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Re:Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader? on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:34PM (#49792224)
Does the FBI or any other law-enforcement office follow up on these backdoors? Is this considered a crime, or even conspiracy to commit a crime, or is it only the act of using the backdoor that's a crime?

I can also see that it's still up in NPM without any warning of any kind: - https://www.npmjs.com/package/mathmain

But the Github repo for the package and the author are down: - https://github.com/allendev12 - https://github.com/allendev12/mathmain

Social media can f#%@ right off if it causes my tuna prices to go up!
Re:The Radiation Exposure Lie on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:31PM (#48723982)
"Lie" is such a click-baity triggering word to use here. Sounds more like they overstated the harm of cumulative small doses of radiation.

But, I mostly just skimmed through the beginning of the article, so maybe it gets better, like maybe the author reveals an international cabal of influential anti-nuclear activists who are holding human progress back.

Re:Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data on Thursday April 16, 2026 @05:22AM (#47790638)
Search Google images for "yarmulke palestinian protest" and tell me there aren't many Jewish people fighting for a Free Palestine. Every pro-Palestine rally I've been to has had a contingent of Jewish groups in our midst. You'll only get hated on if you show or wave the Israeli flag.
Re:An Introduction to Obsidian on Monday April 13, 2026 @07:29PM (#47759324)
I second your suggestion to have a decent Spreadsheet tool in Obsidian.
Re:JetKVM – Control any computer remotely on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @02:11AM (#45729657)
100% agree! And I'm pretty sure the Linux community had many more (hardware) KVM users than the general population. Kernel-based virtualization should've been abbreviated KbVM.
Re: on Friday October 03, 2025 @12:07AM (#45458863)
Time will tell if they knew and looked the other way. Or more like time will confirm with more evidence that this actually happened.
Re:Investigating a Forged PDF on Thursday September 25, 2025 @10:58PM (#45382125)
It feels like you need to sue them for scamming you with fake documents. Their attempts didn't work on you, but it might've scammed many others.
Re:Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves on Saturday September 06, 2025 @12:25AM (#45146598)
Roma or Romani people, commonly known in Europe as gypsies, are not the same as Romanian people, although there is a large population there. You'll have to reference Wikipedia for a deeper dive.
Re:Self-Taught Engineers Often Outperform on Thursday July 17, 2025 @11:45AM (#44594608)
Is your opinion about the latter because the self-taught may not stay on task?

As a self-taught person on a lot of different matters, I find myself exploring rabbit holes that expand my knowledge, but don't progress the task I originally started doing.

I like the Battlestar Galactica theory for this - a group of humans and human-Cylon hybrids bred with the early Neanderthals in different regions of the world.
That's what I was hoping the author would explore.
One year ago I probably would've said the same. But I started dabbling with it recently, and I'm awed by it.
"do not work for me", I believe, is the key message here. I think a lot of AI companies have crafted their tools such that adoption has increased as the tools and the output got better. But there will always be a few stragglers, non-normative types, or situations where the AI agent is just not suitable.
Orange juice shouldn't count as a serving of fruit. It should fall under the same category as soda.
Does somebody have a breakdown of an analyst's tasks and the percentage of time or money spent on each? Was it 50% data gathering, analysis, and projections, and 50% on making PowerPoints?

And anyone seen a McKinsey slide? How information dense are these things?

Re:Finding Shawn Mendes on Monday June 09, 2025 @07:13AM (#44223255)
And thus was born a new game, one that combined knowledge of history, politics, and pop trivia.
Re:Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @05:07PM (#44174753)
Two ways to f#ck with these trackers - either send them nothing back, or flood them with lots of fake data.

Somebody also needs to come up with a way to peer to peer share advertiser tracking cookies.

No interactivity! The email must be printable as-is. Not even CSS code to change styles when you hover over links. That's what I would for a minimum HTML for emails standard that's widely supported.
Chances are that people died of other causes before any cancer could metastasize.
Re:NASA Stennis Releases First Open-Source Software on Thursday May 15, 2025 @03:21AM (#43992624)
I'm sure there's a joke here about the men in black wanting to slowly release all the reverse-engineered UFO operating system code.
Re:NASA Stennis Releases First Open-Source Software on Thursday May 15, 2025 @03:16AM (#43992606)
Excuse me for being the idiot that didn't get this from the title.
Re:Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades on Sunday May 04, 2025 @07:50PM (#43890624)
You should post this on /r/Photogrammetry on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/photogrammetry/
Wilfully ignored because i guess it's not mandated by law.

You need someone powerful like Google to say they will lower Page Rank for sites that don't comply with the Do Not Track flag.

With all the motion tracking they're doing, they could replicate this in a VR environment. You could watch the cartoonified game like you're actually there.
Gut feeling uses all your internal predispositions and biases.
Re:MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small. on Saturday January 11, 2025 @07:23PM (#42670089)
I can do that with JSON too. I was hoping MessagePack would have built-in functionality to do it.
Re:MessagePack: It's like JSON, but fast and small. on Saturday January 11, 2025 @03:58AM (#42664447)
Does it solve the problem of repeating set of keys in an object array, eg. when representing a table?

I don't think using a dictionary of key values is the way to go here. I think there should be a dedicated "table" type, where the column keys are only defined once, and not repeated for every single row.

What if we are living in a simulation and the new pitted glass texture was rolled out, but our collective memories weren't updated?
If they made this into a reality show, that's one show I'd watch.

F%#& Undercover Boss! Give me Undercover Boss gets hacked!

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