But apparently not smarter than CEOs or these con artists would all fuck off.

I ran sid in serious production when I was younger and more foolish. The trick with unstable distributions is to test before you deploy and know the incompatibilities and have the fixes ready in advance. The problem is you are basically taking a snapshot approach and doing the work of the debian release system yourself and doing it half-arsed. An urgent security update comes out and you can't rush to deploy it without risking a dependency being pulled in that breaks under your config. For servers it ends up being a huge amount of work for no gain and you can actually miss out on security updates.

BTW this approach is why Valve can release Steam OS based on Arch or Google can base ChromeOS on Gentoo and release them to millions of consumers safely. They freeze updates to create a release candidate and test it and they deploy a limited subset of packages.

At home I update one arch desktop machine to work out what breaks, how to fix it and seed the package cache on our server before I do the rest and break everyone's systems. I could do the same with Sid but Arch, despite being unstable intentionally isn't all that unreliable compared with Sid though my experience with Sid is dated.

I only ever deploy and develop on Debian. Community run distros all the way. I had bad experiences with Redhat decades ago and do everything I can to avoid it or its siblings.

Debian has faults but it is often a taste thing. I like systems that give me upstream with minimal patches, like Arch. I moved to Arch on all desktops/laptops. The Debian devs repeatedly doing dumb shit with ssh patches was part of that. Arch is not unreliable but it is unstable. All that means is that software updates which aren't backwards compatible sometimes require intervention . To be clear that is not a fault with Arch but it does make it much less suitable for long hassle free server deployments. Also Arch doesn't have the Debian security announce list or maintain a stable production environment for years with backported security fixes and unnattended security updates.

Always surprised by music critics/industry types using their data as an indication of artist popularity. It has been generations since real music fans moved to a combination of piracy and directly supporting new artists with merch, vinyl and live shows. I suspect most spotify listeners aren't music fans. It is just something they have on as the background soundtrack to their bland consumerist lives.

I wouldn't wear a helmet for a short relaxed trip to the shops on a nice even seperated path if it wasn't the law. I suspect I am more likely to die from melanoma than brain injury from a fall and a broad brimmed hat would make more sense to me. Rest of the time they are better than nothing but not by much. The fines for not wearing them are insane.

Any good done by mandatory helmets is immediately undone the moment you funnel cyclist into door lanes. Flying into someone's door at speed can give you serious brain injury with or without a bit of foam on your head. Helmets are great for sports cycling but the weakest protection for commuters. They won't protect anyone from being crushed by a turning garbage truck.

The Linux kernel team has a policy that all bugs are potential security threats and should be assigned a CVE. That does not mean these CVEs are exploitable. Many will be for features that aren't even enabled on typical systems.

LLMs are allowing researchers to locate known classes of bugs more easily than an exhaustive search with other tools. Security researchers are driving the bus here. Not the tech companies or their products. Don't believe the marketing hype. The tech companies want us to be dependent on subscriptions to their products and deskilling is part of their agenda. Good stuff is coming from security researchers using expertise and tooling.

In this case it isn't the Americanisation of NSW police. It is the Isrealification. Some might say there isn't much difference.

There was an abhorrent attack on Jewish people at Bondi. Australian's reject political violence and were shocked by this incident. We do not want this bullshit in our county. Unfortunately ZIonists used the incident to push their political agenda down our throats. Jewish people do have some legitimate fears but this country is not a war zone and we should not behave like one.

It is fucking amazing that people managing huge funds are prepared to throw money at complete fuckwits like this guy or that dumbarse Theranos lizard woman. If you have money clearly all you need to do is spout bullshit and roll a dice and you make more until you don't.

What I don't understand is why the fuck we elect people who suck up to these cunts. Like we have total control of who we vote for. And we still vote for door mats. What's with that?

I wish the ALP would prioritize governing for the benefit of regular Australians a bit more. Come out to your electorates and talk to your voters instead of hand out positions and power to people like Segal or Inman Grant to make decisions impacting our lives with no mandate from Australian voters. It is a cop out and these conservative appointments have fuck all to do with the reasons we elected Labor or the things we are still waiting for Labor to deliver.

In general people have no fucking idea or just don't want to know.

You can lay out the evidence of all the ways cigarettes will kill a person and a huge number of people will go ahead and smoke anyway. We are not an entirely rational species.

People have a massive capacity for self delusion. Even then a lot of people who accept the truth of living under corporate and government mass surveillance think the risks are acceptable or won't be abused or are unavoidable in modern life. They are wrong but I can understand how their delusion brings them comfort.

Some of them are AI slop. But also people are extremely impressionable and ready to sign up to a cause and there is a bit of a cult forming around machine learning applications. There are weirdos ready to marry, serve and worship their delusions. Its not without precedent.

Immature man child attempts to murder a cyclist and gets a strongly worded telling off. A vehicular assault on a politician and the sky is falling and its the end of civilization. We have some incredible double standards in this world.