@Paragone
@lemmy.mlA couple of decades ago, iirc, SANS.org ( IF I'm remembering who it was who did it ) put a fresh-install of MS-Windows on a machine, & connected it to the internet.
It took SEVERAL MINUTES for it to be broken-into, & corrupted, botnetted.
The auto-attacks by botnets are continuous: hitting different ports, trying to break-in, automatically.
I've had linux desktops pwned from me.
the internet should be considered something like a mix of toxic & corrosive chemicals: "maybe" your hand will be fine, if you dip it in for a moment & immediately rinse it off ( for 3 hours ), but if you leave you limbs dwelling in the virulent slop, Bad Things(tm) are going to happen, sooner-or-later.
I used to de-infest Windows machines for my neighbours...
haven't done it in years: they'll not pay-for good anti-virus, they'll not resist installing malware: therefore there is no point.
Let 'em rot.
I've got a life to work-on uncrippling, & too-little strength/time left.
"but I don't need antivirus: i never get infected!!"
then how come I needed to de-infest it for you??
"but I don't need an immune-system: pathogens are a hoax!!"
get AIDS, then, & don't use anti-AIDS drugs, & see how "healthy" you are, 2 years in.
Same argument, different context-mapping.
Tarpit was a wonderful-looking invention, for Linux's netfilter/iptables, years ago: don't help botnets scan quickly & efficiently to help them find a way to break-in...
Anyways, just random thoughts from an old geek...
EDIT: "when do I need to wear a seatbelt?"
is essentially the same category of question.
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it's war, not a meeting:
IF Ukraine hadn't any idea that their POWs were in that transport,
AND Russian transports are a significant-means of Russia's genociding Ukraine,
THEN automatically targetting Russian transports is right to be doing, in that context.
End. Of. Story.
Shit happens.
Especially in war.
Adding an extra checklist-point to see IF it is possible to discover what's in an enemy transport, while you've got a second-or-2 to shoot it down, .. obliterates scarce opportunity to dent enemy capability.
At least they died quickly, unlike those who died in the Russian torture-chambers, in Russian custody.
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IF you want Steam, THEN please consider every variant in the official Ubuntu family.
Steam-support told me in their system, iirc in early 2023, that they ONLY support the Ubuntu family ( directly ).
As Linus Torvalds noted, it isn't possible to release software that is going to work on all distros.
Even glibc has been broken by one, in that talk of his, and it wasn't a niche distro, either, iirc.
Pick which subset you CAN afford to support, and do not add to that subset until you're rolling in money, from your linux-customerbase.
( slight sarcasm on the last line, but business is business: destroying-resources costs, and if there is no benefit, it isn't sane to continue doing it. )
Decide which capabilities/functions/apps you NEED, and then don't even consider distros that break your required-set on you.
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I'm a braindamage survivor.
You need to communicate your values, and why they are your values.
You need to communicate who you are, via the most-significant-moments/events you experienced: the most-significant-for-you meanings, see?
As for you disappearing, the Soul/CellOfGod/ChildOfGod/Continuum ( whatever you want to call it ) that causes the molecules in your body to continue-living ( yes, there is a physics-level cause for the anti-entropy behaviour expressed as living-organisms, and it isn't there, when those same molecules are doing the disintegrating-corpse thing, obviously )
That cause is unkillable.
It keeps getting caught in conceptions/lives, through endless-stream-of-Universes's perpetual recycling/churning of ALL energies ( including meaning! ) contained within it.
It isn't the-individual-life that is the center,
it is the Soul/CellOfGod/ParticleOfBrahman that is.
IT experienced some of ITs growing-up, in/through your-life.
With you, your Soul got a gift, fersure.
My life's been hell, & I'm glad:
nothing like aversion-therapy to force a Soul/CellOfGod to grow-up, eh?
The Soul that had "me"-personality won't ever make that mistake, again.
: )
If you've still got any ability to read, or to have someone read to you, please have someone get Elisabeth Haich's "Initiation" into you:
it is likely that only part of the book will be important for you, but that part will likely be IMPORTANT.
The world her Soul 1st inhabited was something like 10,000y ago ( it hasn't rained much there, since then ).
My Soul's spent most of its time inhabiting insect-lives, or particularly-stupid-fish-with-bad-eyesight.
It's been centuries since it had been in a human-category life ( the Catholicism I was pressed into, by mom, got nuked when I discovered those strange-memories were memories of my Soul's having lived in other kinds of lives.
Not only did it nuke all the Abrahamic religions, but it forced me to accept that ALL lives are lives because they have a Soul underlying them, and there isn't anything "special" about the life of a human, except for our Potential & our Opportunity, which most take for granted, including me, in my younger days ).
Anyways, you can't unexist, from Eternity.
You'll always have-been, see?
The Soul/CellOfGod who had you has YOU in it, indestructibly.
I'm earning removal of me-personality now ( should be days ), so the nervous-system currently having "me" can get that "me" ripped-out & can replace it with a better personality ( it's a Buddhist technique, apparently nobody remembers it, in the modern version of Buddhism, for some reason ), so you can stack multiple personalities/someones into a single incarnation, to get-through multiple-lives of lessons/growing-up crammed into a single incarnation/life.
It works, but it takes work to force one's own identity-death, or removal of the instance-of-ego underlying one's personality...
There are 3 kinds of mind that death-itself has difficulty "gripping" on:
Wisdom-realizing-that-all-phenomena-are-empty-of-self-inherent-existence
immeasurable-compassion for all sentiences ( but tempered by wisdom )
Faithing, which is the simultaneous surrendering-to higher-power, relying-on higher-power, and gratitude-to higher-power.
