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Deebster

@ Deebster @programming.dev

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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • consider the implications for a post scarcity future

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  • It's definitely a problem with the grid, since too much supply is at least as big a problem as too much. Hopefully we'll get things like molten salt batteries so we can soak up this excess and decarbonise heavy industry.

  • How do we know if there aren't a bunch of more undetected backdoors?

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  • And are bugs harder to find than carefully hidden backdoors? No-one noticed the code being added and if it hadn't have had a performance penalty then it probably wouldn't have been discovered for a very long time, if ever.

    The flip side to open-source is that bad actors could have reviewed the code, discovered Heartbleed and been quietly exploiting it without anyone knowing. Government agencies and criminal groups are known to horde zero-days.

  • How do we know if there aren't a bunch of more undetected backdoors?

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  • Maybe millions of potential eyes, but all of them are looking at other things! Heartbleed existed for two years before being noticed, and OpenSSL must have enormously more scrutiny than small projects like xz.

    I am very pro open source and this investigation would've been virtually impossible on Windows or Mac, but the many-eyes argument always struck me as more theoretical/optimistic than realistic.

  • How do we know if there aren't a bunch of more undetected backdoors?

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  • Hmm, not really. It's only because it nerd-sniped someone who was trying to do something completely unrelated that this came to light. If that person has been less dedicated or less skilled we'd still probably be in the dark.

  • What are variables and semicolons for actually?

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  • No...?

  • Israeli troops shoot and kill a Palestinian shepherd reading the Quran on his land

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  • It's Ramadan, fasting and contemplating their religion is what many, many Muslims are doing right now.

  • What web services do you subscribe to?

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    • email
    • Nebula
    • Kagi
    • domains and VPSes
    • VPN
    • windyty

  • TIL: You can easily check eggs for being bad or fresh

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  • TIL: You can easily check eggs for being bad or fresh

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  • Assuming you have a sense of smell. Anosmia affects about 3% of people - probably more since Covid.

  • "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov

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  • I'm still very happy with the experience, especially the UX and customisation options, and they're developing new features fast. Not always successfully at first, e.g. the recent integration of WolframAlpha isn't entirely a step forward (mostly because they're not displaying the extra context that WA shows that lets you know when it's answering the wrong question).

    I think overall most people are very happy, as shown by the frequent recommendations on here (so much so that someone on Lemmy was telling everyone it must be astroturfing).

  • The domain aftermarket has a big problem

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  • The author has no idea how to get his audience on-side! He starts with bragging about his 6400% profit margin on domain he resold, in a market where there's no customer value for middlemen.

    At least antique dealers will identify pieces as rare, clean/restore them and put them for sale in a more visible place. Whereas domain reselling is about as ethical as ticket touting.

  • Putin dismissed US warnings about a potential terror incident as 'blackmail' just 3 days before concert hall attack

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  • We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.Lord Palmerston, House of Commons, 1 March 1848

    People says Kissenger paraphrased this with "America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests" - afaik there's no evidence of this but either way the quote's older than he is.

  • What are developers in different languages known as?

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  • That was given in the original question along with Pythonistas.

  • Geologists Make It Official: We’re Not in an ‘Anthropocene’ Epoch

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  • I like the idea of having more "intent" markers; /s seems to be the only one people recognise (and I've seen some on here push back against it as a Reddit thing).

  • ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots

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  • Clever work, well done to the researchers.

  • Mastodon tries to solve its problem with tracking down other users

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  • So, they're just going to add a QR code? Of course, you could already do that, but having it built in and be the default process would probably help.

  • TIL Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" is not a love song

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  • This is a great read. Those of you who only read the title or skim the first few paragraphs - I recommend you actually read through it all because there's loads of great parts in there like how she turned down an Elvis Presley cover.

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  • Afraid I don't know, but please post the answer here if you do (particularly if you get the answer from somewhere un-indexable like Matrix).

  • TIL: A man rejected for police job due to scoring too high on intelligence test.

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  • I hadn't noticed how old this was, I wonder if they still have the same policy.