There was a story on here about two years ago about china maybe was going to require google to share all its source code or no more google products. Would have killed ebay. The story disappeared so I don't think it had a happy resolution.
duckduckgo is not a front-end for google... the search results are completely different. I mean for fucks sake their page lists the ips and user agent that their web crawler uses here: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduc...
Because it's not your "social security password" so why would you salt and hash like a password? That's the thinking (or lack thereof) behind it I assume. If we called it a "social security password" maybe braindead developers would recognize it's sensitive and store a randomly-salted hash. But hell, most of them don't even do that and passwords are exposed. It's all this outsourced development in node js and ruby on snails which prevents actual intelligent people from architecting it properly. As long as they have their scrum degree who cares about skill? Someone with 1 year experience who can "do everything" is hired over us 20-year experience folks who really can do most things in order to "save a couple bucks." I personally think they lose out in the long run with way increased development time and constant bugfixes being required and whatnot, but on paper it saves money in the short term. You know what that means! Big bonuses to big wigs! Yay
I like specifically that my operating system doesn't think it knows better than me about what I need to do. There's the old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
I update my system on a weekend when I've got the time. I use profiled-guided optimization on many of my core packages so it takes a few days to train these as well. Sometimes I'll go a few weeks without updating my personal laptop, and that's O.K. That's my choice, and it's not an issue because I don't run shady software or host public services from it. On business servers I manage everything gets updated on an automatic schedule. That I decide. Because I know what's best, not some fixed generalized rule to apply to everybody because "some people do it 'wrong' and we need to force them to do it the way we like!"
Unfortunately with Microsoft it doesn't matter if I buy it or not. If I buy a new laptop, I am implicitly paying for a microsoft license. It's baked into the price. Many many years ago you used to be able to call the vendor and say you don't agree to the Microsoft terms of service and they would sell you an OEM version without windows at a savings of like $200. But I don't think this is an option anymore.
That said, I don't buy Microsoft products at all if I'm not forced to (like hardware purchase). I dropped a college class back in the day because they had a requirement that all assignments be typed up in Times New Roman font. I used a freely available font, not having a Microsoft license, and got a 0. Yes I know about the old ttf distributable cab, but it does require that you own a Microsoft product, which I didn't. It was a law class and I explained this to the professor but she didn't care, so I dropped the class.
That doesn't mean that downloading fonts needs to execute code. That is stupid. What's wrong with fetching a zip of dumb font files? There's no execution vector, except that Microsoft gives them one. And you're right, this has been known about for a very long time, and yet still windows will download and execute executable sections of code to install a fucking font. The font itself is not the problem here.
It's apk. He's been banned here several times over so he has to use some dumb proxy / vpn service to continue to come here and spam his shitty windows-only hosts file tool. I wrote a linux port for him actually ( it was about 15-20 lines of bash total and probably considered some corner cases his primary app didn't ) but he pretended like it was missing some unnamed features and was thus shit.
The dude has some serious mental issues. Nobody here likes him or wants him around but that only encourages him to spam some more about penetrating dude's buttholes (which he is really obsessed with for some reason). Just ignore him.
Metric is crap. "But muh 10s!" Whatever. Computers have no problems with calculations (nor do most people), and I'd rather have a measurement meaningful to people than easily divide. I'm almost never converting inches to yards, but if I do it's just divide by 12 * 3 = divide by 36. Sure I could convert meters to decametres slightly faster in my head... but why? Also, I'd like to continue to name the temperature without going into decimals. It's much nicer to say "It's 91 degrees out" than "It's 32.78 degrees out."
There's really no argument in using metric other than "But everyone else is doing it" and "Everything divides by 10!" For me, the usability and perception of imperial units are more meaningful. They were defined without needing an external reference to understand or measure roughly.
But seriously, a train machine printing an unambiguous but technically wrong date on a ticket is hardly a problem.
Oh it's a huge problem!
Lucky for you, I happen to be in the train ticket-machine business.
Unfortunately the old machines cannot be updated, but I'll give you a..... mmm....... 4% discount on new ones.
Unprecedented!
Are YOU Going to be the one shameful business which is printing years in an antiquated era? If so, shame on your family's next four generations.
I agree, every show and movie should have the same "man" and "woman", the same "tree" and "spaceship." Just like I can't wait for all painted art to depict the same scene. That way we can hvae more direct comparisons of things, and remove the subjective element entirely! Progress!
Watching stuff at 1x now feels so fucking slow that I can't stand it.
This reminds me of the youtube comments in a lot of songs "Hey, at 1.75x this is still pretty decent" and.... I just don't know what to think. Is the point of art to consume the maximum quantity? Or is it about the present experience while interpreting the art?
