Bricriu
@Bricriu@lemmy.world
- Comment on Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town 7 months ago:
“Properly” and “should” are doing a lot of work here.
- Comment on Choose your Fighter 8 months ago:
Where the HELL is my triceratops?
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 9 months ago:
My understanding is that if you run a rogue discoverable DHCP server in a local network with a particular set of options set and hyper-specific routing rules, you can clobber the routing rules set by the VPN software on any non-Android device, and route all traffic from those devices through arbitrary midpoints that you control.
But IANANE (I am not a network engineer) so please correct my misinterpretations.
- Comment on The BASIC programming language turns 60 9 months ago:
I learned TI BASIC on a Texas Instruments 99/4a back in the very early 80s. Wrote some programs from magazines, saved them on tapes, and went on to automate D&D character creation in an attempt to rules-lawyer an all-PC dwarf army.
Fun fact, though: TI BASIC lived on until at least the late 90s, on the TI graphing calculators that everyone taking Algebra/Trig had to buy – or borrow from the school. I wrote a surreal choose-your-own-adventure game on my calculator, large enough that because of memory limitations, you couldn’t open the file to edit it without deleting another, ancillary file.
And since you could transfer programs via a proprietary cable, I put that game on every school calculator and as many of my friends’ as wanted it. It was still there years later when I visited.
- Comment on What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet 9 months ago:
Interesting article. I think the money quotes that shifted my POV a little were these:
It has become a leading source of information in this country. About one-third of Americans under 30 regularly get their news from it.
and
American law has long restricted foreign ownership of television or radio stations, even by companies based in friendly countries. “Limits on foreign ownership have been a part of federal communications policy for more than a century,”
It does place the ban in some more relevant historical context.
- Comment on The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived 9 months ago:
Anyone have a non-paywall link?
- Comment on The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood 11 months ago:
archive.is/Acnze unpaywalled