There is a lot more yikes in the article than I was expecting.

Garuda is built on the zen kernel and ships with KDE, I have been using it for a year now and it meets all my needs.

No carrier has cell service at my house but maybe they will add a sat phone.

My ACL says my TV can’t talk to the internet.

This disclosure was from last year and the exploit was patched before the researcher published the findings to the public.

Me: I have been using Linux professionally for 20 years, I can edit fstab.

Also Me five minutes later: I am glad I have live boot stick handy.

I stopped reading at Financial Tech startup. From that alone I know what kind of people we’re dealing with here.

At one of my prior positions they outsourced all the junior engineers to this firm that only had windows desktop support experience.

Actual escalation I got:

contractor: I am trying to remove this file that is filling the drive but it won’t let me

me: show me what you are doing.

contractor (screenshot): # rm -f /dev/hdc

another one did rm -rf /var to clear a stuck log file, which at least did solve the problem he was having.

After that I sent out an email stating that I would not help anyone who used he rm command unless they consulted with a senior first. I was later reprimanded for saying I wouldn’t help people.

if your router is able to you can set up ACLs to allow the TV access to your network but not the internet.

I had an Atari 800XL as my first PC with 2 5.25’’ floppy drives and a cartridge slot for which I had only 2 games: Pengo and Galaxian. On the floppy drive I was able to play a ton of games including Ultima 4, which really got me into fantasy RPGs.

No honor among thieves.