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voodooattack ,

At least they can be forked if someone needs them enough.

voodooattack ,

Just recovered from that honeypot. Holy shit.

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voodooattack ,

using windows*

voodooattack ,

I’m honestly curious. Have you ever heard of a single Palestinian accusing Hamas of using someone they know as a human shield? Has anyone ever, really?

The only “sources” backing these “well-known facts” are western media and Israeli-say-so. I’ve dealt with many Palestinians personally (I live in Egypt and we have a lot of them living here), and none of them ever complained about their families being used as human shields. Ever. You’d think some Palestinians would speak up about this by now if it were real.

You know who they unanimously consider unnecessarily brutal and cruel though? The IDF which treats them like less than dirt on a good day.

voodooattack ,

Regardless of this claim, the point still stands. No Palestinian I’ve ever met accused Hamas of jeopardising the Palestinian people’s safety. Only Israel does, for obvious reasons.

This is like the police cornering a wanted criminal into a crowded bus and shooting everyone indiscriminately whilst blaming it on them.

voodooattack ,

Probably secure DNS? Try disabling that in the privacy settings page.

voodooattack ,

Then it will be forked and the cycle continues.

voodooattack ,

Google Sheets is a mess on FF too. Cell selection is broken af.

voodooattack ,

He publicised the invite after he hosted it

voodooattack ,

Leave.

voodooattack ,

We don’t do that here. :P

voodooattack , (edited )

How about if you launch a huge magnet well above escape velocity and remotely anchor a space elevator made from a ferromagnetic material to it but the space elevator’s weight counteracts its inertia exactly and holds it in place perpetually. Would that work?

Edit: I swear I’m not dumb, I just didn’t think this one through.

voodooattack ,

This is beautiful. I hate it.

voodooattack ,

CTRL+Z

killall -9 vim

voodooattack ,

I miss the FacePunch forums.

voodooattack ,

Or a snake bot, obviously.

voodooattack ,

It’s all about empathy. If you dehumanise a group enough they become “other” to your human subconscious, and you exhibit sociopathic behaviour toward them.

The problem is that it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you dehumanise someone to the smallest degree and feel guilt (because you’re still a good person), your subconscious will dehumanise them further in order to cope. (e.g they’re criminals so they’ve probably done worse). Then the next time you abuse them, it becomes easier.

This self perpetuating cycle keeps happening until you feel absolutely no sympathy for them, and consequently no guilt.

Now, the real question is whether or not you’re capable of dehumanising someone to begin with. I personally think that yes, we’re all capable, and all it takes is some bad influence (e.g bad preconceptions/media brainwashing), and in the case of police officers, a healthy dose of peer pressure.

voodooattack ,

I don’t think dehumanization works on everybody. Dehumanization works on already kinda shitty people that view themselves as above others. I am not like that personally and I’m sure I’m not nearly the only one. I simply don’t see myself as entitled to cause suffering in any other conscious being, human or not

You are not like that, currently. But in the right environment and in the right situation, you’ll find out that to the contrary, you are exactly like that.

Humans are wired to (justifiably or not) vilify anyone who’d pose a threat to their safety, or the safety of their loved ones. Vilify a person or group too many times (e.g with daily mass media brainwashing) and they will be completely dehumanised, eventually.

Now, that threat doesn’t have to be physical, or even real. Just perceived threat is enough. It doesn’t have to be substantiated either.

Look at every racist and extremist in existence and try to understand where they’re coming from. They weren’t born that way. Their environments made of them what they are.

voodooattack ,

Huh? Pretty sure Guantanamo Bay is still open to this day. Not on the same scale nowadays, sure; but the CCP never claimed freedom as part of its core values either.

voodooattack ,

How about ‘Muricans?

Edit: /s

voodooattack ,

So by your logic, was the U.S in the right to extradite Julian Assange on espionage charges in spite of him being an Australian citizen living in his own country?

If so, what about Benjamin Netanyahu? Would the US try to extradite him from Israel if he gets indicted for his genocide in the US?

voodooattack ,

This comment hurt me on a deep level.

PSP was the shit.

Edit: and vivid scenes of using it and CorelDraw just popped into my head. Damn it.

voodooattack ,

I really enjoyed that. Thank you

voodooattack ,

Love. This. Comment.

voodooattack ,

I’d just like to interject for a moment…

voodooattack ,

Maybe try another distro?

Also I’m curious. What distro were you testing with?

voodooattack ,

These are all Debian based. Debian is notorious for using old kernels and spotty hardware support. I had similar issues trying to install Ubuntu on a new-ish PC recently. Fedora worked like a charm though.

I was tempted to try Nobara since it was a gaming pc but I was discouraged by opinions from the community telling me it was not exactly the best idea.

Next time I might go for Bluefin though. It’s based on Fedora Silverblue (immutable OS) and I’ve heard great things about it. Apparently also has GPU drivers for NVIDIA baked-in, which I need.

voodooattack ,

Penguin lovers, strip.

voodooattack ,

The right person to follow during a zombie apocalypse.

voodooattack ,

And the chickens are walking forward during the reversed scene.

voodooattack ,

www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

Edit: If you can’t switch to Firefox and you’re looking for a good alternative that’s privacy-focused and functionally similar, take a look at Vivaldi. Solid chrome-based browser.

voodooattack ,

To window sill, and down he jumped,

I watched in awe, his awesome stunt,

He looked me down, and suddenly spoke:

“I might be a pussy, but you’re a big cunt!”

voodooattack ,

Use Heroic for GOG/EGS. It also runs steam games if you want a unified experience.

