What an idiot. It's an airplane obviously it has to fly up into the air and then down again

The new Start menu is also a significant improvement over the old one, with more icons on show, the ability to turn off Recommended ads, [...]

Guys, we are allowed to disable the ads now. We might have been too harsh on microsoft after all.

...insanity, I tell you. Ads, in your face, right in the Start Menu, on your computer that you bought, on your OS that you bought.

"lul not like you losers have any actual clearance"

I still feel this whole conclusion is akin to "we won't need money in a post-AGI world". An implied, unproven dream of AI being so good that X happens as a result.

If an author uses LLMs to write a book, I don't give a fuck that they forget how to write on their own. What I do care about is that they will generate 100 terrible books in the time it takes a legitimate author to write a single one, consuming a 1000 times the resources to do so and drown out the legitimate author in the end, by sheer mass.

but at least Abilene was insured against such an attack

Oh, well that's great. I hope the people, whose identity, medical records, or whatever else was stolen will be compensated accordingly. Would be a shame if the money went into building a new, just as unsafe system.

Not that anyone gives a fuck. At this point the argument is "your data had probably already been stolen somewhere else"...

There is the expected amount of negativity in the comments, but also more positivity than I expected.

I watched the video. I am not really a fan of the style, I don't agree with all of the content. But damn, a big influencer is using his reach to talk about retaking privacy and control in your online life. It can be such a difficult subject to pitch without sounding crazy. I think the video existing is great and pushes general awareness in the right direction.

With a magnetic needle and a steady hand ?

My hair quality became noticeably better when I started using SOLID shampoo. DRY shampoo, if you will

It should, as long as you don't try to abbreviate it as tar -h though... the short form is tar -? which illustrates the joke nicely

I would just like to add that the french people don't actually have grenade launchers on hand, since they are not sold in supermarkets here.

So we just march, shout, sing, hold signs, and get tear-gassed at some point. Admittedly we're usually in the tens of thousands in medium sized cities and we sometimes burn a few cars and trash cans for good measure.

The last large protest was on September 18. and had between 500k and 1.1M protesters, according to the police and the protesters respectively.

Design choices in this area involve balancing performance, usability, and security

Nothing to do with usability since decrypting your passwords one by one is perfectly fine. So they are saying this is about performance ? Holy fuck...

Oh yeah, little Bobby 3d we call him

I tried telling this to my manager for years. He saw it as a "X days since we last had a problem and needed to reboot the server" and took pride in it.

We finally shut it down at over 5 years of uptime. Some docker containers had been running for 4 years straight.

Yes, that means what you think it does concerning update policies. Yes, the server and some containers were exposed to the internet. No, the backups were never tested.

My interpretation was that pink lady shouted out some crap formula FBI guy does not understand anyway so they would be left alone again.

Last panel half contradicts it, half just leans harder into the absurdity of it all. I wouldn't expect physicists to care much about Rubik's Cubes, I think even the cliché fits mathematicians much better.

Basically, my spontaneous takeaway was "government and media are so science-illiterate that nobody understands anyone anymore".

It is more specific in France, but I actually dug around regulations a year ago when the other homeowners in my building wanted to install a security camera. The common parts of a residential building are considered somewhere in between public and private.

The short version is you need majority approval, the tape can only be accessed if something happens, you can't film apartments doors or windows and as few people as possible may have access. Which put quite a damper on my neighbours who were already celebrating how they would watch who enters and leaves the building at all times.
Bunch of fucking weirdos.

Excuse me? Is this theonion? nottheonion?

Oh, just plain normal USA news. OK...

"OK, Mr president, that's great, now please hand me the - no, no! Ugh..."
"THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER"

Beginner mistake, which is perfectly fine! Just use i-1 inside the loop and i <= values.Length as the condition.

I agree with the general idea of the article, but there are a few wild takes that kind of discredit it, in my opinion.

"Imagine the calculator app leaking 32GB of RAM, more than older computers had in total" - well yes, the memory leak went on to waste 100% of the machine's RAM. You can't leak 32GB of RAM on a 512MB machine. Correct, but hardly mind-bending.
"But VSCodium is even worse, leaking 96GB of RAM" - again, 100% of available RAM. This starts to look like a bad faith effort to throw big numbers around.
"Also this AI 'panicked', 'lied' and later 'admitted it had a catastrophic failure'" - no it fucking didn't, it's a text prediction model, it cannot panic, lie or admit something, it just tells you what you statistically most want to hear. It's not like the language model, if left alone, would have sent an email a week later to say it was really sorry for this mistake it made and felt like it had to own it.

The Oxygen Not Included wiki made the jump a few years ago and the gg wiki seems to finally be better referenced