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They were stuck in a never-ending series of legal battles because the current administration is trying to block all wind power, so their money was not actually going anywhere usefu…

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> Fediverse users should be able to have private chats with each other, that not even their instance admins can snoop on. > This encryption should be accessible to mere mortals, wi…

I liked linuxbrew up until it set up python in a way that broke a lot of apps for me. I keep meaning to give it another try, but there are only so many hours.

Gamers in general are not looking at Apple's chips.

The only way there'd be shockwaves is if it turned out to be Theo de Raadt.

It allows full RCE from an uploaded or opened file. That seems reasonably critical to me.

The best modern reason to have as much swap as RAM is to make hibernation to disk more reliable, but a lot of people don't use that anymore. It's more reliable because the kernel d…

How does that explain the focus on gender? Admittedly there are countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia where there might be laws about what you're allowed to show women.

The thing I never hear mentioned is when your home ISP (or say your favorite cafe's) is known to use your traffic data for marketing purposes or sell it outright. I trust Mullvad f…

David Weber actually wrote a series once where aliens (actually humans) hollowed out the Moon (dumping the material into the sun) to use the rest as camouflage for a Moon-sized spa…

"Judge Kimberly Adams agreed to admit evidence of King’s cellphone." So no, at least the judge for this case decided it was fine. Note as well that the case is over the Cop City pr…

Sorry if this was a joke and I didn't spot it. Chrome was based on WebKit which was itself based on KHTML if memory serves. Chromebooks are based on a version of that outside engin…

For me everything about rsync.net was great except for the throughput. It didn't matter which continent, isp, or operating system I tested, I couldn't get past single digit Mbps an…

It's because PostgreSQL has inheritance and has almost certainly used the term object relational since before you heard of it.

It's not just obnoxious, people hike out there regularly he could have hit and he could easily have started a significant fire in a vulnerable environment. He endangered others for…

A natural language understanding engine that _makes things up_ is not extremely good.

That's directly addressed in the actual post.

I did this and heartily endorsed it up until the day I got 1.4 million spams in under 24 hours.

Perhaps that one number was a blockchain address or account number?

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/crypto-exchange-binance-temp... "Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, paused withdrawals of the stablecoin USDC on Tuesday while it…

Discord treats any page load of a confirmation link as good, so to my surprise Gmail happily confirmed someone's attempt to open an account with my email address before I'd even go…

There was a board, but "FTX’s board, though, had only three directors as of earlier this year: Mr. Bankman-Fried, an FTX employee and an Antigua lawyer who specializes in gaming."

Anyone know if it handles the rather different usage of SMART attributes on NVME drives?

The protagonists of Hackers were way more competent than this crew.