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__del__ commented on Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands   wired.com/story/coruna-ip... · Posted by u/alwillis
auslegung · 11 days ago
> In total, Coruna takes advantage of 23 distinct vulnerabilities in iOS, a rare collection of hacking components that suggests it was created by a well-resourced, likely state-sponsored group of hackers.

People have been hacking iOS since before it was called iOS and they weren't necessarily "well-resourced, likely state-sponsored". See geohot

__del__ · 11 days ago
im[ns]ho, people want desperately to believe that only state funded actors can possess that kind of power.
__del__ commented on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk   twitter.com/secwar/status... · Posted by u/jacobedawson
techblueberry · 15 days ago
So they are such a risk to national security that no contractor that works with the federal government may use them, but they're going to keep using them for six more months? So I guess our national security is significantly at risk for the next six months?
__del__ · 15 days ago
the administration which declares ad-hoc emergencies is behaving as predicted
__del__ commented on Flameshot   github.com/flameshot-org/... · Posted by u/OsrsNeedsf2P
vzaliva · a month ago
Flameshot is great! It was one of the reasons I have not switched to Wayland. Although it seems now they have wayland support in beta.
__del__ · a month ago
i've been using flameshot with wayland the last six months, simply because i didn't know i couldn't
__del__ commented on Why do RSS readers look like email clients?   terrygodier.com/phantom-o... · Posted by u/jasonpeacock
smallvariance · a month ago
To be clear, I assume the author here is well-intentioned, and I certainly don't see this as spam or malice.

That said, I'm sure that what I read now has more noise and less signal than it did a couple of years ago, which I find very sad. More and more of the writing I read daily is clearly AI generated, and it seems that a large proportion of it comes from people with a clear "quantity over quality" mindset. Even reading messages from people I know (who speak English well), I find it's frequently AI generated - I assume because they don't want to summon the effort to write it themselves, and find AI generated text "good enough".

__del__ · a month ago
yes, i mutter to the screen "why not just give us your prompt and let us think about it?"
__del__ commented on Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update   windowslatest.com/2026/01... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
pinkmuffinere · 2 months ago
> “ Microsoft has received a limited number…”

I always find this wording funny; the “limited” conveys no information but downplays the issue in a non-specific way. I wish we could have standardized writing guidelines for press reports, to call out such weasel words

__del__ · 2 months ago
we'll be working on that very strongly in the next period of time

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__del__ commented on This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser   iczelia.net/posts/snake-p... · Posted by u/snoofydude
the__alchemist · 2 months ago
From that link: Still works on modern PCs! Was able to DL and launch.
__del__ · 2 months ago
if it worked on a pentium iii, it should work on a phone with webgl. who's going to port it?
__del__ commented on Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014)   linux.com/training-tutori... · Posted by u/righthand
eimrine · 2 months ago
Direct access to the sound hardware makes possible using huge discretization value, that's why Windows XP along with Mac the only OS able to produce a typical pop album.

If you are doing music on your Linux PC, I would like to know your best ping from some MIDI instrument to the headphones. Last time I tried to do that I could not make it faster that 20ms but it was in 2010. So, I do not use Linux for any multimedia.

__del__ · 2 months ago
should be quite a bit faster than that now. 1-2ms would be normal
__del__ commented on Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings   screenrant.com/stranger-t... · Posted by u/1970-01-01
mikestorrent · 2 months ago
Yes, I think that this is one place to be very bullish on AI content creation. There are many people with fantastic visions for beautiful stories that they will never be in a position to create the traditional way; oftentimes with better stories than what is actually produced officially.

(You ever think about how many fantastic riffs have been wasted with cringe lyrics?)

__del__ · 2 months ago
i often think about all the music ruined by self obsessed dorks singing soulless middle school poetry, and it's the main application of AI i'm quite excited for
__del__ commented on Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help   blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
vasco · 3 months ago
I disagree, pictures are easier to remember than words and I'm much faster (several hundred miliseconds) at quickly spotting an icon in the 12th place down a list and clicking it because I memorized it visually than reading the actual words.

So icons make power users faster. It's not "clutter". Your argument about "don't use it for aesthetics" is ironic because you're making it because of aesthetics. For me it's about user speed.

__del__ · 3 months ago
an icon for "save" will suffice to help me find the portion of the menu with "save as", "save a copy", and "export". when all four have the same icon, or slight variations, i'm back to reading each one to discern the difference.

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