kevin_thibedeau

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by kevin_thibedeau 1mo ago
They were never widely disseminated over a network. Office VBA exploits only lasted as a widespread threat until MS locked down macros by default. JS has been around much longer than that.
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by kevin_thibedeau 1mo ago
> overlapping circles and rectangles Just hull() two circles. It's a cheap operation in 2D.
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by kevin_thibedeau 1mo ago
Security tags are just a tool. Doesn't change that you are regarded as a thief when one isn't disabled after you've paid for your new property.
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by kevin_thibedeau 1mo ago
JS is a vector for browser exploits and privacy invasion. No other language is commonly used for these things.
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by kevin_thibedeau 1mo ago
If only we had a tool that could directly let us browse through this as human readable text.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
They did that in the end. In the decade leading up to the final solution they engaged in a lot of shenanigans that have already been replicated by maga.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
It's the Geocities design philosophy. Worked stupendously for lingscars.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
Sony supports the media industry in CA. It would be a shame if they moved their studios elsewhere...
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
Originally there was uk.co.orgname.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
NoScript is a remedy for this. When a site is broken I whitelist a few domains likely to be necessary. After a few attempts I bounce. If I see a dozen plus domains I don't even bother. This cuts down on the volume of garbage sites I wa
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
The mice are probably in on it.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
I direct them to search for discussion on fora. There are still legacy sites on niche topics that the bots don't post in. This is particulaly useful for reaching into the past because traditional search doesn't surface anything bu
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
If you and your friends are all sociopaths, you're going to feel left out if you don't join in on the cliff jumping.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
> leave their ecosystem Their tracking is baked into various apps even if you don't have an account with them. Anything with social media integrations can report back to the mothership behind your back.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
The DARPA LongShot is a cruise missile barge that deploys another short range missile from its bay. That could be repurposed for other munitions like drones.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
> interfaces to Tk It interfaces to its own internal Tcl interpreter that runs Tk. You can even feed it arbitrary non-Tk commands to eval. This is a legacy of the trouble Perl/Tk had splitting it out as an independent library which
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
If you got lucky, they just self-replicated onto floppies. Not so lucky, they would corrupt your hard drive.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
Viruses were common on FTP sites and BBSs. They weren't all benign. DOS in particular had zero protections against damaging code. Bot armies hadn't been developed yet so malicious destruction was just as likely an outcome.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
> filter malicious ads out of their own ad services It's worse than that. Google turned their exploit delivery platform into Google Tag Manager so they can be employed on more than just ads.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
It is viable in pre-war developments where cars weren't assumed, such that housing and services needed to be denser.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
You can just as readily find correlation with behavioral changes linked to a sedentary lifestyle driven by a firehouse of entertainment that first became available with cable television. That doesn't satisfy the orthorexic cause, so is
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
Acetone or black marker will fix that.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
Bookstores aren't for you. As you've seen, they cater to a certain type of customer now. Similar to how department stores are biased to one type of customer and dedicate much more floor space to them. There are plenty of old books
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
All Android phones then too, right?
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
Unless you're selling cakes.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
> become the only company in the world This is not a necessary end state. It is the byproduct of the disease of sociopathic MBAs.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
Google made an arrangement to keep YouTube afloat. The copyright cartels can't use their automated libel machines if the fraudulently accused have the means to exercise their full rights. That would incur untenable operational expenses
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
This isn't DMCA. The DMCA process provides for immediate restoration of contested content upon issuance of a counter notice. At that point the internet service is absolved of any responsibility until a court orders the removal. Google
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
Debt forgiveness was dumb too. It normalized capricious government handouts for volitional actions. After the Corinthian shutdown there was little excuse for taking on massive debt for BS degrees.
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by kevin_thibedeau 2mo ago
You sue the European subsidiary which will be a regulated bank, unlike US PayPal.

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