zetanor

If a university's administration overlooks a complete failure of the student selection process, it's easy to imagine that it may well overlook a complete failure of the professor selection process. The price of admission is also way too steep to wind up being the peer of mental 8th graders.

So, what happens if you accidentally drill through your car's LTE modem while doing an oil change?

I would love to know what sequence of characters you normally use in place of an em-dash to express the same nuance of relationship and timing.

Make it mine crypto to actually generate heat.

The Internet saves a lot more on storage and bandwidth costs by not shipping an XSLT implementation with every browser than it does by allowing Joe's Blog to present XML as an index.

To make a comment like this, I imagine that you've set up BIOS security (password, case intrusion detection...), that you check your keyboard wire end-to-end daily, that you use a USB device whitelist, that you regularly check for hidden cameras spying on your keystrokes, etc., otherwise you're equally "easy to pwn" using equally-quick and roughly-as-cheap attacks.

The hash is 24 bytes. Even without an input character limit, you're likely to find tons of valid aliases for your 1000-character password within the 72-byte password space.

Rotated into pain and suffering indeed.

They're "sorry", they want to be "transparent" and "accountable", they want your "trust", but not enough to publicly explain what happened or what kind of data got taken (is a full CRM backup from 6 years ago considered "legacy" "internal operational documents"?). There's not even a promise to produce more information about their mistake.

> Jimmy, where did the cookies go?

> Something that was on the counter is gone! I don't know how! It might not even be my fault! But I'm sorry!

What kind of an apology is that? It's not. It's marketing for the public while they contact the "less than 25% of [their] current merchant base" whose (presumably sensitive) information was somehow in "internal operational documents".

Oh but also took some of what they charge their customers and gave that (undisclosed?) sum away to a university. They must be really sorry.

Because it's less expensive to send a few e-mails than to provide customer support to everyone who forgets their password.

The problem is that every single public money drive using the "Firefox" brand since at least 2018 has been for the exclusive benefit of the Mozilla Foundation NGO, not the Mozilla Corporation entity which develops Firefox. Donations in the About screen of Firefox go to the Mozilla Foundation. The Mozilla Foundation does not appear to fund or even support anything related to Firefox:

> How will my donation be used?

> At Mozilla, our mission is to keep the Internet healthy, open, and accessible for all. The Mozilla Foundation programs are supported by grassroots donations and grants. Our grassroots donations, from supporters like you, are our most flexible source of funding. These funds directly support advocacy campaigns (i.e. asking big tech companies to protect your privacy), research and publications like the Privacy Not Included buyer's guide and Internet Health Report, and covers a portion of our annual MozFest gathering.

(from https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/donate/help/#frequently...)

Do Spreadshirt sales benefit the Foundation (not Firefox), or are they revenue for the Corporation (Firefox)? I've looked around for a minute and can't tell.

People love to hate on Mozilla because they love Firefox.

I am concerned with attacks on freedom, dignity, culture and national character. King Elmo of Twitter is "bad", but mild.

Is the implication here that the core fabric of our society isn't otherwise being disrupted, or that this particular disruption should be viewed as exceptionally egregious?

Thankfully, their wants can be overridden.

The use case for a table is to present data.

Not if it increases the GDP.

Click-through "I agree" buttons are almost never a matter of informed consent and almost always a matter of convenience-driven rape.

> Why not 4 years?

Microsoft might hold a patent on this.

> Let's face it, most quality Linux desktop apps use GTK.

My only dependents of GTK are Qalculate, Chromium and Firefox. I do not use the GTK version of Qalculate (but the Arch package includes it anyway) and I would never count modern web browsers as having a significant dependency on any UI toolkit. Am I missing out on a high quality Linux desktop experience?

> If the Governor in Council believes on reasonable grounds that it is necessary to do so to secure the Canadian telecommunications system against any threat, including that of interference, manipulation, disruption or degradation [...]

https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-8/first-re...

Anyone familiar enough with Canadian law to know how much bearing this condition might have in practice?

Television and the commercial Internet are optimized to consume as much life as possible so that part of the captured attention can be auctioned to advertisers and other propagandists for pennies a minute. Returning to doing the same thing but Certified With No AI™ doesn't substantially reduce the badness of the thing.

The website's raison d'être is linking to other websites, and that part doesn't work well. It's not a nitpick if the main thing is broken.

I don't understand how a clickbait title submitted as-is, a "Source:Internet" image or a shallow LinkedIn-type post (mostly written by a LLM?) can get any traction on here. Clearly a good Rorschach test, though.

Free societies are not ruled through masses.

Nobody wants to watch ads to generate $4/hr (a good chunk of which Google keeps). The Ad-driven internet needs to understand that my time is worth more than that.

Add a GPS and a few propellers to vapes so they can fly themselves directly into the nearest river, lake or (as a last resort) ocean once they're empty.

In practice, any automated work that a real user is willing to wait through will be trivial to accomplish for an organization which scrapes the entire Internet. The real weight behind Anubis is the Javascript gate, not the PoW. It might as well just fetch() into browser.cookies.set().

This isn't reddit. Low value comments like this have low value.

What methods were you using to try and influence the direction of Mixxx?