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0x003 commented on Rents for the rich are going down, rents for the poor are going up. Why? washingtonpost.com/opinio... · Posted by u/ece

baron816 · 5 years ago

Yeah it’s not like it was really that much of his fault or anything (though I found it a bit fishy why he couldn’t get another job). Everyone’s mentality up until ~September was “oh just another month or two then everything will be back to normal”.

But my point is how could you expect landlords to rent to anyone without a very stable income? They could be out tens of thousands of dollars.

0x003 · 5 years ago

> though I found it a bit fishy why he couldn’t get another job

What line of work was he in? If he lost his job during the pandemic, is it possible there simply were very few jobs available that he was qualified for?

0x003 commented on OpenSSL will release a high-severity issue fix on 25th mta.openssl.org/pipermail... · Posted by u/yread

jonas21 · 5 years ago

Note that HIGH severity isn't the highest severity (that's CRITICAL) [1].

The last high severity fix in OpenSSL was this past December.

[1] https://www.openssl.org/policies/secpolicy.html

0x003 · 5 years ago

> HIGH Severity. This includes issues that are of a lower risk than critical, perhaps due to affecting less common configurations, or which are less likely to be exploitable. These issues will be kept private and will trigger a new release of all supported versions. We will attempt to keep the time these issues are private to a minimum; our aim would be no longer than a month where this is something under our control

So something to make sure you update, but not a Heartbleed level concern

0x003 commented on Tusky has been removed from the Play Store chaos.social/@ConnyDuck/1... · Posted by u/garritfra

0x003 · 5 years ago

It's not clear to me from the link, what is tusky? and why was it removed?

0x003 commented on Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972) github.com/mortdeus/legac... · Posted by u/jnord

RcouF1uZ4gsC · 5 years ago

Very interesting. Does anyone have any idea how the C compiler was bootstrapped. Was it first written in B, or was it written in PDP-11 assembler?

0x003 · 5 years ago

I think it was written in B as Ritchie extended B for the PDP-11. By that point the B compiler was written in B

https://sci-hub.do/10.1145/155360.155580

0x003 commented on Switzerland votes against electronic ID system provided by private companies swissinfo.ch/eng/digital-... · Posted by u/bontoJR

jeofken · 5 years ago

How can you so sure that your ideal is how they should live?

What I admire about the Swiss is how they live and let live - they may disagree with the neighbour, but let them be.

0x003 · 5 years ago

Not allowing one group to have an equal voice is the opposite of live and let live

0x003 commented on FizzBuzz Mario World: Learning Assembly Language and Having Some Fun computebeauty.com/posts/f... · Posted by u/vga805

0xTJ · 5 years ago

Arbitrary, not remote, but definitely really cool.

0x003 · 5 years ago

RCE in SMW would be particularly impressive

0x003 commented on Cbonsai: Grow bonsai trees in your terminal gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbons... · Posted by u/throwaway888abc

smoldesu · 5 years ago

Yep! I just figured out that I would need a combination of flags to get it to work the way I wanted, thank you for the help. Aliasing the whole command has basically given me all the functionality I could ask for.

0x003 · 5 years ago

Could you share the command?

0x003 commented on Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation github.com/godotengine/go... · Posted by u/phreack

0x003 · 5 years ago

I wish they had kept it, a little bit of fun doesn't hurt anyone nor detract from the project.

0x003 commented on Replace the “among us” reference with “here” github.com/rust-lang/rust... · Posted by u/Fabricio20

notapenny · 5 years ago

I suppose I'm becoming old and grumpy but I'm with the one guy who "requested changes". Go outside. What a waste of people's time just because you can't read two words without thinking about a video game.

0x003 · 5 years ago

Some people are allergic to humor ;)

0x003 commented on NASA's Perseverance rover sends stunning images bbc.com/news/in-pictures-... · Posted by u/astdb

solipsism · 5 years ago

The idea that people only make changes, even little ones entirely out of self service is extraordinarily cynical and a very negative and sad view of the world.

You keep saying that. It's subjective, and it's not an argument. George Bernard Shaw said, The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Say I tell my friend and they decide to do the same thing, now it's 1000 pieces of litter. They tell 2 of their friends, now it's 2000 pieces of litter. Then I decide to make it 2 pieces of litter, and I tell my friend and they pass it on. Now it's 4000 pieces. They start telling their friend

Well that's imaginative but it seems highly unlikely. After all, if everyone is so highly primed to change in this way, and all it takes is one person to spark the fire... chances are enormously likely it would have happened already, and it would have happened without you needing to spark it.

This idea that you're at the center of a movement to change the world is just more subconscious ego feeding. If you want to be at the center of a movement that changes the world... it's going to take a lot of hard work.

what change do you think you're making by stomping on the idea that multiple little changes can lead to positive effects

Humans enjoy conversation, and some of them enjoy trying to figure out truth from fiction. No more, no less.

personally I choose to be optimistic because why waste my life

Whatever floats your boat. We "cynics" are enjoying the ride as much as anyone. We just think we're doing it in a clear-eyed way.

0x003 · 5 years ago

> George Bernard Shaw said, The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I think you should double check to make sure your "accurate observation" and "clear eyed" thinking is not tainted by your own biases. It's very easy to consider ones own view the accurate one without ironing out the biases learnt or inherent to you.

> Well that's imaginative but it seems highly unlikely. After all, if everyone is so highly primed to change in this way, and all it takes is one person to spark the fire... chances are enormously likely it would have happened already, and it would have happened without you needing to spark it.

They have. Millions of times in fact! Human history is always changing and growing from little things and big things too. The world of today looks drastically different to that of 30 years ago, or 90 years ago or 500 years ago!

> This idea that you're at the center of a movement to change the world is just more subconscious ego feeding. If you want to be at the center of a movement that changes the world... it's going to take a lot of hard work.

It's not about being the center of a movement to change the world, and the fact you keep jumping back to that shows that you don't understand what I'm saying. You look at it in that lens because you want to, but it's just about doing minor good things for it's own purpose. A simple autotelic action. It's honestly that simple, but the end result of a lot of people making that simple choice is a changed world. It's not about feeding ego at all. It's also not about building a movement, at least not directly. It's about convincing those around you of the value of doing something small that improves things even insignificantly because combined they have massive impact.

Enjoy your "clear-eyed view" of the world, I know you've convinced yourself you're 100% correct.