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Comment · 11 days ago
She probably thought that having Jeffrey Epstein involved in her porn site would be a benefit to humanity. The people involved in Epstein's plots probably also thought they were benefiting humanity (just maybe not the humans alive right now)

And for clarity, this isn't just Dario's wife, she's part of the executive staff.

Comment · 27 days ago
This reminds me of one of the funniest products I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbkvJznmwU

This is the "kosher switch" - observant Jews customarily do not use light switches on Saturday (their weekly holy day). This light switch represents a workaround where when you flip the switch, it randomly generates an on or off signal and emits this through an optical coupler. When the random number sufficiently causes the state of the light to change, it latches in that direction.

This is a way of turning the lights on and off without violating the tradition.

"I didn't switch the light, the random number did!"

"I didn't exploitVulnerability(), random number did!"

Comment · 1 month ago
What sorts of places do you hang out in, or how old are you?

People who did programming for the love of programming was extremely common in the sortof hacker subculture that existed from 1990-2010is or so.

Comment · 1 month ago
I'm interested to see what cases for this will look like.
Comment · 1 month ago
Literally putting tokens into a machine and hoping profit comes out. Amazing.
Comment · 2 months ago
It is actually astonishing to me that this is not something which can be turned off at the OS level, or as a permission setting in the app permissions.

The app knowing I took a screenshot feels adjacent to me to a keylogger. Imagine how many apps are capturing that information silently. To my mind, a screenshot is something that is happening outside of the app context, the app knowing about it is a security flaw imo.

Comment · 2 months ago
The tick you're talking about here (hard to crush) is a wood tick, the types that carry lyme are deer ticks.

They're much, much smaller. The size of a poppy seed.

Comment · 5 months ago
If you don't do any 3D printing, it's hard to understand the difference between bambu labs and nearly everything else.

The Bambu printers work. Imagine the difference between windows XP and OSX. Do you guys remember the insane breath of fresh air it was to get a computer which just worked?

That's Bambu. Yeah they aren't open source there's all sorts of telemetry, etc. Nobody cares because they really just want to print things.

Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 9 months ago
Just as a reminder, 15 years ago was 2011.

That was...like 4 macbooks ago. I still have keyboards from that era. I still have speakers and monitors from that era kicking around.

We are definitely, definitely not the last generation to use keyboards.

Comment · 1 year ago
The fact that you believe this is the exact reasoning behind trying to prevent things like what Jimmy Kimmel did here.

It could not be more cut and dry than this. In fact it is so cut and dry that a conspiracy theory on both the left and the right is that the text messages demonstrating his political motivations aren’t genuine.

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