"The bottom line: We may never know the full range and extent of the damage, and we may never know the full range and extent as to how the stolen information is benefiting an adversary."

Okay, so an intern leaves the password "solarwinds123" on Github and then the Russians, a thousand of them - AT LEAST - "hacked into their servers" to obtain a not specified amount of information that can do not really specified damage. Or not. The password was on Github since 2017, which is four years ago, and nothing was done about it, when those bloody Russians (or Chinese, or Dutch, or, god forbid, some (1000!!) people from a non existing country) picked that password up and used it to undermine national security, or so, in the US.

Why not blame everything on a non-specified intern every time something like this comes in the (already a sewer of a) news-feed? That saves a lot of time, money and, most of all, head space. Or is the world doing so great that bull-shittery like this becomes the new standard for politics and is common sense passé?

I don't know how other readers on this very high standard website think about this, but somehow this reeks as a shitty story so bad, that even artificial intelligence doesn't want to have anything to do with it. Or, as we call it here in this household: propagande merdique.

Sir Ken Robinson had some very good talks about this subject, for instance this one from 2007 or this one from 2013. And looking at the date the article was published, 2017, it can't be ignored nothing has changed since that publication let alone Sir Ken's talks.

I have done several guest-teachings at primary schools, including really awesome workshops, mostly about and with art and also about healthy food (which even made it to tv). What I encountered a lot on all those schools were the straightjackets of regulation and an overkill of administrative work the teachers had to endure. Not to mention very strict teaching rules the teachers had to obey. No room or freedom there. No real ways or experiments to inspire kids there. Just the standard tests, just discipline, well, nothing really sparkling or even close to fun.
My workshops and teachings were somehow distractions from all the indoctrinary those schools had to offer. It is even so bad, that kids still remember me after all those years. So, I agree with the article and more so with Sir Ken. And probably a lot of teachers will agree with me that our two hundred year old school system and ways of government ordered teaching are pretty much out of touch with our current knowledge of psychology, sociology and pediatrics (just to name a few). Not to mention the world.

It's an interesting news-item, but the last months I get annoyed with how sources are presented: "citing so-and-so familiar with this-and-that". Pretty much every goddamn article has at least one such mention or type of reference and it doesn't make it any more trustworthy or at least clear. Journalism has gone down the past decades and no artificial intelligence is helping it either.

Having said that, I think it is very interesting how space-exploration is developing the last years. On one hand lots of countries are having their own (sometimes very advanced) space programmes, on the other hand it is also becoming a rich peoples' playground. I am curious how this will develop the coming years. :-)

Edit: and how about going off topic in the last two paragraphs doesn't add much to forementioned quality.

Well, after a few weeks of using I really do not miss Firefox. With several things I have noticed that the browser doesn't get identified as "Brave", but as "Chromium", which is not really strange, since that is the base of the browser (read: Brave is a Chromium-fork/spinoff). For instance, my phone sees the browser as such when I use KDEconnect and when I check up on my webserver it is exactly the same thing. It is not a problem, but one of the details that are encountered.

I have several extensions installed, which went really smooth, no reboots required. I am a Linux-man, so I was already used to that. ;-) I need way less extensions to preserve my privacy, which I find very handy.

Surfing still goes smoothly, the rendering of fonts is nice and crisp and the speed is constantly pretty darn high, in contrary to Firefox, what could freeze with a few tabs with video-content open. Starting a TOR- window is extremely fast and it shows that safety and speed go hand-in-hand pretty well.

I am satisfied upto now and would really recommend it for a test-spin. :-)

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