Ah, a Rust heretic

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A lifetime of living without consequence where your every whim is met creates dangerously broken people

She took the payout to shut up. She’s “using it for good”, but that’s as much bullshit as it was when she was with Bill.

I feel like I’m a moral person, but also that $8 billion is a lot of money

When you’re a mod they let you do it

Blitz scaling is the dumbest thing in the world.

Invest all of your money to build a business with the goal of becoming a monopoly or fail spectacularly enough to pull down the whole economy so you’ll get a bailout.

Win - Win

It’s always funny, until that one day where it isn’t

PC-LOAD-LETTER, wtf does that mean?!

e: You guys are making me feel old for not getting this reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space

Yes, well Mr. Smartypants, did you consider that maybe Mr. Freeze and his family were living in Ferney-Voltaire instead of your ‘technically correct’ explanation?!

Wait until the people find out that the waste heat is contained in liquid hydrogen at 3 kelvin.

when I have to reboot anyway.

I do the same, then you have these days: “Ok, I’ll run a quick update before reboot… Updating qt-webengine?, nooooooo”

Once upon a time, prior to the Anonymous name being co-opted by russian trolls and alt-right nonsense, it was a group that, amongst other things, would infiltrate Stormfront (a white supremacist website) and find these neo-nazis admitting to violations of federal weapons laws in order to tip off ATF or sending their info to their employers/clients/schools.

The name and community has been taken over by neo-nazis and the agents that influence them, but the original people (who were not caught up in the FBI raids during Occupy Wall Street) are still out there.

So they say

Exactly this.

Read about the Hawthorne effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect and how people change their behaviors when they are being observed. Being free of observation is vital to being able to think your own thoughts without outside influence.

If the problem is with the usage framing the hypothetical adversary as a country’s law enforcement, pretend you live in a cyber North Korea and have a cellphone. The idea of an adversary is just a means of thinking about the problem. You want to build a system so that they can’t capture your flag (your flag being some digital information that you want private).

Whatever the opposite of TL;DR is:

It isn’t intended to be read as ‘do this to avoid law enforcement so you can do crimes’.

When thinking about security/privacy (same thing), you don’t know what kind of attack you may eventually have to defend against, maybe you have a partner who has decided to stalk you and so they screen read your PIN or a strong arm robbery where they’ll try to use your phone to access your bank.

Instead of trying to imagine every single possible scenario, you imagine one model scenario. In this model scenario, the adversary has every possible capability that is available and your goal is to keep your flag safe, or be able to pass a flag between two people without it being seen, or various other scenarios (which are themselves just model problems of types of system that you need to secure).

This hypothetical adversary, in order to have these capabilities in real life, would be the equivalent of a sovereign nation with unlimited funding and access to all technologies that are possible (and some that are only hypothetical). This description fits one country pretty well and so, as shorthand, people often just write ‘the feds’. I guess they could also write ‘Eve’ but that is a specific adversary in one kind of scenario and not the general Adversary.

It also will not accept new USB connections while the screen is locked.

Congress has the power to stop this and will not, so it is implicit consent.

That is not what consent is

I read the statement as ‘We’re going to stop announcing controversial changes and spend more money on propaganda firms who will fill your social media with fake users who have a bunch of stories about how trustworthy Microsoft is’

It helps the sunflowers grow

I like the home hardware seedbox idea.

You could probalby make it as simple as plug it in and scan the QR code on your phone to pair it to your account, give it your wifi password or ethernet cable and it’s sitting there donating a little bandwidth to the swarm and earning a ‘I’m seeding rn’-kind of badge (people love gamification and cosmetics).

Good brainstorming, was fun o7