Vortigaunt
Re:NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:59PM (#50046598)
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair
Re:Plug-In Solar Panels Starting to Sprout in U.S. Backyards
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @03:16PM (#49234671)
companies that sell plug-in systems argue that safety risks are minimal or nonexistent. Mr. Scherer of Craftstrom said his company’s systems would not shock electrical workers because they shut off automatically within one second of a power disruption or grid outage.
Mr. Boyce of UL Solutions said his company would certify panels only if they did not pose a risk to consumers or utility workers.
Tim Cook Stepping Down as Apple CEO, John Ternus Taking Over
Nandgame – Build a Computer from Scratch
Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy
on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:47PM (#46675150)
Yeah some form of google's Web Integrity API will be forced one of these days
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrit...
CentOS Hyperscale
Re:Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on
on Sunday November 23, 2025 @01:14AM (#46021227)
From what a quick google search told me, RHEL caps out at 13 years.[0] I'm curious what caused Canonical to offer 2 more years of lts support than Red Hat?
Re:FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester: "Your name was brought up."
on Friday October 24, 2025 @02:29PM (#45697639)
This post will be censored in 5, 4, 3, 2....
Re:No adblocker detected
on Monday September 08, 2025 @11:26PM (#45177046)
The FBI also makes a good argument that adblockers prevent scammers from directing people to malicious sites.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/
https://web.archive.org/web/20230219020056/https://www.ic3.g...
Re:Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware
on Friday July 18, 2025 @03:18PM (#44608723)
Looks like someone archived the page of firefox-patch-bin[1] and the only thing that stands out about the package itself is that it's supposedly the "Extended Support Release." Besides that it looks like it's depended on by 183 other packages/metapackages. While that seems more interesting, there isn't an archive of all of those packages.
[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20250718140411/https://aur.archl...
Re:Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald J...
on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @04:04PM (#44370456)
Isn't it interesting how this post has more votes than anything else on the first page, is one hour old, and is currently on page 4. Seems like there's some interesting censorship going on in this website outside the consistent flagging of material deemed wrong-think.
Re:Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones
on Thursday June 05, 2025 @04:04PM (#44195292)
First thing that pops up on google:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/25/elon-mu...
Anyone still swayed by his vision is painfully naive
Re:Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy
on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @11:06PM (#43853304)
I ctrl-f'd Oregon State and didn't find it in the link you provided. I think you found UofO's endowment: University of Oregon - $1.651
Wikipedia states that OSU's endowment is $829.9 million (2023).[0]
Re:Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney
on Friday April 25, 2025 @08:14PM (#43799739)
"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone."
Re:RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People
on Friday April 25, 2025 @01:07AM (#43790287)
If we were back in the 1930's would you be worrying about the rate[0] of people being diagnosed with left-handedness?[1]
[0]https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image...
[1]https://archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...
Re:How 'Careless People' is becoming a bigger problem for Meta
on Friday March 21, 2025 @05:19PM (#43440924)
Glad you reminded me of this:
ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
ZUCK: just ask
ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?
ZUCK: people just submitted it
ZUCK: i don’t know why
ZUCK: they “trust me”
ZUCK: dumb fucks
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-...
Re:Bill prohibiting police from lying to children passes Virginia Senate
on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @03:04PM (#43106845)
Every time I see this pop up it reminds me of this part of an epsiode of This American Life [0]. At parts its quite difficult to listen to, however it seems like an important thing to be aware of. If they're willing to do this to children, what are they fine with doing to adults? It's beyond words how someone can imagine that this is moral behavior in the pursuit of justice. I don't see how anyone can harass a child like that - already distraught by the death of his sister - and to treat some kid like a murderer for hours on end.
[0] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/210/perfect-evidence/act-tw...
