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.
There’s a reason Primus’ Les Claypool mentions the 7 Layer Burrito in “Wynonna’s Big Brown Beaver”.
The shit was good.
McDonald’s Beef tallow fries. One of the great losses of my early life.
Try Kagi. Paid search engines are the future in order to extract yourself from the enshittification of “free” search engines.
I’ve played DSP, it’s a great game too. I’ll probably jump back to that when I burn out on Planet Crafter. The thing I don’t like about it and Satisfactory is conveyor belt management. The constant battle to rewire the spaghetti.
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.
I’ve been playing Planet Crafter waaay too much. Check it out if you like Factorio, Satisfactory, etc. It’s fun and super addictive. At least to me.
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.
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.
After all you’ve seen Trump get away with I can’t believe that you still somehow think this little detail will matter. SCOTUS will create an exemption of some kind for him.
“White male Presidents over the age of 75 that wear predominantly red ties can pardon themselves at both the federal and state level.”
Trump supporters have donation fatigue.
It’s a nice way of saying that they just been pumped dry by the grift over the years.
Project 1999 and Project Quarm. Emulators of EverQuest, which was released in 1999. Official EverQuest is still going strong 25 years later, but the emulator developers (the are several projects) have an agreement to run their versions of the game.
I’m playing Project Quarm version now and spend way too much time on it.
Owl City: Fun music, weird bathroom.
Orange and chocolate is a classic combination. I like it.
Oreo cookies with orange juice.
Having cut my teeth on MS-DOS 3.0 in a 4.77MHz PC with a monochrome monitor, two floppy drives and no hard disk, it was drilled into me early to save, save, save. It’s just muscle memory for me now.
Writing a whole paper without saving is unimaginable to me.
I don’t remember offhand. It was long ago.
I tried reading Discworld a couple of times now and just can’t get into it. So slow and uninteresting to me. I’d love to know where to start as a old school hard scifi reader.
People I respect revere the guy so there must be something to it, right?
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.