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I hate this meme. The point is to at least make them resort to hitting you with the $5 wrench, at which point they're probably committing a more serious offence than what you're up…

Cool feature, but I'm a little uneasy with UPDATE operations adding new rows to a table. It upsets a lot of a DBA's assumptions.

Tech dependence is nothing compared to the world's dependence on US financial infrastructure.

Infineon sales piece.

Corporate IT needs to die.

This rules out some extremely useful sparse memory tricks you can pull with massive mmaps that only ever get partially accessed (in unpredictable patterns).

Zscaler enrages me with their use of the term "zero trust" in marketing, because due to their MitM-ing of TLS, they become a single-point-of-interception for all your organisation'…

Using nix to install Ansible, oof you're hurting me..

For a while I've been saying it's a pity we hadn't been regularly trusted-timestamping everything before that point as a matter of course.

The only company that appear to be taking a different tack on this are https://www.slate.auto Anyone know of any others?

Malware scanners are such trash.

There are very few pieces of free software that don't lean very heavily on top of a mountain of other free software that make it possible, and I think the author would be surprised…

See also the "lite assertions" mode @ https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/LibstdcxxDebugMode for glibc, however these are less well documented and it's less clear what performance impact thes…

Native applications are a scourge, if only from a security standpoint.

Have been tempted to get one of these just for printing out tickets/QR codes so I can keep my dumbphone and not fight dried up ink cartridges etc.

If they ever get liquidated I wonder who's going to end up with that massive dataset of photos of people looking like a tit. Or perhaps they'll pivot..

I can't be the only one to find the TALA output to be the worst of all the engines. I almost always end up using ELK.

> My government requires me, by law, to send it tens of thousands of dollars every year That's only because you have those tens of thousands to give it. The same will not generally…

The paradox being that every thing you customize about your browser config becomes another thing that can potentially be fingerprinted and makes you stand out as one of the 1% who …

Disable WebGL. Not in a funny javascripty extension, in about:config.

> While it's still a good idea for companies to have an endpoint protection software on their employees' machines Disagree

The logging examples given don't appear to be too different to what any structured & annotated logging mechanism would give you. On top of that it's normally encoded with grpc, so …

> I'm not as allergic to AI content as some I suspect it's less about phobia, more about avoiding training AI on its own output. This is actually something I'd been discussing with…

It's the idea that every application can near-arbitrarily choose a bespoke-but-exact mix of versions of every underlying package and assume they all work together. This is same att…

The main problem here is wanting to hang on to the "bespoke version soup" attitude that language package managers encourage (and is totally unsustainable). The alternative Mise doe…