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XZ backdoor in a nutshell
If this was done by multiple people, I'm sure the person that designed this delivery mechanism is really annoyed with the person that made the sloppy payload, since that made it all get detected right away.
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XZ backdoor in a nutshell
If this was done by multiple people, I'm sure the person that designed this delivery mechanism is really annoyed with the person that made the sloppy payload, since that made it all get detected right away.
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Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits
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Seems it's exploiting vulnerabilities in some software called "Ivanti Connect Secure VPN", so unless you're running that, you're safe I guess. Says in the past they used vulnerabilities in "Qlik Sense" and Adobe "Magento". Never heard of any of those, but I guess maybe some businesses use them?
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I got into the wrong career lol
I googled this story to, uh, fact check it, and found this article saying that her move to OF is fake news. Except, upon closer examination, it seems the article is AI slop and completely made up. How ironic.
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Mildly McInfuriating
What's actually infuriating are those bar charts.
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Intel is the latest Fortune 500 giant to test the ‘4 wrong CEOs’ rule
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With 30% ownership it could have been at the forefront of generative AI, which OpenAI released to the world in 2022.
Do they think openai invented the concept of generative ai, because that's what their statement implies?
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Ban the MBFC bot
The other day it labelled the internet archive as biased towards centre-left. The internet archive - it's like saying a stack of blank printer paper is biased. Beyond useless.
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Classic Microsoft
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Because Bedrock runs on phones, tablets, consoles, and a host of other random crap
And it also removes Linux support. Typical Microsoft.
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What skills did almost everybody have 50 years ago, but few people have today?
Apparently recognizing and handling fascists.
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Even paper glows
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Then they'll just identify you by the sound of the printer being audible from down the street.
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It's EVERYWHERE!
Shame he didn't have a scandal on that stage. They would have stopped taking about it within the day.
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Zynga owes IBM $45M after using 1980s patented technology for hit games
IBM argued that its patent, initially used to launch Prodigy, remains "fundamental to the efficient communication of Internet content." Known as patent '849, that patent introduced "novel methods for presenting applications and advertisements in an interactive service that would take advantage of the computing power of each user’s personal computer (PC) and thereby reduce demand on host servers, such as those used by Prodigy," which made it "more efficient than conventional systems."
According to IBM's complaint, "By harnessing the processing and storage capabilities of the user’s PC, applications could then be composed on the fly from objects stored locally on the PC, reducing reliance on Prodigy’s server and network resources."
The jury found that Zynga infringed that patent, as well as a '719 patent designed to "improve the performance" of Internet apps by "reducing network communication delays." That patent describes technology that improves an app's performance by "reducing the number of required interactions between client and server," IBM's complaint said, and also makes it easier to develop and update apps.
All I can say is yikes.
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JD Vance falsely accuses Algerian Olympic boxer of being transgender & weirdly blames Kamala Harris
When Algeria is too woke for you, you should really reconsider things.
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[Transphobia Warning] Nutomic’s Stance on Transgender People
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It's easy to understand them when you realise that their entire ideology starts at "anything the US does or says is bad" and continues from there.
Once you look at it through that lens, even their most wild takes suddenly become very consistent.
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Google’s head of Pixel 9 design won’t apologize for its big, beautiful camera bump
At least it's symmetrical so it won't rock, unlike every other phone out there now, including the one I'm typing on.
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*deleted by creator*
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RaspberryBye.
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A Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one click
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set -euo pipefail at the top of every script makes stuff a lot safer. Explanation here.
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My impression of github since switching to Linux
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Aur and pacman are 90% of why I use arch.
Also fyi to OP: never install software system-wide without your package manager. No sudo make install, no curl .. | sudo bash or whatever the readme calls for. Not because it's unsafe, but because eventually you're likely to end up with a broken system, and then you'll blame your distro for it, or just Linux in general.
My desktop install is about a decade old now, and never broke because I only ever use the package manager.
Of course in your home folder anything goes.
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A kick right in the selbstbild
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You'd figure that would take about 5 seconds for the world to win, but weirdly, it was kinda close.
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Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating
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It actually seems common for less developed countries to have better internet than the more developed ones. Germans always complain about their internet, for example. I believe the reason is simply that your country laid down lines relatively recently, so they're compatible with high speed internet, while Germany laid down their lines 30 years ago, so they're fairly shitty in comparison. It tends to be a lot harder to convince governments or bosses to replace something that seems to work fine, and it can be costlier too.
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You can't just throw that out there...
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People like to interpret things with a modern lense. The translation of his job title might be carpenter, and people then go "ok, what does a carpenter do nowadays - builds chairs and tables, right". But the word being translated is more aking to "builder", a construction carpenter, a mason, something along those lines.