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What makes you think that it's "so damn hackable"? Also, this particular attack requires administrator privileges and bypasses a security boundary that doesn't even exist on e.g. L…

>It's simple. Human writing is short and to the point (either because they're lazy or want to save the reader's time), yet still manages to capture your attention. AI writing tends…

Then I'm not sure what you mean by "deterrence". Both of the linked articles argue against increasing the severity of punishment, but they also say that the certainty of getting ca…

> AFAIK, there is reasonably clear evidence that deterrence has a very low impact on this sort of crime, Could you share some of this evidence?

This is a spam video composed of stock footage. It doesn't add any new information, it shows some random wasp species, unrelated to the ones just discovered, and some random scient…

Yeah, OP is overly dramatic, Reddit has technical issues all the time.

So we shouldn't make it easier for people to meet each other, because some of those people might be white supremacists? I'm sorry, but I think you may be spending too much time onl…

>not even considering some hostile emails that I recently received from the upstream developer or his public rants on lkml and reddit It feels like whenever the author of bcachefs …

Swift's LLVM fork is open-source, just not upstreamed. No Free Software license requires forks to upstream their changes. https://github.com/swiftlang/llvm-project

One thing I don't understand about Swift is why it uses a private fork of LLVM. Why can't they upstream whatever changes they need?

This is not the first time this has happened. Back in 2019, many outlets[1] reported that Putin was still using Windows XP. Why? Because in a publicity photo, the taskbar on his co…

I'm also interested in learning about it. I've only found this thread on Twitter: https://x.com/virtuallyfun/status/1804913568820699549 Apparently there are all kinds of goodies in…

>There will be four ways in which ISA systems will work to slow the vehicle down, and it will be up to the manufacturers to pick which one they want to use. The EU regulations perm…

This could have been AMD, but they choose to sabotage themselves with half-baked APIs that don't even support all of their GPUs. Hell, ROCm didn't even support Windows until recent…

This person's entire argument is that the (A)GPL is "viral", and therefore companies have no right to relicense the software they own the copyright for, and they should be sued. He…

I don't understand why anyone would see dropping RISC-V support as a move against China. Chinese companies have their fingers in a lot of pies. They're mainly invested in the ARM e…

My takeaway from the article is that junior developers are intimidated by stacktraces.

I don't know, it's hard to tell because the video is heavily compressed. Even at 2160p the compression artifacts are huge.

This post makes it seem as if the NSA produced some kind of comprehensive review of programming languages which showed that Delphi is memory safe. No, what actually happened is the…

>But usually it’s a misunderstanding of what derivative works are. E.g building an extension to a GPL app. Many don’t believe that simply importing a GPL Python module is enough to…

>Windows XP is the last version of Windows that's generally thought to be free of backdoors and US spyware. This is possibly why Putin seems to still use it Despite every major new…

>There must be a more rational reason than that. I've not heard anything better than legal reasons. But do correct me if I'm wrong. I've worked in big companies, and patents can be…

>To fix this, you'd need to convince Google, and other large companies that would be exposed to law suits related to these patents (Apple, Adobe, etc.), that these patent holders a…

In other words, there's no source.

On most forums there's no automated system that automatically shadowbans users for using a blacklisted IP. They also don't quietly remove comments in a way that is invisible to a u…