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This reminds me that in the USSR they had typewriters that added an identifier somehow that could be traced back to that particular typewriter (and who it was sold to)

How resistant is it to dithering? Can you just add +-1 randomly to each pixel r,g and b values and throw it off?

Ok, but Hurro-Urartian is an agglutinative language family that is an isolate and has nothing to do with Semitic.

From what I know, the main issue is that the Linear A script corpus is rather small. Another commenter here said it's only 7500 symbols in total, spread around 1500 inscriptions (so on average 5 symbols per inscription).

The other thing I find odd, however, is that it's found to be a Semitic language. If it's a Semitic language, I would have expected it to already have been deciphered. And certainly linguists would have already looked at Semitic languages, and looked hard.

Also if it were a Semitic language, why wasn't it consonantal but had vowels? Usually Semitic languages (and Egyptian maybe) write only the consonants because their stems are made three consonants and vowels are interweaved to make words.

Example semitic root K-T-B and how vowels are added in-between to form words:

kataba – He wrote yaktubu – He writes / is writing kitāb – A book kutub – Books kātib – A writer / scribe / clerk maktūb – Written / fate maktab – An office / desk maktabah – A library / bookstore

And another such root - D-R-S which means "studying" or "learning."

darasa – He studied yadrusu – He studies / is studying dirāsah – A study / school course dāris – A student / learner madrūs – Studied / carefully planned madrasah – A school

This system of triliteral roots is the reason why usually Semitic languages don't use vowels. Why would Linear A have consonant+vowel syllabary if it were semitic?

The reason is that auto-updates and CI tools have reached a critical saturation and everybody uses them. Years ago, `npm install` would have been more likely to be run manually, and only if something in the build breaks - which means once in a blue moon. Supply chain attacks depend on people (or more likely, pipelines) mindlessly auto-updating packages as soon as they are released.

OK, how about this then:

    sudo rm "$(modinfo -n algif_aead)"

Nice and simple. Or if we want to be more thorough:

    modinfo -n algif_aead && sudo mv "$(modinfo -n algif_aead)" "$(modinfo -n algif_aead)_"

This reminds me of War of the Worlds, where the martians had no diseases and thus no immune system. When they came to earth they died from diseases.

A society like that, with no defenses, would be very vulnerable. That's why it's better to actually have some bad actors to keep "selective pressure" on societies so we evolve our defenses.

And the drive to HTTPS was initiated by "evil" Google (like free email with >2GB which was unheard of at the time).

I've often wondered about using an older OS such as OpenVMS for which hacking tools simply don't exist.

Am I the only one left in the world who actually likes Google and has a positive opinion of them?

I remember switching from AltaVista to Google and thinking they're much better. I remember a friend forwarding me an invitation to join GMail on its first beta day and how impressed I was with the 2.2 GB storage. I remember switching to Google Chrome when I read about its beta release on Slashdot. It was much faster than Firefox.

Personally, the company I loved to hate was Microsoft, and for me Google was the good guy.

Question to those who hate Google - are you old or young? Have you used the Internet in the 90s, before Google came? Have you used email where you lose your emails once you exceed the 20MB capacity, and you need to pay money to increase it? Have you used Internet Explorer because it was everywhere?

Have you seen what Google replaced?

How much jewelry is that in Tutankhamuns? Is it like half a Tutankhamun, or less?

Didn't America attack british colonies in Canada in 1812? I thought America was the aggressor in that war and Britain just retaliated.

Wouldn't those limiting factors apply for this upgraded protein as well? If they don't, then selective pressure should have already upgraded it.

I can't read the article, it seems to be behind a paywall or something.