radicalbyte

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by radicalbyte 1y ago
Facebook install a rootkit on many Androids which had the ability to send all of you debug-level system logging to Facebook. Even if you never installed their shit. That data can be used to track everything you do on your phone. We found th
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
Unless the observable universe itself is within one.
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
It is extremely hard to put even a single land-based railway line out of action; just look at Ukraine. Yes lines are getting hit but there are engineering units who can repair them very quickly. You'd have to be within artillery range
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
This is a strategic move: it makes it easier to move weapons within Europe and makes it much harder for Russia should they invade. Ideally you would want to do this all over Europe.
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
Yeah fun times. I kept our internal reporting site running for 3-4 years, I used CSS for layout.. it required regular maintenance but I had enough time to do it as my main job was as a Database Admin / Data Engineer (I'd have been
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
I started writing ASP & PHP, the whole ASP.Net thing was about helping Visual Studio developers make crappy web apps, it wasn't fit for purpose for the web writ large. You didn't need to switch to Linux either; I built every
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
The reason we used tables was because getting things right in CSS in the early days across all of the browsers was a nightmare. An expensive nightmare. Which was fine if you were a well funded startup and could afford to rebuild your HTML r
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
Yeah and there should be a kind of two-phase commit added. Take the Brexit vote: there should have been one vote to say "do we want to leave the EU" and then a second vote where we either accepted the CONCRETE negotiated deal, or
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
Really poor form there from Microsoft, I hope that some of the wiser heads see this and educate the team responsible and ensure that this is made right.
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
The Royal Family was amazing. Caroline is dearly missed :(
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
Oh there are certainly some excellent American comedy shows.. Seinfeld, Curb, Arrested Development, Modern Family, The Office (US), South Park, Parks and Rec, 30 Rock, Frasier, Fresh Prince, Friends, How I Met Your Month, Futurama, Simpsons
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
That Brass Eye they they had Phil Collins talking "nonce sense"... brilliance. Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci are national treasures.
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
Horrible Histories and Murder So Horrid. The Tory Party, that was the biggest long running joke ever, I never thought that they'd be able to top the hilarious Boris Johnson but then Liz Truss came out of nowhere and PORK MARKETS'd
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
It's crazy isn't it? American sitcoms/comedy doesn't even come close and is almost universally derivative of the British greats, despite having 5-6x the population and far bigger budgets. I think that is comes from the f
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
There is something very similar to 80s Britain and Eastern Europe. It's why a lot of us who grew up (or had formative years in that decade) have a kinship with people from there.
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
Fools, Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo, Red Dwarf, Men Behaving Badly, The IT Crowd, Father Ted, The Office, Blackadder, Fawlty Towers, Bottom, The Young Ones, The Thick Of It, Alan Partridge, Some Mothers Do Have 'em, Mr Bean,
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
Sorry but have you seen "most adults"? They're the worst. It's how we have America ran by a guy who makes Idiocracy's president look amazing.
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by radicalbyte 1y ago
This x10000. I really wish that the EU would step in and force Google to either kill Shorts or give us full control over the crap they're pushing down our throats. As this is HN and full of smart people - if there are any workable (OSS
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by radicalbyte 2y ago
How viable would it be to mirror the set? Given that the US is having it's ISIS book-burning moment so the original sources are at risk :(
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by radicalbyte 2y ago
I've had screen issues with two MBP within warranty and Apple attempt to charge 1800 EUR to fix them. The laptops cost > 3000 EUR but still. These are issues which are fixable with either a 2 EUR part or a 50 EUR part.
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by radicalbyte 2y ago
Fingers crossed that it'll do an Arrested Development.
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by radicalbyte 2y ago
It was US policy to actively work against that and it was an acceptable deal for us given that we've been friends and allies forever. Now Trump has turned the US into our heroin-addict sibling we can no longer rely on them.
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by radicalbyte 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that the damage is done. It will take a few years, maybe even a decade, but the USD will no longer be the defacto reserve currency.
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by radicalbyte 2y ago
Or who has taken him. We rolled up cells of the Chinese security services who would disappear (or worse) Chinese nationals on foreign soil. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/20/explainer-chin...
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by radicalbyte 2y ago
> I guess they are trying to be the Apple of the AI world... They're looking more like Alta Vista.
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by radicalbyte 2y ago
They can build up a force capable of annexing the strip of land between Belarus and Kaliningrad. They have a large number of experience troops and a massive number of conscripts, their drone capacity currently dwarfs Europe and is expanding
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I've had that recommended to me before and it's not surprising. I was in that group myself at that age but the internet was a much nicer space. I'd break into computer systems (including USG) for the lulz. I'd get weirdo
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> You could argue that it goes back to when Bush > became president despite losing the election > to Al Gore, by suppressing recounts that later > proved that he lost. That was the day that I lost all respect for America and I
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by radicalbyte 2y ago
They have also been the main target of Soviet/Russian/CCP information operations designed to cause the current mess and live in a democratic system where the (ultra)wealthy have had far too much power.
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by radicalbyte 2y ago
There's a whole pipeline designed to capture young men (Tate for the dummies, Moscow-Lex for those who aren't) who are also a key demographic here. I understand it too having seen the fallout and overstep of the "social justi

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