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hjek
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... which is especially embarrassing because they got rid of the problem in Swedish and Norwegian.
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Sounds really interesting. I'm kinda scared to use npm right now to be honest. What dangers may be hidden deep in the dependency trees? But is a review of every update then done, because rc used to be a legit package?
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5y ago
More info: https://therecord.media/malware-found-in-coa-and-rc-two-npm-...
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Embedded malware in RC (NPM package)
(github.com)
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> Better to have them working on our side. Your local police department may get the military surplus murderdogs. Maybe just with rubber bullets for "riot control" though. Just guessing of course, but small drones are already in
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5y ago
In that case the obvious solution is just to disable networking to get fully-autonumous murderbots.
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5y ago
> But the one term that’s exploded beyond others, and broken out of tech twitter into pitch decks at IT outsourcing companies with amazing speed, is ‘Metaverse’, which I hear so often now that it reminds me of the ‘Malkovich! Malkovich?
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Oh Great They’re Putting Guns on Robodogs Now
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> I’d wanted to hear the story from Edwin himself. The one time we Skyped, he’d been in a hotel room in South Korea. Eight minutes into our call, he signed off with a smile and a peace sign. After that we chatted sporadically over WhatsA
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hjek
5y ago
Looks like all the CVEs are fixed in Debian Sid at least. Edit: Not all, apparently. The whole bottom of that Chromium CVE list is still unfixed in Bookworm/Sid.
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> Haskell and Pascal, how embarassing to miss those and Curry, while we're at it, https://curry-lang.org/
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hjek
5y ago
Is that what Google have been doing with Android? (Kitkat, Oreo, ...)
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hjek
5y ago
If only eating the rich will help save the planet then I'm in.
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hjek
5y ago
Never heard of that one, but it's also very recently open-sourced. It's NodeJS with a browser-based GUI? Nice they're not going Electron. I wish there was a Flatpak but will definitely try out. --- This code was open-source
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5y ago
> The act of stripping git history and attribution while forking is itself malicious, Well, okay, the forking could have been more politely, but author is a bit fast to pull the pirate card. It's a free/libre fork of a free&#
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hjek
5y ago
Anyone knows how to get that voice to work in Reader Mode in Firefox on Debian?
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Background story[0] about Rob Landley's split with Busybox: --- Why did I switch from busybox to toybox? I left busybox due to an argument over GPLv3. - https://lwn.net/Articles/202106/ (busy busy busybox) To
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hjek
5y ago
You can join Team calls in Firefox using Teams Phone Fix extension[0]. Then you can just close the tab and not have them listen. Teams wants you to install MS Edge browser with this add-on you can use FF anyway. [0]: https://addo
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Yea, you can just, like, not have the border. People made it up in the first place. Interesting how borders are taken for granted. Where I live, there was recently a discussion about where to put the new immigration removal centre /
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And vice versa, apparently.
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> Why'd you feel the need to disclaim that? Dunno. Was just blending in[0]. > It's exactly what vandalism is. They defaced some else's property; for advertising no less. Fair enough, yet if we could only motivate that s
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Disclaimer: I'm vegan. I think this is awesome. "Vandalize" is a bit much as they just substitute sliced pig flesh photos with a plant-based lookalike.
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5y ago
Here's a good resource: https://www.vegansociety.com/news/media/statistics
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> * Nested parentheses. (In theory, you could use any level needed (provided that they make sense), but in practice, they're scoffed at.) It is similar with quotes, for the same reasons: limited readability - although here you can a
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5y ago
Well, how about this then: It's worth fighting against borders; it's worth fighting for refugees' right to exist and to ensure their safe passage (rather than forcing them to die of thirst in the desert, drowning at sea o
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> Not to get political, but your last paragraph implies there's nothing worth fighting for. Do you really believe I'm arguing that there's nothing worth fighting for when I write that: "We should help refugees get s
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> One of the best FOSS games I've ever played, possibly second to Wesnoth. Yea, Wesnoth has a lot of what made the earlier Heroes of Might and Magic games great. I like how many open source games are cool with sticking to 2D, making
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How's the network code?
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OpenRA is currently my favourite free/libre computer game. They've done a fabulous job at keeping the feeling of the original game while updating things like cross-platform support, screen resolution and network play and added bui
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5y ago
In OpenRA infantry has a chance when a tank tries to run them over; especially thieves are good at this.
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