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It’s okay to plagiarize books if they’re in a library.
It’s okay to plagiarize books if they’re in a library.
Well I think it does, because they don’t know literally everything about us yet. But they will one day if we don’t fight back.
As Doctorow points out, ‘Saying security and privacy don’t matter because you have nothing to hide is like saying freedom of speech doesn’t mater because you have nothing to say.’
It’s a very short-sighted view. Those rights will be taken from you if you don’t protect them.
I read that stuff a few weeks ago. And the responses and discussion on Kagi’s Discord. I’ll continue to monitor Kagi’s behavior, of course, but for now I prefer Kagi. I get far more relevant results with no advertising noise and as much or as little “AI” assistance as I want.
Google is a cesspool and DDG is simply inferior - worthy, but inferior.
Try Kagi. Paid search engines are the future in order to extract yourself from the enshittification of “free” search engines.
Every kernel update (and there are tons) requires me to rebuild my third party modules, but you need to do it in a toolbox and the kernel headers version must match the running kernel version, which is actually more annoying than it sounds.
Boy, I doubt that.
My Windows 11 machine doesn’t require any of that.
Surge pricing. If your BMI is high they charge more for Pringles.
One day soon someone will search online for what to do for a cut and some AI will spit out “Blood letting can actually be healthy in many American males, since often they have a overabundance of iron…”
ChatGPT and github copilot are great tools, but they’re like a chainsaw: if you apply them incorrectly or become too casual and careless with them, they will kickback at you and fuck your day up.
Steam has to be worth a lot more than 12 billion.
Kagi is good. I’m using the unlimited search tier. It’s so nice not to have all the cruft in my searches.
I’m using kagi as well and have been very pleased with it.
Thor at Pirate Software played it and really liked it, probably part of that.
Razer designing and selling a piece of medical equipment is an idea that should never have survived the brainstorming session.
Having a language dependent on indentation is absurd on the face of it. It’s a ridiculous idea that should have been ridiculed from the outset.
I’m a Boomer myself (born in 1964) and this maybe the first legitimate occasion I’ve had to say “Okay, Boomer.”
Out of touch.
It’s aptly named then, “Crabtree Falls”.
Decent pun but I can’t say I’m lichen it.
echo “calories” >> .gitignore
The malicious code was written and debugged at their convenience and saved as an object module linker file that had been stripped of debugger symbols (this is one of its features that made Fruend suspicious enough to keep digging when he profiled his backdoored ssh looking for that 500ms delay: there were no symbols to attribute the cpu cycles to).
It was then further obfuscated by being chopped up and placed into a pure binary file that was ostensibly included in the tarballs for the xz library build process to use as a test case file during its build process. The file was supposedly an example of a bad compressed file.
This “test” file was placed in the .gitignore seen in the repo so the file’s abscense on github was explained. Being included as a binary test file only in the tarballs means that the malicious code isn’t on github in any form. Its nowhere to be seen until you get the tarball.
The build process then creates some highly obfuscated bash scripts on the fly during compilation that check for the existence of the files (since they won’t be there if you’re building from github). If they’re there, the scripts reassemble the object module, basically replacing the code that you would see in the repo.
Thats a simplified version of why there’s no code to see, and that’s just one aspect of this thing. It’s sneaky.
The problem is that store bought croutons have normalized being dry, hard bullets. It’s not like that when they’re made fresh. They’re beautiful little pieces of buttered texture in your salad.