Faithing on one's own CellOfGod/Soul is perfectly find/workable.
It has BuddhaNature/GodNature, so all you have to do is orient to that aspect of its nature, and then faithing is powerful/valid, see?
Guru-yoga, is faithing.
"a faith", ie noun, .. isn't what the original texts said, btw.
Anyways, I hope something in this helps, gives you leverage.
Either way, our Souls will meet again, after "us", sooner-or-later...
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, Hoomin!
( :
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China doesn't want to rock the boat .. yet!
WHEN they've got the imbalance in-their-favor enough, they will gut & smash India: that is their plan.
Modi's relying on Russia, China's economic-vassal-state, for protection against China, hands India to China, strategically.
Make-believe never saved any country's life, nor will it, in the coming decade.
See it for what it is: now is only a "location in time", during the slippery-slope ( low steepness, after 1 or 2 more world-process Punctuations, the slope will be STEEP! ) time before global-TANTRUM/POGROM that #ClimatePunctuation, combined with political-tantrum, including "populist" dictatorships, combined with religious-tantrum, combined with food-web collapse, combined with an increasing-fraction-of-humankind becoming refugee...
etc.
The Great Filter's unfolding, but still in its Yin stage.
China doesn't want to rock the boat yet.
When opportunity is ripe, however, they are going to.
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I'm Buddhist, so I'm answering this question from my real-life standpoint:
Authentic Realization of one's Ultimate ( original awareness ) Nature.
What could be more precious?
Given that ALL of one's unconscious-mind's mechanisms exist to block that from happening, to protect unconsciousness's Eternal unbroken dominion, what could be more difficult to earn/obtain?
All the distractions in the world, "helping" one to NOT earn one's deepest profoundest Truth...
All the profits that cease, should one get anywhere in self-realization...
You simply don't need any external resource, for there to be a most-precious-resource, you know?
I've been told that to start a fight in Francophones, just demand to know whether grapefruit ( pamplemousse, iirc ), is male or female...
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The book "The Alphabet Versus The Goddess" by Leonard Shlain, makes the point that women's-rights simply don't progress as quickly, in countries which have gendered languages...
So, Anglo cultures pushed women's-rights, whereas Latin cultures .. won't, don't, drag their heels, etc...
That book is now a couple ?decades? old?
It's still true.
Conditioning an entire population's System-1 ( Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast & Slow", the System-1 is the default-instinct & the trained-now-automatic-expertise system, it also is the system that is both addiction & prejudice ) into gendering everything, automatically, may well prevent equal-validity from ever having place...
Mind you, I now want to see which Nordic/Scandi languages are gendered, & which Middle-East languages are gendered, to see if that holds in those parts of the world, not just in the Americas...
... digging ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_Danish_and_Swedish
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender
( that isn't a quick read... may come back to it some day... )
Bingo!
"The grammatical gender of nouns is one of two: a noun may be masculine or it may be feminine, and there is no neutral option. Moreover, masculinity is the default grammatical gender in Arabic and a word does not have to have anything special in order to reflect this. Femininity, on the other hand, is not default and a noun would have to have something special to reflect this gender in Arabic."
from
https://www.learnarabiconline.com/gender/
So, there is ZERO hope of equal-validity in Arabic culture, because the language programs Arabic people's System-1 into 2 exclusive validity-categories, with male being inherently more-valid, by established language-habit.
What about Hebrew?
No wonder women can't get equal-validity in Jewish culture...
( I read a Jewess's writing ~ Nobody EVERY celebrated the birth of a Jewish girl: only boys are celebrated ~ .. which explains the damage in the stereotypical "Jewish mother", a woman whose validity has been contempted by all in her culture, until the damage is her most defining feature... )
So, it looks like equal-rights/equal-validity for women is .. baseless, in some/many cultures...
Interesting, but depressing.
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I haven't read the article, but yes, wars do have time-limits:
Once a war becomes domestically impossible to participate in, Vietnam as 1 proof, then the-course-of-war changes.
Economic-collapse means that Biden's hosed in 2024, and the Republicans are Russian allies, not NATO allies.
Yes wars have time-limits.
Simply wait & see: by the end of 2025, NATO will be gutted, Trump will have been crowned GEOTUS ( a term they already use for him ), and Trump will ( passively, at least ) back Russia.
Sickening, but it looks like that's the fact of the unfolding global/geopolitical near-future.
Go read McMoneagle's book of predictions: it is awefully wrong.
Remote Viewing is a modified kind of dreaming:
Remote Viewers are in dreams, and their ( very primitive brain, it seems ) ESP is patching-in pieces of what it perceives, but .. it is patching those things into a dream, so the result is .. rather groundless, with fragments of truth in it.
I trust the hard photos from NASA & ESA more than I trust McMoneable's dreams..
Yes, the youtube vid of him being interviewed about his helping Japan find sites that archaeology says did have to do with an early royal of theirs ( an Empress? ) is convincing, but I've not fact-checked it.
It may well be spot-on: ancient Japanese history isn't my interest.
If he was predicting people living on Mars, the same Mars that sometimes comes up to warm-enough to melt water, but has dry-ice on the ground, in the winters at the poles, and planet-scale dust-storms, and CO2 lasering in its atmosphere, and an atmosphere that is 1/1000th as thick ( from the aviation perspective ) as ours, with nearly-no oxygen loose in it...
I'm sticking with the machines that map & photograph the things.