No one seriously thinks OF is a viable career path do they? Sex work has never been a career thing, at best you get a couple years of good earning and then you get forgotten. At worst, you get a pittance and mental health issues.

Tech has worked out for lots of people, just because some are laid off every so often, doesn’t mean the rest aren’t doing really well.

Oh, okay, might just risk it then. Paints terrible, but if its just going to be a small bit of sanding, or cleanup should be okay

Do you know how badthe damage to the wood will be? Is it like a small hole I can drill out and patch?

Ah, bummer. They are on the weatherboards, so might have to go. Shame, was happy to leave them be otherwise

Do they damage the wood they are attached to?

I dunno, maybe its time for Dropbox to just slowly decline and eventually exit? I don’t see what they could possibly pivot into that isnt already covered by Google, Microsoft, Proton, etc. They had years of first mover advantage they could have pivoted off, but thats long behind them.

That said, if thats their plan, then the C suite needs to have their pay cut to the bone as well. CEOs get the big bucks because they make the big decisions to grow the company. If they arent growing, they should be the first cut.

Anyone had to deal with mud daubers or paper wasps? I have both creating a nest on my house.

Everything I’ve read suggests they are nonviolent, so my current plan was to leave them be, and then knock off the nests next winter. Its gonna be a zero tolerance policy, if I get bitten once, both are gone.

Am I gonna regret it?

You are describing pickle, but it does come with some serious risks, especially if the file can be modified by a third party.

https://arjancodes.com/blog/python-pickle-module-security-risks-and-safer-alternatives/

I’d suggest using protobuf or similar instead, but its a bit more work.

Tangentially related, but when I switched my cat from commercial cat food to a raw chicken (w/ supplements) diet, her poops went from very bulky once a day, to shrivelled poops every-other day.

The amount of water in the chicken, and the lack of bulking ingredients made a huge difference.

Its not for you, its for spammers…

/etc/passwd: you may be able to get to this from the GUI file manager.

If not, open a terminal and type: cat /etc/passwd. Copy the relevant lines.

To test the login, from a terminal, type su otheruser, replace otheruser with the username from /etc/passwd. It should ask for a password, put that in and it should log you in. Type whoami and make sure its the same username as you expected. Paste any errors here.

I want a modern Flatout 2, such a fun game.

“Group policy me harder, babe”

I think that was meant to be a reply to me, so I’ll respond.

Technically, /etc/passwd can have encrypted passwords in it, but as far as I’m aware, no distro has done that in decades, so realistically its not that risky. It does expose the user names though.

Can you share the lines from /etc/passwd for your user and the user your adding? Despite its name, there are no passwords here, that is in /etc/shadow

Edit: can you su to login as the user?

Don’t windows-shame me!

I prefer to think of it as an open relationship. I have my home distro, my work distro, and if either of them aren’t in the mood, there is an wide variety of other distros to get the job done.

And if I’m feeling really kinky, there’s always Windows.

I think it perfectly highlights what can happen when the risk/severity is blown out of proportion. People will latch on to that and waste precious time and energy defending that.

If the original guy had just published “CUPS has a RCE, firewall it if you haven’t already”, the issue would have been patched in the next release, and the world would have kept turning.

It was a really cool bug, and a great find, it didn’t need the hype

Didn’t know that, but makes sense.

if you are from Russia, it is impossible to convince the US that you are not a part of a state-sponsored entity

This quote from your article does nail the problem on the head though.

Russians can still contribute, they just can’t be direct maintainers.

Nothing will likely change in the short term.