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541.
by smsm42 2y ago
Precheck is super cheap, it's like less than $100 once per 5 years. Yes, it is an invasion of privacy, but I suspect the government already has all that data anyway many times over.
542.
by smsm42 2y ago
Wow we're progressing from "if it doesn't work just reboot it" to "if the reboot doesn't fix it, you're just not rebooting it hard enough!"
543.
by smsm42 2y ago
Most corporate places I've encountered over the last N years mandate one kind of antivirus/spyware combo or another on every corporate computer. So it'd be pretty much every major workplace.
544.
by smsm42 2y ago
That's probably only the part they had the hard proof for. Also, the press release[1] says: > between 2018 and 2022, Senator Menendez and his wife engaged in a corrupt relationship with Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes – three
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by smsm42 2y ago
The difference is malware infection is usually random and gradual. CrowdStrike screwup is everything at once with 100% lethality.
546.
by smsm42 2y ago
Now this is an unusual meeting of two meanings of "running a code".
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by smsm42 2y ago
Well, not the OS, per se, but macos updating mechanisms have auto-restart path, and I imagine any Linux update that touches the kernel can be configured in that way too. It's more the admin's decision then OS's but on all com
548.
by smsm42 2y ago
Well, if you fail at compliance, you can be fired and sometimes even sued. If your compliance efforts cause system wide outage - nobody's to blame, shit happens. I predict this screwup will end up with zero consequences for anyone who
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by smsm42 2y ago
> if we prefer to outright shut down online advertising, or give it the tools it needs to be less bad It's not like we've just invented this new advertising thing and are now struggling to make it fit the internet. We've
550.
by smsm42 2y ago
> Nobody’s surname needs 128+ bytes Oh we're doing that "false things that programmers believe about the world" again! Fun! Let's consider cultures where people can have more than one surname. Ever heard about Pablo D
551.
by smsm42 2y ago
That was my introduction to hacking . The realization that you can make the system to do things that the designers didn't intend it to do, and open the whole new would of possibilities, was what got me hooked and probably made me choos
552.
by smsm42 2y ago
Maybe letting Boeing collapse is too scary, fine. Find people who signed for the fraud and throw the book at them. Decades in prison, millions in fines. Nothing will collapse from that. If that's not happening then thd concern is not t
553.
by smsm42 2y ago
The problem of powershell model it's a closed system. If it does X, it's awesome. If it doesn't X, but there's a tool that does X and doesn't speak the same language powershell speaks - you are out of luck. That&#x2
554.
by smsm42 2y ago
So, they plead guilty to criminal fraud that got people killed, and nobody goes to jail ever? And they pay the fine of 0.4% of their annual revenue? That's not even a slap on the wrist, that's more like hand-kissing. "Soft&
555.
by smsm42 2y ago
S-exp is an interesting idea. Technically they are human readable, and certainly would be processable by text tools, with some effort. Lisp maps to S-exps very well obviously but I wonder if the same amount of synergy can be achieved in the
556.
by smsm42 2y ago
> Personally I’ve not found the ability to open my css files in Word beneficial! Imagine writing a blog about your favorite CSS features. I mean, if you use Word at all for writing, wouldn't that come handy? But Word actually is not
557.
by smsm42 2y ago
Non-human-readable primary representation may be not the best idea though. Would create a lot of friction when trying to process the data. Text is largely simple and obvious (yes I know there are complications but in 99% of cases you can ig
558.
by smsm42 2y ago
I know my recipient would hate getting an automated email, so as a start of our relationship, I'm going to send them an automated email designed to deceive them. I'm sure it's a beginning of a beautiful friendship.
559.
by smsm42 2y ago
Because if you can't afford "safe" bread, your only choice is very unsafe one. This scenario have been played out many times, when hyper safety prices people - usually the most vulnerable - out of the market and they have to
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by smsm42 2y ago
And that's why we have insane laws. Because of people saying stuff like "our food shouldn't contain allergens" and spewing vague nonsense about evil profitmongers, while enabling demagogues who promote insane schemes bui
561.
by smsm42 2y ago
This system is not stable though. Every participant would think "why should I be content with X/N divided revenue if my content is so hot that if I pull out I would get much better revenue because everybody watches my content anyw
562.
by smsm42 2y ago
An one-time snapshot is not the active site under the original domain. You can do a snapshot (even though there's no organized procedure even for that, afaik) but that's not the same as keeping the site running in perpetuity.
563.
by smsm42 2y ago
We still don't have proper digital preservation mechanisms. If you are an executor of an estate, and you have a website and a twitter account, what you do with them? You are surely not interested in running them by yourself. You can&#x
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by smsm42 2y ago
> do not see Assange as a journalist. Sure, a "journalist" is somebody who works for a mega-corporation, preferably owned by a billionaire with political ambitions, and reports whatever the party that controls his outlet consid
565.
by smsm42 2y ago
If they leak info against our opponents, they are free speech heroes and paladins of truth. If they leak info against our party, they are filthy dirty spies. I don't understand why people can't see it.
566.
by smsm42 2y ago
Would it reduce the number of tourists? Not likely, they'd just pay more to hotels (and thus have less money to spend on other things - vacation budget is usually limited, but it's distribution between various types of expense is
567.
by smsm42 2y ago
What is missing here for me is who were the anonymous "executives" that overruled Mcdonald (and others) and tried to punish him? Did they suffer any consequences for actions that cost lives and for the coverup?
568.
by smsm42 2y ago
So, looks like there's a market for non-censoring public DNS providers. Any recommended providers?
569.
by smsm42 2y ago
Translation: "We hoped it would go quietly and not ruffle anybody's feathers, but it got a real lot of bad press, and we aren't ready to sacrifice so much for Putin's pleasure, so we are rolling it back".
570.
by smsm42 2y ago
Putin personally won't. Local police bureaucrat angling for a promotion and needing +1 in his "serious crimes solved" very well might. There are a lot of people in Russia being prosecuted for social media posts and expressing

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