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- Comment on New Plague Linux malware stealthily maintains SSH access 6 days ago:
One more path for malware is that the system has a root hole and this is where the exploit hides the malware.
Or a hostile actor gets their hands on an unencrypted hard drive and installs this when the owner isn’t looking.
- Comment on Chrome is Finally Enabling Automatic Wayland Detection 6 days ago:
Detecting Wayland does mean it can (and probably will) leak that you run Wayland.
- Comment on Substack prompted a Nazi blog again 1 week ago:
Looking at how many countries have started to have and even elect literal nazi parties, the education has been failing very widely and for a very long time (since WW2).
- Comment on YouTube most popular first TV destination for children, Ofcom finds 1 week ago:
And most are paid subscription only and fragmented.
How about BBC or other local providers?
- Comment on Don’t Turn That Old System On, First Take It Apart 2 weeks ago:
Fail
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 2 weeks ago:
All things were doable before. There point is that they were manual extra steps.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 2 weeks ago:
How about two gym memberships and a library card?
- Comment on Age verification and the enshitification of streaming will help reduce the decline in computer literacy in under 18s 2 weeks ago:
Next step: the great wall of great britain. Protecting citizens from harmful foreign influences.
- Comment on Age verification and the enshitification of streaming will help reduce the decline in computer literacy in under 18s 2 weeks ago:
Beginning of genx is close or a few years after beginning of internet.
It wasn’t something Joe Random could use even decade or two after, but just mentioning for correct perspective.
- Comment on Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law. 2 weeks ago:
We also desperately need a non-US archive.
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 2 weeks ago:
I would add “downvote posts with no useful content” to that. (Report if you know the community has had the sense to forbid that kind of posts.) That does seem to cause some people to flip out, though.
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think they are. Protectionist and interested in their exports, seem more likely.
- Comment on BBC News - President Trump arrives in Scotland 2 weeks ago:
Is the balloon ready?
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 2 weeks ago:
Spam in, spam out, profit in the middle.
- Comment on Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now 2 weeks ago:
It might be able to give you tables or otherwise collated sets of information about multiple products etc.
I don’t know if Google does, but LLMs can. Also do unit conversions. You probably still want to check the critical ones. It’s a bit like using an encyclopedia or a catalog except more convenient and even less reliable.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 2 weeks ago:
I disagree on even that. It should be enough to have some trusted “notary” tick a box that they have verified your driver’s license as valid. It should not be stored out sent anywhere at any time. Just showed to a human. Regularly, if needed.
- Comment on Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes 2 weeks ago:
And/or windows admins.
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 2 weeks ago:
I have bought a few otherwise hard to find books on Amazon. Actual paper books. At least used to be possible.
- Comment on 50 years ago, Gates and Allen made the first Microsoft deal 2 weeks ago:
And the nightmare still goes on.
- Comment on Handbrake local vs docker on Synology DS920+: same settings, very different results? 2 weeks ago:
If all the settings and options match, my first suspicion would be that there’s a library available on one system and not the other. Have you taken very verbose logs to see if there’s differences that stand out?
- Comment on Common sugar substitute shown to impair brain cells, boost stroke risk 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I might be misremembering that. Thanks.
I have some pretty local sources for (afaik) pretty good honey that I like.
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 2 weeks ago:
That’s not the threat. Payment processor says they have to form their entire store according to their whims or lose all credit card using customers.
- Comment on Common sugar substitute shown to impair brain cells, boost stroke risk 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m probably not going to stay away from honey.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 3 weeks ago:
I half expect Bambu labs to already do and be furiously trying to come up with a scheme to monetize it.
- Comment on What do you call the first person with a new genetic mutation 3 weeks ago:
Dead (usually before birth), if it’s a fatal factor. Nothing, if it’s not, because in practically all non lethal cases there’s no visible effect.
- Comment on I'm curious. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bringing An Obscure Apple Operating System To Modern Hardware 1 month ago:
It’s rhapsody.
- Comment on Why a picture of 'one banana and four apples' could be censored in China: Leaked files reveal how Beijing is using AI to erase the history of the Tiananmen Square massacre 2 months ago:
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
- Comment on Microsoft would like to thank all the idiots who still use GitHub by introducing GitHub Copilot coding agent which hopefully can code for them in the future. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Someone Experimented With a 1997 Processor and Showed That Only 128 MB of Ram Were Needed to Run a Modern AI 2 months ago:
Those mostly don’t work with modern keyboards, though. The protocol switch was built into the keyboard and the dongle is just passive. It’s actually a bit hard to quickly find a ps/2 compatible keyboard these days.
