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MangoCats

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  • OpenAI Representatives Are Going to Critics' Houses With Threats and Demands

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  • this has absolutely nothing to do with freedom.

    I have often said: the courts have absolutely nothing to do with justice, at least not the kind of justice people think they do.

  • Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

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  • Odds are you weren't on the "targeted list".

    If you don't know, you're probably auto updating.

    If you updated or installed in 2025 after June-ish, the safe thing to do is uninstall, then download from the new (theoretically more secure) website and install the new (theoretically more secure) 8.9.1.

    If you were pwned by an update during later 2025, they could disguise just about anything in your Notepad++ and its associated files - make it look perfectly normal, make it act perfectly normal, but have their own malware on your system doing... whatever it is they want it to do.

    I understand one of the things they were doing is running a proxy to carry traffic through your system, so if you see a lot of unexpected network activity (under Windoze how can you tell?) you may have been compromised. But that's not the only thing they could have done, nobody has really analyzed the attack yet and even after they do, you might have gotten a "special" payload that the analysis team didn't see...

  • Swift bricks become mandatory for new buildings in Scotland

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  • Bird boxes are also super-temporary in the greater scheme of things. One property owner is a bird lady with 25 boxes, she moves- next property owner doesn't like bird boxes 25->0 overnight.

  • Swift bricks become mandatory for new buildings in Scotland

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  • Exactly how hard would it be to place a "cork in the hole" to render the cavity unusable? If (big if) overpopulation becomes a problem, it's pretty easy - these days - to develop and maintain a database of most of these swift cavities, survey them from a distance to see if they are corked or not, and adjust the number of corks as appropriate to address current population trends.

    I get that you don't like the approach - but it's a solid one, which is what works best for swifts' nests: solid structures.

  • Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

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  • That's what they say they rolled out, after: "Within Notepad++ itself, WinGup (the updater) was enhanced in v8.8.9 to verify both the certificate and the signature of the downloaded installer"

  • Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

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  • The timeline says the attack started in June of 2025 and continued through Dec 2, 2025. If you installed, updated, or silently updated during that period you may have been targeted / compromised.

  • “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial

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  • The 90s and the naughts were actually a pretty good time... we did too little to ensure that continued, in so so many ways.

  • “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial

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  • at anytime a bigger war could break out.

    Welcome back to the late 1970s / early 1980s I grew up in.

    We just learned to live with it- maybe move to a big city for a better chance at instant vaporization.

    Meanwhile in 1984: When Doves Cry you might as well Jump, and when the 99 Red Balloons Float by you'll be sitting pretty in this dust that was a city.

  • The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules

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  • The problem with those DoE jobs even back then was that the science and reality of the situation was completely overwhelmed by the politics, the NIMBYs. Director or whatever he was making me the offer to work under him was telling me, in 1990, that construction of new nuclear generation facilities would be restarting "very soon" with the new improved passive safety designs, etc. He's right: that absolutely should have happened, it's the only rational way forward - phase out the old plants at the end of their design lifetimes and replace them with new, better, safer tech. Instead, what we got for the next 30+ years was no new construction, and limping the old plants along with rehab service life extensions because that was politically feasible.

    I don't think 30 years of frustrated screaming into a hurricane of irrational objections would have been a better career path.

  • The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules

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  • At least it seems to be about power generation and not weapons.

  • The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules

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  • Yet another reason I am so glad I turned down those DoE job offers in the 80s.

  • France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials

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  • Visio is an outdated spreadsheet name, in English.

    Visio is the new video conferencing software, in French.

    France leads the world, it is up to everyone else to worry about conflict with France, not the other way around. /s

  • Peter Thiel comes to Paris to speak about the Antichrist

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  • That's what they're best at avoiding. Even more remarkable is their ability to look in the mirror and see only the best in themselves.

    Anyone who introduces himself using words like moderate and humble is telling his audience how to think, that they should not think for themselves, just accept what he says as the truth.

  • The Protein-Obsessed Fast Food Industry's Latest Innovation: Big-Ass Cups of Plain Meat

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  • No, I thought they ate butterflies and sunshine.

    Conversion of rain forest to grazing land has been a sickening thing to watch for the past 40 years - it's got an up-front massive incentive through sale of the old growth hardwoods, then they turn around and make residual continuing income off of the grazing instead of letting the forest regrow.

    But, then again, that's pretty much what happened to most of the continental US's forests in the 1800s. We're starting to replant commercial tree farms, but those are monoculture biodiversity deserts.

  • RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!

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  • Checking the year of manufacture of my daily driver laptop.... 2018. It's fine, it works well, does everything I need, just like it did 8 years ago when it was an "average" new laptop.

    Oh, it's also running Linux, I don't know what would have happened if I left Windows on it - that got dumped in 2018 too.

  • The Protein-Obsessed Fast Food Industry's Latest Innovation: Big-Ass Cups of Plain Meat

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  • My brother lived with our grandmother, and I think they were mostly lazy - didn't like to cook / shop for groceries. Neither one of them really got health problems from that, though my brother did gain a bit of weight.

    Great grandmother (reportedly, never met her in person) was mean spirited and feisty to the end.

  • The Protein-Obsessed Fast Food Industry's Latest Innovation: Big-Ass Cups of Plain Meat

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  • Nothing happens in isolation... Producing a little less meat shouldn't cause additional harm, but shutting down a lot of meat production all at once would cause a lot of harm - starting with people who make their living both directly and indirectly from the industry, and if you shut down enough of it all at once you'd be disrupting enough of the supply chain that even people who just consume the food are going to run into problems.

    We should strive to do better, but avoid arguments like "STOP ALL X NOW!" - it's overreaching, and would be counterproductive if you actually achieved it.

  • The Protein-Obsessed Fast Food Industry's Latest Innovation: Big-Ass Cups of Plain Meat

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  • I wish everybody would get more "precise with their language" instead of running around spouting "zero harm" "absolutely no suffering" and such things, because people who say that often enough start to really believe it - instead of having a second of thought.

  • The Protein-Obsessed Fast Food Industry's Latest Innovation: Big-Ass Cups of Plain Meat

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  • Define harm. If a pig is born and raised by a meatpacking operation, there's a pig that would never have been born without the meatpacking operation - if it is raised and slaughtered humanely (which they aren't, these days), is it harmed? If people are starving due to shutdown of all inhumane meatpacking operations, have we reduced overall harm?