rigid

> At least one RCE, admittedly with a non-default fail2ban config and a somewhat unlikely attack chain:

you had to manipulate answers from a whois server.

Sure, it increases attack surface (like any additional piece of code) but argueing to better let an IP hammer your mailserver with infinite stuffed credentials just to avoid possible bugs, is questionable at least.

fail2ban's CVE track record is quite good in comparision, if you take that as metric. It might be even more secure than using multiple different rate-limiting implementations that were written in C.

fail2ban is fine for effectively slowing brute-force attacks for services that can't by themselves or where significant complexity would be needed.

it's easy to setup and can stop multi stage attacks that generate quirky log output.

EDIT: fail2ban vulnerabilities? what is this guy talking about?

> Printer manufacturers also don't thing like this

at this point, what are they gonna do? Not provide windows drivers?

which would be in-band signalling again since uart is just timed 0's and 1's over a single tx and rx signal.

> I don't understand why such legacy support is necessary for 99% of my terminal use cases.

People need to run apps via uart or any other kind of remote link that might come in the future.

Also most image processing sites (like google translate) don't support webp upload.

Just sayin...

Nah, a more optimistic prediction would already be "-2 to 5" degrees.

"Conservative" in this context relates to the method, not the outcome. You're still ignoring the range-characteristic of the outcome and talk like it was "5-7" degrees.

I don't think so. Conservative ethymologically means "preserve the current state". Hence the opposite would be pessimistic.

Another person mentioning that these are Farenheit units, makes it clear. There were publications in the 80s predicting much higher numbers and shorter timelines.

Where's the exaggeration? When a scientists says "1-7" and in the end it's 3, there was no exaggartion.

Also, it's not a way how "climate activists think". It's called "Preparedness paradox" [1] and has been well researched, e.g. with flood disasters and their countermeasures.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox

Why would a higher temperature be the more optimistic estimate?

It's not that absolutely no countermeasures were taken since 1985. Just take Chinas renewable boom alone. There's a few things that wouldn't have happened without that prediction.

Also don't misinterpret a range. It doesn't say "5-7 degrees", it says "1-7 degrees" covering a best-case and worst-case scenario. It's not less credible just because the worst case is so bad.

> in essence, morality plays.

A lot of TV series of the time were... A-Team, Knight Rider, MacGeyver.The difference was characters looking back at our generations, shaking heads how stupid and immature we behaved in our times. TNG delivered a utopy in a convincing and exciting way.

> themes from the Bible and Graeco-Roman mythology

That's true for a lot of stories/saga: Star Wars, LOTR, GoT etc.You have a hero with doubts, going on a journey to save something, living through adventures. (Nicely explained in Joseph Campbell's "The hero with a thousand faces")

Until today, I haven't found anything similar, that gave an idea of a better future for mankind that's achievable and explained without lecturing.

Oh, and unconnected short story episodes are gone. I miss that.

or they could just jam the signal.

it didn't embed them into the wall but in cracks and spaces where they could germinate.

> All the traditional distribution methods have barely even figured out how to uninstall a piece of software. `apt remove` will often leave other things lying around.

Sounds like an issue that needs to be fixed instead of working around it. Also dependency hell. Few distros manage those hard problems nicely but they do exist.

dude, just pay the fine and frame the ticket.

> Killing trees for short term gain is just hatefully stupid.

Reminds me of the Bologna/Aquino Paper on society collapsing due to excessive deforestation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63657-6?error=coo... Thrill read.

Good example of software supporting teachers in education. Fascinating kids for hours without any teacher time.

We need a clippy for math. :-)

even more reason to stick to strict, standardized, uniform notation/syntax.

I wish teachers would read that.

> when I find a project and it's entire build system is just a make file.

reason might be, you only find small projects that don't need a build system. It's not like developers have a choice. As soon as you need dependencies, alternative dependencies, cross platform compatibility etc., there's no way around choosing a build system.