I didn’t know about Canada and after thinking about it for a minute the United States does something similar for the States with .gov. Many, if not all, States have their own subdomain such as wyo.gov, montana.gov, and nebraska.gov.

Honestly it’s always seemed wrong and somewhat confusing that non-country specific TLDs, such as .gov, are dedicated to the United States.

What data does this app have that isn’t freely available somewhere else?

What really grinds my gears is when shrinkflation happens to pre-packaged products that are used as ingredients because it throws recipes off. Here’s three examples:

Campbell’s pre-made soups like Cream of Mushroom or Creamy Tomato changed from 10.75oz down to 10.5oz. If your favorite casserole doesn’t taste quite like it used to this is probably why.

Pre-packaged meats like bacon and tuna. For as long as I could remember pre-packaged bacon was always sold in some multiple of a pound, now you have to pay attention because often the bags are 10 or 12oz instead of 16. Growing up tuna was 6.5oz can and its now down to just 5.

The same thing has happened with canned vegetables like green beans or even canned mushrooms. Once you’re done adjusting the amount of Cream of Mushroom in that Green Bean Casserole you’re going to have to circle back and fix the amount of green beans in it.

When you bust out Grandma’s recipe card you need to be careful because her “can” or “jar” of something was almost certainly bigger than what you have!

Oh, and if you are trying to make older recipes it’s not just the volume / amount of things that changed it’s also the formulation. Almost everything that is pre-processed has been re-formulated over the past 20 years so it no longer cooks or tastes the same as it used to.

Some old recipes are damn difficult to make correctly these days because the ingredients aren’t the same type or size. It’s frustrating.

I’m assuming .io just stands for Indian Ocean in this case

British Indian Ocean Territory, it was just shortened to .io so it would fit into the naming scheme.

That’s a great question and the answer can be found in the wikipedia entry for the .uk domain.

In a nutshell the volunteer “Naming Committee” setup back in 1985 established a rule that entities needed to register into specific subdomains based on entity type such as .co, where the .co part stood for “Company”. They did this to make managing registrations easier and to provide an “at a glance” way to see what kind of website you were visiting (commercial, government, charity, etc). The “Naming Committee” was extremely strict about ensuring that domains were registered to a specific entity and in the correct subdomain.

By the mid-90s the volunteer “Naming Committee” was entirely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of domains being registered so that volunteer group was replaced by Nominet UK. Nominet didn’t open the .uk TLD to registration until 2014 and by then the subdomain thing (.co.uk) was so embedded into the United Kingdom’s internet structure that it had become tradition and NOT using was confusing to many people.

There’s more subdomains than just .co as well and both wikipedia articles I linked list them.

tl;dr .uk absolutely exists in the UK, it’s just used differently than almost anywhere else in the world.

I’ve been using Linux since 2005

Okay, so as a n00b you can be somewhat forgiven. As someone who started with Slack in 1997 I don’t have that excuse.

…and almost every time it turns out to be a problem that can’t be exploited on it’s own. but requires the use of other vulnerabilities.

Since when did chaining vulnerabilities make something not a problem? Are you claiming that the CUPS vulnerability announced in late September isn’t an issue simply because it takes multiple steps?

The only exception I can recall is the zx util compression tool…

I don’t mean to be an ass but were you asleep December 2021 through January 2022? Log4Shell was a 10 of 10 critical vulnerability!

What about CVE-2022-47939 from December 2022?

I can keep going if needed but I think my point is made. The vulnerabilities, even true kernel level stuff, are out there.

Like it’s trying to convince people Linux is inherently vulnerable.

I’m typing this reply from a machine running KDE Plasma on top of Linux Mint 22.

I’m not sure what precisely what you mean by “inherently” but I’d like to point that “Linux” has security problems all over the place; the kernel has issues, the DEs have issues, the applications have issues. It’s more secure than Windows but that’s not a very high bar.

You shouldn’t be doing anything interacting from a server anyways.

Ideally no but in the real world it happens, especially with with Windows Servers.

I don’t want to install “word webview” on a server in order to look at a large log file or peruse some XML.

I wouldn’t say “created by”, more like “failed to address”. Of course THAT particular brush puts as much, or more, paint on Republicans than it does the Biden Administration. Those buffoons wouldn’t even vote for the bill that they wrote because they didn’t want to give Biden a win. It’s another example of Republicans of putting the good of their party ahead of the good of the nation.

We used to have a word for people like that.

Because we’ve started mass importing them to make things more streamlined.

