Cursed Knowledge

#1

Post by bqmjjx0kac » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 11:34 PM UTC

Re: Cursed Knowledge

#2

Post by treve » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 11:49 PM UTC

The '50 extra packages' one is wild. The author of those packages has racked up a fuckload of downloads. What a waste of total bandwidth and disk space everywhere. I wonder if it's for clout.

Re: Cursed Knowledge

#3

Post by Centigonal » Fri, Aug 08, 2025, 12:07 AM UTC

treve wrote: post #2

The '50 extra packages' one is wild. The author of those packages has racked up a fuckload of downloads. What a waste of total bandwidth and disk space everywhere. I wonder if it's for clout.

It's probably a clout thing, or just a weird guy (Hanlon's Razor), but a particularly paranoid interpretation is that this person is setting up for a massive, multi-pronged software supplychain attack.

Re: Cursed Knowledge

#4

Post by smitty1e » Fri, Aug 08, 2025, 12:16 AM UTC

treve wrote: post #2

The '50 extra packages' one is wild. The author of those packages has racked up a fuckload of downloads. What a waste of total bandwidth and disk space everywhere. I wonder if it's for clout.

It does raise the idea of managed backward compatibility.

Especially if you could control at install time just how far back to go, that might be interesting.

Also an immediately ridiculous graph problem for all but trivial cases.

Re: Cursed Knowledge

#5

Post by bigyabai » Fri, Aug 08, 2025, 12:28 AM UTC

> Some phones will silently strip GPS data from images when apps without location permission try to access them.

That's no curse, it's a protection hex!

Re: Cursed Knowledge

#6

Post by g8oz » Fri, Aug 08, 2025, 12:38 AM UTC

This is awesome. Disappointing to hear about the Cloudflare fetch issue.

Re: Cursed Knowledge

#7

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 08, 2025, 12:41 AM UTC

Centigonal wrote: post #3

treve wrote: post #2

The '50 extra packages' one is wild. The author of those packages has racked up a fuckload of downloads. What a waste of total bandwidth and disk space everywhere. I wonder if it's for clout.

It's probably a clout thing, or just a weird guy (Hanlon's Razor), but a particularly paranoid interpretation is that this person is setting up for a massive, multi-pronged software supplychain attack.

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Re: Cursed Knowledge

#8

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 08, 2025, 12:41 AM UTC

treve wrote: post #2

The '50 extra packages' one is wild. The author of those packages has racked up a fuckload of downloads. What a waste of total bandwidth and disk space everywhere. I wonder if it's for clout.

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Re: Cursed Knowledge

#9

Post by Muromec » Fri, Aug 08, 2025, 12:41 AM UTC

bigyabai wrote: post #5

> Some phones will silently strip GPS data from images when apps without location permission try to access them. That's no curse, it's a protection hex!

A ward even

Re: Cursed Knowledge

#10

Post by worik » Fri, Aug 08, 2025, 12:43 AM UTC

dd/mm/yyyy date formats are cursed....

Perhaps it is mm/dd/yyyy (really?!?) that is cursed....