I can’t be the only one who recognizes that making people in foreign countries, like say, Austria in Europe, have to file this is in King County Courts in Seattle seems a little fucking dubious. I say this as a Washington State resident. Because it’s super easy for me to commute to Seattle to sue Valve… but it’s not for everyone else.

I don’t know what, if any, options King County Court offers for people from other countries filing suit to be able to do it remotely. I get the distinct feeling this is a “fuck you, show up on our turf or fuck off.”

Looks like District Court might have remote-access options, but I’m not sure if you’ll still have to retain a local lawyer. It says any state or federal courts, but I’m not sure if District court counts more as a city-level court than state-level.

It seems like its actually a giant fuck you to anyone who doesn’t live in King County, Washington State, USA.

Everything has to be done in King County Courts in Washington State.

That’s some big travel costs for people all over the world.

Tryna steal the job from storks

I’d say the biggest, most glaring hole is that, much like in Windows, most users don’t really understand the file system and user and group permissions.

Linux, as an OS, requires a lot more on the users part in understanding basic security right out of the gate.

A lot of folks out here dropping chmod 777 all over the place just because they haven’t had any education on how any of it works.

Source: Years ago, being a newb without knowledge or education, dropping chmod 777 all over the place

Most the anti-malware for Linux is aimed at Enterprise/Corporate level stuff.

For example Bitdefender used to have a Linux version of their free antivirus for home users, but they discontinued it.

On the other hand, if you’re a business customer, they have a lot of paid Security Endpoints for Linux.

https://www.bitdefender.com/business/support/en/77212-157515-bitdefender-endpoint-security-tools-for-linux-quick-start-guide.html

Generally, as it stands, most real quality security for Linux setups is genuinely aimed at businesses, not individuals, sadly.

I think it’s rather corporate targets get bigger results than individuals.

Hacking an individual is good if you need a zombie for a botnet.

Hacking a hospital and hitting them with ransomware? Hospitals got some damn money. Regular people do not.

Further, while users might be installing FOSS left-right-and-center, unlike corporations who are installing FOSS, most of what the average user installs doesn’t need secure networking and access control rules behind it. Most corporations use a variety of different FOSS all together in one package, and most of them are internet and network oriented, to function at scale, and as such, they have way more easy ways to get in and have way more valuable assets.

I think, even if it had major market share, that most attacks go after big entities these days because the risk just isn’t worth it with small potato people like me who are broke, comparatively.

Most Linux malware/viruses target corporate servers.

It’s not that there isn’t Linux malware or viruses, there’s plenty.

It’s rather that you and me as individuals just aren’t that important nor do we likely have enough assets to justify us as a target to begin with.

Corporate servers are more likely to have a large combination of technologies that allow hackers to infilatrate to begin with, whereas the average home user might not have many programs installed, especially not a large number that need network access and thus complex access control rules.

Mountain Dew flavored condoms with the catchphrase “Do the Dew!”

And another one bites the dust

Last I checked so is Weird Al Yankovic.

It’s a pity they’re so rare, but they really are.

Having known some people in elder care, the reality is that some old people are nasty, brutish, mean, racist, misogynist, creepy, violent, you fucking name it, there’s some old person you’re going to have to take care of who matches that horrible personality. You’re paid the same whether you’re helping someone you like or someone who is rude and assaults you every time you enter the room.

I agree with you, elder care should still exist, but I can see why some people get tired of taking care of terrible old people who were likely terrible people all their lives and who are just allowed abuse you. Why are they allowed to abuse you? Because most people who do elder care and underpaid, overworked, and don’t have a lot of other options that pay nearly as well. Basically you’re accepting middling but better than fast-food pay to have abuse dumped on you. I can see how someone feels like its a karmic freebie because there’s no responsibility in any of it, generally management won’t do anything about “problem elders.” Get to be a fucking asshole your whole life and then get to be a fucking asshole to the person wiping your ass before you die.

I have a similar story from another friend who ended up at a mental health hospital in a violent youth ward. He was underpaid, overworked, and responsible for about 30 violent and dangerous kids with unstable mental health issues that made them difficult to approach. If he was busy helping one kid take their meds, and another kid on the ward was in the same moment trying to take their own life and succeeded, he would be the one responsible. He was not being paid enough or had enough support to justify taking full responsibility for things that are outside his control when he cannot magically manage 30 dangerous cases at once. He left the job after two months of assaults and scares. I don’t blame him, and he doesn’t blame himself, and we also understand that those 30 cases deserve better care than they’re getting but it’s not his responsibility as an individual to make up for the shortcomings of government funding for this.

Same with people who work elder care. It’s not their individual responsibility to make up for the fact that these companies don’t give a damn about the people they’re caring for, and each elder is just an income stream in a database. The number of people I know in elder care who now have permanent back problems because they’re being expected to lift 300lb old people off their beds and they’re not being given proper equipment for it is too damn high. These people do not deserve to have their bodies broken and paid pennies on the dollar to be abused by the elders in their care, not given the right tools to do the job, with a prevailing attitude of “they’re just old people, how bad can they hurt you really?” Pretty fucking bad, shockingly.

Elder care needs to exist. Does it need to exist as it exists now in the USA? Abso-fucking-lutely not.

Don’t have a cow, man.

Yet somehow the top comment is basically saying what I’m saying. Interesting.

I mean, that’s fair. I get it, I just don’t really find it very funny.

Literally all of these languages are rooted in English.

C: printf()

C++: cout

JavaScript: document.write() or window.print()

Java: system.out.println()

Python: print()

Rust: print()

Exactly zero of those reference a language other than English. I’m not even a linguist and this is just silly. It’s literally part of why English is becoming the dominant world language, because if you learn computer programming you basically have to learn English.

Are you at all familiar with Charlie Brooker’s (creator of Black Mirror) comedy work? Black Mirror is great, but I honestly think he’s a better comedy writer.

He’s behind all the recent great Philomena Cunk shows such as Cunk On Britian and Cunk On Earth. (Soon Cunk’s Quest for Meaning)

Cunk herself started as a bit character, a “man on the street” interview on Brooker’s old comedy news show his Weekly Wipe/Newswipe. I kind of miss her male compatriot, Barry Shitpeas, but I suspect his last name made it harder to build a show around him.

The dialogue of Daniel Kaluuya at the end of Fifteen Million Merits, where he’s speaking from his fancy new apartment to his new video platform, is basically Daniel doing an impression of Charlie Brooker on Newswipe. It completely changes the final scene if you’re familiar with Brooker’s own comedy, it’s a nice piece of self-critique.

Also, he put John Hannah (who I still also love in The Mummy) in my good books with his send-up of tough police procedural shows with A Touch of Cloth the name of which is a reference to not being able to hold in your shit, and its crowning and touching the cloth of your underwear. Lot’s of stupid cloth-related puns for funs.

We’re finally getting a wrap-up to Final Space at least in graphic novel form!

The best thing about Smiling Friends is that, despite how dark the humor can get, the show generally has a positive attitude and positive messages about humanity, friendships, and kindness.

For outwardly seeming like its just random shock shlock humor, Smiling Friends really does have depth and heart to it.

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