Primitive technology guy is making strides!

Do a search for you server OS + STIG

Then, for each service you’re hosting on that server, do a search for:

Service/Program name + STIG/Benchmark

There’s tons of work already done by the vendors in conjunction with the DoD (and CIS) to create lists of potential vulnerable settings that can be corrected before deploying the server.

Along with this, you can usually find scripts and/or Ansible playbooks that will do most of the hardening for you. Though it’s a good Idea to understand what you do and do not need done.

Just gotta live, one quarter parsec at a time.

Another reason for going with a swap file vs partition (if you need either) are nvme and SSD drives.

A partition that’s only a few GB and written to constantly will wear out a solid state drive quickly.

Using a swap file in a larger partition that has other data allows the drive to even out the wear across more storage cells.

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I’d say we’re less than a year away from a 24/7 AI generated TV channel.

Perfect for tuning into when your friend drops acid for the first time and as the only channel in psych hospitals!

The surprising part is the price. Baby colognes have been in a thing in other countries (the ones I’ve seen have a lemony scent). Example:

If the underlying concept is good and was well thought out, it’s better to build upon it instead of reinventing it.

Look at the 4 stroke engine (and engines in general) many of the design concepts date back to the 1880s!

There’s other engine designs (ex:rotary engine) but the 4 stroke has over a century of testing, improvements, and refinements. A new design can adapt some of the refinements, but would have to catch up on decades of innovation and testing just to catch up!

On the Unix side, there’s the evolution of the Posix standard (which was based on Unix).

I think of snap and flatpack as docker containers but for GUI apps.

There’s more differences of course, but I take that as the gist.

I haven’t used mint in a while but did for a few years. The out of the box experience (at that time) was better.

Article from 2011:

Linux Mint 11 is a very respectable and speedy distribution and is comparatively very media friendly and easy to use out of the box for newcomers. These qualities likely have contributed to the operating system’s place on the Top 5 Linux Distribution list.

https://pcper.com/2011/11/linux-mint-rising-in-popularity-and-surpassing-ubuntu-for-top-spot/

More contemporary Mint users chime in here with why they prefer Mint:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=383991

Take a hugely popular distro which alienates some some users with some issues or unappealing GUI choices, Mint comes along and polishes it further and you end up with a distro that is just perfect for that niche.

I think quite a few Ubuntu users migrated to KUbuntu or Mint when Canonical made Unity the default (in Ubuntu 11.04).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Unity

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Just have to patch in the Linux sound drivers from the 90s!

It should have a custom desktop environment called Crackle (or Krackle if KDE based).

First off, the water would need to be desalinated or you would ensure the land would be unsuitable for farming (and really growing anything) for generations.

Also, sand doesn’t hold water. In fact, when planting trees and other bushes, if you want more drainage, you typically add rocks and sand.

Second, most plants need non-sandy soil to grow on (palm trees and other beach bushes and plants aside) though those grow in areas that have lots of rain already.

Thirdly, the soil will need bacteria to aid the plants in obtaining nutrients and breaking down waste (dead leaves, dead plantlife, etc).

The way to do it is to look at a couple of projects that are fighting against desertification in Africa:

1. The Great Green Wall https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-green-wall/

2. Using compostable waste to fertilize soil https://jstories.media/article/greening-the-desert-with-trash

You’ll notice that many of these projects start at the edges of deserts. Instead of relying on pumping water onto sandy soil (which would just suck up the water as sand doesn’t hold water that well) they focus on extending the non desert ecosystem onto the desert so that the new soil will absorb water better, the weather over the newly terraformed area will be less dry, and it will eventually be self sustaining.

It was a remake of sorts of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Many of of the critics that hated it could have been doing so comparing it to the 1963 movie while the audience may have not cared and loved the update with contemporary comedic actors.

To many critics (who watch an insane number of movies) some tropes may seem overused or unoriginal.

Also holy crap, the original was nearly 3 hours long… Guess I’ll have to check it out now. That one shows 71% critic and 83% audience scores.

On the topic of Isaac Asimov stories on the big screen, I nominate Bicentennial man. 36% critic and 59% audience score respectively.

I thought it did a good with the themes it brought forth and Asimovs testing of the types of conflicts that would occur with Robots gaining sentience and humanity seeing them as just machines.

Despite the one event near the end that would create a conflict with the laws of Robotics and the effect it should have on a positronic brain.

Also James Horner’s awesome soundtrack.

As a layperson reading through this it seems to me the biomarker is related to the metabolic activity of a specific brain region called the subcallosal cyngulate gyrus. They used imaging techniques vs say blood tests, or depression questionnaires to identify the changes from the treatments.

It’s confusing because the study linked above is first talking about the deep brain stimulation which was the main focus of the study (and how they effected the anti-depressant changes).

This other link I found is more to the point:

The subcallosal cingulate gyrus (SCG), including Brodmann area 25 and parts of 24 and 32, is the portion of the cingulum that lies ventral to the corpus callosum. It constitutes an important node in a network that includes cortical structures, the limbic system, thalamus, hypothalamus, and brainstem nuclei. Imaging studies have shown abnormal SCG metabolic activity in patients with depression, a pattern that is reversed by various antidepressant therapies.

https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-3223(10)01003-6/fulltext

If the imaging is easy to do and interpret, then it would allow for a more objective way to measure the effectiveness of other depression treatments.

As a roadmap of sorts, the corpus callosum is the part of the brain that connects the two hemispheres. Knowing that look at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cingulate_cortex

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This highlits the specific areas (side view) that the paper in the OP is referring to:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-anterior-cingulate-cortex-ACC-consists-of-subgenual-sgACC-perigenual-pgACC-and_fig1_351484383

Depth wise, the regions you see are basically in the middle of the brain (not left or right) where the two hemispheres touch, towards the front of your head, and right above the corpus callosum (the bundle that connect the two hemispheres).

Basically, put the tip of your index finger above your eyebrows centered above your nose and you’re pointing the the right region though it looks like it’s buried an inch or two deep.

Eventually they’ll express your personalities for you in one of 4 exciting choices!

You should* update her resume, shop around her resume, look at some job postings, and get her to talk to some recruiters.

Update her Linkedin too.

It’s one thing to talk about a theoretical possible new job that might be better. It’s another to present her with: “These companies will hire you at X% higher and their Glassdoor reviews are better than your company”

I was like that (comfy in my old job) and it wasn’t till I was confronted with job postings that were 50% higher pay that I was qualified for and at a better company that I realized I was underpaid and needed to switch jobs.

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* offer to or encourage her to. Maybe it’s a bad idea to go behind her back and update her LinkedIn and resume though you could still check out job postings and glass door reviews.

The awesome Internet Historian video on No Man’s Sky for those that haven’t seen it:

https://youtu.be/O5BJVO3PDeQ

https://piped.video/O5BJVO3PDeQ