Edit: heroicgameslauncher.com

voodooattack ,

Legacy hardware and operating systems are battle tested, having been extensively probed and patched during their heyday. The same can be said for software written for these platforms – they have been refined to the point that they can execute their intended tasks without incident. If it is ain’t broke, don’t fix it. One could also argue that dated platforms are less likely to be targeted by modern cybercriminals. Learning the ins and outs of a legacy system does not make sense when there are so few targets still using them. A hacker would be far better off to master something newer that millions of systems still use.

Tell me you know nothing about cybersecurity without telling me you know nothing about cybersecurity. Wtf is this drivel?

voodooattack ,

And said trick ends when an attacker manages to socially-engineer their way in. (But maybe they’ll drop floppies instead of flash drives around the block this time)

voodooattack , (edited )

I’m not talking about this specific instance, just that block of misinformation/generalisation. Saying that legacy systems are well-secured because they’re “battle tested” is sheer ignorance.

Take side-channel attacks for example. A timing attack is something programmers from the 60’s and 70’s would not have taken into account when writing their hashing algorithms. And speaking of hashing, what hashing algorithms were available back then? CRC32 or something similar? What about salting? You get the idea.

Not to mention that legacy operating systems don’t get security updates. Let’s assume that DOS is secure (which it definitely isn’t), but if that statement were correct, would it apply to Windows XP as well?

All I’m saying is that the article is dead wrong. As software developers in this century, we’ve come a long way. We’ve developed security best practices, written libraries and frameworks, and come up with mitigations for a lot of these security vulnerabilities. These solutions are something that closed-source legacy systems (and anything without active maintenance) would never benefit from.

voodooattack , (edited )

Not sure how to link a reply on lemmy so I’ll just copy from another comment I wrote here:

I’m not talking about this specific instance, just that block of misinformation/generalisation. Saying that legacy systems are well-secured because they’re “battle tested” is sheer ignorance.

Take side-channel attacks for example. A timing attack is something programmers from the 60’s and 70’s would not have taken into account when writing their hashing algorithms. And speaking of hashing, what hashing algorithms were available back then? CRC32 or something similar? What about salting? You get the idea.

Not to mention that legacy operating systems don’t get security updates. Let’s assume that DOS is secure (which it definitely isn’t), but if that statement were correct, would it apply to Windows XP as well?

All I’m saying is that the article is dead wrong. As software developers in this century, we’ve come a long way. We’ve developed security best practices, written libraries and frameworks, and come up with mitigations for a lot of these security vulnerabilities. These solutions are something that closed-source legacy systems (and anything without active maintenance) would never benefit from.

The “ironing” is lost on you in this case.

What are some hidden indie gems nobody knows about?

Which indies did you discover and would love more people to know about? I’ll start: The Pale Beyond. Not sure if it’s a hidden gem tbh, but it’s such a good story rich game. I laughed, I cried and felt the characters struggles. If you like story rich games/ choices matter, check it out.

voodooattack ,

I loved Clonk back in the day. Discovered it from the falling sand craze a long time ago and I still have fond memories of it.

voodooattack ,

How about enshitussy?

Edit: this is more cursed than I intended

voodooattack ,

Is this… a bug report?

voodooattack ,

Try fleek. I use it on my fedora system and it integrates really well.

voodooattack ,

Seems like they’re siding with the lesser evil.

voodooattack ,

My favourite: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

An illegal prime is an illegal number which is also prime. One of the earliest illegal prime numbers was generated in March 2001 by Phil Carmody. Its binary representation corresponds to a compressed version of the C source code of a computer program implementing the DeCSS decryption algorithm, which can be used by a computer to circumvent a DVD’s copy protection.[14]

voodooattack ,

Oh, so given your opinion, can African Americans or Chinese Americans return to their respective continents, occupy an entire country by displacing its current population, and claim it as their ancestral land? How delusional.

And since when is “the period of Judah” an accurate historical reference point?

voodooattack ,

I’m using Fedora and it’s been great, a bit iffy with nVIDIA out of the box though.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has the most up to date nVIDIA stack. Mainly because the packages are controlled by nVIDIA directly.

voodooattack ,

Tumbleweed is rolling release (kinda like arch), although they have a pretty rigorous testing process. So that could be a pro or a con depending on who you’re asking.

If what you’re specifically after is older CUDA toolkit compatibility, then I’d recommend using distrobox instead. That’s what I do for ML workloads. (If you plan on redistributing binaries then you’ll have to strip them with binutils though)

voodooattack ,

That has been their modus operandi for a long time though, and they usually get away with it.

Equating antisemitism (race) with anti-zionism (ideology) is their favourite strategy.

voodooattack ,

Customer: Hey there, customer outreach person; how does it feel to repeat yourself over and over again?

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