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> years and years of shows where you are 100% certain characters will be unharmed Unless your culture sphere consists solely of children's books and Disney movies, that is just a b…

Are we all pretending we have no empirical data on this? How many RCEs has there been in popular web browsers over the past two decades (dozens? hundreds?), compared to how many RC…

That is also an unfortunate design on Matrix' part. I had no problem migrating data when changing from ejabberd to Prosody. Because they are open source, so it's not really a probl…

I believe you are supposed to use an LLM on the receiving side to compress them again. This is supposed to help our economic growth during the coming decade.

Right. LLMs are text production machines. You can also view them as data expansion tools. They expand an input to an arbitrary long text. That text contains roughly the same amount…

Network switches typically aren't known for their outstanding security record, but the vlan tags themselves are trivial and should be hard to mess up. Should someone hack your swit…

There's also always the flip side: When the police shows up because of your illegal acitivities, you have a rogue proxy server running. All bought in good faith of course. Not lega…

Exactly! You would have a number of oil states competing, and that's it. They have everything to win. It's opposite of the PGA/LIV situation, the breakout group have the stronger t…

Why only now? UEFA should boycott the world cup, period. It should have been enough even before the Balogun nonsense. They have the best league and the best teams, they have the kn…

Just imagine, had this been a Facebook event instead, none of this information would have been available to us outsiders. The open web lives, even if bruised and limping.

Fretless bass is quite popular though, and they play chords all the time. What would 80s music have been without them? And all uprights are fretless, too. And cellos of course. The…

Due to the widespread idea that climate prediction has been predicting doom and gloom all the time, and has always been wrong about it, I have been entertaining myself by revisitin…

In this specific case, echo can't fail to there's no need for any of that: [ -z "$1" ] && echo "fail" >&2 && exit 1

People are different, and I think we have to respect that. In my role I tend to have to fix problems in other people's code probably on a weekly basis. Commits that do too much, or…

You only have to learn three things to use a computer: Your shell, your editor, and your version control system. That's it. That basic knowledge will carry you far, and will be use…

This is a perfect use for tags. They allocate no extra storage space, and act as "savepoints" which you can refer to at any time. (Branches move, tags stay put.) They also guarante…

Thank you for proving my point by fixating on the raw sewage part. Contrary to what you think, no plumber would abstain from fixing plumbing permanently, even if it meant no more w…

That thought experiment says more about your thoughts on plumbers than anything else.

As soon as installation of software outside Play Store is made impossible, any such discussion is moot already anyway.

While probably true, I'm not sure how much Fedora can be owned really. We should give credit where credit is due though: IBM has, together with Intel, Red Hat, and a few others, be…

How does that work? Does one agent write the tests from spec, and then another agent is told "make tests pass", or do you write the tests manually? It does sound like a possible wa…

How could it possibly be interpreted literally? Instating a monarchy with cash as regent? How would that work in daily life?

I call this software "products", and not in a good sense. A product isn't necessarily designed by someone who cares about, or even understands, the problem at hand.

Or ever. If we want to some colleague to tell us what is good code and what isn't, can we please pick someone who at least once demonstratably delivered good software? Bonus points…