afaik one of the main motivations that led to start osquery project was precisely to have a cross platform tool to allow collecting much needed information from all your hosts in an enterprise setting
I have a very common name and signed up for gmail address right at the start. I now receive tons of spam because there are people who sign up to the weirdest things with my gmail handle.
BRAFWTNEGASSAY would make sense to the owner of the file or someone working in that particular project. Consider it a project name, or a keyword that is relevant in that particular context.
If you're working with files from different sources with multiple contributors this sort of approach works brilliantly.
You could have named it differently:
2013-06-26_KUTKLOON7_Plasmid-Cellline-100-1MutantFrac
Creation date can sometimes be lost if you copy/move the file between different mediums
More seriously, I sometimes sorta miss USENET. However, my ISP actually still provisions it. It has been a while, but I have gone back to check it out. It's nothing like I remember, so I don't end up making it a point to check the groups regularly and I leave it alone for a few more years.
I completely agree with you, I find this "disable antivirus" to be such a bad advice!
Yes, it may work for tech savvy or security aware person. If you know what you're doing you're much less likely to get into problems.
It won't work for general public though.
And the argument being made that "for example, see bugs in AV products listed in Google's Project Zero. These bugs indicate that not only do these products open many attack vectors" could be made for any piece of software your install.
Actually I don't think they could. A-V products inevitably insist on running with very high privileges on target machines, restricting the OS' ability to mitigate any vulnerabilities.
A-V products also have been shown be research from Google Project Zero to be doing very dangerous things (like running a local web server you can send commands to that are executed on the device).
When you combine high-privileged code with dangerous practices you get a very nasty set of risks that aren't present with most other software.
As there is an alternative that doesn't have similar problems (MS Defender) it seems sensible to recommend it.
There is no way to avoid that in the polish language, as someone else pointed out already. Nouns and sometimes even verbs or adjectives have gender, and you need to use either the male form or female form according to the situation
Yes, UV light would be more effective than chlorination at killing most of this stuff. But, you know...good luck convincing people to add expensive UV systems to their sewage effluent.
Apparently there is anyway movement to UV, as it is safer than handling/dealing with chlorine (at least, this is what someone tells me about the industry in the US).
UV is certainly easier to deploy than chlorine gas (a UV leak won't poison everyone in the room via gas inhalation), but it's still dangerous at the scales used to sterilize large quantities of water.
The bigger problem than either is that AFAIK, few places bother to sterilize their effluent. I'm not even sure if San Francisco bothers to do that, actually...
UV is used in some wastewater reclamation plants, it is the new how shit as of about 10 years ago. But with all things the volume of water being treated determines which processes are used, I know of a UV only plant that processes 37million gallons a day via UV. Thirty minutes away at a larger facility that treats 150million gallons a day they use chlorine only. These are massive facilities, and to change the processes used is a massive undertaking, expecting them to be able to pivot over night is not realistic.
New Scientist has an article in this weeks number about sunshine and fresh air working as "antibiotics", and how the use of air and light could reduce the risk of infections in hospitals.
