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@eb@social.coop
  1. Is a programmer, hacker, and maker, busy crafting intricate, exciting, and people focused experiences.
  2. Is interested in breaking barriers, building communities, and learning new things about the world.
  3. Is happiest doing what makes him feel free. Biking, skiing, travelling to name a few

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Sensationalism will be the death of us. They sprayed the rocks with corn starch and food dye. But “protestors spray Stonehenge with cornstarch” doesn’t generate the clicks.

Here’s the story in a way you never heard it:

“It’s time for us to think about what our civilisation will leave behind – what is our legacy? Standing inert for generations works well for stones – not climate policy.”

For the sake of our future, the media must do better.

eb OP ,
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@GuerillaOntologist a couple things:

  1. The media’s job is to inform. I don’t care what conclusions people draw, so long as they are informed. But the media, including the liberal media, is exhibiting disgusting bias
  2. Re: your opinion, historically, this sort of peaceful demonstration has proved effective. Targeting oil wouldn’t tell their story: “oil is coming for the things we love”. The paint is symbolic of that. IMO people would be much more sympathetic without the spin.
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It's always amazed me that ID.me, which you have to use in order to interact w/ the IRS online these days, has a top level domain from the country of Montenegro. Ublock Origin says they're injecting tracking links from Italy's TLD when you login at the irs.gov website.

What's next? Cookies from Colombia? AI from Anguilla?

eb ,
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@briankrebs The US is in a position of power where I don't think a country would consider hijacking domains it uses. Not to defend this, but

eb ,
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@briankrebs @alex related: my recent https://boehs.org/node/medicicnes

eb ,
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@briankrebs @alex I’ve received private disclosure of a potential vulnerability that I have independently verified as still active. I would disclose it as we are a whole year past the responsible disclosure period, but it’s the state of Georgia and incompetent governments don’t take too kindly to this: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726866/missouri-governor-department-elementary-secondary-education-ssn-vulnerability-disclosure

eb , to random
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Unfolding now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810

An incredibly technically complex in xz (potentially also in libarchive and elsewhere) was just discovered. This backdoor has been quietly implemented over years, with the assistance of a wide array of subtly interconnected accounts:

The timeline on this is going to take so long to unravel

eb OP ,
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https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor

I have begun a post explaining this situation in a more detailed writeup. This is updating in realtime, and there is a lot still missing.

eb OP ,
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Holy shit.

dabeaz , to random
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Thought: I'd bet a lot of projects would have fewer dependencies if pip was 100x slower. Maybe we should try to do that.

eb ,
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@colby @robpike @akkartik @rhempel @dabeaz what about performance?

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