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thesmokingman

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  • 99 STR, 99 INT

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  • In the US at least prisoners do not really have a choice of reading material. Men in prison get jacked and read what they can get their hands on which is not necessarily what they might want to read. This is a good DB. Prisoners might also have to pay to read if it’s digital. I would personally contend that it’s harder to read in jail than prison but I don’t have a good study for that. More people go through jail than prison so the ability to read is much lower overall.

    The rest of the world might treat prisoners a little more like human beings so I don’t know if this works outside of the US.

  • ‘It’s not too late to fix it’: internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul of the web’

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  • Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome

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  • I don’t think you understand what the tool is

  • it's just the worst

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  • Yes but we’re talking about zsh. I know zsh wasn’t on TiVo.

  • it's just the worst

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  • Shit I didn’t know this was a problem. What devices are these? I’m assuming we’ve got a few in every home?

  • Clues by Sam 2026-01-08

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  • If you use the Inspect tool (click the Inspect button then a specific clue) it will give you all the necessary definitions for the clue. Would this have given you what you needed?

    If not don’t be afraid to tag me on future posts; I’m happy to help you as well.

    Going into the weekend where the puzzles get harder you’ll definitely need to use tags to figure things out. I wanted to make sure you’d seen that because I remember your frustration yesterday too.

  • SHUT UP CORPORATE AMERICA I DONT CARE

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  • Neither of those things are CAN-SPAM enforcement. I’m not trying to move the goalposts on you; that’s what this thread is about.

    As for what you linked, the number of robocalls has not gone down and there’s still no real penalty for being one unless you’re terribly egregious (combine both our sources). Neither fiber nor cable have the same protections as phone lines so it doesn’t really matter. All the FCC has done is deregulated the transition, which is a reduction in consumer protection. Remember how we’ve already been charged for the fiber upgrade? Carr just made it easier for us to pay for it yet again.

  • SHUT UP CORPORATE AMERICA I DONT CARE

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  • Right now the FCC is under regulatory capture and wants to deregulate as much as possible. It’s very excited to approve big mergers and attack journalism. Despite robocalls being a huge issue, they continue to do fuck to really combat them. I don’t know that the FCC did anything with CAN-SPAM in 2025 and given the pervasive capitulation to broadband providers (aside from the squashed and panned attempt at net neutrality) , especially under this administration and its previous iteration, it is not reasonable to assume the FCC gives a shit about cable companies spamming you.

  • SHUT UP CORPORATE AMERICA I DONT CARE

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  • SHUT UP CORPORATE AMERICA I DONT CARE

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  • The FCC has stopped doing stuff about this.

  • Node.js shouldn't exist and JavaScript should only be used for what it was originally intended for

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  • Node.js shouldn't exist and JavaScript should only be used for what it was originally intended for

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  • Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

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  • Software co-ops are often indistinguishable from startups in the US. Without money they don’t matter and getting money turns you into a shitshow or requires full-time staff fighting for grants and other forms of not blood money. Maybe this is easier outside the US.

    Fuck big tech tho

  • Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

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  • It’s a cynical way to view the C-staff of a company. I think it’s also inaccurate: from my limited experience, the people who run large tech companies really do want to deliver good software to users.

    From my much broader experience, this is missing the required cynicism that C-staff want to deliver software they think is good based on the criteria cynical yes staff tell them constantly is good. I’ve never met an exec that didn’t want to deliver something good; most execs I’ve met don’t actually understand what good is or how to benefit people.

  • ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Sulu and Bones for Series Finale

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  • No, that’s disappointing enough. Thanks for the info!

  • ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Sulu and Bones for Series Finale

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  • Can you share some background on Jane? I really enjoy his stuff and would hate to have to stop recommending him.

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    Apparently, When Talking About the Passing of A Developer Using Numerology, It's Removed As a "Conspiracy" Post?

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  • estimated audit backlog: 67560 lines

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  • This user wanted to audit the dependencies of cargo vet which is not shipped to an end user. It is part your toolchain in the same way your OS is. One might assume the Linux or BSD kernel has been audited; it is not reasonable to assume the UI stack has because it’s open source. It is equally unreasonable to assume the Windows anything has been audited. It is only slightly reasonable to assume parts of macOS have been audited.

    You’re only partially correct. If you are not securing the environment in which you code, your code is vulnerable to supply chain attacks. The chances are incredibly low, of course, but nonzero. You also can’t get away with, say, running your editor in a read-only image that only mounts your code because that read-only image could be exfiltrating your data.

    Edit: here’s a great example from this year; while the exploit came from a package the attack vector was social engineering. Job postings and related files are a common entry point outside of dev tools.

  • estimated audit backlog: 67560 lines

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  • How long did it take you to audit the source code for your OS?

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