Snot Flickerman

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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • I can’t be the only one who recognizes that making people in foreign countries, like say, Austria in Europe, have to file this is in King County Courts in Seattle seems a little fucking dubious. I say this as a Washington State resident. Because it’s super easy for me to commute to Seattle to sue Valve… but it’s not for everyone else.

    I don’t know what, if any, options King County Court offers for people from other countries filing suit to be able to do it remotely. I get the distinct feeling this is a “fuck you, show up on our turf or fuck off.”


    Looks like District Court might have remote-access options, but I’m not sure if you’ll still have to retain a local lawyer. It says any state or federal courts, but I’m not sure if District court counts more as a city-level court than state-level.





  • I’d say the biggest, most glaring hole is that, much like in Windows, most users don’t really understand the file system and user and group permissions.

    Linux, as an OS, requires a lot more on the users part in understanding basic security right out of the gate.

    A lot of folks out here dropping chmod 777 all over the place just because they haven’t had any education on how any of it works.

    Source: Years ago, being a newb without knowledge or education, dropping chmod 777 all over the place



  • I think it’s rather corporate targets get bigger results than individuals.

    Hacking an individual is good if you need a zombie for a botnet.

    Hacking a hospital and hitting them with ransomware? Hospitals got some damn money. Regular people do not.

    Further, while users might be installing FOSS left-right-and-center, unlike corporations who are installing FOSS, most of what the average user installs doesn’t need secure networking and access control rules behind it. Most corporations use a variety of different FOSS all together in one package, and most of them are internet and network oriented, to function at scale, and as such, they have way more easy ways to get in and have way more valuable assets.

    I think, even if it had major market share, that most attacks go after big entities these days because the risk just isn’t worth it with small potato people like me who are broke, comparatively.



  • Most Linux malware/viruses target corporate servers.

    It’s not that there isn’t Linux malware or viruses, there’s plenty.

    It’s rather that you and me as individuals just aren’t that important nor do we likely have enough assets to justify us as a target to begin with.

    Corporate servers are more likely to have a large combination of technologies that allow hackers to infilatrate to begin with, whereas the average home user might not have many programs installed, especially not a large number that need network access and thus complex access control rules.


  • Thanks, John Oliver, but I really wish we didn’t have to turn to comedians to publicize such serious issues.

    I can never marry my partner without her losing all the benefits she needs to function. I worry about us getting separated in old age because we’re not legally married, like being sent to different homes, or her ending up in a home and me ending up on the street. Ugh.

    Also, changing that was one of Biden’s campaign promises that everyone forgot about apparently. It seems mostly wiped from the internet, too, except for a few references from news articles around the time.