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Use-after-free thinker. [he/him/🐻 of very little 🧠] :welp:

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mcc, to random
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At 5:14 in this YouTube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_xoKqLQrvs

The vlogger says "subscribe so you don't miss it!". At that exact moment, assuming you are not full screen, a little rainbow shimmer runs over the "Subscribe" button under the video.

…did the vlogger set a flag somewhere, or is Google doing speech rec to look for the word "subscribe" in videos and triggering a CSS effect when it finds it? Does this happen in all videos now?

rotopenguin,
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@mcc is it really a "subscribe" if you don't also include the "likeshareand"?

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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rotopenguin,
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@GossiTheDog I trust the guys that lost the golden keys to Azure, and don't know how they lost them, and detected nothing, and 𝓁𝒾𝑒𝒹 that "it was definitely disclosed in a developer's crash dump" to implement this securely.

"But it's encrypterd"! Yeah, but it's also meant to be accessed by the security principal known as "you". It persists a whole new class of stuff that used to be ephemeral. It is nothing but a fucking goldmine for infostealers.

nonfedimemes, to random
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rotopenguin,
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@nonfedimemes you and me both, little guy

mcc, to random
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This is a really good t-shirt

rotopenguin,
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@mcc

pluralistic, to random
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Corporate crime is notoriously underpoliced and underprosecuted. Mostly, that's because we just choose not to do anything about it. American corporations commit crimes at 20X the rate of real humans, and their crimes are far worse than any crime committed by a human, but they are almost never prosecuted:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-criminals-no-crimes/#get-out-of-jail-free-card

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rotopenguin,
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@patrickgillam @pluralistic I would like to see “Corporate Crimefighter Yet To Be Named” beating the absolute shit out of the likes of Lex Luthor and Bruce Wayne. Give me ten movies of this please.

mcc, to random
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Fundamentally, Texas is a place pretending to be itself

"God Bless Hondo Crouch" "God Bless Johnny Cash" "Luckenbach, Texas Population 3"

rotopenguin,
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@mcc "two drinks to one person" is just common sense, you only have two hands

mcc, to random
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Listened to the eclipse without ear protection and now cannot hear anything out of her left ear

rotopenguin,
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@mcc @emaytch

rotopenguin, to random
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It's a little early to call it, but this might be the best pomeranian simulator of the year.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2512840/DORONKO_WANKO/

thunderbird, (edited ) to linux
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Oh snap! Good news, Linux users: we're adding the Thunderbird Snap, previously maintained by the awesome Ubuntu desktop team, to our officially supported Linux packages! 📦 🐧

Learn all about why we made the change, what it means and what to expect, and where to report issues in our blog post.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/thundersnap-why-were-helping-maintain-the-thunderbird-snap-on-linux/

rotopenguin,
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@thunderbird the snap should just be "a script that grabs the flatpak" 😉. If it's good enough for Ubuntu's debs, it's sure good enough for their snaps.

golgaloth, to books
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Tech bros should not be in charge of anything.

rotopenguin,
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@golgaloth most billionaires can be a bit shorter

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TechConnectify, to random
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Several people now have tagged me in the Mini arrow-lookin'-tail light thing.

You're correct that it bothers me but you're incorrect if you think the arrow part has much to do with it.

It's bothersome to me only because it's a combined brake and turn indicator!

I am surprised at folks who think the resemblance to an arrow pointing the wrong way is actually confusing: I find it extremely unlikely that people even parse the presence of the arrow over which side of the vehicle is flashing.

rotopenguin,
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@TechConnectify if you're driving at night, and the one blinking arrow is all that you can see out there, what does it mean?

MarcAbrahams, to random
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Every successful con man has a run of these — until the inevitable day he, Wile E Coyote-like, falls off a cliff: "The ruling by a five-judge panel of appellate court judges was a crucial and unexpected victory for the former president, potentially staving off a looming financial disaster." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/nyregion/trump-bond-reduced.html

rotopenguin,
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@MarcAbrahams not every successful con man has personally placed lackeys in most appeals courts across the land, not least of which being the Supreme Court.

mcc, to random
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Behold! Despite FedEx trying very hard to just take it and keep it for themselves, I now have a tiny weird computer. It is running RISC-V and the RISC-V has an FPGA in it. This means this computer has more Freedom than other computers. The RISC-V/FPGA microchip is made by a company named "Microchip" which sounds fake.

