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New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in ""cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2"

mx7zysuj4xew — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:05:25 +0000

Wrong argument, since it's not just available to "the CIA" but every rando under the sun, people should be notified immediately if "tracking" them is possible and mitigation measures should become a common standard practice

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "The Age of Snarky UI"

mx7zysuj4xew — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:42:14 +0000

I wish we lived in a world where

  driver attention system: irregular behavior - unexpected lane drift (possible driver fatigue or distraction)`

Rather than

  Consider taking a break

was the norm

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "The Age of Snarky UI"

mx7zysuj4xew — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:22:27 +0000

Somewhere in the mid 2010s software developers stopped respecting its users.

Instead of giving terse, succinct messages it was assumed the user was lazy with an iq below 80 and and needed to have friendly, patronizing responses

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

mx7zysuj4xew — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:06:34 +0000

Somewhere during the 2010s YouTube became completely sanitized. It went from a general video platform for adults to some dumbed down media company that wouldn't offend negligent mothers in Idaho that gave their kids an ipad rather than parent them

Barely literate workers in 3rd world countries then went on a mass "moderation" spree deleting anything that might even remotely be considered controversial

Videos with millions of views were delisted overnight and the associated channels received community standards violation strikes

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

mx7zysuj4xew — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:29:44 +0000

What aggravates me is that somewhere at Google headquarters some asshole thinks he's a fucking genius for turning the web into nerfed walled garden

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

mx7zysuj4xew — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:27:02 +0000

Kagi costs money and isn't that great to begin with

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "Reading Is Magic"

mx7zysuj4xew — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:42:12 +0000

People who are illiterate and ignorant despite being intellectually capable were a burden to society and overal considered undesirable. The goal was to improve the quality of living for all people in society and educated workers, engineers and burocrats were needed

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

mx7zysuj4xew — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:30:02 +0000

Why wasn't anyone notified about this being in the works? What bulletins did I fail to notice. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

mx7zysuj4xew — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:18:29 +0000

This cuts both ways. Since smartphones are becoming such an essential necessity, we should never ever remove the possibility to adjust these devices for our own requirements

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

mx7zysuj4xew — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:15:14 +0000

Because no amount of safeguards put up by the restaurant is going to protect you from getting sick of you decide to empty a bottle of bleach into your meal.

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

mx7zysuj4xew — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:36:31 +0000

There's a difference between constructive directness and immature ad hominem remarks. Kinda illustrates the problem with the authors take. Not everyone can handle it like an adult

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

mx7zysuj4xew — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:24:34 +0000

Yup, it makes living in stalinist Russia seem like a libertarian paradise

People don't seem to understand how incredibly oppressive society is becoming

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

mx7zysuj4xew — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:17:32 +0000

"He who gives up a little freedom for security deserves neither"

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership"

mx7zysuj4xew — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:23:21 +0000

whoever is involved with this know that future generations will curse you for it

Automatically identifying person-based characteristics is helpful in variety of industries for threat detection. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is interested in a video analysis tool that can automatically identify and catalog anthropometric characteristics that are important to On-Person Screening in real time. Toyon Research Corporation proposes to tackle this problem by breaking it into main parts to solve. First, the task of initially localizing and describing airline passenger characteristics can be framed as an object detection problem. Second, the task of tracking airline passengers across a video stream once the characteristics have been initially identified can be done through traditional tracking algorithms that have the ability to run in real-time.

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project"

mx7zysuj4xew — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:12:25 +0000

Since the clone site isn't doing anything obviously malicious like spreading malware or blatantly illegal content none of those parties will take any action whatsoever, nor should they.

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)"

mx7zysuj4xew — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:28:21 +0000

I was going to make the same comment.

The correct term is high context vs low context culture, not "askers" and "guessers"

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "Erich von Däniken has died"

mx7zysuj4xew — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:11:09 +0000

My own favorite example of this is how the pyramids (and all the advanced trigonometry required) were built by the Egyptians prior to their discovery of the wheel

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop"

mx7zysuj4xew — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:04:10 +0000

It's acceptable because flatpak dbus and all its ilk are too opaque for the average "experienced" user to fully grok. The problems are there, but the situation is so convoluted that it's hard to build a mental model unless you truly understand the overall system architecture

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop"

mx7zysuj4xew — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:59:34 +0000

Listen in most discussions bringing up security is a good way for you to shut the conversation down, but in the case of IPC anyone who cares enough will be knowledgeable enough to see it for the red herring it is

New comment by mx7zysuj4xew in "Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop"

mx7zysuj4xew — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:54:40 +0000

The reason you do t hear much about it is because it's not an often discussed topic. Nonetheless the hate is there.

Dbus is a godawful mess. Imagine the windows registry, except it can only be inspected at runtime, contains executable binaries and is exceptionally fragile