Are you using the standard xattr command that’s built into macOS? IIRC there’s another program out there by the same name with completely different syntax. Try running type xattr; it should say something like “xattr is /usr/bin/xattr” if you’re using the standard one.

I am going to blame Microsoft, because “works out of the box” shouldn’t conflict with “secure out of the box.”

And while I won’t blame Linus for insecure-by-default Linux configs, I will blame whoever integrated the distro/dockerfile/etc.

I remember when the local Safeway had one of these! I’m pretty sure that was in the '70s, though. It’s just slightly possible that I might be old.

I’ve also been watching CtC quite a bit for the last couple of years. Unfortunately, they’ve lately been doing a lot of long, highly technical puzzles, which I don’t find as interesting (though their shorter videos are still good). If anyone’s interested in checking them out, I’ll recommend a couple of older videos that I really enjoyed:

• “The Sudoku Miracle” set by Mitchell Lee has just two given digits, and some inadequate-seeming rules.
• “Everything is Wrogn” set by DiMono has pretty much every rule in the book, and requires that the solution violate all of them.

If you enjoy watching people solve sudokus and other puzzles, I’ll also recommend Rangsk (generally does the daily NYT hard sudoku, a 6x6 intro-to-nonstandard-rules “sudoku adventure”, and a collection of wordle-ish (but not not actually wordle) games), Bremster, and zetamath (does quite a few live solves with audience participation, as well as reaction vids to other people solving his puzzles).

Link to the actual study: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2807617

BTW, let me add a bit to the cautions about attributing the difference in death rates entirely to Republicans’ performative dumbshittery: older people are, in general, both more likely to be Republicans and more likely to die of COVID (and also other diseases that an overloaded medical system could otherwise have helped them with), so there’s a pretty obvious confounding variable here.

On the other hand, that confounding variable applied just as much before the vacciles were available, and the difference in death rates doesn’t seem to have existed before that.

On the gripping hand, I’d expect the similar difference in performative dumbshittery WRT masks to have been around before the vaccines came out, and to have caused a difference in death rates before vaccines… but it looks like not.