radicalcentrist

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Comment · 10 days ago
I admittedly don't know much about how CAs work but why would a state actor care about such an exploit? Wouldn't they just ask any local cert issuer and receive a "legitimate" cert?
Comment · 15 days ago
Comment · 29 days ago
I think you would be very unpleasantly surprised to see how many organizations deeply rely on GitHub. Think about how many open-source projects you've seen that have willingly tied themselves to GH-specific features, and then extrapolate to thousands of companies with masses of spaghetti code that are hopelessly reliant on their internal GH Enterprise features.
Comment · 29 days ago
I assume both? I'd be surprised to see a vulnerability fixed without first being discovered.
Comment · 1 month ago
Consider previous cases where companies like Reddit have unmasked their users at the behest of court order.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm not well-informed about this situation, but DDOSing does strike me as an action which is fundamentally counter to information freedom and archival, so that seems like a reasonable suspicion to me.
Comment · 3 months ago
Yep, a great lesson, and a relatively low price to pay for teaching my kids the honorable act of civil disobedience.
Comment · 4 months ago
Interesting, this reminds me a bit of TTS models that had poor quality training data inserting commercial jingles or background music into their output, although I would agree that in this case it sounds intentional.
Comment · 6 months ago
Are we expected to know latin, or is this supposed to be a little homework assignment for us? Ridiculous.
Comment · 9 months ago
I believe there is a kernel of truth here, but having used both the mainstream products and their "underdog" alternatives, this is completely counter to my experience.

Nokia is a bit before my time, but I've used both iPhones and Androids and simply cannot suffer iPhones anymore. There are so many features of Android that are impossible to replicate on Apple products. Even something as simple as blocking ads is a fool's errand on iOS. I make extensive use of third-party app stores, patching .apk files, and my device's filesystem. I laugh when iOS introduces a new features that's been included in Android for half a decade.

I've had to suffer many work Macbooks and vastly prefer both the hardware and (Linux) software stack on non-Apple laptops. The history of Apple hardware and OS X (sorry, macOS) is littered with blunders such as the touchbar, keyboard issues, and now Liquid Glass. Is a ThinkPad the holy grail of PCs? Probably not, but they've been a lot more reliable in my experience.

NVIDIA's Linux drivers are especially laughable. After years of wrangling their drivers, struggling to make sleep work, and getting X/Wayland rendering working reliably, at this point I can't bother. I simply disable any discrete NVIDIA laptop GPUs entirely and use the integrated graphics. It just works better and doesn't drain my battery. On a desktop I'm with AMD all the way.

I promise you, I have plenty of experience with both sides and I am most definitely not "suffering under inferior tech", at least not anymore.

Comment · 10 months ago
filing jointly
Comment · 1 year ago
Well that's what I don't get, how is spending the money bad faith? Aren't they getting the money ahead of time so they can spend it before the world ends? If they have to keep the world-still-here money tied up in escrow I don't see why they would take the deal.
Comment · 1 year ago
I still don't get how this is supposed to work. So let's say I give you a million dollars right now, with the expectation that I get $10M back in 10 years when the world hasn't ended. You obviously wanted the money up front because you're going to live it up while the world's still spinning. So how am I getting my payout after you've spent it all on hookers and blow?
Comment · 1 year ago
This is awesome, I got way more sucked into this than I expected. If you're open to adding more features, a "custom playlist" would be really cool. I'd love to drill myself on the Balkans or West Africa, for instance.

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