I’d rather weed out the assholes.

I think the Pope was responding to this:

Pete Hegseth prays for violence ‘against those who deserve no mercy’ while hosting first Christian service

Oh I’m old, but apparently I live in a cultural cave.

I didn’t know who he was so I looked him up on Wikipedia. Apparently he’s a fucking moron.

From the article:

Google says it’s removing XSLT to address security vulnerabilities. The underlying library that processes XSLT in Chrome (libxslt) is an aging C/C++ codebase with known memory safety issues. Chrome’s team argues that because only about 0.02% of page loads use XSLT, it’s not worth the maintenance burden.

It’s debatable whether Google, with all its resources, really needs to do this, especially given that 0.02% of all page loads is still quite a lot. But there are certainly times when it’s better to just delete seldom-used old code from your project to lower the maintenance burden and reduce the surface area for attacks.

Previously they would have had to encounter a person who wanted to manipulate them. Now there’s a widely marketed technology that will reliably chew these vulnerable people up.

Worked fine for me, but I block ads and trackers on my home network so that probably helped.

The link sent Rademacher to a page on WebinarTV.us which featured a full recording of the Zoom recording, an AI-generated video summary of the meeting, “chapters” that sent the viewers to different parts of the meeting, and an AI-generated episode of the “Phil & Amy Show,” in which two AI-generated personalities discuss the content of the call, including quips and rapport between Phil and Amy.

So their business model is to steal other people’s meetings and add an overlay of shit? I hope it fails miserably for them.

From the CNN article:

In Tehran province, strikes have affected 275 pharmaceutical, health and emergency centers, 498 schools and 17 Red Crescent centers, Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said, citing Pir Hossein Kolivand, head of Iran’s Red Crescent society.

The Al Jazeera link has the same number:

The damaged structures include 62,000 homes, 281 medical centres, hospitals and pharmacies. Additionally, 498 schools had been damaged, as well as 17 rescue points and 12 rescue vehicles.

It’s being fairly widely reported, though most sites seem to say 498 schools damaged, not 600. CNN, for example, or Al Jazeera. The source is a statement by the head of Iran’s Red Crescent Society, Pirossein Kholivand. Here’s an Iranian news agency giving more details of his statement. Of course, we need to bring media literacy to this and remember that truth is especially hard to discern in wartime.

VPNs? I don’t understand your question.

If you’re building your own router I’d recommend OPNsense. I hear PFsense is also good.

How about the bit where they say home routers have to be approved by the DHS or the “Department of War”? This is not normal.

So the application process is “drop us an email and we’ll tell you where to deposit the money.”

If you search for “install OPNsense” or “install PFsense” you’ll find quite a few guides. It’s not difficult to get going with these, but you should expect a bit of a learning curve if you’re coming from preconfigured home routers. It’s worth it though: these are far more powerful systems than regular home router software and give you much more control and advanced features like VLANs and intrusion detection.

That deals with the need for a WiFi access point, but not the main router functionality. Another approach would be a low-power PC running OPNsense or PFsense with a WiFi card repurposed as an access point. Or, if the new policy concerns only routers and not access points, a PC for the router plus a dedicated WiFi access point (some device that is not capable of being a router).

The USA is doing an impressive job of sanctioning the USA.

Yes. I run OPNsense and it’s very good, and all you need is a machine with two or more Ethernet ports. But this option is becoming more expensive with the crazy prices of RAM and storage.

It’s that, and also an invitation to bribery, and also a demand for surveillance backdoors. And your router may need your biometric data to protect the children (but not from billionaire pedophiles).

And it will be a selling point of Windows 12 over Windows 11!

Or of Linux, presuming it has a decent driver…