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  • It was windows soup - I think the new ones were like xp but that might’ve been later.

    They basically didn’t have security, it was literal kid [script kiddy] shit.


    If you mean the fail[ing-part]:
    I hated the teacher and didn’t respect her, because I was an angry teenage atheist [?]. [I] had principles about things like tests [&] homework, so I’d prove I knew stuff but not rehearse bullshit. The asshole teacher was trying yo [sic] be condescending about the subject matter because of [her] position, but she did not know how to open PDF … It was a whole thing.

    I was kind of an asshole kid, and [I might have been] wrong. I’m pretty sure she was in the wrong, but I definitely was being shitty and not [nice]; I was kind of going through some stuff.











  • The reverse is that if you really know your stuff you can get away with fewer restarts, or even none. But you pretty much have to know every component and update you run while in that untested state.
    This is similar to bugs that go away on a restart. If you don’t know why, then you haven’t really fixed it, just rolled the dice again hoping it won’t reoccur.

    As for updates, on regular systems you can do update everything but the kernel. You do have to restart affected services afterwards (often done automatically).
    Even on atomic systems you can switcheroo the subvolume underneath a running system.
    Unfortunately the kernel is quite major, so that is a valid reason to see the need to update. Definitely not as pressing as say nginx, sshd, or sudo though. Kernel bugs bubbling up to an exposed attack surface is still quite unusual.



  • Flu and corona are both “common cold type” viruses defeating resistance in some way. For coronaviruses that method is stopping the body from building effective resistance by all means possible, so that is why vaccines tend to not work too well.
    For the flu it’s the many variations and its tendency to change further and need new antibodies.
    So I don’t think a specific flu strain is hard to make a very effective vaccine for, but ofc this doesn’t yet solve the flu problem.
    The immense speed at which mRNA vaccines can be developed might improve that in the future, where this here could be one of many steps to get regulatory approval for blanket mrna and actually be permitted to change them at that pace.

    In principle mRNA should let you crank you vaccines for new diseases/flu-strains in under a week. If this can fully stop the flu?.. I doubt it. Whatever does solve it will probably make use of this tech though.