Using prison slave labour for firefighting is literally the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard even ignoring all the ethical issues. You know who I don’t want in charge of saving my life from a fire? Someone who’s being forced to do it. Because that person probably won’t try very hard.
Dumbest AND most genius: Fake captchas that get the user to press windows+R, then control+C, then enter.
Dumbest because if you paid attention to what’s being pasted, it’s usually a call to power shell with an arbitrary script, and it’s being pasted into your OS’s run box which is basically like a console.
But also genius because there are tons of people that fall for it, and it’s a social engineering masterpiece.
John Hammond with more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSa_wHW1pgQ
This really highlights two systemic issues: tons of people don’t know what they’re doing with computers and don’t know basic security concepts like don’t run an arbitrary script from an untrusted website, and we should probably do something about that. Which brings me to the second point that Windows is pretty ass for making it this easy. Why can you run an encoded power shell script from your run box, and why would you make bypassing the execution policy as easy as a flag in the command you’re invoking? I can’t imagine those have a lot of legitimate uses and aren’t just being abused by criminals.
So it will fit right into Meta’s work culture then!
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Getting it all the time on Fedora KDE. And Ctrl+alt+F1 (or any other F key) doesn’t get me to a terminal and even SSHing into the computer and entering the command doesn’t get rid of it (update: I tried the SSH method again and it worked). Been just turning the computer off and on again whenever it shows up.
I think an update broke something and am hoping it gets fixed soon.
Out of the loop, why did they shut down?
Computer speak is disturbingly similar to text message speak
Bugs are bioengineering masterpieces.
The most recent Zefrank video is a great example of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spuO7OpS6zw
Do people actually use stuff like this? Like who has ever needed help reading a text message?
His bait and switch tactics have only given us time to prepare.
Christ was an asshole too. People who haven’t read the bible give him way too much credit.
He’s gonna be real surprised when YHWH sends him to hell for violating the commandments (thou shall not kill and don’t take the lord’s name in vain).
Two Australians go to North Korea to get a hair cut while debunking Western propaganda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E
The US itself is a risky and inefficient project.
Fido/Rogers
Ironic how US kids cartoons commonly portray “digging to China” as something americans can hypothetically do, to the point where a good portion of American adults just assume it to be true. Yet the only place where that’s possible is South America.
Usually the people debunking the notion focus on the fact that the Earth is molten in the center so you can’t dig all the way through it in the same way you can’t dig to the ocean floor from the surface (which is reasonable don’t get me wrong), but they rarely mention the fact that China is not actually on the opposite side of the Earth to the US.
This isn’t a political comment. I just find it interesting that this is something literally anyone can disprove with a dollar store globe but no one bothers to do it and instead just assume the cartoons for children are factual.
God I wish my network in Canada still supported Fairphones. My last Fairphone just stopped connecting to cellular service one day, which I probably should have expected given it’s European bands only.
Arguably that’s because they were basically conquered and made a vassal of the country that dropped bombs on them.
Then it wouldn’t be reasonable to assume the US would collapse right at the average (mean) though. If the majority of empires collapsed at a certain age (the mode) it would be different, but the mean tells you very little about when any particular empire will collapse.
The mean number of children per household is a decimal, that doesn’t mean any households have partial children.