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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • “So far, almost all studies of gut neurotransmitters were conducted in adult animals or human subjects, where a specific gut cell type called enterochromaffin cells produce neurotransmitters,” said Dr. Zeng. “However, we discovered that this isn’t the case in the newborn gut where most of the serotonin is made by bacteria that are more abundant in the neonatal gut.”

    Had no idea serotonin has other uses. Watch, the gut be responsible for modern wide spread depression.



  • Generally speaking, in reverse order of strength of argument:

    • Linux is built a little more securely. There’s a ton of caveats here but it is generally harder to privilege escalate. (inb4 someone sends me a list of escalation attacks)
    • The user base is generally more security conscious (i.e. doesn’t just run random executables)
    • Doesn’t have the same attack surface (like default exploitable services)
    • The ecosystem isn’t a monoculture so it’s harder to build one-size-fits-all malware
    • The market share is so low that it’s rarely ever a target of malware

    Mostly it just doesn’t make sense for attackers looking for low hanging fruit to attack Linux machines.