[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If it's that bad, could you maybe give people a hint as to why we'd want to watch it and what it has to do with linux?

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

If we're including television I'm disappointed that nobody mentioned Blackadder.

If not, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Anachronism means something else, especially with respect to movies.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Guess I should've gone with "Academic? It doesn't even cover ancient Greece."

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Academic? History of the World Part I? I guess you could say it has about as much academic rigour as the average Mel Brooks movie.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It has some advantages. It can be configured with simple text files and normal filesystem permissions. The sshd code is mature and has a proven record of good security. It doesn't add yet another thing to systemd that has no business being part of systemd.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Default threat model: Some malignant demon, who is at once exceedingly potent and deceitful, has employed all his artifice to deceive me

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

[false claims that] journalists gave the recent PS5 game Stellar Blade (pictured below) bad reviews because its female characters are too hot

That seems an inadequate way of summing up the Stellar Blade controversy which on the whole was considerably more ridiculous than that.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
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head -$[$SRANDOM % `wc -l /usr/share/dict/words | cut -f1 -d' '`] /usr/share/dict/words | tail -1
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

If it's more than none at all that's pretty good. But adhering to open standards is also a factor in how we should judge these providers which goes beyond that.

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Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been directed by completely different interests. Now comes the next attempt.

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