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by transcriptase 4mo ago
They’re supposed to. Instead they have a reputation for telling researchers that their disclosure isn’t actually a vulnerability and doesn’t qualify for a bounty or recognition, then quietly patching said non-vulnerability with a suspicious
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Every time I get excited about one of these techs I end up finding it has approx the same range as a late 90s cordless phone unless you live on the Nevada salt flats, and a data rate that could probably be beat out by Morse code on a GMRS r
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by transcriptase 4mo ago
The only possible way to come to a conclusion as wrong as yours is by looking at gross instead of net federal spending by province. When you consider the tiny detail of actually contributing to federal finances, in the past 20 years alone Q
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> AB sees, correctly, an inordinate amount of tax per capita go out for the privilege of policies intended to kneecap that region's development. Not only that, but the Feds typically use their outsized tax revenue from Alberta to “i
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They’re also the ones constantly hiring and recruiting because internally nearly everyone benefits to having more people “under them”, and there’s a massive HR/Talent team that doesn’t go into hibernation after a 20% workforce reductio
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Everyone thinks they’re getting the cushy office job working for the party, until they’re handed a shovel by someone with a gun.
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Piracy is as easy now as it was pre-DRM. DRM is the digital equivalent to security screws on electronics, in that they’re a mechanism for lawyers to argue their client made an attempt despite being easily bypassed with a trivial amount of e
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>due to the arms race that large corporate machines will win Much like how the entirety of Hollywood, book publishers, academic publishers, and game developers have won against piracy despite being some of the largest corps on earth and
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The UK public can still vote for governments that don’t demand backdoors into citizens’ private data. Instead, over the past century they’ve turned their country into an ineffectual nanny state of shrinking global relevance, while a fading
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That and locking down the API meant no more sites offering readily available visualizations of this type of thing
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Even if there was, I doubt Reddit cares enough to go after them when it’s boosting their valuation
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It’s the distilled mediocrity of the statements. Never venturing beyond a 10% margin of what you would get if you sampled the opinions of 1,000 people who underwent jury selection by west coast liberals.
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Reddit astroturfing firms and bot farms learned to buy/use “seasoned” accounts over a decade ago. I’d venture there have been countless bots just in a holding pattern harmlessly building up reputation and a human-like history of posts
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25,000 are bots farming drops
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by transcriptase 4mo ago
Next time give it the context required for the task, eg an explanation of why you have those hand coded simplifications, and be amazed at how proper use of a tool works better than just assuming your drill knows what size bit to pick.
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by transcriptase 5mo ago
I’ll take 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 over the bastard child of a mac address and bitlocker recovery key any day of the week.
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by transcriptase 5mo ago
>We believe that the user experience comes first I’ll believe that when YouTube gives me the ability to block certain channels versus “not interested” and “don’t recommend channel” buttons that do absolutely nothing close to what I want.
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For the uninformed what’s the deal with scribd?
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by transcriptase 6mo ago
I have no idea if it’s still true but it used to be the case that you had 3 choices with a Wordpress install and even a couple plugins: 1) Have a part time job updating it and plugins, making sure you weren’t introducing vulns at every step
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by transcriptase 6mo ago
Indeed. The GSA with 10k employees is going to fall apart without the 40k unused winzip licences DOGE so cruelly took away from them in their senseless spree of madness.
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Yeah but at least a dozen Microsoft employees went on a seemingly scripted blitz on X about how they’re ready to start listening to feedback and… * checks notes * Only have copilot shoehorned into most things instead of everything. And some
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Vancouver did the same thing. Now remaining parking is just filled with luxury vehicles with MSRPs that indicate you could charge $100 an hour and they wouldn’t care. Nice of the wealthy politicians to get the riffraff off the road so the g
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It does.
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“Canada is doing just fine” Found the federal govt employee or boomer who bought real estate in the 90s
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7500 books a day… what percentage are AI slop? Half the non-fiction and children’s books I see are clearly just free tier ChatGPT with poorly generated AI imagery.
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by transcriptase 7mo ago
Would a PhD student incorporate something into their model that flipped their results from agreeing to disagreeing with the premise that has not only practically become a religion, but forms the foundation for more and more funding flowing
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“The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.”
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Sam must not be aware of what happened to any business or foreign nation/leader considered outwardly friendly to the first Trump administration when the democrats regained control in 2020.
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Now go find a mirror and read your post out loud to yourself, slowly.
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ChatGPT was brutal for it a couple years ago. You could tell when it would go into “lazy mode” during peak usage periods. Suddenly instead of writing the code you asked for it would give some generic bullet points telling you to find a libr

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