nimbius

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by nimbius 22d ago
https://tferdinand.net/en/why-curl-bash-is-a-dangerous-bad-h... https://www.lesinskis.com/dont-pipe-curl-into-bash.html https://www.cyberhub.blog/article/25147-why-curl-pipe-bash-i
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by nimbius 22d ago
"curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leodeim/vpsmon/main/instal... | sudo bash" lol nope. i thought we all grew out of this crap?
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by nimbius 3mo ago
this is relatively unremarkable for those with an understanding of wage, labor, profit, price and capital. capitalism will always seek to reduce labor cost. during the epoch of neoliberalism it achieved great strides in this by reducing l
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by nimbius 3mo ago
the effort is being driven by a handful of tech and social media companies who have suddenly realized they cannot close the pandoras box of AI. without a meaningful headcount of real users, advertisers will begin to push back on cost or eve
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by nimbius 3mo ago
"hey guys remember that screen technology that came out seven years ago and has had plenty of time to mature? Well our 65 year old CEO just discovered it and has found a way to make it stratospherically more expensive than its ever be
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by nimbius 4mo ago
anyone with twenty years of devops experience is likely to abhor Diallo's hot take and for good reason. AI is being sold as a developer, as it is being sold as the do-everything alternative to traditional processes and methods. it is
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by nimbius 5mo ago
>It’s not a fun place for me to be anymore. I want to be there but it doesn't want me to be there. I want to get work done and it doesn't want me to get work done. I want to ship software and it doesn't want me to ship sof
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by nimbius 5mo ago
> Pricing oil in Yuan because, I guess, the US is somehow not protecting the UAE doesn't make sense because China won't be there to protect them either. It is an admission that US protection was always a paper tiger. Perhaps i
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by nimbius 5mo ago
Cursed by mighty Redmond to roam the market wasteland until death, one of the seventy some odd beleaguered CoPilot products is now being lashed like a haggard burro to the dying light of a once prominent development platform that, upon itse
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by nimbius 5mo ago
exactly. this sounds like a third path where the UAE charts its own course, and that course increasingly looks paved in Yuan. OPEC cartel membership didnt gain it access to Hormuz, and the US petrodollar promise to protect UAE states from
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by nimbius 5mo ago
If youve never experienced costco or been a member, this is difficult to understand but there is an undercurrent, nay, a prevailing sentiment of savings value and above all else things like rebate and cash back. Costco has established tran
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by nimbius 6mo ago
unpopular opinion: this can be explained by the social and monetary economics of the gaming ecosystem as a whole. - Microsoft has worked tirelessly to make the windows compute experience an evermore intrusive and soul crushing experience fo
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by nimbius 6mo ago
Blame it on whatever you like. oracle has been a rudderless leech for nearly 30 years now. - overpricing the database led to a predictable exodus and new players with often times better performance. - acquisition of MySQL led to a predicta
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by nimbius 6mo ago
blech...too much windows. bring me the Linux version and i might care ;)
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by nimbius 6mo ago
i live in a small midwest town and had the privilege of watching it slowly atrophy into near nothing over time. the steel mill closing, 2008 market crash, fentanyl crisis, covid, both shopping malls turning into liminal spaces frozen in 19
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by nimbius 6mo ago
it is a perfect storm: - deregulation of airlines in the 1980s led to rampant consolidation of routes and SPOF hubs that only work for revenue purposes and offer no real resilience in traffic planning. over-subscription of flights and lack
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by nimbius 6mo ago
one hypothesis for why meta wants this is because AI (including its own push for it) has turned much of the internet and its social media platforms into slopfarms and clickbots that advertisers are increasingly moving away from. The real dr
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by nimbius 7mo ago
Man who remembers when a big Mac was a wholesome and tasty meal option now shocked to find that, under capitalism, the wrapper is actually more nutritious than the meal itself.
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by nimbius 7mo ago
This isnt going to be a popular post because the HN crowd is very much a "China bad" crowd but I hypothesize China will likely step in and offer a fork that's compatible with open ecosystems not under the direct control of th
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by nimbius 7mo ago
Wild flex from the country that literally bought their own tiktok to control the propaganda.
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by nimbius 7mo ago
There used to be a time in history when a system administrator had to know all this shit in order to keep their job. I guess nowadays devops just means dev as we furiously pump tokens into the AI Wurlitzer whenever we dont know how to do s
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by nimbius 8mo ago
i suppose what he means is that the phones of protestors which have signal chat will be investigated. Assuming they dont have disappearing messages activated, and assuming any protestors willingly unlock their phones.
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by nimbius 8mo ago
"a lot of times my mother asks me if she can come in the room for reasons I won't get into" You've appeared to engineer your way around an interpersonal relationship that you lack the emotional, social intelligence and m
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by nimbius 9mo ago
"Intel is optimising for common cases inside the most dominant desktop operating system." - literally the history of Intel for more than 30 years and likely why we see this benefit now. gaming the compiler and hoping they wont ge
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by nimbius 9mo ago
i tend to find the kerning issues noted by the calibri team are moot. most Times New Roman is perfectly legible with careful observation and maybe a fresh cup of covfefe.
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US Fed will start buying Treasury bills to manage market liquidity(reuters.com)
37 points by nimbius 9mo ago|14 comments
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Potential Breach in Syncthing Fork(gitlab.com)
4 points by nimbius 9mo ago|0 comments
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by nimbius 10mo ago
the real news is: "and teases an Nvidia-friendly roadmap" The sole reason amazon is throwing any money at this is because they think they can do to AI what they did with logistics and shipping in an effort to slash costs leading i
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by nimbius 10mo ago
as a professional diesel mechanic for a small chain of midwest shops, this "telematics" feature is on long-haul trucks as well as tractors (john deer is notorious for using it to send mail marketing about services.) generally its
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by nimbius 10mo ago
Kubernetes is powerful, yes. it is also a feckless rats nest of bolt-ons and ride-alongs. its sharepoint levels of byzantine tuning so complex that, like sharepoint, it comes with its own bespoke administrators that often have little or n

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