Re:The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action
on Thursday February 13, 2025 @07:56PM (#43043415)
From what I've read the Fedora project has an interest in providing solely open source and non patent encumbered software like codecs. Which sounds like something OBS may infringe on
Re:A New type of web hacking technique: DoubleClickjacking
on Friday January 17, 2025 @04:50PM (#42743631)
Thankfully this shouldn't become a large problem, because websites simply don't load that quick
Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour
on Saturday November 16, 2024 @08:13PM (#42161116)
It'd be neat if you could create conditional blocklists.
Like only whoever X person AND Y person block will be blocked from my feed. And so on...
I don't think that'd solve the problem, but it would marginally help (and should be better than the status quo)
Re:Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence–experts want it to...
on Monday October 14, 2024 @07:57PM (#41843528)
Like with everything else, the dosage makes the poison.
I personally intend to stay vigilante to dihydrogen monoxide poisoning.
Re:Tesla Robotaxi
on Friday October 11, 2024 @04:40AM (#41807566)
Oh hey I get to copy paste a list of times elon said FSD would come out next year![1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
[1]https://fortune.com/2015/12/21/elon-musk-interview/
[2]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920
[3]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/02/self-driv...
[4]https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/driverless-tesla-will...
[5]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/823727035088416768
[6]https://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_future_we_re_buildin...
[7]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/866482406160609280
[8]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1063123659290595328
[9]https://web.archive.org/web/20190220051410/https://www.ark-i...
[10]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEv99vxKjVI
[11]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucp0TTmvqOE
[12]https://web.archive.org/web/20200709130939/https://www.youtu...
[13]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HXId2Xhg
[14]https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-interview-axel-spr...
[15]https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/elon-musk-full-self-drivi...
[16]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwq_PhtvLwo
(Or simply, https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/)
Re:Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
on Sunday September 15, 2024 @04:36AM (#41546156)
Another one to be added to the list:
Re:Tesla has taken down 2016 release noting full self driving hardware...
on Friday August 23, 2024 @10:51PM (#41335148)
But elon told me FSD would come out next year![1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]
[1]https://fortune.com/2015/12/21/elon-musk-interview/
[2]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920
[3]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/02/self-driv...
[4]https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/driverless-tesla-will...
[5]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/823727035088416768
[6]https://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_future_we_re_buildin...
[7]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/866482406160609280
[8]https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1063123659290595328
[9]https://web.archive.org/web/20190220051410/https://www.ark-i...
[10]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEv99vxKjVI
[11]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucp0TTmvqOE
[12]https://web.archive.org/web/20200709130939/https://www.youtu...
[13]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HXId2Xhg
[14]https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-interview-axel-spr...
[15]https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/elon-musk-full-self-drivi...
[16]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwq_PhtvLwo
(Or simply, https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/)
Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping Ads from P...
on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:58AM (#37280429)
Yeah it's gotten so bad that the FBI recommends an ad-blocker as a means to protect yourself from malicious sites.
Re:New privacy tools and policies to help you stay safe and in control...
on Sunday August 06, 2023 @10:37PM (#37029388)
Yeah as long as they get to control the narrative around how to stay "safe" online stuff like this will be swept under the rug.
Re:IRS moves forward with free-file tax return system; supporters, cri...
on Thursday July 20, 2023 @05:59PM (#36807302)
Please read the article next time.
>Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee in June proposed a budget rider that would prohibit funds to be used for the IRS to create a government-run tax preparation software, unless approved by a group of House and Senate committees.
>The move “safeguards the IRS from an obvious conflict of interest where the tax collector becomes the tax preparer,” the bill’s summary states.
Re:Paul Graham on Twitter's anti-Substack measures: “It's a mistake.”
on Saturday April 08, 2023 @02:25AM (#35491031)
Damn the weekly ""mistake"" that Musk makes. That reminds me of this quote by a famous hypocrite "The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!"
Re:Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control
on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:26PM (#34716389)
Sadly this no longer works for Microsoft domains. Had Windows Defender mark my host file as having a 'severe' issue just because I copy pasted a list of Microsoft telemetry domains (1). Everything worked perfectly fine before that update.
(1) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-h...