot of lights to turn on.
It does still have factory sound. We don't need no stinkin' radio where we're going. It's a whole bowl of fun. I dread the day I get it stuck beyond what the winch is able to help with. It's actually fairly reliable but that's because I spend a bit maintaining it. I'd be comfortable taking it cross country. Well, assuming I had AAA and a tool kit. ;-) Actually, I suspect it'd do fine - I'd just have it gone over with a fine toothed comb before taking off.
Oh! The PTO was hooked up to a sawmill at one point. It was used to saw some of the wood that is in my Maine house. It might only be the deck but it's still a fun thing you can do with a Jeep. They're all very specific vehicles for very specific purposes. The Jeep's for fun. It can do lots of things but mostly it's really good at making me smile.
Hmm... I can't be positive ('cause stranger things have happened) but a GIS for "1973 Wagoneer orange" looks like someone might have decided to claim they own my Jeep on Pintrest. It looks like they have older pics - after I'd had the lift and sneakers redone but not yet added the rack and guard. I dare say the pictures look an awful lot like I recollect the ones that I took. (I went digging a bit more to see if I could find pics.) Ah well... I should find 'em and send 'em a message, asking them if they want to sell. ;-)
The law is broken, I agree. But, there's similar precedent with just the analogy you made. You can not, for example, use a shotgun booby-trap to keep a burglar from entering your house.
You are correct!
You are not a lawyer.
I kid but I must say it... With that sort of attitude, maybe you should buy a douche so you can wash the sand out of your vagina! (Yes, yes I had to say that. It's nothing personal.)
Heh... One of my faves - I've been using it for quite a while. (It was on Opera before it made it to Firefox.) There's also an HTTP Switchboard that's a bit of work but great after you put the work in. I just use uMatrix and uBlock most of the time. The author is the same for all three. Oddly, he doesn't seem to accept donations.
At any rate - you can backup (export) your settings. I make it a point to do so because I use more than one computer and it's nice to have a basic rule-set that works for the vast majority of places. If you're not doing so then you might want to. Although, before I did that, I actually got pretty good at visiting a few sites (right after install) and setting the permissions at my most frequently used sites.
It is whitelisting and it does take some time. But, once you've done it - it's done, as long as you keep a regular backup. It does take some time but, in my opinion, it is time well spent. It's not entirely unusual to see a site with a couple hundred of disparate things being loaded - from all across the 'net. I've kind of figured out what I need to do but I still have to tweak and poke. I sometimes do it for sites that I was only going to visit once but I almost always make my changes a few at a time and then refresh to see if it's working. After a while, you get pretty good at figuring it out.
They're too personal and everyone will have different needs but, really, I think it'd be interesting to have a repository that housed an oft-updated exported rule set to make things easier. A quick check indicates that I've got about 35 pages worth of rules.
I did so, for quite some time actually, just to prove that it could be done. I still functioned - pretty much like normal, and had no known malware compromises. I had no resident AV but would scan once in while (with multiple non-resident apps like AVG and MBAM) and was fine. Don't download things from bad places, use a firewall, get thee behind a NAT, do not allow scripting to run as a general rule, and use least privilege practices.
This is possible to do with Windows, albeit a bit tedious to set up and practice at first, but whitelisting approaches help as do general safe hex methods. I'm not, currently, much of a Windows user but I imagine I could do the same again with just some trivial research. I do not, of course, recommend this - this was simply a bit of mental masturbation in cause and results. As an AV is not always effective - it's also good to be alert for symptoms that indicate that you might have an infection.
It was effective and lasted until I switched back to using a Unix-like operating system. I still practice many of those same practices and I still don't use an AV application. The difference now is that I don't really need to scan every week or so. I do still keep an eye out for behaviors that might indicate there is a problem. As I've multiple systems, I will sometimes let Wireshark sit and check for outbound (or inbound) traffic that might indicate the system is doing something that I did not give it permission to do.
Basically, good security starts in the chair and the chair is best armed with someone that understands what it is that the system should be doing. Security is a process, not an application. It's also about accepting and mitigating risks because all actions are, by their very nature, risky. You need to accept a certain level of risks and decide if taking those risks is worth the benefit of achieving those goals. When you run without an AV on Windows, you learn to really think about the actions you take.
The only safe computer is one that you can't turn on. Now, that's a crazy definition of safe. Once you get past that, you determine which levels of risks you'll take based on how valuable you see the reward. To use a fairly recent example, I do not value the content at Forbes enough to accept the risks of allowing them to execute code on my system. I do not accept the risks based on the reward. I'm okay with that choice, if I wasn't then I'd change my practices.
That said, it's a very individual thing. What is important to you is probably different than what is important to me. What risks you take is also up to you. What risks you're willing to take to accomplish something is also very different than what I'm willing to risk. There are probably things that I value more than you and thus I'll probably accept more risks. What I use for a layered defense is likely very different then what you use. What you'll accept is very different than what I'd accept and I'd suspect your defense to be different than mine.
Hopefully you, and others, have put the effort in and decided what risks you'll accept and how you'll manage those risks. It's pragmatic and realistic. The greatest asset one can have is understanding - even if basic. "What can happen if I do this? How can I avoid doing that? Is it worth it for me to do that when I know that this might be the outcome? How can I lower the risks to make doing this safer?" Questions along those lines are how one needs to think if they're going to use a computer but they're much more important to ask (and answer) if you're going to do it with an AV.
And no, I didn't switch (back?) to Linux because of security issues. I switched because my brain was turning into mush and I was not learning anything new. I'm not suggesting that anyone do anything in specific - other than asking them to think about risks and rewards and to accept that security should begin with the ass in the seat and not with a piece of software. I am also not suggesting that a Windows user operate their system without resident, updated, quality anti-malware protection. It's possible but not easy. It gets easier as you go along. Using a whitelist approach and being sure to back those settings up is a good idea.
Pfft... Sync to the internet? I don't... I use 47 Lithuanian boys, who mimic the chittering of squirrels, to carry my packets back and forth. When one of them brings back a bad packet (one to sync with one of those newfangled cloud thingies) I beat him with a stick until he learns to filter it better!
Err... Yes, yes I'm very tired. :/