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nulluser , 8 months ago to news in Ex-cop who fired into Breonna Taylor’s apartment in flawed, fatal raid goes on trial again

Looks like that’s a different guy, but thanks for the reminder that they’re all pieces of shit.

nulluser , 8 months ago to news in Vatican synod ends with divide over women deacons and LGBTQ+

Why don’t they just ask god what to do?

nulluser , 8 months ago to technology in YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it

My pihole prevents me from knowing what you’re talking about.

nulluser , 9 months ago to news in Family of 8-year-old girl killed by police reach $11 million settlement

I think it should get paid out of the police union pension fund. Start doing that and we’ll start to see the alleged good cops getting a lot more aggressive about pushing the “few bad apples” off the force before they do something stupid pretty damn quick.

nulluser , 9 months ago to technology in Publisher Wants $2,500 To Allow Academics To Post Their Own Manuscript To Their Own Repository

It selects people who don’t want to change a failing system because they are great at gaming that system.

Reminds me of the current American political system and the politicians it selects for us.

nulluser , 9 months ago to news in ‘Thwarted diabolical plot': Man arrested minutes before mass shooting at Northern Virginia church, police say

Repoter: So, the police arrested a gunman moments away from shooting up your dealership. What are your thoughts?

Dealer: It was wild. Absolutely crazy… Almost as crazy as ThEse CraZy deAls We’vE GoT RigHt nOW. JUst cHeCk Out ThE PriCe oN ThiS '88 MaliBu. It’S CrAaaaZy!

nulluser , 9 months ago to memes in Want some so bad but not willing to trade organs for it

I don’t understand why so many people can’t just go get their own damn food. Uber eats hasn’t been around long enough for you all to have forgotten what you did before, has it? How did you survive back then?

nulluser , 9 months ago to technology in Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series and Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee

Enshitification

nulluser , 9 months ago to world in Russian airliner forced to land in open field

I’m sure a couple of intrepid Ukrainian farmers with tractors could get the job done before sunset.

nulluser , 9 months ago to linux in Bcachefs Merged Into Linux-Next

I vow from this point forward to always pronounce it, BEE-ka-chefs.

nulluser , 9 months ago to programmer_humor in Some people just wake up and choose violence

WTF are you talking about? All I’m saying is that if you write code (that in the context of this discussion passes arguments to a method you didn’t write, that may not be the type the author of the method expected someone to pass, but really, that’s completely beside the point), you should, oh, I don’t know, maybe test that it actually works, and maybe even (gasp) write some automated tests so that if anything changes that breaks the expected behavior, the team immediately knows about it and can make appropriate changes to fix it. You don’t need a strongly typed language to do any of that. You just need to do your job.

nulluser , 9 months ago to programmer_humor in Some people just wake up and choose violence

Theoretically, they’ll test and notice that doesn’t work and fix their code before they deploy it to production.

nulluser , 9 months ago to technology in Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Fight to Break Encryption

Don’t get too excited.

Although the UK government has said that it now won’t force unproven technology on tech companies, and that it essentially won’t use the powers under the bill, the controversial clauses remain within the legislation, which is still likely to pass into law. “It’s not gone away, but it’s a step in the right direction,” Woodward says.

James Baker, campaign manager for the Open Rights Group, a nonprofit that has campaigned against the law’s passage, says that the continued existence of the powers within the law means encryption-breaking surveillance could still be introduced in the future. “It would be better if these powers were completely removed from the bill,” he adds.

But some are less positive about the apparent volte-face. “Nothing has changed,” says Matthew Hodgson, CEO of UK-based Element, which supplies end-to-end encrypted messaging to militaries and governments. “It’s only what’s actually written in the bill that matters. Scanning is fundamentally incompatible with end-to-end encrypted messaging apps. Scanning bypasses the encryption in order to scan, exposing your messages to attackers. So all ‘until it’s technically feasible’ means is opening the door to scanning in future rather than scanning today. It’s not a change, it’s kicking the can down the road.”

nulluser , 9 months ago to technology in AOL Pretends to be the Internet - The History of the Web

I remember a very specific commercial where they were listing stuff that was “on” AOL, most or all of which was just on the broader actual Internet , and then closed with some pitch like, “AOL has things you can’t get anywhere else,” clearly implying everything they just listed was exclusive to AOL. I couldn’t understand why every other ISP wasn’t suing them into oblivion for that crap.

nulluser , 9 months ago to technology in The Burning Man fiasco is the ultimate tech culture clash. Climate change, protests, tech, elitism, (untrue) Ebola rumors — everything converged when heavy rains left thousands of people stranded i...

From my experience (been to BM a few times, not recently though), most Burners are left of center and would likely accept anthropogenic climate change as real. Likely for political reasons rather than scientific reasons, though, as many of those same Burners would also happily accept that crystals/magnets/heavily diluted water can cure disease and that the positions of nearby planets relative to distant stars from the perspective of Earth combined with how many times the moon had orbited Earth since January 1st on your birthday can vaguely predict what’s going to happen to you in the next week or so.