I thought that was making fun of R. Kellys Trapped In The Closet

That’s because a lot of these are “style parodies” where he parodies the style of a certain band.

Everything You Know Is Wrong is famously a style parody of They Might Be Giants.

Once you hear the style you can’t unhear it. He nails TMBG uncannily.

I was under the impression you could still do a cache:url style search, but it seems impossible.

They’re caching them, they’re just not sharing that with the public anymore. I know it has a cache because the Google result shows a bunch of text from the page that no longer exists. That “preview” text is pulled from a cache if the “new” page is resulting in a 404. I was hoping there some way for users to still access it, even if esoterically, but even those options seem unavailable.

https://www.meetup.com/fusion-la-israel/events/303578537/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

The meetup page is still up but Google Startups has been stripped from the image.

https://lu.ma/Israeli-Defense-Tech-Conf-Fusion-Google-Mafat

Also, the original page still shows up in Google searches, but was not archived on archive.org and I have been unable to find Google’s cached version of the page. Although they obviously have a cached version since the text is visible as a preview of what’s on the page.

Stay classy, Google.

The National Society of Certified Soil Scientists (defunct) wants you to know that they’ve always been cool.

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.

The Bubba Gump Soil Science Company

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.

“Thank you.”

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.

Thanks, John Oliver, but I really wish we didn’t have to turn to comedians to publicize such serious issues.

I can never marry my partner without her losing all the benefits she needs to function. I worry about us getting separated in old age because we’re not legally married, like being sent to different homes, or her ending up in a home and me ending up on the street. Ugh.

Also, changing that was one of Biden’s campaign promises that everyone forgot about apparently. It seems mostly wiped from the internet, too, except for a few references from news articles around the time.

Thanks for the heads up, I thought it was just me and gave up.

I like to think that Balatro is so popular it crashed the payment system, heh.

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

And another one bites the dust

A Bill Hicks routine manifest:

“What did ya do with your AI today, Sam?”

“Oh, we made ah, we made ah, arsenic ah, childhood food now, goodnight.”

[lays down and snores]

“Yeah, we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?”

[snores]

“Yeah, it’ll… you know the mums will love it.”

[snores]

lmao that’s less creepy and more absurd it even made it into a “serious” film. Especially him using his thumb to make the hand move. I had never seen this. I’m dead.

EDIT: Also, Children of Men at least had the excuse that you can’t really film a live birth for a movie, you don’t really have a lot of options of how to show a realistic just-born baby. American Sniper has no such excuses this is hilarious.