That’s a reasonably accurate description of what’s actually happening. The US opened up access to CBP One and there’s now about 43,000 immigrants a month coming across the southern border legally. Then there’s the CHNV Parole program that’s averaging about 28,000 more people per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

Add those together and its something like 71,000 people per month who are using streamlined processes to legally come into the United States.

Those are official numbers from US Customs and Border Protection by the way. They’re in the August 2024 monthly update which you can read at this link.

I’m not complaining about it either. My grandparents got here through Ellis Island and I’ve spent years arguing that US Immigration Policy needs to be much closer to what it was back in the '50s.

The Biden Administration has been working closely with Mexico to grab these people and put them on “El Carrusel”. .

With as many as 700,000 northern bound migrants already in Mexico and more arriving daily I don’t think Mexico can afford to play along with this for much longer.

That Russian pilot was entirely dependent on the American pilot not experiencing “Air Rage” or having an untimely “weapons malfunction”. There’s a 100% chance that an AIM-9, which that F-16c did have on board, would have wrecked that Rooskies day.

Beyond that if the Russian had fucked it up and actually hit the F-16 all hell would have broken loose.

I dunno, with Healthcare the larger the organization the more serious they take it. A small practice may basically ignore it but by the time you get to be the size of UMC, the Hospital named in the article, they’re typically spending many millions of dollars annually on CyberSecurity.

The problem is that they’re stuck playing defense. They have to get it right every time but the attackers only have to get lucky once. They could successfully repel 10,000 attempts Monday through Saturday but then on Sunday they only repel 9,999 'cuz Bored Bob the maintenance guy clicked a new zero-day in their email and now they’re in the news.

This is the dumbest damned thing I’ve read about all month. What the absolute fuck???

WTH? The House can’t pass a budget or deal with any of the other pressing issues but they have time for THIS?

Law Enforcement, remember this article is about a Cop, isn’t “just anyone”. There’s two reasons for people being riled up about this, one of which is criminal and the other is user error / training.

Ignoring the criminal aspect of what he’s doing the Cop literally cannot fire that weapon without endangering himself and his fellow officers. He also can’t fire that weapon a second time without manually manipulating it because he’s using it in a manner that WILL cause it to mechanically malfunction.

It’s fucking stupid (and criminal) all the way around but it has nothing to do with the points you are making.

How the fuck is this legal?

Glock, an Austrian company, uses a variety of common sense safeties that are automatic in nature.

With a manual safety the user has to remember to engage / dis-engage it as appropriate. This means a weapon can be left in an unsecured state simply because the user forgot (or elected not too) engage the manual safety. Conversely if the user forgets to disengage the manual safety the weapon will not fire when they need it too, which makes an awful lot of sense when you know that Glock designed these weapons for Law Enforcement.

To work around the weaknesses of a Manual Safety Glock designed what it calls its “Safe Action System” which you can read about here.. In a nutshell a Glock will not fire unless the trigger is intentionally pulled in the correct way.

Other pistol manufacturers will have some, or all, of those feature and may have other things such as “Grip Safeties” where you have to be holding the pistol both correctly and tightly enough before it can discharge.

There’s quite a variety of automatic safeties in use in the pistol world. If you are interested you can read about them here.

On balance these kinds of automatic safeties are at least as effective as a manual safety and there are valid arguments with empirical evidence showing that they can be safer.

Any of the folks who place more value in their ability to end another person’s life on a split second than the safety of their own children want to chime in and explain this one to me?

Could you explain why you are using such inflammatory language? NO safety can or is meant to make a loaded firearm safe from a child. It’s arguably easier for a child to flip the selector lever on a manual safety than it is for one to grip a firearm a specific way or pull its trigger in a specific way (or both).

Loaded weapons, regardless of their type(s) of safety mechanism, should not be left where they can be handled by children.

Of all the “Feature Phones” I ever had, and I had a bunch, the Alias and it’s successor the Alias II were my easily my favorites.

The best way to do this would be to use data from 2023 (as the infographic claims) and NOT data from the years 2000 through 2022. It would also be helpful if the source wasn’t a right-biased US based organization whose stated goal is de-regulation of the Medical Industry.

They could also do their reports using established methodology instead of creating their own, base it on first sources instead of literature review, and maybe they could avoid biased sources while they were at it.

Seriously, I tore into the data and sourcing and it’s simply awful. The base report isn’t really even about wait times, it’s about increasing efficiency (and thus profitability) through using telehealth, blister packs, and OTC contraceptives.