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ksbd-pls-finish··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
As an EUian: Do it. It's worth it. It's once in a century opportunity and maybe the only viable path for Europe.

Honestly, I'm old enough to remember how it was before EU and I can't imagine going back too that.

ksbd-pls-finish··on The Twelve-Factor App (2025)
This was about a programmer accidentally adding a debug print, or say an error page helpfully dumping environment, or logs from a third party tool, etc. Not about someone actually getting RCE just to print the environment, of course.
ksbd-pls-finish··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
Well, I can't imagine myself in this situation. Under no circumstances I would use the expression "I see landscape and not the road" because well, I can only see the road. I can't imagine seeing something that I don't see. If I close my eyes and try to imagine a landscape (or a car, or an apple) I don't see anything. Asking me "what was the color of the apple that you imagined" is meaningless, because the apple had no color.

I don't claim I have aphantasia, but it's pretty obvious that I don't experience "visual imagination" the same way some other people do.

ksbd-pls-finish··on Corporate political donations shatter record at $646M so far for US midterms
The problem with this logic is that it equally applies to someone who owns 999,900,000,000.

If someone is willing to spend money above some spendable threshold, then they will never become a trillionaire. Because they will start giving away sooner.

ksbd-pls-finish··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
It never happened to me - I use a catch all and almost never got emails like this. Why would bots try to guess emails on random domains when there are billions of known emails to send spam to.
ksbd-pls-finish··on Fences, Not Sandboxes
It is not history. I write code almost exclusively by hand, for example.
ksbd-pls-finish··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
>Precisely 0 of your presidents were ever punished for any action against citizens of other countries

How many presidents were EVER punished for actions against citizens of other countries, unless other countries forced the president's country to do this (for example by winning a war)

ksbd-pls-finish··on A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber
>I think they fundamentally misunderstand what an apology is

Did they, or do you? The point of view presented in the blog post is: "If you wronged someone you ought to apologize. The fact that this person will not forgive you (it's too late for that) does not influence wherever you should or should not apologize"

Which, as someone who is definitely not into philosophy, kinda makes sense?

ksbd-pls-finish··on A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber
At least in metal music we usually doesn't assume the artist sings about themselves.

Fortunately most artists are neither fighting dragons nor worshiping satan.

ksbd-pls-finish··on Stop Making TUIs
I don't get it. Let's say you create a game.exe, a windows application with a single window. User double clicks on game.exe icon on their desktop, and the window opens. User double clicks the icon again, and the game window opens again. If the developer want to prevent two instances of game.exe running at once, they need to actively detect and prevent this behaviour.

Just like you can start vim several times you can start gvim several times and have a few windows. This is the default behavior, and if the developer wants to change this for some reason, they need to put in some effort.

Maybe macOS is special? I'm not familiar with this platform.

ksbd-pls-finish··on Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload
Well I use python daily for the past 10 years and I never did data science. Data science? Everyone knows python is the language of cyber security.
ksbd-pls-finish··on Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)
This does not seem to be related to the article. OP is about red moon and naked baby and clouds. It does not claim that anyone hated windows because of that.

Usually I wouldn't comment just to point out offtopic, but I think "instant bad thoughts every time windows is mentioned, no matter the context" is another psychological effect caused by Microsoft.

ksbd-pls-finish··on Incident with Github.com [resolved]
No way I pay $1/repo/month. No way I pay $1/repo/year. I still host and maintain my old code on GitHub, but any free tier pricing update and I jump ship immediately.
ksbd-pls-finish··on People are worried about America's solvency
Do American people ever wonder "are we the baddies"? If this is an accurate description, I think everyone would agree that this is a bully behaviour. And arguably evil and opposite to the "free market" it champions officially.

In fact, is China or Russia involved in similar planet-scale military enforcement?

ksbd-pls-finish··on US loses one-fourth of drone fleet as Iran war drains its arsenal
At least it will work as a wake up call (for both US and US enemies).
ksbd-pls-finish··on Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain
It's not a vulnerability, but it's an exploit. Most vulnerabilities in the wild never have an exploit written, because we mostly assume that for example arbitrary write or buffer overflow are dangerous and "can lead to arbitrary code execution", but actually exploiting them is hard.

This is someone who spend some time to write something to actually exploit sites with this vulnerability.

ksbd-pls-finish··on For the love of god stop using CPU limits in Kubernetes
But they also affect scheduling, right? If you set them too high, you will waste resources.
ksbd-pls-finish··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
>Would you convert all of your lifesavings from USD to Yuans today or in the next 10 years?

I don't own and dollars and I have no plans to keep dollars now or in 10 years. I own some stock, mostly total world ETFs (traded in EUR, but a significant part of their holdings is obviously American). So does it really matter?

ksbd-pls-finish··on YC startups are abandoning .com
foo-ai.com looks like a phishing domain targeting foo.ai
ksbd-pls-finish··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
Is this the same argument as "please point to a moral backstop that would prevent any person from taking immoral acts"? We usually hope that people will be moral, but can't enforce this.
ksbd-pls-finish··on CSS: The bomb inside your inbox
I dislike JS, because I don't want to let random websites to run arbitrary code on my machine.

Most importantly, enabling JS makes it much easier to spy on users, so I automatically assume that the website tries to spy on my and feel attacked.

I agree it's not healthy, and I didn't care about privacy that much in the past. I guess this may be caused by my work experience.

ksbd-pls-finish··on CSS: The bomb inside your inbox
>When the user types this command Atlas will open some browser tabs and exfiltrate the victim's name from the current web page and send it to a remote server via the hash.

But the remote server doesn't see the hash? This casts doubt into the content, since the attack was clearly not tested. Am I missing something?

It's a pretty interesting post though, but hardly surprising - touching and rendering untrusted content is always risky.

ksbd-pls-finish··on Everything you do is being recorded
I clicked that link and I don't see anything wrong with that. It's not like I donate money by doing that. And they still are very useful resource, even if they're not good enough for Wikipedia (if they indeed tampered with some old archives, it's pretty obvious why)
ksbd-pls-finish··on 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
It's better than depending on the US at least.
ksbd-pls-finish··on Kubeside – a Kubernetes client that shows your app, not your cluster
From the headline:

>Kubeside: Your apps, across every cluster, without thinking in ReplicaSets.

So I assume it does.

ksbd-pls-finish··on GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices
>it was already pretty much impossible to get an encrypted device past US Customs more than 15 years ago

B-but I did it many times? Or do you mean that it's impossible to refuse providing the decryption key and still pass? That's pretty obvious.

ksbd-pls-finish··on The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
>The idea that something more nefarious than the bird flue was going on was very unpopular on HN at the time

Because journalists see conspiracy everywhere. It is prudent to wait a bit before seeing malice everywhere

Now we know (or at least - have more proof) what was going on, so the justice system worked. How many conspiracy theories were invented and then turned out to be false? This is news precisely because it turned out to be actually true.

ksbd-pls-finish··on The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
>in general we should be a lot more strict on sexual crimes (sa, trafficking, child abuse but not voluntary prostitution) and white collar/economic ones including wage theft, but less strict on drugs and property. drug possession and non commercial digital piracy should be decriminalized.

Why? I mean, do you have a specific scientific research in mind, or is it something you feel is right?

I mean, it makes sense to me, mostly, but "we should" presented without any evidence irks me a bit.

ksbd-pls-finish··on Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory
Because debian users with luks-suspend have to re-enter their boot password after sleep.
ksbd-pls-finish··on Popping the GPU Bubble
The term is much older than the current GPU craze though. Ypu're trying to regulate how experts in a field communicate, which is... Weird.
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