But will they?

Clearly you know of lot about this. Here are some comments for the next human.

Deny all modules seems more possible than a whitelist approach. To deny all, the command is likely “sysctl kernel.modules_disabled=1”.

Whitelisting is harder. One could store a list of all loaded modules on a working system. Store a list of all kernel modules currently installed on the system. Compare the lists and remove from the “all” list the “running” list (grep will do this) and write it to the blacklist file.

The problem with the Whitelisting approach is that it needs to run after every kernel module install (which is doable).

If the above is the case, then someone must have automated this already, but I cannot find it quickly. (I checked Debian’s package repository.)

Police appear to be something of a problem. Might be better to have no police than to have easily usurped police. Hell, slit the police force up based on tasks and don’t have the group that is happy to “forcibly broke up protest” (keep the “investigate my murder” cops as they are doing a great job).

Sometimes it is just a really intense garden.

To be serious a minute, I was certain I would be dead long ago. Save for retirement. If the cyborg revolution starts before retirement, then you might be able to get some cool upgrades. If you are “up against the wall”, you won’t have more than a few minutes to regret saving for retirement before you die. Regret Minimization!

Yes!

An diplomats/CEOs using Teslas!

• Optical cameras are mandated at Musk’s insistence, despite lidar being better.
• Built in cell modem for “over the air updates”.
• Massive processing onboard for “interpreting the cameras”.
• Microphones and cameras inside to “ensure the driver is paying attention”.
• Big ass batteries for driving and keeping sky kit running.
• Get the targets to pay for the spy gear themselves.

Great video! Nice to see someone highlighting successful government run grocery stores!

A bit funny to see congress people that use and support government run grocery stores, while also talking bad about them.

Bid on the replicator! Then so many problems can be solved!

exact same thing every time

I imaging it is this, combined with memory saving. So each scoop of ice cream is the same scoop (3 scoops in that bowl are the same three scoops.) Maybe even more extreme with the “scoop” being a “replicate this 1 mL of ice cream and apply a scoop shape, where that shape is ‘round’”.

My evidence is that some recipes are simply not in the replicators storage of galaxy class ships. This indicates that it takes both storage and effort to get a recipe into the machine.

It is like a speed run of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. No one wanted to buy Russian weapons after that. The USA is in the same position now.

I am disappointed. A few servers have been moved via train and stayed online. Codeberg should do better.

Google, the company confirmed the issue stemmed from a “fake edit” in Google Maps that was “briefly” incorporated into its call-screening feature.

I would not have expected that Google Maps fed into the Caller ID on Android phones.

Roy secured his spot in the general election by creating his own third party, the Freedom and Unity party.

It often takes more work, but of a different kind, to establish a third party, than to win the nomination (I know nothing of Vermont’s rules). Good work!

There are more options than the two you mentioned. Listing a few as more people should remember them. I did get a bit off topic…

1. Use huge company to provide service.
2. Provide service oneself (, likely with Open Source. )
3. Use small or medium company to provide service (, likely with Open Source. )
4. Use huge company for things huge company is great with, but keep “crown jewels” of company on internal self provided systems.
5. Use a small or medium company to provide a service, and another series of small or medium companies to check on the first company.
6. Use a huge company based in a country that is very serious about laws and putting CEOs in prison for wrongful acts.
7. Do not do the thing. (Included for completeness.)
8. Do the thing not on a computer. (Violation of privacy could result in violation of more serious laws.)
9. Use an older technology on a computer.
10. Use the huge company to provide service, but ensure the data includes insane things.

business with a contract

I always wonder at this and have cautioned my managers repeatedly. Yes, we have a contract, but they have a literal army of lawyers and we have less (one lawyer one retainer for hourly work or a small grouping focused on taxes and employment law). As if our ownership won’t bend over backwards to avoid suing a large company like Google, AWS, Microsoft, or Oracle. (Maybe OpenAI and Anthropic are sue-able by a $100 million corp?)

As proof I offer the lawsuits between businesses that have proceeded far enough the general public has heard about them. Not a specific one, just all of them.

I do wonder what happens with system accounts and servers. But I know it will be a patchwork of laws so the answer will change depending on the patch of ground it is on, and solutions and none of it will work correctly.

The best part of Ubuntu was improving Debian. In the beginning, Debian was a bit ugly and difficult. Ubuntu was competition, and perhaps resources (IDK) directly or indirectly. Debian is much easier to use than it was when Ubuntu was new.

Ubuntu is taking the RedHat approach (over complicating so that one must buy the support).

A paid influencer radicalizing our youth and leading people astray.

1980’s? Yes.

2000’s? No. Full of politics. Government waste, spies, Area 51 coverups, discussions of the deep state and military use in civilian areas. One of the movies referenced wars in the middle east.

Edit: I should explain first that I do not think you can change your employees or manager. A technical solution will never fix a management problem. Perhaps your manager is getting enough heat to be open to better management controls. You should be in “sanity protecting” mode.

Original: While the posts include a lot of fiction, but “overemployed” crowd have some good advice. Start applying elsewhere, downshift your effort at $job_one, and move to collecting a check.

Or ramp up and take your manager’s job or get fired trying. Gather data and allies in the C-suit, and stage a coup. Or unionize (or post pro-union flies in the bathroom).