I happen to heavily favour the latter. I used to always think ahead, whatever I'm doing lose joy because I'm thinking about the future when I stop doing it.. That somehow life was some equation that I had to maximize to get the most out of it...
These days I try hard not to do that... The rate of life happening actually increases when you aren't waiting for the next thing, and trying to have all the things... but rather focusing on everything you have at every moment as the only thing that exists. Just you and your thoughts and interpretation of the environment, going at the speed of you rather than by measure of a clock... I dunno it feels like I get a lot more out of life than when I was trying to maximize and optimize everything for some potential future. Maybe you don't know what I'm talking about and this isn't even a message for you. Just came to mind.
They don't have to "let" the military use it. If they do a contract and the military gains the technology... they will do whatever the hell they want with it.
The trouble is many of these positions had no campaign. The mayor, councilpeople, etc. didn't have a website, no flyers, just signs in peoples yards. In the mayor of the small town I was living in, the incumbant had signs "Re-elect BLAH" and the opposition had green sign with 4 leaf clover which read "Elect O'WHO. Fight of the irish!" so my choice there was either:
Vote for the same
Vote for someone because they were Irish
Not vote.
Vote for their party
No campaign (that reached me at least), no website (facebook group, but I don't have facebook). Only way to know their positions were assuming based on party. So I agree, we should research whom we vote for, but I don't know about where you are, but over here most local candidates don't have a campaign other than "Democrat" or "Republican" and yard signs. So I could vote for which party I maybe agree with 70%ish, or the party I agree with 30%ish, or not vote and let other people make that determination for me. This is exactly why (Alexander Hamilton I think it was? Or maybe Franklin?) warned strongly against a two party system, especially in that time without internet or telephones or anything. And why we ended up with a two party system anyway -- it's a mix of a lot of candidates without means or oppertunity to express positions and people's lack of ability to be reached. So instead of voting for independent or third-party whom they knew nothing about, they voted for the big party which advertised what they were about -- and people voted along their 70/30 lines.
The problem with hiding party affiliation is local elections. If you go to the ballet to specifically vote for one represenative, say the house, which you've thouroughly researched, there's likely to be 10 other positions on the voting card. For example, last presidental election when I voted I also voted for 12 people whom I had no clue their positions on anything. Should I vote for whose name I like best? My SO at the time voted for all the women. At least voting along party lines you get somewhat of a "basis of understanding" towards their general positions. Is this a good thing? Certainly not, but I don't think the problem is parties in general, it's that we are in a two party system. If there were maybe 6 parties that varied all along the spectrum, I could vote the Whoozwits for one office and the Whatchyacallits for another. Parties have the funds to advertise their positions, local candidates you're lucky to read a few key words on a sign in someone's yard unless you invest a ton of time in researching every single sheriff and city councilman.
Why did they quit? Did they think noone would step up and do it instead of them? There's no shortage of developers out there.. All top brass sees is maybe a 6 month setback hiring and training, and yeah that sucks, but that's not going to institute change.
If you don't need to support IE 5, 6, 7, or 8 (which thankfully are falling out of favour), there's really no need to have heavy abstraction libraries. They just make things slow and complicated and dependant on 3rd party. For years I've had a 150 line JS script with stuff like "get parent element of passed element containing passed class name" and it handles everything splendidly. It's not hard if you understand how the DOM works, you're almost just working within XML, which is another lost art...
You know just installing it doesn't mean you're CALLING it right? Like, you'd literally have to install that package and then call aws-cli.deleteAllMyShit();
I don't understand your last point. Even if you're using gentoo and compiling from source, are you REALLY auditing all the code before you compile it? So... what's the difference? I mean hell, at some point you have to have a pre-packged compiler which could be checking for some routine, like check password, and compiling it differently so even a source code audit wouldn't fix it and you'd have a backdoor into all UNIX systems.
But then it quickly loses value when you build up a collection of duplicate "common" items you can't sell -- and much less people will buy over a long term, as they become more and more likely to yield 0 return versus maybe selling for a 50% (or 500%) return. Is that better? I can't say. But it's not to the benefit of folks who sell pixels for currency.
Gambling is a straight-up return of money for money based on some random factor, not purchasing an item, then deciding you do not need it and sell it.
Ever been to a casino? What would you call "chips"? They're useful so long as you continue to want to play the game, otherwise they're just "in-game only items" which you will trade for real $$$ when you're done.
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I think he wanted you to cite QAnon but misspelled.
Whom is the official keeper of the truth?
