sp0rk

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by sp0rk 2mo ago
I was just exaggerating for effect. Obviously I wouldn't seriously claim nobody ever did something, just that it wasn't what I would consider common behavior. That being said, I think the particular example you provided is kind of
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by sp0rk 2mo ago
This type of system is mentioned in the article under the "Destination Dispatch" section.
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by sp0rk 2mo ago
> I can’t help but feel there used to be honor among hackers. You didn’t go after your own. What kind of jerk would attack Arch Linux? This has absolutely not ever been the case.
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by sp0rk 3mo ago
> There’s few things I find more pathetic than trying really hard to show who’s best and ranking things that have no business being ranked. This seems like a strangely harsh response considering the person you're responding to is ju
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by sp0rk 5mo ago
You should check out "Counter-claims" section of your link, especially the last paragraph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me#Counter-claims
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by sp0rk 6mo ago
> Would love to see a metric switch to C en km/h You can change the units and location by clicking the gear icon next to the city on the screen it shows in between broadcasts.
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by sp0rk 10mo ago
> Fantasy book are a good example. A Games of Thrones was first released in 1996 but had middling success. It was only after 2011 that the series exploded in popularity. Good Omens main peak was ~15 years after release. Hell, some books
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by sp0rk 11mo ago
> I do wonder though, because I have seen a dozen other brands of Amazon delivery vehicles, is Amazon being 'sponsored' by these manufacturers or just buying cars all the time? I am really confused why there's so many diff
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by sp0rk 11mo ago
> Yet when NPR runs non-stop Walmart articles [1], often in a neutral to positive fashion, most are unaware that they've received millions of dollars from the Waltons. The link your provided has 14 articles written in 2025. Topics c
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by sp0rk 1y ago
> A lot of the news gives the impression that your world is over when 14th hits, not recognising that historically legacy software and hardware is a thing. There was a lot of buzz in the cybersecurity world near Window XP's EOL abou
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by sp0rk 1y ago
It works for me. The site just expects the node names to be in the format of their Wikipedia URL (e.g. "Binghamton,_New_York".)
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by sp0rk 1y ago
I'm not sure if this is an intentional design decision, but I think the results would be more interesting if it ignored all of the category links at the very bottom of the Wikipedia pages. I tried one of the default example (Titanic -&
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by sp0rk 1y ago
This page only contains links to about half of the backgrounds present on the page that is linked currently.
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by sp0rk 1y ago
> These days you've got Gambas for a free and open source VB, including the terrible language, but in my experience the looks are a bit off when you design on one desktop environment and run the application on another. There is also
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by sp0rk 1y ago
Announcements like this typically contain information that will help users identify if they were compromised, such as the name of files that are dropped or modified when the malware is initialized, startup entry names, etc. Obviously the pe
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by sp0rk 1y ago
The author explains in the article that they previously gave a presentation outlining various techniques to achieve a "schizophrenic" zip file. The blog post discusses an additional technique that was not present in their previous
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by sp0rk 1y ago
Where are ads displayed in your Google Messages? I have never seen any ads and I struggle to even imagine where they would place an ad within its interface.
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by sp0rk 1y ago
As somebody that was using Windows XP up to its EoL, I am fairly certain I was in the minority (at least amongst home users.) I don't think anybody I knew was using XP by the time its end came. The only reason I was still on it at the
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by sp0rk 1y ago
> There's a culture of indifference, an embrace of mediocrity. I don't think it's new, but I do think perhaps AI has given the lazy and prideless an even lower energy route to... I'm not sure. What is the goal? I thin
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by sp0rk 1y ago
The SVG equation is very difficult to read if you're using a dark OS theme because the blog uses the OS preference for dark/light theme (and doesn't seem to give an option to change it manually, either.)
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by sp0rk 2y ago
This is a really bad faith interpretation of what he's saying. I think a more reasonable interpretation is that he's claiming the 2020 election was rigged (a claim he's made many times already), which in turn means he was abl
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by sp0rk 2y ago
Do you have any examples of stories where one of the subjects was contacted, wanted to respond, but didn't have enough time?
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by sp0rk 2y ago
I witnessed a pretty alarming situation on TikTok surrounding the story about the Dalai Lama asking a young boy to "suck his tongue." Traditional news outlets ran the initial story, and then followed up shortly after to provide im
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by sp0rk 2y ago
It's quite possible that the victims were convinced to try the app by the attacker outside of the Play Store and the app existing on the store was just an attempt to give it additional credibility when they were directed to download it
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by sp0rk 2y ago
Are there any roles at this company that would be appropriate for a hobbyist programmer with an interest in network security, but without any professional experience? I'm pretty comfortable with Python and I've spent a lot of time
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by sp0rk 2y ago
I think the average person (myself included) does not know that something can be considered ePaper without being bistable. The two are married in my head because all of the ePaper devices that I've been exposed to thus far have been bi
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by sp0rk 3y ago
Just looking through the current results, the only other one that really jumps out at me is "-server" to get rid of the server GPUs that can't be used for gaming.
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by sp0rk 3y ago
The ability to apply a boolean search (as a filter) to the text would be very useful. For example, "-parts" would get rid of a lot of results that I have no interest in.
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by sp0rk 3y ago
> If you report a minor robbery to the police in any large American city and you aren't a public figure, there is functionally a 0% chance of them following up on it much less solving it. I have known people that had stolen things r
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by sp0rk 3y ago
I think "partnership" seems like too strong a word for what appears to be the simple use of an affiliate program. Why would OneRep know or care about an individual affiliate and the content of their site, as long as their behavior

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