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Re:Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboar...
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @05:58PM (#44416861)
I wasn't very happy with Apple's bizarre UI or out of date libraries.
The easiest way to make an OS with ideal support on one platform is to only support Apple's hardware instead of the PC cosmos, so I will be interested if Asahi getting the relatively little resources it needs will gradually make it the least waste of time choice to use Linux on Apple hardware.
Re:Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboar...
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @05:08PM (#44416439)
Every few years someone forces me to use Windows and I find that my data is apparently worth nothing since it being one giant anti-pattern wastes my time.
Re:Personal care products disrupt the human oxidation field
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @03:10PM (#44415499)
If an actual nutritionist says you can eat it every monkey in a lab coat knows they can sell it as a lotion with substantially less work than testing something else.
Re:Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @08:29AM (#44412558)
Sure bad things could happen depending what terms they could negotiate. The counter proposal seems to be to not have made the deal probably not being able to raise enough money to do so in secrecy (or not maintaining secrecy and making more spicy gossip about an opportunity.) The old owner is probably happier to be done with owning the brand and getting more than they could have with no free advertising.
Re:Programming as Theory Building: Why Senior Developers Are More Valu...
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @07:32AM (#44412248)
The article is about Senior Engineers where time spent is a huge factor in the distinction. It would be more that theory building becomes a tuned skill for an engineer over time as a fundamental result of their job than whether they use it every day, started with it as their primary method, etc.
Re:US Defense Department will stop providing satellite weather data
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @07:21AM (#44412185)
> Her previous position was as a climate change denial specialist.
Predictions won't be less accurate because weather is beyond the comprehension of all people and no amount of data could change that.
Re:Bazzite would shut down if Fedora goes ahead with removing 32-bit
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @07:11AM (#44412140)
The claim seems quite self explanatory. As someone who isn't against my WiFi router or NAS matching my desktop, I don't understand why graphics as a fundamental element of the OS is a plus. I also think Linux not being as broken as Windows was probably a reason WSL's development path wasn't the same disaster Microsoft usually has.
Re:Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @06:21AM (#44411862)
AFAICT from the article the takeover deal is agreed and in process, so assuming they end up able to pay on time and meet any other requirements I don't see how other interest matters?
Re:TikTok staff didn't know test would determine redundancy
on Saturday June 28, 2025 @06:50PM (#44408822)
In what sense do you need to be cynical to believe the purpose in testing employees and then keeping the 50% of staff that did best when reducing staff was for the reduction of staff?
Re:JavaScript Trademark Update
on Saturday June 28, 2025 @06:20PM (#44408659)
AFAIK Sun gave Netscape free use of the JavaScript Trademark purely to side with Netscape against Microsoft in the browser wars, language wars, etc. I would think there is still something related to the original agreement.
It looks like JScript is still trademarked by Microsoft, why not ask them to do whatever the community thinks is right for ECMAScript names and then we can all refer to the language a little faster?
Re:Microsoft extends free Windows 10 security updates into 2026
on Saturday June 28, 2025 @05:04PM (#44408196)
I haven't heard of that absurd business model since the Internet 1.0 bubble popped.
Re:A Brief History of Children Sent Through the Mail
on Saturday June 28, 2025 @04:21PM (#44407865)
I don't really get your point. Our skepticism toward reports involving real cults and incompetent insititutions is certainly higher since 12000 patients were hurt by non existing satanic institutions in bad therapy. They are not less hurt by the fact that it could have happened.
Percentages from the lost in a mall experiment don't seem to show anything surprising about how I would expect these traumas to end up integrating with real experience, and the patients that were going to be most susceptible were probably not going to look like a random selection study, see far more in the importance of their relationship with their therapist, etc.
Re:A Brief History of Children Sent Through the Mail
on Saturday June 28, 2025 @05:59AM (#44403507)
Ah, yes, I took this to be a reference to general doctors don't take psychological issues seriously, which is both true at times and sometimes exaggerated.
Re:A Brief History of Children Sent Through the Mail
on Saturday June 28, 2025 @05:45AM (#44403451)
The "satanic panic" was certainly an extreme example, but in general the entire industry spent a few decades inducing false memories. Because of the nature of trust in authority few people question when they are pressured to have a trauma and psychological effects from events that never occurred.
On the lesser end, I think many of the consumer oriented psychologists will take you in this direction with events that did occur but are probably typical experiences and only actually effect specific personalities.