There was a story on here about two years ago about china maybe was going to require google to share all its source code or no more google products. Would have killed ebay. The story disappeared so I don't think it had a happy resolution.
duckduckgo is not a front-end for google... the search results are completely different. I mean for fucks sake their page lists the ips and user agent that their web crawler uses here: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduc...
Why does anyone use chrome and voluntarily give their shit to google anyway? Just build a PGO version of firefox. It's fast as shit, and not stupid.
Because it's not your "social security password" so why would you salt and hash like a password? That's the thinking (or lack thereof) behind it I assume. If we called it a "social security password" maybe braindead developers would recognize it's sensitive and store a randomly-salted hash. But hell, most of them don't even do that and passwords are exposed. It's all this outsourced development in node js and ruby on snails which prevents actual intelligent people from architecting it properly. As long as they have their scrum degree who cares about skill? Someone with 1 year experience who can "do everything" is hired over us 20-year experience folks who really can do most things in order to "save a couple bucks." I personally think they lose out in the long run with way increased development time and constant bugfixes being required and whatnot, but on paper it saves money in the short term. You know what that means! Big bonuses to big wigs! Yay
I like specifically that my operating system doesn't think it knows better than me about what I need to do. There's the old adage, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
I update my system on a weekend when I've got the time. I use profiled-guided optimization on many of my core packages so it takes a few days to train these as well. Sometimes I'll go a few weeks without updating my personal laptop, and that's O.K. That's my choice, and it's not an issue because I don't run shady software or host public services from it. On business servers I manage everything gets updated on an automatic schedule. That I decide. Because I know what's best, not some fixed generalized rule to apply to everybody because "some people do it 'wrong' and we need to force them to do it the way we like!"
Unfortunately with Microsoft it doesn't matter if I buy it or not. If I buy a new laptop, I am implicitly paying for a microsoft license. It's baked into the price. Many many years ago you used to be able to call the vendor and say you don't agree to the Microsoft terms of service and they would sell you an OEM version without windows at a savings of like $200. But I don't think this is an option anymore.
That said, I don't buy Microsoft products at all if I'm not forced to (like hardware purchase). I dropped a college class back in the day because they had a requirement that all assignments be typed up in Times New Roman font. I used a freely available font, not having a Microsoft license, and got a 0. Yes I know about the old ttf distributable cab, but it does require that you own a Microsoft product, which I didn't. It was a law class and I explained this to the professor but she didn't care, so I dropped the class.
web pages
They're bringing back ActiveX??
That doesn't mean that downloading fonts needs to execute code. That is stupid. What's wrong with fetching a zip of dumb font files? There's no execution vector, except that Microsoft gives them one. And you're right, this has been known about for a very long time, and yet still windows will download and execute executable sections of code to install a fucking font. The font itself is not the problem here.
It's apk. He's been banned here several times over so he has to use some dumb proxy / vpn service to continue to come here and spam his shitty windows-only hosts file tool. I wrote a linux port for him actually ( it was about 15-20 lines of bash total and probably considered some corner cases his primary app didn't ) but he pretended like it was missing some unnamed features and was thus shit.
The dude has some serious mental issues. Nobody here likes him or wants him around but that only encourages him to spam some more about penetrating dude's buttholes (which he is really obsessed with for some reason). Just ignore him.
Metric is crap. "But muh 10s!" Whatever. Computers have no problems with calculations (nor do most people), and I'd rather have a measurement meaningful to people than easily divide. I'm almost never converting inches to yards, but if I do it's just divide by 12 * 3 = divide by 36. Sure I could convert meters to decametres slightly faster in my head... but why? Also, I'd like to continue to name the temperature without going into decimals. It's much nicer to say "It's 91 degrees out" than "It's 32.78 degrees out."
There's really no argument in using metric other than "But everyone else is doing it" and "Everything divides by 10!" For me, the usability and perception of imperial units are more meaningful. They were defined without needing an external reference to understand or measure roughly.
But seriously, a train machine printing an unambiguous but technically wrong date on a ticket is hardly a problem.
Oh it's a huge problem!
Lucky for you, I happen to be in the train ticket-machine business.
Unfortunately the old machines cannot be updated, but I'll give you a..... mmm....... 4% discount on new ones.
Unprecedented!
Are YOU Going to be the one shameful business which is printing years in an antiquated era? If so, shame on your family's next four generations.
I agree, every show and movie should have the same "man" and "woman", the same "tree" and "spaceship." Just like I can't wait for all painted art to depict the same scene. That way we can hvae more direct comparisons of things, and remove the subjective element entirely! Progress!
Watching stuff at 1x now feels so fucking slow that I can't stand it.
