That's what I said, sodium chloride... sodium chloride... that's what I said...
Readit NewsRattleyCooper commented on How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home crystalverse.com/sodium-c... · Posted by u/kdavis
RattleyCooper commented on OpenGL Machine Learning on Low-End Hardware hackaday.com/2021/11/13/o... · Posted by u/rcarmo
How dare the author to earn money for their efforts, tstst.
Oh, I don't care if they do and never said they shouldn't, I just think someone should make a FOS version.
How dare someone want to use something free and open source, that's developed by a vast community of individuals instead of relying on 1 individual (who might disappear at a moment's notice) for every single update and bug fix. Tstst.
See, I can be snarky too
Only a stupid, lazy and possibly insane person would believe that everyone is stupid, lazy, and possibly insane.
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RattleyCooper commented on How did so much of the media get the Steele dossier so wrong? nytimes.com/2021/11/15/op... · Posted by u/missinfo
I don’t think this is an indictment of the media at all. I never saw this material discussed anywhere except in the middle of a forest of qualifications about it being “unconfirmed” or “unproven.” That’s the right way to cover it. No one reading those stories had any business thinking these allegations were proven. I doubt many did.
It’s also intrinsically a lot harder for any US news organization to investigate these allegations (which concern private events in Russia!) than it is for them to investigate Gary Hart’s infidelity.
It seems like the appropriate way to handle potentially significant but extremely difficult or impossible to verify allegations is to note that they are unverified.
I suspect this isn’t going to be a popular opinion here bc people love to crap on “the media,” but imperfect as they are they are the best and frequently only source for important information as it is happening in real time.
>No one reading those stories had any business thinking these allegations were proven. I doubt many did.
Were you living under a rock? People were frothing at the mouths BEGGING for it to be true.
RattleyCooper commented on Hackerrank DMCA Notice github.com/github/dmca/bl... · Posted by u/captn3m0
Is there any legal basis for that argument?
Nope
RattleyCooper commented on OpenGL Machine Learning on Low-End Hardware hackaday.com/2021/11/13/o... · Posted by u/rcarmo
They author of the library is trying to sell commercial licenses. People should get together, recreate this and slap an MIT license on it.
RattleyCooper commented on Chromium: Permit blocking of view-source: with URLBlocklist chromium-review.googlesou... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
To answer a few questions here:
1. I landed this fix because there was a policy that did not work properly. We could instead document that the URLBlocklist policy works for every scheme but one, or we could fix it. Fixing it makes more sense.
2. This policy only can be set on managed machines.
3. This policy, in isolation, is trivially circumvented. Managed environments block many things, including many of the proposed circumventions here.
4. I've built one of the world's most popular tools for viewing and modifying web traffic. The narrative that this feature has broad implications for anything is absurd.
>2. This policy only can be set on managed machines.
What about kids in school? So only the poor kids who don't have access to their own hardware will be subject to these rules that prevent them from viewing source? Sounds pretty insane.
What's truly absurd is the apparent lack of critical thought that went into this decision.
Keep patting yourself on the back though, Eric. You're obviously totally 100% right on this one /s
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Worked at a trucking company as a software dev and this exact thing happened. Got hit with ransomware attack but our IT team had daily backups of EVERYTHING. This was when ransomware was first "taking off" and they weren't even 100% sure if the attack was real.
I wish I got to see the ransomware's operator's reaction, but I honestly feel like they probably had enough people falling for it so I doubt they really got that upset.