bamboo

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They just really wanted to release on 9/9/99 no matter what.

Usually NYT sets a cookie to track how many free articles you read and once you exceed that, you get the paywall. The bots probably don't set/send the cookies, so NYT doesn't block them. Also, I'd imagine the bots are coming from various different IPs so even server side blocking based on IP wouldn't block everything and eventually the bot would get to the article. User Agents can also be spoofed.

The sad truth is with the two party system, you don't vote for who you think is better, you vote against who you think is worse. A vote for Biden rejects Trump getting a second term.

How is this different from Factorio?

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How long until Trump claims that he was wrongfully convicted of 34 felonies because of his political speech and not because of falsifying business records to cover up an affair with a pornstar?

2016 Assange was a very different person than who he was in 2009. The espionage charges relating to the Chelsea Manning leaks were always bogus, but his involvement with the Trump campaign solidified him as a huge asshole in my mind.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/14/563996442/donald-trump-jr-had-direct-contact-with-wikileaks-during-campaign

Even back then, WikiLeaks was telling trump to claim the election was rigged and stolen. These are not the actions of a whistleblower, and it's clear he was not a whistleblower (or working with whistleblowers) during this period and likely a mouthpiece for Russia to sow division in the US.

We're actually on the 10th Linus now, so the next one will be LinuXI

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"we have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing"

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How about starting with the company who says you have to buy their phone to use their messenger. If Apple isn't eventually considered a gatekeeper, then this is a joke.

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FTA:

People mocked her on social media for turning to homophobic insults because she couldn’t win the actual argument. Other people pointed out that Boebert isn’t even attending her own son’s court hearings – while making time to attend Donald Trump’s trial in New York – so maybe she shouldn’t be mocking other people’s parenting.

She's just a horrible human being all the way down

She found an infinite money glitch

Seriously, now that this is more widely known, it'll for sure be taken advantage of a lot, to the point AWS will begrudgingly protect their customers once the damage is done.

You forgot the first step, pull yourself up by your bootstraps by being born to a father with a real estate business who gives you millions of dollars.

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It all started with:

Update - Fix has been deployed, Slack integrations are recovering

Nov 03, 2023 - 17:22 UTC

This is why you don't release on a Friday!

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Except if your name is Trump. Somehow he's able to drag out all his court cases and not pay his lawyers.

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Are you able to include the HTTP Method being called and the amount of data transferred per request? It's possible that the first request is an OPTION request and then the second request is a POST.

If you can see the amount of data transferred, then you can have some more indication that double the requests are being sent and quantity the bandwidth impact at least.

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Nobody is above the law. Trump has been fucking around for too long and needs to find out his actions have consequences.

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"Your honor, if Michael Cohen did in fact work with my client to commit fraud and bypass campaign finance laws, why is he still alive, and not in the bottom of the East River? I rest my case."

~ Todd Blanche

The Arkansas Republican Party reimbursed the state last month for the wood-paneled and blue lectern, which the state received in August.

Is this typical for the party to reimburse the state for an elected official? If it was reimbursed from campaign funds, wouldn't that be covered by campaign finance laws? Sounds like either the Republican Party is trying to cover it up by reimbursing for it, or they're doing weird accounting to get through a loophole of campaign finance laws.

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Half of the schtick John Oliver is making is pointing out the absurdity of his offer being legal. The fact that people are reporting him just shows how they think there should be laws against paying off a Supreme Court judge, which is the exact point being made in the segment.

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IANAL but withholding evidence from a court order can hold you in contempt of court. I remember hearing a story of a person who was accused of having CSAM on an encrypted hard drive, and refused to decrypt it, and is in jail until he decrypts it. Just because you're a person doesn't mean you can ignore a warrant.

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I ended up getting a few alerts, and each time I tested negative. Then later during Omicron, I ended up getting Covid and was contacted by a contact tracer for the city. I explained to them if they give me the code for the app, I can signal that I have Covid, and they said it wasn't worth it.

Overall I think it was an interesting idea, and the approach was pretty clever while also maintaining privacy. Really the failure was from the municipalities being out of the loop. I'm not sure if there were studies done, but I do wonder how accurate the exposure determination was, since for me it was always false positives.

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I see this as an absolute win, since that means you don't have to read YouTube comments.

Hopefully that church loses its tax exempt status over this.

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"Use code DEPOSITION for 20% off a lumpy pillow"

I imagine that leading up to the election, they don't want to show a pattern of unsubstantiated false election claims, since that can be used as evidence if later there is a claim by a host or guest which names a company directly that can be used in a lawsuit.

If such a lawsuit were to happen, they can point to this instance and claim that they tried their hardest to stop the unsubstantiated claims (even cutting off the former president), and it's not a systemic issue in the network.

The judges wrote that the FBI’s activities were “not limited to purely foreign threats," citing instances where the law enforcement agency “targeted” posts that originated inside the United States, including some that stated incorrect poll hours or mail-in voting procedures.

What does foreign threats have to do with this. The FBI deals with domestic terrorists. Does this not fall within the FBI's jurisdiction as well?

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The EU is currently evaluating if iMessage is considered a "gatekeeper". Killing these services now solidifies they are gatekeepers and introduces EU regulation.

OK im fine with heterosexual cis people I just don't like the community around it and stop focusing kids to think there straight your cis when there not let them figure it out later in life not when there 8

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Somewhere in Hollywood, a studio exec is already pitching a sequel to The Martian, with the plot that Matt Daemon finds himself stranded on Mars again and needs to fix the helicopter to fly him back to Earth.

It'd be great if there were some handing of YT video ids in Lemmy, which would be independent of the provider domain. So like in Lemmy you could link to a YT video by the id (not URL), and then based on the user settings, that would open up in Piped or Youtube based on preference. I guess this could be done client side, and rewrite youtube links, but then for people who prefer Youtube and get a piped link, you'd need to know to rewrite that link. Anyway, that's the society I'd like to live in.

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the symmetric ratchet, protects older messages in a conversation to achieve forward secrecy. For every message, we derive a per-message encryption key from the current session key. The current session key itself is then further derived into a new session key, ratcheting the state forward. Each message key is deleted as soon as a corresponding message is decrypted, which prevents older harvested ciphertexts from being decrypted by an adversary who is able to compromise the device at a later time, and provides protection against replayed messages. This process uses 256-bit keys and intermediate values, and HKDF-SHA384 as a derivation function, which provides protection against both classical and quantum computers.

https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-pq3/

This is why they added non removable batteries in the Gameboy Advance SP and ever since.

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What do you mean about that?

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You're right, very weird use of pronouns in the obituary. I can only imagine that most of it was lifted from the article from 2000. That doesn't excuse misgendering someone, they could have updated it for 2024.

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The real issue was the DNA Relatives feature, which allowed information to be shared with other users in the platform. From this TechCrunch article

by hacking into only 14,000 customers’ accounts, the hackers subsequently scraped personal data of another 6.9 million customers whose accounts were not directly hacked

There are 6.9 million people who could have been using 2FA and unique passwords, and their personal information was scrapped just because of 14k accounts which were reusing passwords.

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The helpdesk employee will be the scapegoat for sure, but it sounds like the corporate environment had poor security, which allowed this to happen.

This 100%. Trump's whole playbook is to delay the inevitable. It's clear he's just pushing everything until he has the Republican nomination, and then it doesn't matter what happens, he'll be considered too big to fail by Republicans, and get as much protection as he can from them.

Everyone knows Alex Jones is a piece of shit. We expect more from NDT, and nitpicking everything doesn't help inspire more people into STEM.