Oh fun. I had one of the packages installed, but not an infected version, and I hadn’t updated it during the window.
Feels like a great reminder to keep a clean minimal system. Why I was keeping vidcutter installed and up to date when the last time I ran it was probably years ago.
Sorry. Also, apparently she got the covid vaccine. She just uses a lot of “I have a lot of questions about the vaccine industry” type rhetoric that makes her popular among anti-vax circles. She’s not a strict anti-vaxxer, just kinda weird about the whole situation and generally doesn’t get vaccines most of the time.
I also think that it’s a very tricky situation. Because a lot of people are morons. If you talk about negative side effects, people will be like “Oh no, I’m not taking a 1 in 100,000,000,000,000 risk. I’d rather get measles!” but if you don’t talk enough about negative side effects, there’s some sort of conspiracy cover up.
I don’t think she’s lying about the severity of her side effects, but the article has a slight air of “doctors are LYING about side effects, if this happened to me, this must be happening SUPER OFTEN to A LOT OF PEOPLE” which i don’t think is the right message to be putting out either. Some of that might be because of bias around her other stances.
But it is still an anecdote, from Fox News. I feel like theres probably a better source, even for the same story.
An anecdote from an antivaxxer on Fox News isn’t exactly “science” is it?
I find pedants are often wrong or completely missing the point.
Sometimes it triggers a fun discussion. and sometimes it’s just tedious.
(ghoti could never be pronounced like “fish” because “gh” only sounds like an F near the end of a word after au or ou, but ghoti is at least an interesting way to bring up the topic of weird inconsistencies of the english language, even if it’s wrong)
I left out some context. There was a massive controversy that sparked a lot of the “toxic community” claims. Someone showed up with pronouns in their discord display name. A server mod changed that user’s display name on the server so the pronouns were “(who/cares)” … Which vaxry declared “not a big deal” but they made it clear that showing up with pronouns in the server was “politically divisive” and that users who include pronouns are unwelcome.
“LGBT issue” being lumped in with “politics” in his quote is intentional, as his way of being dismissive of it.
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I think OP chose a random picture of servers to represent “linux” despite netflix[0] not having anything to do with this. And then cited the first item in the Debian social contract[1]. And then just wildly speculated that because other distros don’t have a social contract, that they might someday start charging money (they won’t they would just as soon stop existing than charge money, but ok).
So in summary… “Computer pictures” + “Debian good” + “Arch not good” in a wild mishmash of nonsense.
Also, to the OP: using a picture clearly labeled as Netflix just to start a conversation about the debian social contract is highly confusing and misleading. No one here has any idea wtf you are talking about.
0: Netflix has published plenty of stuff about how they exclusively use FreeBSD for their CDN https://freebsdfoundation.org/end-user-stories/netflix-case-study/
https://freebsdfoundation.org/end-user-stories/netflix-case-study/ Netflix. The one that famously uses FreeBSD for their stuff?
Remember ALF? He’s back. In pog form.
From reputable science journal the NY post
You dont want your ISP to know you are downloading linux ISOs though. We should use some sort of code name for it. Like “copyrighted movies”
Don’t know what day this was posted, but that’s the beauty of evergreen material
Rule #1 of shipping code: never be around for the fallout. Do not stick around after clicking deploy.
Brits when you use the word that was invented by Brits for it.
I’ve never gotten any automated locks because I’ve always been concerned about security around them, but also, Ive had too many warped doors in my life where I have to lean on the door to get the deadbolt to properly set. Which means that there is no way an automated lock would be able to automatically set itself.
Is the answer here: “there are just some doors this won’t work on” or do the smart locks have some way of working around that?
“Set and forget” time based thermostat programming only works if your daily routine doesn’t change daily or weekly or have outliers. The ability to change manually, or add other factors (is anyone home? let it get a bit colder, since it doesn’t matter) is pretty great.
But I would still advocate for no internet connected thermostats from the OP. Your thermostat should be isolated to your home network (via zigbee/zwave or a quality VLAN) connecting to a server/hub you control. And your app should be communicating to your server/hub. Your thermostat shouldn’t be able to report back to google whether or not you are home.
If you don’t understand the desire then you don’t have a use case. And that’s ok. But that doesn’t mean other people don’t have a use case.
Properly set up home automation can reduce your energy usage. Track temperature throughout your house and open blinds, only direct heat/cooling to rooms that need it, etc. Sure a thermostat is programmable but it’s limited by the ability to just turn on/off heat and a few temperature sensors. You can drastically expand what your thermostat can do (ie motorized blinds) and information it has access to (temperature outside, current weather, etc).
Or maybe someone is the type to have panic attacks about forgetting to turn the oven off. Having the ability to see oven status on the go is nice.
Or maybe someone has a larger house than you and the journey to the thermostat is more arduous than yours. Or the journey to the dishwasher or clothes dryer to see if it’s done is arduous.
Or maybe someone has a disability and having quick access to various things is a huge time saver.
Maybe someone has a sensory issue and loud buzzing from a dryer finishing is problematic, so they want to disable the “finished” alert from the device and just receive a notification on their phone.
but if youre gathering that much data and making decisions with it, then from the OP “no internet connected thermostats” is a must. None of your smart home stuff should be able to phone home. Basically the openWRT argument but also for smart home. Use zigbee or zwave so devices can’t just directly phone home and must simply connect through a hub (that you should control).
tl;dr - plenty of reasons to want these things, they just may not apply to you.
My last update to vidcutter was from 2025 (based on my pacman logs). Some tools will scan for “did you install the bad package during the bad time period” and some will scan for “is the bad package name installed at all” - so i was able to identify that vidcutter was installed and I knew that the package names looking familiar made sense, and I was able to manually confirm that I was still clean. And now I have a lot of system pruning to do.
But if you thing some packages look familiar, it might be worth double checking.