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Re:Frontier Airlines Likely Breached on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:29PM (#50332419)
I think that's a very privileged take. For most people, getting arrested and having the government try to press fraud and abuse charges is a life altering event, so it's natural that people would be more reticent.
Re:AlpineBSD on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @06:10PM (#50281632)
So if software is developed with AI and that's better then we should discount AI's contribution, but if software is developed without AI is better then obviously it's because AI had no productivity boost?
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @02:38PM (#50213508)
If you phone is hackable by you, what stops someone else from hacking it? Ultimately, it's a trade off between security and openness, and I think it's good that there are choices on both sides.
Yeah the margins are tiny because private equity has spent the better part of the century destroying American dynamism and outsourcing all externalities including getting hacked to the people.
Solar gives power in the wrong time, making the duck curve a thing, and requiring conflict prone minerals storing dangerous amount of powers to smooth out. On net, this is probably worth it, but solar isn't free as you claim.
Re:How Climate Resilient Are the Largest Cities? on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @11:14AM (#49611554)
This is America, not a Europoor country.
Re:Adding 4 more 2.5GbE interfaces to the GMKtec NucBox G9 on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:44PM (#49424160)
I think your website is a bit broken, the images are rendering weirdly.
I think it is not an exaggeration to say that without Wireshark, so much of modern computing would never have been developed and we would be stuck in the past. The amount of visibility it gives is immense. I have used it for years, decades now.
Re:The best worst hack that saved our bacon on Sunday October 05, 2025 @08:02AM (#45480894)
Half the time I read the stories they're just a thinly disguised ad for some flavor the day SaaS, so at least in this instance the hook was somewhat useful. Now if everyone uses this to shill their SaaS, then maybe not.
If you have nothing to hide, feel free to mail me your unlocked phone.
Re:Americans Are Using PTO to Sleep, Not for Vacation–Report on Saturday September 27, 2025 @02:43PM (#45398375)
People are getting fired and are having to rely on gig work to live. It's a reporting gimmick by both administrations to convince us the economy is doing better when it hasn't.
Wow I never knew I "can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem".

This is why people use Obsidian.

Re:Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign on Thursday August 07, 2025 @04:21PM (#44829853)
It may not be illegal for someone to have close ties with the Chinese, but we should also not let them control one of the most important companies for the US military and industrial advantage over our rivals.
Re:Resizable Structs in Zig on Saturday July 26, 2025 @09:04PM (#44698090)
Alloca is a fundmentally insecure way of doing allocations. Languages that promote alloca will find themselves stuck in a morass of security messes and buffer overflows. If Zig were to adopt alloca, it would make the catastrophic mistake that plagued C for over several decades and introduce permanently unfixable security issues for another generation of programming languages.
Re:Reverse Engineering Call of Duty Anti-Cheat on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @04:08AM (#42790702)
I used to work at a game company fresh out of college, and this is simply untrue. The company made roughly 40% of sales from cheater whales (one can imagine how much the chest makers made), and there were guidelines on repeated bans where we recognized similarities to make sure we wouldn't ban them again too early.

I left the industry because of thah and the other things like loot boxes and matchmaking for profit and to push micro transactions. It's a terrible place.

Re:Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit on Friday December 13, 2024 @04:09PM (#42412377)
I am not talking about drones like DJI quadcopters with grenades duct taped to them or even large fixed wing aircraft, I am talking about small personal humanoid drones.

Civilization is going through a birth rate collapse. The labor shortage will become more endemic in the coming years, first in lower skill and wage jobs, and then everywhere else.

Humanoid robots change the economics of war. No longer does the military or the police need humans. Morale will no longer be an issue. The infantry will become materiel.

Re:Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit on Friday December 13, 2024 @03:14PM (#42411928)
The rules of traditional warfare will still exist, they will just be fought by advanced hyper intelligent AIs instead of humans. Hunter Miller humanoids like Optimus and drones like Anduril will replace humans in war.

War will be the same, but the rich are preparing to unleash a "new arsenal of democracy" against us in an AI takeover. We must be prepared.

Re:Use the XDG Base Directory Specification on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:35PM (#35291597)
XDG_BIN_HOME is crucial, without it, not supporting the spec seems like the right call. Better to deal with the status quo until updates happen than to get stuck in bikeshed hell.
Because the data is going to a foreign country instead of staying in America, where it's subject to American over site (see Schrems II in the EU).
We already have that though, it's called repossession. This feature just removes the human barrier and makes it vulnerable to hacking.
Re:Curl turns 25 years old GitHub Celebration on Saturday February 11, 2023 @02:43AM (#34750433)
Rust is definitely the worst language for this, writing curl in C++ would unlock memory and type safety while not throwing 30 years of language design out the window.
Re:The Futility of Doctors on Saturday June 04, 2022 @01:55AM (#31617431)
Do you have any evidence for this? As an American who's been to many doctors, this just seems wrong.
Re:We unplugged a data center to test our disaster readiness on Thursday April 28, 2022 @03:17AM (#31189621)
I mean restarting hardware once a day isn't going to hurt the hardware (indeed its the norm in some places to shut down many racks after business hours), and software will probably only see less bugs.
Re:Indirect branch tracking in Linux for Intel CPUs on Friday April 01, 2022 @11:09PM (#30885558)
Yup, this is a great win for free software as proprietary modules have less leeway to call GPL functions.
All but like two of those are important at all for advancing the FSF's missions. They would also completely break backwards compatibility. Half of those aren't even under the control of the FSF.
Re:The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @12:59AM (#30596886)
I'm sorry, but I'm not a nation-state. I wish I was though.
Re:The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability on Monday March 07, 2022 @06:19PM (#30594640)
You have it the wrong way around. Tagging the release as security allows nation-state level attackers with large budgets to investigate the fixes, while normal people have to wait to patches. This gives nation-state level attackers with large budgets a heads-up, making it worse for everyone else. Furthermore, nation-state level attacks with large budgets are more focused on offense than defense.
I'd love a mode that adds some letters on the tiles, as I'm colorblind and have difficulty differentiating colors.
Re:Wartime Is a Bad Time to Mess with the Internet on Friday March 04, 2022 @01:27PM (#30558458)
And that's where strength in numbers and coordination comes in, and why the West had to unite behind sanctions to get any one nation to apply them.
Re:Akamai to Acquire Linode on Thursday February 17, 2022 @09:04PM (#30381338)
Sounds like you were just trying to take over one of your employee's accounts...

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