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by zimpenfish 2mo ago
> shut down people's connections until they removed their malware. Yes, in an ideal world, that might work but most people don't actually know they have malware. That's the point of the malware! And it's not like yo
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by zimpenfish 2mo ago
That's great until your device is weaponised against others (see: open HTTP proxies, open DNS resolvers, open SMTP servers, several billion IoT devices, and countless other examples)
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by zimpenfish 2mo ago
..."on Mars in a self-driving Tesla."
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by zimpenfish 2mo ago
I think there's also the "roll up a whole network at once" approach they prefer to take for things like this - hence nothing will happen for months/years whilst investigations happen in secret and then there'll be a
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by zimpenfish 2mo ago
> Google is able to have such an up to date place database because it relies on a large quantity of crowdsourced submissions Google denied our address existed[0] for years (which caused several problems with online shops that used Google
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by zimpenfish 2mo ago
> I have never seen them randomly arresting someone for no reason. Try the Instagram Reels explore feed. I see at least one US cop bodycam a week where they are blatantly abusing their powers over nothing.
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by zimpenfish 2mo ago
Obligatory posting of Tantacrul's hilariously vicious kicking of Sibelius[0] "This really is one of the great examples of breaking all UI design principles and every UX design principle too. It's like a design bull in a music
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by zimpenfish 3mo ago
cf Vimes' theory of boots[0] which is basically the same point. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
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by zimpenfish 3mo ago
Since AFC have now joined them[0][1], FIFA no longer have the votes for this to pass. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce345l6kg6ro - "Uefa - the body that governs European football - ha
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by zimpenfish 3mo ago
> It seems like FIFA has a culture of corruption I think any large multi-national organisation that deals with handing out events that generate vast sums of money inevitably succumbs to the rot. See also: the IOC.
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by zimpenfish 3mo ago
If carved stone phalluses count, Pompeii has loads of those[0] which would knock the date back a few hundred years. [0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/stone-phalluses-of-pompe...
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by zimpenfish 3mo ago
IIRC it was something like "hexagrams" which printed the I Ching hexagrams[0] [0] https://www.iching-online.com/hexagrams/
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by zimpenfish 3mo ago
> That does not seem to stop the UK from wanting more surveillance. UK politicians, perhaps. I'm not sure the UK public is entirely behind them. > Just bombard people with bad news 24/7 and they will believe the sky is fall
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Postgres 19 Compression: from pglz to LZ4(crunchydata.com)
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by zimpenfish 3mo ago
Wikipedia[0] does have it as the SM83 [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Advance - "Manufactured by the Sharp Corporation, the SoC contains two processors: the ARM7TDMI running at a clock rate of 16.776 me
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by zimpenfish 3mo ago
I've used Seconds Pro[0] for this before - comes with a bunch of presets which were handy at the time but also has wide flexibility to create your own (a continuous 1 minute repeat with beep is easy.) [0] https://www.interva
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by zimpenfish 3mo ago
> I've not seen any serious argument or evidence that Trump has experienced a cognitive decline I don't know what to tell you if you can't see it from literally every public appearance he makes.
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by zimpenfish 3mo ago
Not really, all three of them are sociological problems. And, at least for the first and last, we could already have mostly solved them but for the intransigent insanity of various political cults. It's not technological progress we n
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by zimpenfish 3mo ago
I think people were probably offended by the lack of such covers relating to Trump's diminished mental acuity when it was on display for all to see in the brief period of 2015-present. (Not just The Economist, mind; almost every MSM ou
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> You know a gun or a bomb is dangerous, so you'll probably be careful with it. The statistics on people killed/injured by their kids accidentally discharging firearms in the US disagree[0] [0] eg. https://www.nbcnew
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
Instagram does something similar - they have random ads in HDR which iOS will display at obnoxious brightness. Just what you want as you scroll by trying to find someone you actually follow.
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
Not to mention that there's a bunch of new anti-timewasting edicts that have come in for the World Cup and will eventually filter down to the various regional associations for implementation. Going to be interesting seeing how PGMOL u
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> There's a rope around the field, if the ball goes over it without hitting the ground (like a home run) it counts for 6. On the larger grounds, it tends to be a decently-sized foam triangular prism (covered in advertising, obvs.) r
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> And there is nothing wrong with vulgarization My comment wasn't about vulgarisation - it was about Freakonomics' loose approach to rigour and consequent debunking of, IIRC, most of the book. A quick search for "Bruce Bue
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> If the nation of immigrants is so great, why are so many people protecting themselves with guns I think you'll find that's a particularly American problem - the UK, for example, is a nation of immigrants and we have basically
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
"Michael C. Moynihan reviewing the book for The Wall Street Journal stated that the writing style is similar to that of Freakonomics." Ouch. If someone said that about a book I'd written, I would simply move to a forest and
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
My mistake, it was the Switch 2. Using JINGDU "Switch HDMI cable"[0] feeding into a UGREEN capture dongle[1] which then fed into my MacBook for capture. (Super handy when you want a bigger screen on the train or wherever.) [0] h
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> Take either of Nintendo's 2 most recent hardware platforms: it doesn't effin work! Assuming this is the Switch and Switch 2 here, are you specifically talking about Gamecube titles? Because I've recorded video from my S
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
That's quite a novel negative counterpart to "the early bird catches the worm"
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by zimpenfish 4mo ago
> Viaweb was, after all, the first web application. According to pg who is an unreliable narrator at the best of times. I'd say Navisoft[0] might be a better candidate. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaviSoft

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