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Well, when did your whole life start?

It would definitely subvert my expectations

Tangentially:

George RR Martin says he is three quarters of the way through The Winds of Winter

George RR Martin is asymptotically approaching the completion of the next book in the series, while simultaneously aging in linear time, which presents fairly obvious problems.

Pardon me for being less intimately familiar with the project - but my point still stands, in terms of test focus. And yes, of course I know bugs are inevitable - I’ve been writing them for damn near two decades at this point.

So cool that they’ve burnished their international image with that whole comedy festival thing 🙄

So uh… Israelis, just to be clear, this is how you make most of the rest of the world kinda hate you.

I’d even take some sabotage by enterprising Ukrainian agents that caused some sinkings

In Oklahoma, 21-year-old GOP organizer Kennedy Laplante Garza started fighting a nearby data center proposal known as Clydesdale after learning over the summer that it would be built a mile from her family’s farm. “I didn’t even know that much about data centers at that point,” she told me. “But I knew my friends across the state were fighting similar things, whether they were solar panels or wind turbines.” Garza wound up organizing a mass petition campaign against the project that ultimately proved unsuccessful — Clydesdale broke ground this week.

Emphasis mine.

Just… wow. What a fucking imbecile.

So:

• yes, that’s pretty sketchy
• this is also AFAIK the first major distro that it’s been a part of as a stock install, so this is the first exposure at scale that the project has had; as unfortunate as it is, it can be argued that this might fall under “teething issues”
• with that said, it sounds like the rust coreutils people need to step up their game in terms of thinking in and testing for adversarial contexts. Normal test cases do not cut it when you’re dealing with stuff like sudo - it needs to be put through the ringer.

I just suck it down through apt or flatpak or homebrew or whatever is appropriate for the system I’m on. I tend to avoid manual download/install processes unless it is specifically recommended, or there’s no option to do it through a package manager.

Good post. Definitely worth the read. Essentially: “how to convince execs who think they know more than they do that something is not only a good idea, but also their good idea”

I used Rufus to make Linus boot USBs for AGES

I mean… sure, but to say Russia is not involved in Belarus is akin to saying a hand is not involved in a sock puppet.

This is… not meaningful, compared to what Russia pulled with all the Boeing and Airbus airframes they just… appropriated when the sanctions sunk their teeth in.

It would have cost you nothing to refrain from posting this

I guess you’ve been missing the news. They’ve been going ham on that all summer and autumn.

Because the clumsy crops and editing are amusing and charming.

AI slop is just dumb, low effort, and often unnervingly weird in a bad way.

I mean she upholstered herself according to Vance’s predilections. She knows what she’s doing.

The Andrew formerly known as prince