nyan

In my experience, that's a good way to overextend yourself and end up becoming nothing to no one as a result.

This too shall pass. Granted, it might take a while, though.

There are many more, too, although the number of pages they index is widely variable. Here's a list.

I guess he wasn't naked at the time (camera was hijacked too, according to the article).

And people wonder why I go out of my way to obtain equipment that doesn't have a bloody app or connect to anything.

Taiwan has urged its citizens to “avoid non-essential travel” to the mainland as well as Hong Kong and Macau after China unveiled guidelines in June detailing criminal punishments for what Beijing described as diehard “Taiwan independence” separatists.

I'm surprised that hasn't always been the recommendation—it isn't like Taiwan has had a good relationship with China since the establishment of the two countries' current governmental setups.

Linux users are hard for using a terminal when they could just open a document in a text editor.

The command line is always there and always has the same basic tools, assuming the system is bootable at all. You can't guarantee that a given system has a working GUI—it may be broken, inaccessable, or never installed. Having some kind of TUI editor installed is usual on non-embedded systems, but you can't guarantee which one or that it's fit for purpose (coaching a newbie through a vi session isn't something anyone wants to do). That means that the generic instructions that get passed around because they're fit for most systems (regardless of distro or purpose) use the command line tools.

So there is method to the madness, but if you're coming from a "GUI or bust!" OS it can take a while to get used to.

I cannot imagine a less welcoming and beginner friendly community

You have very little imagination, then.

There's no "may" about it. The Ars Technica article indicates that the Internet Archive's front page was (briefly) altered in addition to the account data being stolen.

It's a cat. It got curious about the inner workings of a satellite and stayed there past liftoff to investigate. And now it's acting silly in front of the camera in the hope that the servant monkeys back on the ground can figure out how to send it a zero-G litterbox and a bag of Cat Chow.

(/s, of course.)

We've known this was coming for a while now . . . but I suppose not everyone reads tech news.

Separate remote code execution vulnerability in unupdated versions of RocketMQ, a Chinese-developed messaging/streaming server, in the case of the infection described in the article. It's possible that there are a few other RCE vulns it can make use of, but 20000 of them seems unlikely.

I have mixed feelings about the necessity of this.

On the one hand, I know they don't really need the cell phones, because they didn't exist when I was in school.

On the other hand, the kids who are paying attention to their cell phone rather than the teacher probably wouldn't listen to the teacher if the cell phone wasn't present, either, and some of them would be far more disruptive toward other students who are trying to listen.

On the third hand, expecting the kids to pay attention all the time even if they've already mastered the subject and are bored out of their skulls by the repetition needed for the kids below the class median to have a chance of understanding too is a problem in and of itself.

Fortunately, I am not a teacher, a student, or the parent of a student, so I have no horse in this race and am not required to make a decision on whether the bans are useful or just obnoxious.