That’s an improvement over always being the dedicated tech support anyway, no matter how often you explain to them that you have not bothered to take a look at Windows and all its specific issues for a decade or more…

What does “getting caught” mean? They do it quite openly with everyone knowing and zero real consequences.

Nobody is saying “Linux is obscure”

How about scrolling up to the exact comment I anwered to? Or -as you seem to be on the exceptional dense side- let me do it for you…

Linux’s “security through obscurity” was never going to last.

As already explained above I did not expect that statement to use the common “long-standing industry term” because -again- it would be utterly insane to claim security through obscurity for something open source.

Just google the term

Yes, please do.

The actual notion of “security through obscurity” (that will surely come up on Google if their AI bullshittery hasn’t screwed up completely…) for Linux is insane because open source is the polar opposite. By that definition proprietary code is actually much more linked to the concept.

The often more unprecise and colloquial usage I thus assumed you were using doesn’t apply either, for the reasons I summarised.

So which imaginary definition of “security through obscurity” are you using and assuming that it will come up on Google when none of the real ones makes any sense?

“Close ally” my ass… Those vile creatures have no allies, and in this particular case the hatred and lots of personal insults are well documented. For a lack of concepts for normal functioning human beings -because they are none- the only thing these corrupt idiots know and understand is what lie to scream loudly at every moment of their life to get the biggest amount of power and/or money.

You are right. I don’t know what your personal definition of “security through obscurity” is as it’s very obviously not matching actual reality.

There was never an actual notion of “security through obscurity”. LInux runs the complete Internet and most coporate server infrastructure. That’s where the actual money is.

People hallucinating that Linux is something obscure simply have no clue and confused their home desktop for real computing. Windows desktops are constantly targeted not because they are -unlike Linux- so wide-spread but because they are already insanely insecure. They are the low hanging fruit where you can cobble together some cheap shit and will still find million of PCs vulnerable. If you want to find a Linux comparison it’s definitely not server or desktops but cheap IoT devices not having seen an update (or any security to speak of) for many years.

For reference: We are talking about guests in a virtual pc escaping it’s container. That’s not something obcure. That’s basically all cloud hoster’s whole business model, thus the reason Google pays a lot of money for finding such exploits.

This whole “we can’t stop screaming about our pedophile president yet are too corrupt for actual consequences, too complacent for action and too stupid to not be distracted by yet another war the moronic orange started”-shitshow gets boring after a while. And for the people directly affected by your wars it’s even worse. How about you actually fix your corrupt authoritarian state or shut up and live with the failed state you are seemingly too lazy to do anything against?

Petitions are useless

Protests are useless

Governments and corporations conspire to implement surveilance knowing what comes next

<-- we are here

Actual resistence

That’s not even the worst part. They also hallucinate that the sudden leap to an actual artificial general intelligence is just a few more upgrades away…

And all of this happens in a starting phase where exactly none of the AI companies are generating profit and they are all still fighting for market shares via heavily discounts.

If costs are far too high to justify replacing workers right now, just imagine the costs once the established market increases costs to levels that actually generate profits for them; ones able to make back the insane investments.

the agent is a tool you used

My hammer is also a tool. But if I start using (and talking about) it to wash my cloth and do my dishes I would really hope to get called out for being stupid.

(heavy?)

And right there lies your misconception. Newer software is not heavier by definition. Quite the contrary it often gets more efficient because of constant optimisation and improvements.

The concept of newer software using up ressouces like crazy is the scam used by corporate OS’ so you buy new hardware constantly.

Not cat but obviously a jackal… (seriously… was the name and the ‘weighing the soul of your connection’-thing not enough?)

Not anime…

Not a nurse… (that’s a maple leaf on the cap and since when is a magnifying glass typical medical equipment?)

Also and much more important:

Not the more annoying (and often failing) Cloudflare screen…

Not another stupid CAPTCHA…

PS: Did version 1.23.1 really change the Canadian flag with a ‘CA’… I have found screenshots of versions older than that that did display the flag as do newer ones. So I’m really asking myself if that was an intentional edit to get away with the “nurse” argument.