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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
> create much more scrutiny around dependencies of 'highly scrutinised' packages like OpenSSH. But xz is not a dependency of upstream OpenSSH you see. It was a dependency of a patch created by Linux distros for systemd integrat
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
You're forgetting Casey Fucking Ryback! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDlpPs19NU0
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
A lot of people fail to fully grasp how bad this could have been on the off chance the authors were slightly less sloppy.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
> and it was caught luckily at the last minute This isn't correct at all. The changes were merged into xz and made it into testing branches of major Linux distros. It was caught at T plus a few minutes only because a neurotic Micros
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
> If AI tech goes very poorly, it can be the end of human history. "Just unplug the goddamn thing!" Also consider if something is so bad it makes you wince or cringe, then your adversaries are prepared to use it.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
Does this make Johnny Marr a Manc rocket scientist because he rigged a bunch of pedals together to create the tremolo effect in How Soon Is Now?
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
Same as Reddit. Accumulate enough points via posting shallow and uninteresting—yet popular—dialogue to earn down voting and flagging abilities, which can be used (via automation) to manipulate discussions and suppress viewpoints. Slashdot&#
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
Build products in the US. Those jobs Steve Jobs told Obama are "never coming back".
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
Are you suggesting Apple is engaged in a massive subterfuge where they imported Black and Hispanic actors and hung a US and Texas flag on the wall in a Chinese factory as a staged photo op? Maybe the factory is really a sound stage.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
In the mid-2000s there was a bit of drama when Linux wireless driver code ended up in BSD (or maybe the other way around). The Internet was angry that day my friend; a bunch of nerds sperging out over licenses and which license is more &quo
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
This is like complaining Delorean didn't make spare parts for your homemade time machine.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
> any different than any other vendor who doesn’t bother releasing Linux drivers Which has dwindled in number so much as to practically not be problem anymore. There is even a Linux-only or Linux-first attitude with some vendors. Buying
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
>whether this is something that should be reported to Apple, if Apple will do anything Lmao Apple will not do anything for actual malware when reported with receipts, besides sending you a form letter assuring you "experts will lo
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
> Republicans want IRS incapable so that tax fraud flourish. That's wildly hyperbolic.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
The public sector is where you need 12 people (and a project manager) to build an Access database.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
If you're not asking, "how many of these people did nothing?" you've never worked in the public sector.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
>but maybe the solution is to allocate a certain amount of reasonable votes (up or down) total that a user can use weekly Slashdot did this back in the day IIRC.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
Of course it's massively misleading, it's farming for updoots. Further proving the (unpopular) point I made earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47066456 Source: I own one of these iBooks and it mos
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
> Even HN/Reddit is borderline. It's the proliferation of downvoting. It disincentivizes speaking your honest opinion and artificially boosts mass-appeal ragebait. It's detrimental to having organic conversations. "B
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
The average person wants to be served AI slop and scams?
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
How many servers are set up with CA redundancy? I've yet to see one let alone hear of this practice.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
That seems unlikely. Is Google run by one Homer Simpson?
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
I browse logged out. Interact when them I do not. The weight loss and solar scams are forced advertisements before every video.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
I don't subscribe to your newsletter. What about the Oops?
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
I'm inundated with them. YT has become borderline unusable. The homepage is nightmarish. Can't search for anything without being overwhelmed with shorts in the results, many unrelated to what I'm searching.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
It's a good thing we have ever-shrinking certificate lifetimes and automation never breaks. That's what I've been told, anyway.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
He was very underrated in Falling Down, a sleeper of a film everyone should see at least once.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
The Epstein stuff is a distraction. The previous admin had 4 years to do literally anything about it and they did nothing.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
Everyone has known Google reads your email since day one. In the early days they would spin it as a good thing: "that's why the spam filtering is great!" Why is everyone suddenly outraged Ring has access to your footage? Thes
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
> And why do you think that machine is called a Netra? Netras were designed for telco use so not for any obvious reason as you suggest. It was available with -48V power supplies.

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