shkkmo

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by shkkmo 1y ago
> Or people learning to cook instead of being lazy slobs. There are many reasons people eat out beside lack of cooking knowledge or desire to be social. You seem like you value feeling superior to these people. Perhaps you can find a way
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Worker Owned != Anarchist
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by shkkmo 1y ago
This isn't a debate about whether to offer a trial period or how of one to offer. This is a debate about forcing people to give you payment info for a free trial. Requiring a credit card for a free trial is a technique to trick people
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Laundering the proceeds from a black market transaction doesn't make the black market transaction not a black market transaction.
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by shkkmo 1y ago
This attack measures the time needed to draw each pixel which varies due to graphical data compression. It is based on the "GPU.zip" vulnerability which was shown to affect most modern GPUs, including from Apple.
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by shkkmo 1y ago
The amount of bitcoin siezed here is about 30% of the Cambodia GDP...
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> Imagine if instead we as a society could put it towards better education, healthcare, public transportation The amount of money we already spend on thos problems absolutely dwarfs the amount of money that SpaceX has raised. Spending a
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> Would that be a good hammer? They're called rubber mallets and they are useful in a number of situations where you want to > I would hope a malicious app I willingly installed will be able to behave maliciously. You should be a
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by shkkmo 1y ago
How are you sure? This isn't abusing some poorly secured screenshot API, this is a timing attack on the GPU rendering process and impacts a wide range of GPUs.
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Looks like this is just misinterpretation of poor public communication by the BLM. > UPDATE: The U.S. Bureau of Land Management responded to 8 News Now on Friday afternoon to clarify the meaning of a “canceled” notice on the Esmeralda Se
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> we cannot “take over” the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications. Since these are open source apps, couldn't f-droid main
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> Bullshit You can disbelieve my honest report that you are not explaining your position well, but you seem to be confusing me with a differ commentor.
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> If someone has enough money that wasting it on gambling is a problem, then they clearly had no business giving up hope because "the system" doesn't have the ability to make their lives better. The system that makes their
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> Anyhow, Ruby Central managed the GitHub repo This is incorrect. The GitHub repository was managed by the maintainers, only some of whom were Ruby Central employees. RubyCentral decided to break the agreement under which those maintaine
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Incorrect. Ruby Central hosts the RubyGems service, not the RubyGems repository. Ruby Central employs some RubyGems maintainers but does not own the repository. Ruby Central decided to make their employees who are maintainers take over the
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> You have the choice of assuming the worst in everyone, or not. I'm not assuming the worst...that would be assuming he intends to find a way to continue managing an online gang from jail... > the superficial exploitation of peop
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by shkkmo 1y ago
That seems like a lot of credit to give someone whose main criminal skill was being articulate and talking people into things.
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> Something that drives me nuts is someone writing on a code review "you may want to consider using the X data struct here" and meaning "I will not merge this code until you use X" The former language is appropriate w
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> So all you will accomplish is increasing human misery of trafficked slaves or their loved ones, while accomplishing nothing besides feeling a sense of retribution. You seem to be asserting that we should let them scam someone else. If
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by shkkmo 1y ago
You can write javascript without using npm...
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> the scam will remain as this level is rather cheap. The less efficient you can make the process, the less you make it attractive to put resources into scaling it. Focus on making them generate the types of proof that aren't as eas
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> The kind of people that run criminal organisations generally don’t give credit for trying. It’s strictly numbers. Hence my argument that wasting the scammers' resources is the moral choice. If you help the bosses identify bad pros
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> If you engage at all, you risk worsening their situation by wasting their time, while if you do engage you might be saving someone else at their expense…. I don't understand what you are arguing for here? That they need to be allo
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> But there are no chargebacks here, since we don’t take a card upfront and we don’t bill in a hidden way. In the worst case, if you missed or didn’t read that detail, you can simply decline and not subscribe after the trial. This is a d
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> How would this be tooled? A chargeback, a deep link to the cancel page, an API connection between bank and subscription? I'd be happy to just have the ability to easily ask the credit card company block further payments with no ac
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by shkkmo 1y ago
Perhaps this is a question you should be asking yourself. Is your cancellation system working? There was a billing session created the day after the initial charge, are you sure there wasn't an attempt to cancel the that the system fai
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> make a machine that could create full exact copies of books without ever training on or copying those books, that would still be infringement. No it wouldn't. Making the machine is not making a copy of the book. Using the machine
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> We have a model for what intelligence is - what humans do. At what point does a human become intelligent? Is a 12 cell embryon intelligent? Is a newborn intelligent? Is a 1 year old intelligent? > It's the logically night is d
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by shkkmo 1y ago
You got my vote! Too bad there isn't any way to actually vote for this (and that is by design.)
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by shkkmo 1y ago
> for plain text, you basically need a keystroke-authenticating keyboard on a computer with both internet access and copy and paste functionality securely disabled -- and then you still need an authenticating camera on the user the whole

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