[–] 15 points 1 week ago

In 2026, there would have been an episode where he partners with the techbros (which are related to the Beagle Bros some how) to get rich off of "selling intelligence", Only to be stopped by his nephews uncovering a deep conspiracy to take over the world at the last minute(a partnership with Magika and Glomgold, perhaps) , and Scrooge pivoting to making a tidy profit from selling all the DRAM and renting data center space he's suddenly come into possession of. It would have been a 2-episode season-ending cliffhanger.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    I've seen the server version in action. It hooks into the linux audit subsystem, and traces every system action and operation. The data it collects is super detailed, and designed to track which user, which program, and which servers are connected to, which files are read and written to track and potentially halt lateral movement through networks.

    For regulated enterprise environments, it satisfies IDS/IPS/EDR requirements, and it's all wired up with their M365/Intune/Defender management portal. It makes some neat reports automatically about how data flows through a network, especially if all the points on your network are licensed ($$) and included in the defender system.

    For personal systems. Yikes. Just Yikes.

    It also relies on modern CPU features, so it would complain loudly about our older servers, and spam logs with messages about how it couldn't run, even though the system was updated to a current version of linux. It also had (last year?) some bugs that had it spinning wildly on a closed socket, which was fun to find :-/.

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    Thank you to all our vendors and buyers last year for making the fourth post-pandemic season run smoothly. Swapfest's 2026 season is expected to run as usual with the dates listed below.

    The link is the main page, and lists the upcoming dates for 2026. First one appears to be Apr 19, 2026. (but check the main page for updates!)

    ~an interested party (no affiliation with the swapfest folks)

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