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How social engineering and exploits crippled a 300k player Minecraft server(youtube.com)
2 points by Slighted 4y ago|1 comments
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by Slighted 4y ago
Which is why I wrote "Is it more efficient in the long run?" Ideally there would be an open probe into the project as a whole decide whether or not the switch is a good idea, and whether or not such a change should be accomplished
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by Slighted 4y ago
While C and C++ are languages that are permissive to the point that bugs can be introduced incredibly easily I don't think they need to be replaced in order to eliminate said bugs, and especially not with a language like Rust. Is it mo
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by Slighted 4y ago
When I was writing my post Jamie Zawinski (The "Mozilla guy") was what I had in mind. A great programmer but very outspoken in his social views to the point that he's entirely disconnected from reality. Lacking perspective. T
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by Slighted 4y ago
Regardless of whether or not its his personal website, my point still stands, although reading my previous post I think I should be more specific. There are quite a lot of big-name programmers that gain large amounts of ego from their work
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by Slighted 4y ago
Its not only limited to pg, either. There are lots of big-name programmers that look at their programming skills and think it means they're good to speak on other, totally unrelated topics as if they're super geniuses.
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by Slighted 4y ago
I mean hey, sucks for the people that live there already, but it ain't happening to me so its not my problem!
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by Slighted 4y ago
Alternatives/"solutions" aren't always better than that which they seek to replace or fix and may very well be noticeably worse. Homeless people are an annoyance but so is extremely dense housing to the point that local
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by Slighted 4y ago
Hilariously, this thread has reached hundreds of comments in under an hour. Indicative of the kinds of people who use HN perhaps?
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by Slighted 4y ago
I'm extremely surprised at the volume of dead comments on this post pointing out the COVID vaccines as a potential cause... NOT. I'm sure most multi-billion dollar company CEOs froth at the mouth at the idea of having an army of u
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by Slighted 4y ago
Its unfortunate how many people can't take a joke. Wozniak certainly wasn't wasting anyone's time as the bills were legal. Wozniak didn't have to deal with the SS agent either and could've easily invoked his 5th ame
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by Slighted 4y ago
Based on your post, it seems as though things in _your_ particular area are declining. If you live in San Francisco or New York, well, those places are the stinky rotten armpits of the United States (assuming you live here, of course). Poli
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by Slighted 4y ago
South Korea. Be specific about it.
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by Slighted 4y ago
Just because it can pass the test doesn't mean that its behavior will be consistently correct. Trusting ChatGPT in medical applications is the same as trusting it in programming applications: It will work for simple to intermediate tas
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by Slighted 4y ago
I know, which is why I included it in my post. The grammar looks good to me.
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by Slighted 4y ago
AIs in their current capacities are non-autonomous tools. Like any tool they can be abused by people with malicious intentions. Think of a gun homicide. It wasn't the gun that killed someone but rather the person holding it who activat
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by Slighted 4y ago
FAGMAN works just fine.
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by Slighted 4y ago
No need to. The account was created minutes ago solely for these comments. They can stew in their rage as much as they'd like.
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by Slighted 4y ago
Considering the fact that most people here don't consider doxing to be freedom of speech, I don't see what the problem is with this account being banned (Assuming of course that Musk himself actually banned it and it wasn't r
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by Slighted 4y ago
Mastodon is a great example of pathetic web design. More than a few times has it completely failed to work for me at all just as in your case. Every single instance I've used has presented me with the same warning: "To use the Mas
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by Slighted 4y ago
Hydrogen instead of helium is clearly the elephant in the room. Helium is expensive, limited, and not easily produced, whereas hydrogen is readily available almost anywhere, has no quantitative limits, and provides far superior lift than he
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by Slighted 4y ago
Microsoft transitioning Windows into a spyware platform filled with advertisements and garbage has been in the making for years at this point. Its absolutely exploitative, greedy, and evil, which is why if you can you should consider switch
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by Slighted 4y ago
The benefits of Kiwifarms existence outweigh its cons, and I say this as someone who greatly dislikes the site after having used it for an extended amount of time. The site has and still discovers, documents, and reports criminal and disgus
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by Slighted 4y ago
NoNewNormal was not wholly misinformation, and in fact had very little of it, and even if a particularly high percentage of the threads were misinformation, why does that justify censoring it? Who gets to decide what is and isn't valid
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by Slighted 4y ago
Not surprising at all that Cloudflare went through with its plan to terminate its contract with Kiwifarms. Reddit had the exact same process happen back in 2021 with r/NoNewNormal. People cried and whined on the site for the subreddit
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by Slighted 4y ago
Free speech is free speech, and it includes speech that you and others will find hateful, cruel, and disgusting. Doesn't stop it from being protected by free speech laws. Would you say trans people have been hurting the free speech of
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by Slighted 4y ago
I think communities should be assessed on a case-by-case basis. A larger community does typically have more potential to shift in itself. Whether this is "good" or "bad" lies in the eyes of the beholder. I think, however
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by Slighted 4y ago
What exactly do you mean by the "C model"? Computers have followed the Von Neumann architecture for quite a long time. That PDP-11 is fundamentally the same as a modern computer, albeit millions of times slower. And I'm curio
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by Slighted 4y ago
This is an extremely dangerous (and quite frankly stupid) way of thinking. Discourse is discourse, regardless of how you feel about it. When people feel as though "bad" faith discourse needs to be controlled through curation, cens