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>Got hacked by Blank Grabber? Well, you should have taken care before downloading/opening suspicious files.

He's not wrong.

vasdaeon SARS-CoV-2 Infection Affects Energy Stores in the Body, Causing Organ Failure

Back when it was hard to prove that it was a lab leak, the theory was censored and we were called crazy. Now that it is obvious that it was a lab leak, we are told it doesn't really matter.

vasdaeon Soda additive linked to thyroid toxicity may finally get banned by FDA

I recommend sparkling water as an alternative to soda.

vasdaeon Intel Itanium IA-64 Support Removed with the Linux 6.7 Kernel

"Indirect subsidies" sounds like a dubious metric.

vasdaeon Topic: Discord Stealer

Calm down friend, it's just a program that steals a chat room.

vasdaeon Belong founder Ale Resnik attacks Paul Graham on Twitter

It's not, but what would be of a certain people without the permanent sense of victimism? I mean they clearly have never deserved anything that happened to them.

vasdaeon Shinzo Abe's Assassination

Religion will always exist one way or the other. Many atheists take science as a religion for example, with horrible outcomes.

vasdaeon KDE desktop cube effect returns

It has absolutely no personality. If you go to a font search engine and look for "plain" you probably get that one.

vasdaeon KDE desktop cube effect returns

https://pointieststick.com/2023/10/27/these-past-2-weeks-in-...

KDE should pay attention to font families and sizes. This looks really cheap.

vasdaeon [dead]

Looking white is dehumanising?

Also, how does she know AI was used? That can be done with Photoshop.

vasdaeon Maersk to cut 10k jobs as shipping demand drops

Depends on what your job is. If you are delivering packages in a van, you are just a cog. You can work as hard as you want and they will replace you all the same.

vasdaeon How to stop adulterated turmeric from killing people

It's the result of a heterogeneous, low trust society - you don't care if you are killing someone who's not like you.

vasdaeon You can't have a functioning democracy when candidates aren't safe

Seems very unbiased!

vasdaeon Microsoft Security Bulletin MS98-010 – Critical (1998)

>I don't know how a computing device works fully.

You don't need to know how a computing device works fully to know not to execute exe files you find lying around.

vasdaeon Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX staff allegedly had 'Wirefraud' chat group (2022)

Like when people here say orthogonal instead of unrelated. I puke in my mouth a little.

vasdaeon Tiny device is sending updated iPhones into a never-ending DoS loop

Bricked used to mean that, but now it's certainly changed to mean "unusable"

vasdaeon Tiny device is sending updated iPhones into a never-ending DoS loop

Which is the same as having the phone bricked.

vasdaeon Microsoft Security Bulletin MS98-010 – Critical (1998)

>You do not chose and decide to be victim of a scam.

You should not be operating a computing device if you don't know how to use it. This was true back then and it continues to be true now.

vasdaeon Tiny device is sending updated iPhones into a never-ending DoS loop

Can you even disable bluetooth while the attack is going on?

vasdaeon If you plant milkweed, they will come

Yes, I'm really looking forward to have my lawn full of bugs /s

vasdaeon Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe

We are not talking reprehensible here, we are talking illegal.

vasdaeon Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad

Regarding Justin Guarini in that ad: is that really the best wig they had? It looks so plasticky...

vasdaeon EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

Of course I can, I can use ublock or pihole or whatever.

vasdaeon Sponge cleans all teeth perfectly in just 15 seconds

Wow, what a price. I think I'll wait for the knock-off from aliexpress.

vasdaeon EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

That's not true, ads have always been targeted. On the telly you don't see the same ads on all stations all the time. They are segmented depending on the average profile of the viewer. If you are watching a soap opera you will see ads for diapers for female incontinence.

vasdaeon EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram

There's a conspiracy here that people can't see.

Free sites will close without targeted advertisement, obviously; they barely can afford to pay salaries now, so with untargeted ads it will be impossible. And the only media sites that will be able to afford to run are those that are subsidised by the state. This is already happening in Europe, where most of the big media are practically bankrupt and their income comes from the state in the form of subsidies, ad campaigns, internships paid by the state, etc.

You already have a sibling comment in this thread precisely asking for that: the state paying for the media. How do they think this will end?

vasdaeon Group to seek .io TLD takeover after OECD human rights ruling

If they think they can live without the first world, let them - sanction them and see how they fare.

vasdaeon High-level emulator for iPhone OS apps

>Almost every program that I bought on the Steam store in 2009 runs flawlessly today on the latest Windows version

I don't believe this. Perhaps you meant "Every single program"? ;)

vasdaeon "Policy team is making me remove one of the most important features of my app"

And QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES on top of that.

vasdaeon Reasons to fight cashless contagion

Sure, but what's the downside?