Re:TikTok staff didn't know test would determine redundancy
on Saturday June 28, 2025 @05:38AM (#44403422)
Company finally uses a qualitative test to make lay-off decisions and gets torn apart on the details unlike the companies that use badge photos to rate employees.
Re:A Brief History of Children Sent Through the Mail
on Saturday June 28, 2025 @04:42AM (#44403178)
It's clearly a serious problem that GPs ignore things that will surface but it is also a problem that experts surface things that don't need to be surfaced and in the worst cases even did not exist but fit a fad theory.
One should be very careful with measures claiming things like 90% as GPs defer to experts for these measures.
Re:Some bits on malloc(0) in C being allowed to return NULL
on Friday June 27, 2025 @02:34PM (#44399120)
I've always considered NaN too definitive for general industry languages like C, JS or Cobol where not even physics with calculus should be assumed. Maybe its ok for languages that at least expect math for engineers like Fortran or up..
How about we call it "Maybe a Number" and since equality can't work for it we still need a separate way to ask like: Math.whoIsTheMaN(me)
Re:The 90% Gravity Problem: Why We Tend to Quit Right Before the Finis...
on Friday June 27, 2025 @10:23AM (#44397036)
It is easy to put off most forms of evaluation until the project is fully done. Aside from not wanting to face evaluation or unease that something wasn't as good as anticipated it also means an evaluation on many much earlier actions one no longer feels represents their new experience and how they wish they had approached the problems in retrospect.
Re:America's Prison Population Is in Serious Decline
on Thursday June 26, 2025 @03:31PM (#44390499)
An interesting and upbeat article.. But the death rate from overdose went from 9 to 32 per 100000 in the last 2 decades. Using their entrance logic, if I understand what this means afa per annum, couldn't that amount to a few hundred per 100000 who are not cycling into long prison terms because they are dead?
Re:Bot or Human? Creating the Invisible Turing Test for the Internet
on Thursday June 26, 2025 @01:43AM (#44384504)
They were very proud of this mouse movement stuff when the desktop was 70% of traffic.. It's not worth as much investment as its been given since there's no group limiting people to one HID method and removing accessibility from world.
Re:Getting ready to issue IP address certificates
on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @03:56PM (#44381269)
Anything from people who are afraid of increasingly onerous DNS requirements to breakage because they can't fix their parent domains DNSSEC misconfiguration. It seems like an interesting timing coincide to me so I wonder if there's some (ir)rational explanation. (Implementing a new SAN that must inherently have the gap you are finally addressing is not a bit funny to you?)
Re:Getting ready to issue IP address certificates
on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @02:44PM (#44380597)
Re:Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @01:57PM (#44380090)
I had a bank VP tell me Bill Clinton fixed the US' deficit by moving tax settling to be immediate on them. The strings of my little fiddle broke.
Re:East German cities offer free stays to fight depopulation
on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @05:10PM (#44371104)
But you should still buy an insurance for it.
Re:My "Are you presuming most people are stupid?" test
on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @04:38PM (#44370768)
Petrol protectionism or religious fervor both have a risk of an overall suboptimal while delivering substantial relative benefit to specific groups and their members if they can maintain the absurdity.
Re:My "Are you presuming most people are stupid?" test
on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @03:29PM (#44370029)
I don't think having a lot of information is intelligence. Plenty of medieval peasants were stupid and a small percentage could combine information into new things for the idiots around them to repeat. During a short period copied behavior traveled less well and it was more obvious how stupid the median person was.
Re:The best Hacker on HackerOne is now an AI
on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @02:30PM (#44369219)
As long as they maintain a history per account and discourage gaming with new accounts, I don't see why anyone would want slop that performed lower just because the slop was manual. (I just had someone tell me that they wished the nonsensical bounty submissions they triaged were at least being fixed up with gpt3.)
Re:Breaking WebAuthn, FIDO2, and Forging Passkeys
on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @01:15PM (#44368457)
> The current WebAuthn/passkey registration process is practically TOFU at this point which is funny since this by itself negates the entire rationale behind hardware-based phishing resistant authenticators.
This is not an accurate description of the point of Fido phishing resistance. It isn't to make a bank feel happy the user has a hardware key unless you choose attestation. It is to make the user happy that if they click the key they know is hardware on the wrong site then that site can't MITM a site they intend to authenticate to.
(Stopping users from reusing the protocol for security between passwords and real hardware keys is basically just forcing the DRM for SaaS aspect of attestation on people because you can. If you aren't the kind of institution that issued real tokens to account holders then it is none of your business.)