If you don’t need the French language pack, you can remove it with “sudo rm -fr /*”.

Every time I see “lichess”, it makes me think about “lich-ess”, i.e., a female undead wizard.

The event I’m referring to wasn’t OP’s photo. Mine was back in 2004 or 2005, long before Win10 was released.

Maybe? If I recall correctly, this was Windows XP. Also the computer was owned by the school, so the students didn’t have admin access.

I saw that happen once in a big presentation.

There was a team of students presenting their work to ~200 people. Right in the middle, a pop-up says updates are finished and the computer needs to restart. It has a helpful 60-second countdown, but “cancel” is grayed out, so all they can do is watch.

I was only in the audience and I still have nightmares.

https://media1.tenor.com/m/NazCMjC7DOcAAAAC/pce-peace-out.gif

Joke’s on them: those aliens don’t perceive time, so the concept of pressing keys in sequence is impossible to convey.

Never ever ever store passwords in the database. Salted hash only. It’s fixed length even if the password is a gigabyte long.

I have an infallible Machine of Death Certificate indicating I will die of “knife justice”.

Cowsay should be installed by default on every distro.

Counterpoint: Put it inside the phone, where it belongs.

ALL SHALL BOW BEFORE THE DARK OBELISK OF TECHNOLOGY.

Hannah Montana 5 eva.

I’m getting more of a Grogu vibe.

[Citation needed]

Every reverse-engineering study I’ve read has been about the apps built in top of the Google API, not the Google binaries. Here’s one, and here’s another, and neither paints a flattering picture.

Maybe it’s possible to build a perfect implementation, but that is not what we got.

You know what does work? Masks and vaccines. Phone-based tracking was a dangerous waste of time.

The Google system allegedly shares hashes of a ID-number salted with a rotating timestamp over BLE. But it’s also a closed-source binary. Can you or anyone else actually inspect its implementation? Can you really guarantee it doesn’t have even the smallest design flaws?

This technology is exceptionally dangerous. There is very little difference between these two scenarios:

• A doctor has identified a COVID patient. Let’s notify everyone who’s spent time with them recently.
• Secret police have identified a “dissident”. Let’s round up all their close associates.

It’s voluntary (for now). It’s allegedly secure (for now). But did anyone actually benefit from this complicated system? All I see are downsides.

Good riddance. It’s a totalitarian privacy nightmare that never functioned as advertised.

Similar systems were widely deployed in Singapore, on the premise it would only be used to fight COVID. Then to no one’s surprise, law enforcement started it using for criminal investigations.

Once they’re built, governments cannot resist abusing such systems.

Cowsay is a vital program. I’ve never understood why it isn’t installed by default in every distro.