bananamogul

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by bananamogul 5mo ago
Github's anti-piracy enforcement is a joke and always has been. Example: https://lowendbox.com/blog/will-github-ever-remove-this-null...
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
I'm not a BitLocker user or expert, but I thought I'd read that if you used a BitLocker PIN, the exploit didn't work. If the gov't asked MSFT to deploy an exploit, wouldn't they make it work PINlessly?
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
"The only cases of white collar crime I've seen get prosecuted is securities fraud and that's rich people stealing from other rich people." There are thousands of YouTube videos of people being arrested or being in court
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
"For instance, the TSA continues to publicly insist that ID (especially "Real" ID) is required to fly within the U.S., but it's not." Explain, please, because you seem to be implying that someone can board a plane f
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
This makes the recent burning of ebola clinic tents by angry relatives make more sense. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-tent-fire-congo-9.721000...
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
But not if there was a virus that broke out in, say, Wuhan.
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
All the way up to death, actually. Celiacs who consume gluten destroy their digestive system and die. You know how celiac disease was first discovered? Wheat shortage in the Netherlands during WWII. Suddenly kids that were trending toward
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
I have a hard time believing this because there was never enough GitHub uptime to carry out the attack.
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
Photoshop is widely used for painting/drawing, yes. Hooking up a Wacom or similar tablet is very common. Granted, a lot of this has moved to iPad + apple pencil since that combo was released, but Photoshop is still heavily used. Of c
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
"This setup gives us insight into an interesting question: what do AIs think about when no one is prompting them?" Ugh. This is not an interesting question because the answer is "nothing". But more to the point, some cr
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
He personally still owns 100m shares (per your article) and has not bailed out. The B&MG foundation sold their remaining 7.7m shares.
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
Are you referring to the massive opiate abuse crisis that followed World War One?
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
"People are starting to see just who the government works for and this goes for local, city, county, state and federal governments. And it's not you, the voter. It's for the interests of the wealthy." That's the way
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
"the terminal itself, which is almost always monospaced and thus fatiguing to read" It is? Why? I read monospaced text all day long. I don't find it fatiguing in the least. In fact, I think I might prefer it to non-monosp
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by bananamogul 5mo ago
Now let's take that up a notch with the story of Francis Henning, who counterfeited nickels. https://coinweek.com/a-collectible-counterfeit-the-story-of-... Granted, a nickel was worth more in the 1930s...but not that
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
FreeBSD just slaps at the problem. OpenBSD solves it. I kid, I kid...
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
"A company finds itself with surplus labor capacity due to the efficiencies in AI" That is one possible interpretation, though I don't think it's supported by any facts. A competing explanation: companies are spending a
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While the King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello from 1993(lowendbox.com)
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
Actually, there was the kernel of a sound business idea. The plan was that as you went to movies, you probably also went out to eat at a nearby restaurant, maybe stopped and had a drink, took transit to get there, etc. If they could hoov
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
"something immature as TypeScript / Node or whatever" Node.js's initial release was May 27, 2009 Golang 's initial release was November 10, 2009 They're different, yes, but it's not like
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
“And the best code in this case is code you didn't write as PHP's session handler is battle-tested” cPanel is written in perl.
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
Raymend Chen has probably forgotten more about programming than I'll ever know, but aren't the first two blah() function examples either missing a } or have a superfluous { after the else?
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
"I guess they saw my email address that greeted them. They probably received logs of someone "falling for it", and saw someone was poking around their secret website, and knew who was behind it. They completely panicked.&quot
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
"Debian Stable ("Trixie", though I hate codenames)" You can also call it Debian 13.
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
Zed. The newcomer. The liberator.
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
The good news is that this might be the end of Oracle.
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
There's 4,000 movies available for free on YouTube. More if you pay for YT Premium. That's just one example...any streaming stick will give you loads more. True, you have to have Internet, but you're going to have Internet
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
People have been asking for iCloud macOS backups since iCloud was introduced. It would be very popular. I'm not sure why Apple doesn't offer this, because it's easy revenue.
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
I had an early ReadyNAS that was a champ for years. I wonder if the fact that it was based on SPARC had anything to do with its longevity.
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by bananamogul 6mo ago
We had a Fidelity Chess Challenger 7 when I was a kid. I was a horrible chess player but painstakingly worked out a way to win as white, keeping a detailed log of my experiments in a notebook. The first couple moves were wildly out of book

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