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Much of the UK's regular government stuff is online and very simple too - their website is actually very good. It doesn't integrate everything though. The health service is particularly fragmented and communication is often by post and not that good.

Actually - a lot of closed source programs are still vulnerable to the supply chain attacks you mention where a bad actor has got access to their codebase. This has happened and been reported on, plus I'm sure, plenty of occasions where it was hushed up for reputational reasons. And - much commercial software still uses FOSS dependencies, so is also vulnerable to the same situation you describe for that. Worst of both worlds.

I don't think either system is inherantly better than the other in terms of computer security. Each has different and overlapping vulnerabilities.

If you're like me, then some time in your thirties. I didn't brush from early teens through until then - I had several abcesses and needed seven teeth removed, including my top fronts. Turns out I had undiagnosed autism, depression and low self image. Now I do brush, and it's just a case of forcing myself to adapt to a routine. Even keeping some flouride mouthwash handy for a quick swill every now and then helps a bit. Hope you find your way.

Agree. If you were 100% capitalist and everything you did was about money, then maybe. But most of us balance that for the benefit of our mental health and, well, not being a dick.

All my interests are hobbies, some of them even too expensive for me to do lol they’re nothing you can monetize.

Work is for making money, hobbies are for spending money. I think a lot of people mix that up and lose their enjoyment; money changes your perspective on why you're doing something.

China is somehow still okay?

China is too important a supplier to the West. Sanctions against them would lead to retaliatory sanctions against the West from China which would be economically devastating.

Obviously they are just as dangerous and as actively involved is espionage as the other world players, but they hold too many cards to risk escalation. The West is also too important to their economy to escalate beyond war games. At least - we all hope so.

Why do you think Linus is not being truthful?

How is that weakness different to installing closed source software?

Hasn't changed my view much. I already knew Linux was a company that has a legal presence in the US and so would be subject to their laws. The only real surprise is that it's taken so long to action this particular set of sanctions.

I do think the announcement was poorly handled - it should have been explained either before or immediately afterwards to cut back on the conjecture. The git notice only said that these contributors' names had been removed from the credits, not that they'd been stopped from contributing completely. Any company, including Linux, that does something they know is going to be contentious like this should bloody well get ahead of that curve and put the facts out.

The world is at war. It's not a bloody world war as we've seen before, but it is nation against nation by other means. FOSS is used so widely it is absolutely a target and nobody can be so idealistic that they cannot see the conflict, nor not know that it's constantly being attacked. Where you live does matter. I wish that wasn't the case - I truly do, but it's naive in the extreme to pretend otherwise.

Plenty of men support abortion - it removes financial responsibility from them, after all. Protests at abortion clinics are often held by women as much as men.

The more important demographic here is that most opposed to abortion are strongly religious.

Look outside the US and you'll see that countries that do support choice are less influenced by the Church. It's not coincidence.

As far as I can read from that, they're still maintainers, just have had their credit removed from the contributors page, no?

Still a strange thing to do and I look forwards to an explanation.

storing these files after I am done with them

If you're done with them, then move them onto a backup disk rather than keep them live and have a backup?

I've been doing this for a long time. I move files locally to a "To-Archive" directory and once in a while, move them to several disks based on content. Films, tv, apps, games, books - that sort of thing.

Once one disk is full, I use another old hdd in a disk caddy and label it "Books #2" and so on.

I use a windows program called Cathy which indexes the files, making it easy to locate a file on whatever disk it's on. Looks like there's a linux version available too

This works okay for me, and gives a use for old spinny hard drives. It's not infallible, but for stuff that I could replace (ie, I downloaded it) then I consider it an acceptable risk. All media has a risk of becoming unreadable, but do be realistic about how much bother it would be to replace stuff.

For data that's unique (ie, I made it, plus OS backups) then I use an offline grandfather/father/son rotation once a month and once a year turn the oldest into an annual backup. (Fully explanation of my setup is here if you're interested.