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They also have weird and uncomfortable acoustic effects. The one I have at work forms a perfect parabola to precisely reflect and focus my own breathing sounds straight into my ear…

It will indeed change code. It will also happily do stuff like write into your user's SSH config and leave you with permanently broken SSH until you find and fix it.

No matter how you want to rearrange and inflate the numbers, it doesn't change the fact that the total amount does not cause any harm to Meta. This isn't a fine, its a tax . It's t…

Back in my day we just threw the kids into the bed of the truck and we came out fine

Because you're being too narrow minded. Hubble Tension exists, the universe is not consistent. We take cosmological homogeneity as an axiomatic assumption and we keep being proved …

It's spelled lead, and it has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to cause brain damage. There is no safe level of lead exposure, it causes neurological damage at any level of e…

Mathematics agrees with you, there are in fact infinitely many numbers. Physics and reality do not. Once the number gets big enough it loses all practical value. Humans are not rea…

Have you tried extracting, decompiling, and modifying someone else's app? It wasn't hard before LLMs and it's nearly trivial now.

Several years ago I had a brief stop at some airport-- maybe Atlanta? But they had an indoor smoking area. I smoked at the time so I followed the map, and you could see the smoking…

As always, "the internet" here means "the six biggest websites". The small web still exists, largely exactly the same as it always has. It's just not linked on reddit/Facebook/goog…

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That's also a bet and also remains to be seen

There are no more docking stations. The dedicated dock port died many years ago, and everything has been USB-C/Thunderbolt ever since. Which really isn't too much different, dockin…

I'm a lifelong Arch user (btw) but I would also call out Manjaro as a less full-contact way of using Arch. It's got a slow and stable release cycle, it's fairly reliable because it…

Genuine question, how is everyone else dealing with giving agents elevated permissions? Obviously the answer is "don't", but some things are pretty harmless, like journalctl and dm…

You know what? I think this is dead on. Like a lot of us, I grew up in the 90s tinkering with Windows regestries and internals. That knowledge only ever really helped me with Windo…

Since this is the top comment at the moment: CTF stands for Capture The Flag. Personally I have never, ever heard that concept referred to by the initialism. Granted, it's almost n…

My new refrigerator has WiFi, but no screen. They clearly could not come up with any real feature other than "get an alert when the temperature goes too high". Everything else coul…

I see you are making a critique of society, and yet you participate in that society! Isn't that strange? I am very smart. /s

I think there's something important in the fact that we've spent the last ten years or so making software as locked-down, unfriendly, unusable, and outright user hostile as possibl…

The Western world rediscovers dietary fiber. More on this modern miracle at 6.

You've described states one and two as outlined above. Whether a bug is exploitable is an entirely separate category of unknowable, because seemingly-innocuous bugs quite often hav…

There are actually three states: - A bug exists and nobody knows - A bug exists and some people know - A bug exists and everyone knows As an outside observer, there is no way for y…

Trade schools and apprenticeships exist. Trades can pay very well and frequently require nothing more than on the job training. You think you need college for the same reason you e…

Read the last four words of the sentence you quoted. You'll find your answer.