quick_snail
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- Comment on 4 days ago:
I think a lot of companies use EDR to software disable USB ports. But I wouldn’t recommend it.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
This requires physical access. I don’t get it, why is this bad?
Someone with physical access can already pull out the disk, clone it, and put in a different disk that boots to an identical looking login, but which actually relays the password back to the attacker.
What more would this exploit allow an attcker with phsycal access thay wouldn’t already have before this exploit?
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I think people already install Linux on those arm macbooks, no?
- Comment on Should you DeGoogle your smartphone? 6 days ago:
It’s literally an optional step in their install guide
- Comment on Should you DeGoogle your smartphone? 6 days ago:
Lineage is degoogled…if you don’t install gapps
- Comment on Should you DeGoogle your smartphone? 6 days ago:
If you’re doing banking on a phone, lol, you’re doing it wrong.
- Comment on Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium 6 days ago:
Mercury from fluorescent bulbs isn’t normal trash and can’t be cleaned. We’re talking about bacteria.
Your analogy would be better if they were dumping CFCs or viruses.
- Comment on Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium 1 week ago:
Goat Systems routed that flush water, which contained Cupriavidus gilardii, into Cheyenne’s sanitary sewer
Wait, wut. So they didn’t dump it into the watershed. They sent it to the water treatment center.
Isn’t the sanitary sewer’s job to clean black water? Like they already get water with poop in it (and all the bacterium that comes with literal feces). Why is this a problem?
- Comment on Tesla Allegedly Showed Cooked Data to Get Full Self-Driving Approved 2 weeks ago:
Nazis…check
This…checkCurious how else they’re similar to Volkswagen. Do they also have slaves in Brazil?
- Comment on Wide-ranging 7-zip vulnerability with 8.8 CVE rating allows for code execution — hundreds of millions of machines potentially at risk 1 month ago:
That actually doesn’t seem to be so severe.
How many people download some random archive and then, after extracting it, they double click on the files inside it?
It says the risk of this vuln is arbitrary code execution of a maliciously crafted archive.
After fixing this bug, most 7zip users will still be vulnerable to arbitrary code execution due to maliciously crafted archives.
- Comment on Wide-ranging 7-zip vulnerability with 8.8 CVE rating allows for code execution — hundreds of millions of machines potentially at risk 1 month ago:
As an archivist, that image makes me very sad
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Is that bad?
- Comment on The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet 2 months ago:
If you’re going to link to paywalled content, you should copy and paste the text here.
Otherwise, please don’t link to paywalled content.
- Comment on The AI Hard Drive Shortage Is Making It More Expensive and Harder to Archive the Internet 2 months ago:
I understand the need for processing power, but I thought AI models were just gigs?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg ‘Personally Authorized and Actively Encouraged’ Meta’s Massive Copyright Infringement to Train AI Systems, Publishers and Scott Turow Allege in Lawsuit 2 months ago:
Well this is one way to fund open source.
Looking forward to all the Foss projects on GitHub sueing Microsoft. Please let me know how I can signup for the lawsuit
- Comment on Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks 2 months ago:
Ironically this is much safer to do “before” you turn 18
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Says AI Will Be a Permanent Micromanaging Boss Who Never Stops Nagging You 2 months ago:
That actually makes sense.
So they learned they can’t replace the workers that actually do the profit-generating labour for businesses, but they can replace middle management with AI.
- Comment on Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago 2 months ago:
But it did give them an excuse to fire people and keep wages lower.
- Comment on WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account 2 months ago:
The narrative suggesting that security can be had on windows in this article is a joke.
There’s really no point.
- Comment on Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones 2 months ago:
That was Dubai, no?
- Comment on Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones 2 months ago:
🎉
- Comment on Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million 3 months ago:
So paying is optional? I don’t get it…
- Comment on “Educational” AI YouTube videos accused of teaching kids to play in traffic & eat toxic food 3 months ago:
This will work for maybe 2 years, until all the corporate kid shows lay off their writers and replace them with AI
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I thought they usually are just controlled remotely by poor people in other countries?
- Comment on AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer 4 months ago:
I’m surprised it boots at all
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 4 months ago:
Do you have exceptions to this rule?
- Comment on builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers 6 months ago:
WHY DID YOU REDEEM IT
- Comment on builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers 6 months ago:
Wouldn’t the time it takes be a give away?
- Comment on Crews Walk Out on Nashville Tunnel, Claiming Boring Company Failed to Pay Workers and Snubbed OSHA Concerns 7 months ago:
No meams. Thank you
- Comment on An entire PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory, even after a discount — simple memory kit jumps to $600 due to DRAM shortage, and it's expected to get worse into 2026 7 months ago:
Yep. It’s not a bubble. It’s just volatile. And increasing long-term