I am a Meat-Popsicle

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  • The definitions picked up as a different name from everything almost everybody just refers to it is a generic Trojan.

    It could very well just be a false positive but I wouldnt leave it at that.

    An offline windows defender scan would be a good idea.

    You can always switch over to bitdefender there’s a free version of you search hard enough. Don’t run Windows defender and bit defender at the same time long term but it’s not a bad way to get a second opinion.



  • Sure it’s getting cheaper, but is it getting cheaper faster than their need for it?

    I’ve always expected their business model was unsustainable probably only able to manage through venture capital and growth.

    There’s hardly even any competition, their free product is substantial. Even fully funding a server is barely enough to cover a bare metal node.

    This is just the introduction to cost savings. As they wade into market saturation, and still need to provide growth in numbers they’ll need to pinch the free users into paying and pinch the paying users into paying enough to fully fund the service. Of course it won’t stop there…

    Edit: FFS dictation can’t ‘their’ it’s way out of a wet paper bag.




  • I tried to ingest a four terabyte epub library once. Even getting the data ingested with the author and title in the right spot was almost impossible. If a duplicates weren’t just slightly wrong would be a different story but the duplicates are often misspells or different spellings.

    Realistically the best thing you can do is get an output of file name, title, author and hand dedupe, but even then you’re going to have to be careful about quality and language and all kinds of other strange issues you run into with large libraries.

    In the end I gave up and only stored what I really wanted and would realistically ever need and that was small enough to hand cull.








  • Just because I daily drive Linux doesn’t mean I don’t have windows around.

    I have used every version of Windows all the way up to 11.

    My first attempt at Linux was in the days of Windows 3.1

    My first successful conversion over to daily driver was in the XP era

    I went Mac for a couple years around the windows 8 time frame.

    I change jobs and went back to windows for a a few around win10.

    I went back to daily driving Linux and the windows 11 era, but I still have three win 10 boxes and a win 11 box that I use pretty regularly.


  • I tried slackwear in '94. Getting it running was no big deal, but I had zero experience and documentation / help guides were thin. Installing applications or getting peripherals to work was prohibitively difficult without having a pretty decent amount of knowledge about it.

    My high school had a rather large dose/novell Network but there was no internet yet. BBS’s were a thing and you could get a lot of installers and information from them. But they were all running in dos for the most part

    My college had a VAX, it was more or less there just to get email and power a metric ass load of terminals in the library for research purposes. They really tried to keep you out of the CLI, everything was menued. I figured out that you could go for it to a South African University about seven times in a row and it would explode and give you a telnet session, but even then I wasn’t really working with an OS shell. The school had a computer lab. It was all Windows 3 and Novell, No internet for the longest time.

    My ISP had options to dial up into a terminal session. My home dial up line was awful. Trying to FTP over PPP was a fool’s errand. I started getting used to connecting to my ISP and FTPing files down to their local node on with their T1 and then switching over to z modem to download the files to my house with the ability to auto restart on failure.

    I didn’t try to run a Linux based OS again until Gnome came out.



  • Not as such. But it also doesn’t mean that it can’t have catastrophic results.

    Your water heater has an overpressure valve, but just one. A failure in that valve and a temperature regulator and you can have your hot water heater shooting up through your roof.

    Your furnace has a control board. It turns the gas on, hits the igniter, watches for flame. An older, shittier designs, it was entirely possible for just one or two sensors to go bad and run the furnace to the point of melting down and have the house burned down. Source: happened to me on vacation many decades ago.