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So if you can just trick someone into trusting a bogus root CA, take control of their DNS resolution, and get them to open an attacker controlled domain in Chrome then you can... U…

As we saw recently with Mastodon, for a very large section of users, views on "open-source, self-hostable and super customizable" will range from "don't care" at best to "that's to…

I think the idea is the scammer just picks a random business in the area then ships them an empty box with a real tracking number.

In addition to being completely impractical and unnecessary, you are significantly more likely to be harmed by the police officer than by the random stranger.

$80k was my starting salary in Sydney, as a grad, almost 15 years ago. It is not even close to competitive in today's market.

Because crypto in cold storage doesn't earn interest and can't be used as collateral for a margin loan. Crypto is full of people looking for to get rich quick with interest rates t…

While that is true it is not relevant here, since this example does not involve associativity. What is relevent here is that integer division is not distributive over addition.

It isn't sarcasm. They are saying recession is bad but giving in to Russia is worse.

Whether code is protected speech or not is utterly irrelevant. Microsoft is not the US Government and has no free speech obligations to anyone. There are already many forms of prot…

The assumption that all the money I'm not currently saving is living expenses and that these expenses will continue growing exponentially really throws this off. Many of the bigges…

It is a recommendation only, so you won't be fined, but during court proceedings failing to follow this or other recommendations in the highway code can increase your liability. Th…

If the ads are being added by the content creator and you don't like that, the solution is to not watch that content creator, not blame a random streaming platform for supplying un…

There are millions of podcasts adding thousands of hours of content every day, how is this even remotely feasible? Why would Spotify want to do this anyway? If you don't like it wh…

I'm don't know where you live, but I have purchased cars in both Australia and the UK and both involved verifying via a centralised database that the car was not stolen or financia…

They already manufacture a variety of biodegradable plastics. They are not more widely used because they have some combination of undesirable properties compared to common plastics…

Breach of contract, or at a stretch maybe fraud if they were actively misleading someone. But definitely not theft.

Survivorship in what sense? The castles that exist today have not survived because they were better at repelling swordsmen, they survive because someone in the nobility happened to…

Unfortunately for you I live, work, and do tech hiring in Western Europe, so I'm just going to go straight ahead and call you out on your weird geo-superiority bs. Western European…

If you think holding a CS degree in any way correlates with being able to function as a professional developer... Boy have I got news for you. Companies conduct these interviews be…

Except your rule isn't a rule at all, it's just you assuming everyone else has the same usage pattern as you (they don't). Pre-covid I had many co-workers who would sit down, plug …

> If unions are so bad for workers, why do large corporations sink millions of dollars in anti-union ads in newspapers? This is a false dichotomy, it is possible for unions to be b…