plg94

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by plg94 5mo ago
some people just don't have a good memory for acronyms. It's one thing to learn the concept of a privilege escalation, but an entirely different thing to play mental memory with TLAs (three letter acronyms). Acronyms remove all
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by plg94 5mo ago
Understanding a term with the help of context is very different from guessing what the letters of an acronym might mean. The latter is more like a crosswords puzzle, and a totally unneccessary task for the reader.
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by plg94 5mo ago
> Why isn't it the job of the distros to keep up on upstream security disclosures? They can't, because (responsible) security disclosures are private, _not public_. That's the whole point of the system: notify the develope
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by plg94 2y ago
> considered classics Great games, but all you listed are barely 3 years old – can something that young already be considered a "classic"?
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by plg94 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management : come in, make a lot of noise, shit everywhere, leave
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by plg94 2y ago
The headstone ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gau%C3%9F#/medi... ) does not (it does feature the star of David, but I couldn't find any notion that Gauß was jewish). But there's a statue wit
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by plg94 2y ago
For 17, Gauss noticed that cos(360°/17) can be written only with elementary operations, see https://www.heise.de/imgs/18/2/1/2/3/3/6/4/siebzehneck-b95b5... Later he proved t
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by plg94 2y ago
I believe if things get too heated, all the parties involved should be forced to meet in person for a weekend to talk things out. I'm sure it would solve like 90% of these stupid conflicts, because people rarely get _that_ riled up whe
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by plg94 2y ago
You did have any opportunity to rewrite your sentence to use any other word than f**, one that did not require self-censoring. Yet you did not. Why?
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by plg94 2y ago
I don't have a factual answer for you (be interested in one, too), only a cheek-in-tongue one: It's like politics, the only thing you have to do to get elected is to get people to vote for you. And often the vote is only among pe
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by plg94 2y ago
wow, you made hackernews turn into tumblr. Well done, great explanation.
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by plg94 2y ago
Maybe. That drugstore chain mainly sells hygiene products. Their "main" side-business is printing photos, both digital and on film. (Yes, even in 2024 in Germany it's still possible to hand in your film in a small drugstore a
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by plg94 2y ago
why over 8k??? The linked [dmca notice]( https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2024/04/2024-04-2... ) lists exactly 12 repos, not 8000. Where did they get this info from? edit: ah, the numbe
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by plg94 2y ago
That doesn't matter, in most jurisdictions stealing trash is still stealing. If I'm disposing chemical waste in your backyard, do you automatically become the owner?
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by plg94 2y ago
Yes, for big parts where they know it will come down to the surface they try to aim for water, like they do with all the rocket boosters etc. However that's still risky, so given the choice between (fast descent and aim for ocean) an
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by plg94 2y ago
But are you allowed to sell it? I'd think it still belongs to NASA. If an airplane flies over your house and drops an engine into your back yard, you can't just auction it off but have to hand it over to the authorities. Or if som
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by plg94 2y ago
I was given [1,2] in the second run. Even easier to see it's impossible.
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by plg94 2y ago
that was the whole reason this was caught this early, because Andres Freund was runnig Debian Testing (or Unstable)
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by plg94 2y ago
One of the problems with the "money solution" in this case is that xz is a very small, relatively stable software. Sure things like the linux kernel, firefox, gnome or openssh could use huge donations to fund multiple developer da
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by plg94 2y ago
You do realize that "that shit" was part of the obfuscated and xz-compressed backdoor hidden as binary test file, right? It was never committed in plain sight. You can go to https://git.tukaani.org/xz.git and look
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by plg94 2y ago
the bad actor was a co-maintainer of the repo (and even more active than the original maintainer for quite some time) with full commit rights. This was strait committed to master, no PR and no review required. edit: also this was heavily ob
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by plg94 2y ago
No. From what I've read on the openwall and lkml mailing lists (so generally people who know a lot more about these things than I do), nobody accused Lasse Collins, the original maintainer, of being involved in this, at all, and there
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by plg94 2y ago
I don't think we know what exactly this does, yet. I can only answer one of those questions, as far as I understand the "unreplayable" part is refering to this: > Apparently the backdoor reverts back to regular operation i
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by plg94 2y ago
Even on the screenshots on instagram in this very post the word "sexual" is censored. It's ridiculous.
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by plg94 3y ago
This has nothing to do with AI, the anecdote is from 2018.
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by plg94 3y ago
Not a good point. A lot of that land is inhabited, or at least owned by citizens or companies. Pretty sure they would be against changing citizenship or losing their land. And for government owned, uninhabited land: land is worth a lot more
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by plg94 3y ago
But zdeus is the 'owner' of the nitter project on Github. That's their official word for it, even though it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the legal concept of (copyright) ownership. And then there's &
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by plg94 3y ago
you mean X'd on X
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by plg94 3y ago
It depends how the self-checkout is executed. In our one supermarket here in Germany (Globus) each customer gets a mobile scanner unit and you scan each item as you go through the store and put it in your cart. This has multiple advantages:
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by plg94 3y ago
Some of these emails are legally required for online shops. Doesn't matter if the user wants to receive them or not, they _have to_ be sent and actually delivered to the user's inbox.

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