entwine413

joined 9 months ago
[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

Especially now that I'm balding.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

No one said they weren't funding vulnerability research anymore. They just weren't going to share the information.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 27 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Good luck, I've been trying for 2 months and I was a senior engineer.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Well, now we have genocide in the US, so how did taking that stand work out?

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

America hasn't been a democracy since January 20th, and that's after already straining the definition of democracy to its breaking point.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (12 children)

But the Democrats didn't offer them a pony

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, idk where people got this idea that humans are some altruistic species. The last few decades of relative peace is an outlier in human history.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'd go with, dumber than a thermite firesafe.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Anyone who is savvy enough to install an OS won't have any issues installing specific programs, especially since most products that people would be using have a direct download for the deb/rpm.

And if you're not tech savvy enough to install an OS, you're probably already getting someone who is savvy to do computer work for you.

But, this isn't the 2000s. Everyone knows the concept of an app store, and most mainstream distros have one featured prominently.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 26 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Modern Linux doesn't have a learning curve for 99% of people. My wife's 90 year old grandma picked it up with no trouble.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, fuck him for taking the right stance.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

Blind 70 year olds can still be dangerous. Being blind and old doesn't prevent that.

They're not saying that offloading the responsibility to an algorithm is good, they're saying it's weird to assume a person is harmless based on nothing but two attributes.

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