Either this will enable me to do strange and beautiful things, or I will waste ~2 months on trying to install Linux on it unsuccessfully then sigh and put it in a drawer.

rotopenguin,
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@grumpasaurus @mcc oh damn, that takes me back. How many cartoons did I watch as a kid, whine for/get the toys, and forget about when the show was quietly cancelled 1.5 seasons later?

rotopenguin,
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@grumpasaurus @mcc WHY DO WE KEEP ON MAKING THESE SUPERGUNS? Their only function is "evil masterminding", and we keep on dropping them into the evil mastermind's hands.

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thomasfuchs, to random
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I'm fascinated by programmers who think they can be replaced by a machine that literally can't think

rotopenguin,
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@thomasfuchs AI guys know that they don't have to make a machine that's smarter than the workers they hope to displace. They just have to make the machine smarter than the guy that pays the workers.

thomasfuchs, to random
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It’s so funny that so many people replied to me that “VR isn’t meant to be a monitor replacement” when the companies making VR are marketing it like this

Apple marketing material showing person using virtual monitors

rotopenguin,
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@thomasfuchs don't you want something that's like a really big monitor, but more expensive and hurts your neck and sometimes makes you throw up?

mcc, to random
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I have a Python script in which I have an assert. The assert is always true; that's why I'm asserting it. The assert is a canary in case I change a constant in one place without changing code that depends on it having that value.

Python 3 gives me a warning that the assertion is always true. That's annoying. Can I turn the warning off?

/path/toplevel.py:10: SyntaxWarning: assertion is always true, perhaps remove parentheses?
assert(VID_V_ACTIVE == 144, "constant different from expected")

rotopenguin,
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@tess @mcc @Pashhur it's that way because of the law of Equivalent Exchange. Python added parentheses to print, so it had to take them from somewhere else to maintain balance.

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rotopenguin, to random
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Modern smoke alarms are an incredible feat of engineering. They can detect smoke all the way down to 0.00𝘖 PPB.

rotopenguin, to random
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This reviewer did go on to knock out a one hundred and ninety three word run on sentence. Okay, they commit all kinds of boring spelling and grammar sins, but I can't get over this spelling of "disguise". I guess??

What theory of "how letters work" got you here? Which language are you coming from, where this could have made sense?

rotopenguin, to random
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Taking lead out of the air that you and your children breathe would be detrimental to the future of the Republican Party. Preventing brain damage creates a dangerously Left-Wing bias in our political constituency.

https://fediscience.org/@dsacer/111258374505093996

rotopenguin, to random
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@mcc next little detail to check with your laptop - put it to sleep overnight with it unplugged. How bad is the battery in the morning?

S0ix sleep can be a whole bunch of "fun".

rotopenguin, to random
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If you have a ~$60 little projector, and you're starting to see dust all over the image, here's a little secret. Don't unscrew a thing. There might be a door that gets you directly to the imager. Lose the sticker, pop the door, and blow some canned air in there.

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rotopenguin, to random
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If you're using Bitwarden*, you should probably log on to the website and increase the number of (will edit in later) rounds it uses. Once upon a time it was a ridiculously low number. They can't change the value without kicking you out of all of your devices, so it's up to you to change it.

It should be cranked up to where it takes a few seconds on your (probably rather fast) phone. I wish @bitwarden had a benchmark for this.

My setting is (to edit in later).

*same hat!

rotopenguin, to random
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@Migueldeicaza little issue with La Terminal.

(I have iCloud "passwords and keychain" disabled. May be the problem.)
I start by making an Enclave Key on my ipad, stick that into my PC's authorized_keys. Then I go to my iPhone, find that the server deets have been iCloud sync'd except for the actual key. This is fine, I can roll a new Enclave Key on the iPhone, and add that to the PC's authorized_keys too.

rotopenguin, to random
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Why did Texeira smash his Xbox? What could have possibly been on there that was worth destroying? Chats with his little buddies? I think that Microsoft can produce that regardless.

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