qerti

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by qerti 2y ago
Just wait until you find out how much energy the financial industry uses
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by qerti 3y ago
Wasn’t the payload in a blob in the tests, which is in the source repo? If you were to clone the repo then build from source, you’d have the backdoor, right? Surely distros aren’t using binaries sent by maintainers
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by qerti 3y ago
The rust compiler refuses to compile code which doesn’t adhere to a strict set of rules guaranteeing memory safety. Unless you intentionally call an unsafe block, misuse in this sense is impossible, not just difficult.
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by qerti 3y ago
This comment reminds me of “What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it…”
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by qerti 3y ago
The actual work required to execute such a plan is vastly more difficult than being told how to do it. How the original atomic bombs worked is well-known, but even nation-states struggle with implementing it.
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by qerti 3y ago
Warming the climate would increase the amount of arable land. Sea level rise happens very slowly, so most people don’t need to travel abroad to avoid it.
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by qerti 3y ago
“The standards don’t work, but at least we have them”
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by qerti 3y ago
Public schools are intentionally harming gifted students in the name of equality. The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax, VA intentionally hid merit achievements from students which would have helped in colle
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by qerti 3y ago
It’s not that the bash script is worse than the installed program. The problem is that the bash script risks installing a malicious program.
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by qerti 3y ago
“a secret police with extrajudicial powers” Ever hear of how the IRS targeted certain political groups?
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by qerti 3y ago
“Making it easier for people to break the law” is a weird way of saying “Making it harder for authoritarian governments to abuse its citizens”