The Doctor

For starts, read the wiki. Specifically, read the installation guide at least twice to get a feel for how it works and what the Arch vibe is like. This is also your chance to figure out just what you want to do. Do you want to use GRUB or UEFI? Which sounds like a better fit? What filesystem? What do you want to run? mdadm or not? A little bit of planning and reading is better than reinstalling half a dozen times (ask me how I know…)

Must-have applications? Screen or tmux. SSH. Whatever shell you’re comfortable with (bash is how I roll, but you might be a fan of fish).

The firmware blobs for that chipset might be in a package you don’t have installed. You’re running Arch, so install the package upd72020x-fw from the AUR.

I can’t tell if you’re taking the piss or not about re-implementing initscripts.

The last three or four companies I’ve worked for did. Usually a month or so in HR would want to know why I didn’t tell them about my birbsite account. They also usually asked why I didn’t update my LinkedIn page to say I was working there now.

You mean, there are places that don’t monitor their employees’ social media accounts to compare against?

Somebody testing their latest botnet before trying to monetize it?

Let’s see… Ventoy is a tool intended for sysadmins to use.

Something sketchy is going on in a tool sysadmins use when working on the crown jewels.

What could possibly go wrong? /s

New York, DC, and LA as well. If one doesn’t want a polite knock, one doesn’t speak ill of the CCP.

All of my servers make local dumps of their databases and config files to directories owned by unprivileged users. This includes file paths, permissions, and ownerships (so I know how to put them back).

My primary research server at home uses rsync to pull copies of those local backups from my servers.

My primary research server uses Restic to make a daily incremental backup to Backblaze’s B2 service.

Yes, and yes.

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Makes you wonder why so many people want to be rich and powerful, doesn’t it?

They seem more concerned with their bonuses and stock buybacks. In August Intel announced that they’d be laying off 15k workers to “save” $10 billion US. They’re also cutting back on R&D for the same reason. I guess the MBAs decided that losing customers by hamstringing Linux users is an acceptable loss. Not like folks won’t forget about this six months from now, anyway…

Sauce: https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/1/24210656/intel-is-laying-off-over-10000-employees-and-will-cut-10-billion-in-costs

Even when you try to turn them off.

The additional compilation overhead is a good stress test for a new kernel? /j

But hardly practical.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.

I don’t know.

If a company is dissolved before lawsuits or charges are filed, the argument could be made that the entity in question no longer exists and the filings are invalid. Just like you can’t sue somebody who’s dead. It might not hold up in court but I wouldn’t put it past some very expensive lawyers to try it anyway because it might work.

This article says that “it depends.” There might be a period of time after a company dissolves that it can still be sued, namely, if the legal process to go about it wasn’t followed precisely. If there are no assets remaining sometimes the former owners can be sued. There is also the question of whether or not you’ll spend more on a lawsuit than you’ll get from the settlement.

I just realized something: Most of the time when talking about stuff like this, people seem to implicitly be talking about getting some money out of it (as punishment, maybe). Rarely do folks ever talk about suing for the express purpose of preventing the thing (in this case, selling customers’ genomic information to third parties) from ever happening.

This article talks about suing for undistributed assets. Suing to get your genomic data back and verifying that it’s been destroyed before it could be sold to anyone else is a possibility. It also talks about suing shareholders; if 23andMe is being delisted that seems like a legal gray area to be exploited: If a company is delisted are there still shareholders? Logically, yes (people hold worthless shares of stock in a company that doesn’t exist anymore) but legally? It might be state-dependent as this article suggests (per Favila v. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (2010) 188 Cal.App.4th 189, 213).

Maybe under a quiet title action to get the genomic data back?

I’ve had bots scouting for such a thing for a couple of years. So far, we haven’t found any that aren’t way sketchy. Your best bet might be to social engineer the folks at a cellular biology lab at a big college or something, get them to sequence your DNA, and have them copy the data onto a flash drive or something. Then the trick is finding somebody who can analyze the data and make sense of it all.

Let’s break this down a bit:

There is a service that people are likely to use only once. Send them a DNA sample, they sequence it and send you a report. It is highly unlikely that customers are going to have their DNA sequenced repeatedly. The company fails to introduce any other services that lead to customers sending them more money.

This means a revenue curve that goes up, plateaus, and then drops back down.

It was all right there to begin with. The “good while it lasted” curve doesn’t take a lot of imagination.

HIPAA does categorize genetic information as protected health information: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/faq/354/does-hipaa-protect-genetic-information/index.html

That said… it wouldn’t surprise me if all of that data gets sold right before 23andMe tanks, the higher-ups take the cash and split, and there isn’t much left of a company to fine. Company tanks and that’s the end of it.