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by smsm42 5mo ago
I think C standard doesn't do itself any favors by using "undefined behavior" to signify both "anything can happen, including erasing all your data and setting your data center on fire" and "one of the very sma
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by smsm42 5mo ago
Yes, and github having zero-nines reliability record is because of a hacked twitter account too! (sigh...)
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by smsm42 5mo ago
> This is America, we have the right to protest. Of course, and I agree. But wearing masks to protest is strongly correlated with "protests" that aren't protests but riots - not in theory, but in practice. That's like
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by smsm42 5mo ago
> This is why people protest differently now. Why they wear masks No, they wear masks to commit criminal acts, which we witness a lot and for which they definitely should be prosecuted. I am wholeheartedly for peaceful protests, but sor
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by smsm42 5mo ago
This had been going on for years. I'd expect there would be some kind of solution for now? Like banning scripts and only allowing them to be executed at the explicit user request, for example (not a guarantee but at least a barrier) or
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by smsm42 5mo ago
Activities such as public disobedience to fight unjust laws are unlikely to be affected by surveillance because their whole point is to publicly violate unjust law to attract attention to its unjustness. MLK did not march in secret and avoi
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by smsm42 5mo ago
> I feel that part of the insight is that many people reading this story may want it to be true as stated. People that are writing this story surely would. They, of course, wouldn't do it themselves - I mean, you could be arrested a
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by smsm42 5mo ago
Somebody did it: https://github.com/seqizz/vulpine-lz4
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by smsm42 5mo ago
I mean, this is way more than you would usually get from a fishing site - a functioning USB drive!
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by smsm42 5mo ago
Searching for CVE-2024-YIKES also provides a gallery of AI slop blogs that AI-rewrite the content of this post while being absolutely stone cold serious about it.
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by smsm42 5mo ago
Same as left-pad ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident ) but much better?
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by smsm42 5mo ago
No, I have been in the field long enough and done enough things that I know I maybe not the best ever, but I am pretty good. I appreciate the kind words though. And I am lucky to have a good job too, now. But that's what happens in the
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by smsm42 5mo ago
> LA Times suggests there are 6.9 million job openings Yeah sure. I've seen literally dozens of job openings in certain companies that match my resume pretty much perfectly. None of them ever bothered to respond when I applied beyon
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by smsm42 5mo ago
> Companies aren't penalised by candidates for such practices. When you have a mortgage to pay and a family and a COBRA package running out (in the best case), your willingness to "penalize" a company that is actually will
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by smsm42 5mo ago
Not sure how did you read "right wing conformist republicans" into my comment that had literally nothing about partisan politics.
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by smsm42 5mo ago
Maybe, some of them were poor young iconoclasts some day. That's not when they joined the fashionable trend of Burning Man though. When they joined their trend, they were well into their power (or at least, in the case of somebody like
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by smsm42 5mo ago
No it doesn't. Fashionable people pretending to be counter-cultural love to talk about hating them, but look how many people are on Facebook, how many are using Amazon, how many are using Google products. Consider that "google&quo
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by smsm42 5mo ago
If whole top of Silicon Valley is "counterculture", that word has no meaning. > Really difficult for me to name anyone who’s caused more impact / disruption than the list of names here. And from that you make the conclusio
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by smsm42 5mo ago
There's actually research that making people pay for noncompliance (either upfront or post-factum) leads to less compliance, because people that can afford it treat it as a service. And giving that these events are visited by literally
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by smsm42 5mo ago
It sounds great until you see what kind of actual people operate under the banner of anarchism. Then it might turn out their definition of reasonable fashion may be quite different from yours.
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by smsm42 5mo ago
> Those principles tend to attract the kind of people associated with counterculture and anarchists And Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Elizabeth Holmes, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt... you get the idea. htt
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by smsm42 6mo ago
> This opens the door for a lot of infosec drama. Some of the organizations that issue CVE numbers are also the makers of the "reported" software, and these companies are extremely likely to issue low severity scores and downpl
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by smsm42 6mo ago
If Spaniards think their goverment is doing a bad job, why don't they vote them out? They are still a democracy, aren't they?
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by smsm42 6mo ago
Most of methanol poisoning during the Prohibition happened because the government deliberately poisoned ethanol supplies, to prevent them from being converted to drinking spirits. This insane policy caused 10 to 50 thousands deaths. There&#
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by smsm42 6mo ago
Not likely to survive 1st Amendment challenge - it is possible to compel somebody to certain speech as a result of losing a case, but doing this as a prerequisite when the case has just started is not likely to fly. Otherwise I could force
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by smsm42 6mo ago
I hate the brutalism and would never have anything like that in my home, but I certainly admire the work. Great job. It is true art, even if not for me.
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by smsm42 6mo ago
I probably would if they had something in my area of expertise and decent pay/benefits. Then again, isn't the point of this exercise to avoid doing exactly that?
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by smsm42 6mo ago
In my observation, job market wasn't great even before ai. AI made it worse by clogging existing channels - already not that great - with a ton of slop.
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by smsm42 6mo ago
I din't know which planet you are on, but on this one replacing is enforced extremely infrequently, and anybody who had to deal with the process knows it. Your example, where they catch the whopping 12 (!) cases - out of almost 100k h1
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by smsm42 6mo ago
It's sad how often the best way to recognize a scam is "the real company would never care that much about me or my account".

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