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I was like "wow, I haven't seen a considered harmful article in a while, the quiet must be ancient", the I saw the author and it made sense. When he says something, it's usually wo…

Reminds me of Doggerland: https://youtube.com/shorts/Afwxk4peYys

Thanks for the info!

The first problem was to get the original file from somewhere in a usable format, then strip DRM in a later stage. Seems like step 1 was already made significantly harder now.

If your app has to display stuff, you have no code kits available that can help you out. No vibe coding needed. If your app has to do something useful, your app just exploded in co…

For those with an old Kindle, couldn't you download it onto the Kindle and then pull it off of there via USB?

In the news we seem to have reached Schrödinger's AI: Too dumb to do anything properly, but coming for everyone's jobs due to being too powerful.

Did anyone figure out how to handle two fundamental problems of MSRs yet? 1) Molten salt is corrosive as hell and will chew through your pipes. 2) It can't be serviced. If it ever …

Even the most massive hacks or breaches or cyber attacks barely put a dent into any reasonable business. One or two news cycles and a management rotation, that's it. Okta? Target? …

"thousands of dollars every day" does not a negative reinforcement make. That us not even a rounding error for even mid sized companies.

There are so many half baked takes, but this is my favorite: > There will always be a market for stable-over-latest software, especially for businesses. That market is called the n…

Apple Silicon truly is phenomenal for dev stuff. But gaming ... oh well. And you obviously can't heat your room with them, so your feet may feel cold. ;)

Wife uses a mid-2013 Macbook Air as a daily driver still after >10 years, works in academia. What happened is simply that CPU stopped being the thing that made stuff slow, so a mid…

let me blow your mind with "the lazarus heist" podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvg9/episodes/downloads

Spiekermann said it best: Don't work for assholes. Don't work with assholes. https://www.creativeboom.com/uploads/articles/a3/a3e652c7fa0...

BuT YoU ArE UsInG cat AnD dd wRoNg! So?

This comment was brought to you by someone who never produced/maintained software that had to withstand a 24/7 onslaught of automated exploit kits and port scanners over an extende…

VCs offer bad advice, because most of them are successful not because of the ruthless elimination process that is a startup, but despite. Meaning that they have no idea why they ar…

Especially with the UK out of the picture.

That is a good example of a misdirection play, a polarizing discussion point that political opponents get hung up on, which you never ever intended to actually pass, and you'll hap…

Google knew that what they might be able to claim had a very shaky legal foundation, not even taking the public backlash into account. But there is a big difference between taking …

I find it strange that folks in the US and UK, given that these are championing modern dragnet surveillance, would recoil at the idea of government issued ID, thus forcing everyone…

Please stop using GPG for SSH with your yubikey. Everything you need is baked into openssh 8.2. Check the "Using resident keys" section: https://www.yubico.com/blog/github-now-supp…

Unrelated to the Linux kernel, there is a good example of how Mario Heiderich (probably the most knowledgeable person for XSS on the globe) purposefully introduced an XSS vuln into…