Vortigaunt (u/Vortigaunt)

Vortigaunt commented on No adblocker detected maurycyz.com/misc/ads/... · Posted by u/LorenDB

Vortigaunt · 3 days ago

The FBI also makes a good argument that adblockers prevent scammers from directing people to malicious sites.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230219020056/https://www.ic3.g...

Vortigaunt commented on Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware lists.archlinux.org/archi... · Posted by u/rrampage

mzajc · 2 months ago

Any clue what these packages were 'supposed' to do or why somebody might have installed them? Their PKGBUILD descriptions are copies of the respective browsers', not explaining the -patched part.

Vortigaunt · 2 months ago

Looks like someone archived the page of firefox-patch-bin[1] and the only thing that stands out about the package itself is that it's supposedly the "Extended Support Release." Besides that it looks like it's depended on by 183 other packages/metapackages. While that seems more interesting, there isn't an archive of all of those packages.

[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20250718140411/https://aur.archl...

Vortigaunt commented on Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme dublinlive.ie/news/world-... · Posted by u/miles

Vortigaunt · 3 months ago

Isn't it interesting how this post has more votes than anything else on the first page, is one hour old, and is currently on page 4. Seems like there's some interesting censorship going on in this website outside the consistent flagging of material deemed wrong-think.

Vortigaunt commented on Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones mjg59.dreamwidth.org/7164... · Posted by u/tabletcorry

jeffhuys · 3 months ago

Routinely? I doubt that. Of course I don't agree with everything he does, but I agree with his vision.

Vortigaunt · 3 months ago

First thing that pops up on google:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/25/elon-mu...

Anyone still swayed by his vision is painfully naive

Vortigaunt commented on Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy osuosl.org/blog/osl-futur... · Posted by u/aendruk

_mlbt · 4 months ago

Oregon State University has a $1.651 billion endowment according to Wikipedia…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_univers...

Would that be an option to save it if corporate sponsorship doesn’t work out?

Vortigaunt · 4 months ago

I ctrl-f'd Oregon State and didn't find it in the link you provided. I think you found UofO's endowment: University of Oregon - $1.651

Wikipedia states that OSU's endowment is $829.9 million (2023).[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_State_University

Vortigaunt commented on Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

Vortigaunt · 5 months ago

"Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

Vortigaunt commented on RFK Jr. Set to Launch Disease Registry Tracking Autistic People newrepublic.com/post/1942... · Posted by u/colinprince

Vortigaunt · 5 months ago

If we were back in the 1930's would you be worrying about the rate[0] of people being diagnosed with left-handedness?[1]

[0]https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image...

[1]https://archpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...

Vortigaunt commented on How 'Careless People' is becoming a bigger problem for Meta theverge.com/command-line... · Posted by u/CrypticShift

hello_computer · 6 months ago

“Lost Idealism” my ass. Everyone with two brain cells knew what zuck was from square-one. Play with the devil, get burned.

Vortigaunt · 6 months ago

Glad you reminded me of this:

ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard

ZUCK: just ask

ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns

FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?

ZUCK: people just submitted it

ZUCK: i don’t know why

ZUCK: they “trust me”

ZUCK: dumb fucks

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-...

Vortigaunt commented on Bill prohibiting police from lying to children passes Virginia Senate courthousenews.com/bill-p... · Posted by u/_DeadFred_

Vortigaunt · 7 months ago

Every time I see this pop up it reminds me of this part of an epsiode of This American Life [0]. At parts its quite difficult to listen to, however it seems like an important thing to be aware of. If they're willing to do this to children, what are they fine with doing to adults? It's beyond words how someone can imagine that this is moral behavior in the pursuit of justice. I don't see how anyone can harass a child like that - already distraught by the death of his sister - and to treat some kid like a murderer for hours on end.

[0] https://www.thisamericanlife.org/210/perfect-evidence/act-tw...

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