This reminds me of the youtube comments in a lot of songs "Hey, at 1.75x this is still pretty decent" and.... I just don't know what to think. Is the point of art to consume the maximum quantity? Or is it about the present experience while interpreting the art?
I happen to heavily favour the latter. I used to always think ahead, whatever I'm doing lose joy because I'm thinking about the future when I stop doing it.. That somehow life was some equation that I had to maximize to get the most out of it...
These days I try hard not to do that... The rate of life happening actually increases when you aren't waiting for the next thing, and trying to have all the things... but rather focusing on everything you have at every moment as the only thing that exists. Just you and your thoughts and interpretation of the environment, going at the speed of you rather than by measure of a clock... I dunno it feels like I get a lot more out of life than when I was trying to maximize and optimize everything for some potential future. Maybe you don't know what I'm talking about and this isn't even a message for you. Just came to mind.
They don't have to "let" the military use it. If they do a contract and the military gains the technology... they will do whatever the hell they want with it.
The trouble is many of these positions had no campaign. The mayor, councilpeople, etc. didn't have a website, no flyers, just signs in peoples yards. In the mayor of the small town I was living in, the incumbant had signs "Re-elect BLAH" and the opposition had green sign with 4 leaf clover which read "Elect O'WHO. Fight of the irish!" so my choice there was either:
No campaign (that reached me at least), no website (facebook group, but I don't have facebook). Only way to know their positions were assuming based on party. So I agree, we should research whom we vote for, but I don't know about where you are, but over here most local candidates don't have a campaign other than "Democrat" or "Republican" and yard signs. So I could vote for which party I maybe agree with 70%ish, or the party I agree with 30%ish, or not vote and let other people make that determination for me. This is exactly why (Alexander Hamilton I think it was? Or maybe Franklin?) warned strongly against a two party system, especially in that time without internet or telephones or anything. And why we ended up with a two party system anyway -- it's a mix of a lot of candidates without means or oppertunity to express positions and people's lack of ability to be reached. So instead of voting for independent or third-party whom they knew nothing about, they voted for the big party which advertised what they were about -- and people voted along their 70/30 lines.
The problem with hiding party affiliation is local elections. If you go to the ballet to specifically vote for one represenative, say the house, which you've thouroughly researched, there's likely to be 10 other positions on the voting card. For example, last presidental election when I voted I also voted for 12 people whom I had no clue their positions on anything. Should I vote for whose name I like best? My SO at the time voted for all the women. At least voting along party lines you get somewhat of a "basis of understanding" towards their general positions. Is this a good thing? Certainly not, but I don't think the problem is parties in general, it's that we are in a two party system. If there were maybe 6 parties that varied all along the spectrum, I could vote the Whoozwits for one office and the Whatchyacallits for another. Parties have the funds to advertise their positions, local candidates you're lucky to read a few key words on a sign in someone's yard unless you invest a ton of time in researching every single sheriff and city councilman.
Why did they quit? Did they think noone would step up and do it instead of them? There's no shortage of developers out there.. All top brass sees is maybe a 6 month setback hiring and training, and yeah that sucks, but that's not going to institute change.
If you don't need to support IE 5, 6, 7, or 8 (which thankfully are falling out of favour), there's really no need to have heavy abstraction libraries. They just make things slow and complicated and dependant on 3rd party. For years I've had a 150 line JS script with stuff like "get parent element of passed element containing passed class name" and it handles everything splendidly. It's not hard if you understand how the DOM works, you're almost just working within XML, which is another lost art...
Most all products these days are inherited. Sure, if starting a brand new ecosystem with a bunch of interns maybe nodejs is the way to go. maybe.
You know just installing it doesn't mean you're CALLING it right? Like, you'd literally have to install that package and then call aws-cli.deleteAllMyShit();
I don't understand your last point. Even if you're using gentoo and compiling from source, are you REALLY auditing all the code before you compile it? So... what's the difference? I mean hell, at some point you have to have a pre-packged compiler which could be checking for some routine, like check password, and compiling it differently so even a source code audit wouldn't fix it and you'd have a backdoor into all UNIX systems.
But then it quickly loses value when you build up a collection of duplicate "common" items you can't sell -- and much less people will buy over a long term, as they become more and more likely to yield 0 return versus maybe selling for a 50% (or 500%) return. Is that better? I can't say. But it's not to the benefit of folks who sell pixels for currency.
Gambling is a straight-up return of money for money based on some random factor, not purchasing an item, then deciding you do not need it and sell it.
Ever been to a casino? What would you call "chips"? They're useful so long as you continue to want to play the game, otherwise they're just "in-game only items" which you will trade for real $$$ when you're done.