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"humans can read" lol. Barely.

reminded me of the PowerPoint Turing Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8

>I was fascinated to learn while visiting they consider themselves ‘at war’ fun fact, Japan and Russia are technically in a state of war too. The World War II hasn't ended. They ha…

Yes. I'm an avid Dota 2 player. I used to play the remastered CoD MWs too, and had a Counter-Strike phase as well. Cheaters using external tools in Dota are rare. Smurfs are a much…

I’m actually surprised how a lot of commenters here are defending kernel-level anticheat.

> the 747 is the only commercial jet that deserves to be called beautiful Concorde?

Someone did a Minecraft server in pure bash. https://sdomi.pl/weblog/15-witchcraft-minecraft-server-in-ba...

Evidently, at some point money just stops being real. Also, it's not even $60b. It's a 100% stock deal. The markets have quite literally given Elon a carte blanche. Can it last for…

> Then I imagined the real-but-unknowable chance it was all set up by some kid just getting into computers, just seeing what’s possible if this is the case, then I'd say that the b…

>For me a number station needs sends a message to be a number station, not a key. We don't know that it's a key that's being sent. For all we know, it could be just random data. Ob…

> GPS was always a dual use system It wasn't. It was going to be a military-only system, until KAL007 presented the obvious life-saving civilian case. But yes, the title of this ar…

>Sequential throughput: ~1.3 GB/s sounds VERY low, also, wouldn't random read/write speed be MUCH more relevant here?

> Rosetta 2's retirement announcement was when I realized I won't buy another Mac, I'm not interested in a computer that is preoccupied with stopping me from running software. This…

Microsoft hasn’t particuarly cared about consumers pirating Windows for more than a decade. I’m pretty sure they make close to 0 money off Windows licensing to consumers.

> If this researcher actually had a vendetta, I'd expect them to just sell the remaining zero-days to the highest bidder. selling to the highest bidder doesn’t generate headlines t…

> you need to communicate your bank account number in Latvia we need to do this for domestic payments anyway. We use IBAN even for domestic payments.. > and likely your legal name.…

> then explicitly authorize the receiver. Oh, and explicitly authorise the country I've never had to do any of this, and I quire frequently send SEPA payments from Latvia.

> > A Frenchman using Wero will be able to transfer money to a Spanish friend on Bizum, with the same simplicity as a domestic payment. SEPA Instant Payments also solves that.

Which just reinforces my point. The patch was available, therefore, where the exploit lies was also available. Linux kernel is one of the most audited open-source projects ever. I …

Not true, if there’s any evidence of the exploit being used in the wild, it’s much more responsible to release immediately. Considering that the patches have been available for a w…

> I think USB 4 is finally going to the right direction. USB 4 is actually going into an even worse direction. USB 4 = Thunderbolt 4, except everything is optional. e.g. USB 4 migh…

> and power of up to 240 watt Except active optical cables. None exist yet that I'm aware of though.

It was just unjustifiably popular.

https://bgp.tools/as/6939#prefixes They are everywhere. It's a global carrier. Carriers also know no geographic boundaries.

It's not the first Mac that has an iPhone/iPad chip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Transition_Kit And yes, absolutely. All you need is a bootchain exploit. However unlike…