My company only allows downloads from official sources, verified publishers, signed where we can. This is enforced by only allowing the repo server to download stuff and only from places we’ve configured. In general those go through a process to reduce the chances of problems and mitigate them quickly.

We also feed everything through a scanner to flag known vulnerabilities, unacceptable licenses

If it’s fully packaged installable software, we have security guys that take a look at I have no idea what they do and whether it’s an audit

I’m actually going round in circles with this one developer. He needs an open source package and we already cache it on the repo server in several form factors, from reputable sources …… but he wants to run a random GitHub component which downloads an unsigned tar file from an untrusted source

Then forget all that and just use

cd ~ or cd /

EVs are more likely to be made out of aluminum and generally have a well covered bottom. I have no idea yet whether they’ll last better, but it’s something to consider trying for a next vehicle …. Or I could let you know in 15 years

I’ve had better results by including “man” in my searches to find the man pages, but man that makes for some questionable looking searches

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This is one of the reasons I need to set up Linux at home. I use it at work but who knows what the flavor of the week is?

At this point I can’t tell the difference between yum and rpm and apt and dnf

I imagine there’s a significant chunk of users who don’t know or care how to properly open their server up to the world and are relying on the Plex proxies

That seems like the obvious place to put a subscription that won’t get people upset. Or maybe it’s in the presentation.

When HomeAssistant started a subscription, they renewed their commitment to opensource, added new remote features with obvious costs under subscription while still letting you do it yourself, plus made it clear this funded continued opensource development. I happily pay this and haven’t been disappointed. Did Plex fumble a similar opportunity?

You don’t say “sue-knee” for “CUNY” (City University of New York) Etc.

Of course not, then it would conflict with SUNY (State University of New York)

And even more annoying, JavaScript is not correctly uppercased for common styles

f*ck. You can even occasionally get away with spelling it like this

P- iNG

When I first encountered it, it was by hearing it. It took longer than it probably should have to recognize that when people talked about “engine x”, they meant “in-jinks”

I was going to make a crack about you inventing MacOSX, which is at least “Linux adjacent”, but I don’t know how to work without a command line on either Windows or Mac. Some functionality is just so much more inconvenient or even impossible through the GUI, even on those

Yeah, but then someone does the same with systemd, am I right?

/ducks and runs

Definitely curious as well, but so far haven’t gotten around to trying

I used to do that but it would constantly nag until I connected it

Don’t minimize those strengths. Init.d scripts are something you can figure out just knowing a bit of shell script, or historical knowledge from before there was an internet. For something I rarely use, why do I need to learn something more complex to do the same thing - I either haven’t been sold on all the new functionality they piled in or do not need it. After all these years crowing about the Unix/linux way being many independent flexible tools that can work together, why do we now have this all-in-one monstrosity that might as well have come directly from Microsoft?

The best cut changes seasonally

• cut medium in the spring to better control it in fast growth
• cut long in the summer to hold more moisture and choke out weeds, to better handle dry season
• cut short in fall, to help it green up faster in the Spring, reduce thatch, and make it easier to keep clean of debris over winter

Once grass is hibernating, it’s not like cutting it short inhibits anything: that part of the grass isn’t coming back to life

Where are you?

I’ve never seen grass stay green over winter, in the northeast US

• Massachusetts
• New York
• Michigan
• New Hampshire