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New comment by throwwwll in "Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates"

throwwwll — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:15:04 +0000

I do say they did it on purpose. And they did. Thank you for attention to this matter.

New comment by throwwwll in "NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised"

throwwwll — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:12:21 +0000

Regardless of what these attacks exploit, see elsewhere a larping comment of mine: the solution exists, the implementation already mitigated numerous such and other exploits (it's nice to read "nix is not affected" on discourse or over matrix chat), it predates Docker by a decade, and is older than Ubuntu and Fedora (to give the perspective), yet people prefer to remain ignorant.

New comment by throwwwll in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

throwwwll — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:52:50 +0000

Nix enters the room.

(Everyone claps.)

New comment by throwwwll in "NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised"

throwwwll — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:51:51 +0000

And all of them "thought" of security as an after-after-after-after-after-thought.

New comment by throwwwll in "Rift: Better Alternative to Git Worktrees"

throwwwll — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:30:05 +0000

Brought to you by the infamous author of yet another llm harness - will exfiltrate all your data, then feign ignorance:

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/10416

New comment by throwwwll in "Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates"

throwwwll — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:44:11 +0000

> would not prove that they are deliberately slowing older phones

> Hanlon's (maybe Occam's, too?) Razor applies

peak "Leave the multi-trillion corporation alone"