cyborganism
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- Comment on America's drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem | More than 100M rely on gear rife with vulnerabilities, says EPA OIG 5 weeks ago:
First thing to do: disconnect them all from the Internet.
- Comment on FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly code 1 month ago:
Holy shit.
- Comment on Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store 2 months ago:
Chrome has ad blocking technology?
I thought it was the opposite.
- Comment on snap rant 2 months ago:
Ok, I’m going to play devil’s advocate, even though I prefer Flatpaks over Snaps.
- Snaps are compressed and remain compressed on your system so it’s quicker to download and takes up less storage. (Yes the downside is a slower startup time because it has to decompress first. As opposed to Flatpaks that are downloaded compressed, but are stored uncompressed, and take up more storage.)
- I’m using KDE Plasma (v5 on Kubuntu 24.04) and the Discover app updates all my Snap packages without a hitch. And I would assume it works flawlessly un the standard Ubuntu as well. I don’t know about the other app store apps for other distros however.
- Snaps, like Flatpak, has a tool to manage app permissions. Both launch apps in a sandboxed environment and require permissions to be set, kind of like with Android apps.
- Speaking of sandboxing, this leads to problems in both Snaps and Flatpak where applications were not implemented to be run in a sandboxed environment to begin with and may block some features. (I just ran into such a problem with Firefox and its KeepassXC extension which cannot connect to my KeepassXC instance.)
- Also about sandboxes, this actually increases security. For example, the printing system CUPS has known vulnerabilities. Running it in a Snap can stop some of the attack vectors.
Since these are slowly being adopted by developers, they haven’t ironed out all the kinks yet. So it’s important as a user to report problems so they can fix them. Or, to participate yourself and provide fixes if you can. That’s what makes open source software thrive.
- Comment on United Nations wants to treat AI with same urgency as climate change 3 months ago:
They should. It’s a real threat to democracy and global human knowledge.
We don’t want to end up watering our crops with electrolytes because an omnipotent internet AI said it’s what pants crave because it learned it from reading quotes from Idiocracy.
- Comment on Valve confirms it'll support the ROG Ally with its Steam Deck operating system 4 months ago:
Selling games is their main revenue anyway. The console is an extra.
- Comment on Michael Bay's Skibidi Toilet movie production company has apparently sent DMCA takedowns to Garry's Mod 4 months ago:
LoL!!! Fuck corporate media, including movie companies.
- Comment on Turkish student creates custom AI device for cheating university exam, gets arrested 6 months ago:
That’s actually pretty smart. He’s gonna get a job before he even graduates.
- Comment on Roku owners face the grimmest indignity yet: Stuck-on motion smoothing 6 months ago:
Ugh… It’s like watching TV at my parents’ home on their Smart TV with all the stupid bells and whistles enabled. I can’t stand these things.
- Comment on Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices 7 months ago:
Great. Another Google service gets shut down. Why even bother with using any Google service at this point?
- Comment on Big Tech can’t hoard brainwave data for ad targeting, Colorado law says 8 months ago:
Fucking hell. Even our thoughts and feelings are being used to target ads to us. What a fucking nightmare.
- Comment on Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series 9 months ago:
- Comment on Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series 9 months ago:
Remember Johnny Mnemonic with Keanu Reeves? The original short story takes place in the Neuromancer universe. I loved that movie.
I once spoke with William Gibson when he came to my city for a book club and told him about it. He said he really didn’t like the movie and it turned out into what he considered a joke. It really surprised me.
- Comment on Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series 9 months ago:
Johnny Mnemonic was rad as fuck.
- Comment on ‘Our Flag Means Death’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Max 11 months ago:
What??? :'(
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 1 year ago:
Ah… you make a very good point.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 1 year ago:
Agree. Florida culture has become very conductive for this kind of game.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 1 year ago:
Good point. And Florida has become crazy enough that a GTA game set there is almost realistic.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 1 year ago:
True. Chicago would’ve been nice. Or Atlanta.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 1 year ago:
That just might be a good indy game project actually…
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 1 year ago:
Hahahahaha
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 1 year ago:
Thanks for the reference! I’ll check that out!
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 1 year ago:
Not disappointed in the trailer or the game or anything, but I would’ve loved to see a GTA set in a city outside the US. For example in a London-like city or Tokyo or Rome or Paris.
But yeah this new GTA looks sick. They did a great job in capturing the new fucked up Florida vibe.
- Comment on It's like a foodie version of a fleeting love story. 1 year ago:
Dude was eating out of a restaurant dumpster in a back alley somewhere next to the cooks that were enjoying their cigarette break.
- Comment on Only $79.99 1 year ago:
Fucking hell
- Comment on Only $79.99 1 year ago:
I can’t believe this used to be an actual medical procedure. It’s horrifying.