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Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine, LLMs and printer enshittification
  • From the title and picture, I thought this was some weird diss on the depicted Brother laser printer and stopped by to defend it. Fortunately it is, instead, tauting the superiority of Brother laser printers.

    I own the depicted printer, or one very close to it, and it is a workhorse. Brother laser printers are the way.

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    life pro tip!!
  • None of that wimpy and watered-down regular bleach, though. Go for the liquid chlorine used in pools, it's typically about twice as strong. You can get it at Walmart (or Lowes} when it is in-season.

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    Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability
  • No, I still see it. Not sure why, maybe because I commented on it.

    I've had several comments behave the same way, unable to actually delete them, even after waiting a while for the delete to propagate.

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    Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability
  • No need to be so defensive... unless you you the F-Droid team they are writing about. Are you?

    Either way it is just whataboutism aimed at a strawman. No one is saying proprietary software is better.

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    I threatened to steal my friends identity to legally change his name to something funny. What name would you use?
  • I used to work with a Michael Hunt. Brilliant guy and normally pretty chill, but woe betide anyone shortening it to it's diminutive form. I accidentally called him Mike once and he literally never responded to me again.

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    Scary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark web
  • Not a federal ID, but a federal standard for State IDs. And not "only", but SocSec card is one of the several forms of ID you could use. Not required and not enough by itself.

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    muffin grindset
  • Teach a man to build a fire and he will be warm all night.

    Set a man on fire and he will be warm the rest of his life.

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    United States v. Apple is pure nerd rage
  • NAL, but it would likely be enough for a felony obstruction of justice charge. Add to that, depending on specifics of Apple's legal response (and whether they throw the employee under the bus,) a CPAA charge for exceeding authorized access in a computer system.

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    i wonder what ideas raktajino would give 🤔
  • It's the trolley problem. Save two crew members or this new guy? I think her only moral obligation would be to try to find a way to save the new guy as well as her crew. But I haven't seen the episode yet, so maybe it was more complicated than that.

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  • arstechnica.com In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack

    An error as small as a single flipped memory bit is all it takes to expose a private key.

    Link to the paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1711.pdf

    >The vulnerability occurs when there are errors during the signature generation that takes place when a client and server are establishing a connection. It affects only keys using the RSA cryptographic algorithm, which the researchers found in roughly a third of the SSH signatures they examined. That translates to roughly 1 billion signatures out of the 3.2 billion signatures examined. Of the roughly 1 billion RSA signatures, about one in a million exposed the private key of the host.

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    apnews.com Europe reaches a deal on the world's first comprehensive AI rules

    Negotiators from the European Parliament and the bloc’s 27 member countries overcame big differences to sign a tentative political agreement for the Artificial Intelligence Act.

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