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Perhaps the book was "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari? It is a great read!

> (BTW, manufacturers, if you want to use touch sensors and you don’t want to lose the massive midwit market, make things that automatically turn on when first connected to power, …

Curl has had their share of issues with CVEs, I assume they want to show that they are taking actual security issues very seriously. See e.g. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26…

It reminds me of the glass vs plastic phone backside arguments. Glass is more fragile than plastic and will not absorb shocks. It is also heavier and harder to replace (most plasti…

I'm hoping for a return of smaller communities and forums that were (more) common before facebook and reddit.

Quite interesting that the actual exploit wasn't patched, unless os.path.exists returns false for unc shares.

Piggybacking on to this... I've currently split my home network into multiple VLAN, so that the IOT stuff can't access the "trusted" devices (or internet, depending on device). How…

This is awesome! I will prefer all my technical documentation in children's book format from now on.

Most Fennoswedic families moved ~400 years ago from Sweden to Finland. According to that logic, Americans would actually be native Britons? Sounds wrong to me.