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The Weakest Link Fallacy(cs.ru.nl)
2 points by mmsc 1y ago|0 comments
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by mmsc 1y ago
https://github.com/samyk/slipstream is the new one
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by mmsc 1y ago
China watching with open eyes. This will happen the day that they try to take Taiwan, worldwide, in my opinion.
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by mmsc 1y ago
Most people are already uninteresting. They're not trying to be interesting; that simply isn't their goal (nor need it be). Most people follow trends and shudder at the thought or creating trends themselves. It's always been
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by mmsc 1y ago
It's impressive nobody else has registered this domain before: $ whois npnjs.com [..] Creation Date: 2025-07-14T07:00:00Z
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Popular NPM linter packages hijacked via phishing to drop malware(bleepingcomputer.com)
3 points by mmsc 1y ago|1 comments
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by mmsc 1y ago
Yes! And for macOS, `chflags uappnd .bash_history`
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by mmsc 1y ago
.bash_history
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by mmsc 1y ago
Popped by AB of Ac1dB1tch3z
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by mmsc 1y ago
Indeed, it's not a secret and it's not just extensions and VPNs, but everything you could imagine. Lots of applications that advertise themselves as "ways to make money for your unused internet bandwidth" are available w
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by mmsc 1y ago
Even if some people are not ready for the day, it cannot always be night.
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by mmsc 1y ago
Would be nice to have something similar to this for Mixpanel and Amplitude
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by mmsc 1y ago
Yes, it has been common enough, no "robots" required. The Indiana Bell Building is a famous one from a century ago, which gets videos posted about it on social media ever so often.
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by mmsc 1y ago
It can influence your decision subconsciously or otherwise.
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by mmsc 1y ago
I'm not sure this is a major surprise. Since it's "leaked", it could be (and most likely is): 1. Missing important context, 2. Missing paragraphs, 3. Be edited or in fact, not real at all.
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by mmsc 1y ago
.. AI ... swarms! Like bees! Scary! We should be scared! Anyways, I'm not sure AI is relevant here. Misinformation is just a form of propaganda which other than allowing the creation of falsehoods quicker, doesn't seem to be any m
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by mmsc 1y ago
One day it'll The Day of the Triffids
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by mmsc 1y ago
>If I pay someone a salary, they need to understand the actually answer the give me. And their butt needs to be on the line if the answer is wrong. What's that got to do with AI exactly? Sure, there's the chance that this AI th
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by mmsc 1y ago
I understand that things are moving fast and all, but surely the.. 8? models which are currently available is a bit .. overwhelming for users that just want to get answers to their questions of life? What's the end goal with having so
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by mmsc 1y ago
Depends on the company. Also It can be a good way to say to management, "look, this old deprecated shit needs to be replaced because it's insecure; maintenance is a security issue"
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by mmsc 1y ago
>for your users doing _free_ software testing for you! In comparison to _paid_ software testing, which doesn't change the point at all: if they were paid to find bugs, they wouldn't be paid for useless and unactionable reports.
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by mmsc 1y ago
The difficulty in reporting a bug comes from the friction required to filter the "page doesn't work" with no further explanation reports, or the "my neighbour is a spy for the government and I have proof" reports (r
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by mmsc 1y ago
This can be generalized to "what happens when people don't understand how something works". In the computing world, that could be "undefined behavior" (of which itself is .. defined as undefined) in the C programmin
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by mmsc 1y ago
>the true purpose of crypto What's the latest version of this one these days?
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by mmsc 1y ago
Amazing stuff, but also reads like a comedy due to the obstacles to win this challenge. Real rube goldberg stuff.
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by mmsc 1y ago
b-b-but, my linux distribution is perfect for multi-tenant/multi-user purposes!!
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by mmsc 1y ago
I don't think anybody will build a browser over the "released" source code either, if it was officially opensourced by Opera. There were some people from CIS countries doing something with that leaked code, not sure if they s
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by mmsc 1y ago
Presto source code was leaked years ago.
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by mmsc 1y ago
are there any linux distributions which don't require python installed, other than embedded?
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by mmsc 1y ago
Even with authenticated requests, viewing a pull request and adding `.diff` to the end of the URL is currently ratelimited at 1 request per minute. Incredibly low, IMO.

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