A newspaper can’t do proper copy anymore.
Readit Newsrootsudo commented on Why is it legal and ok when big corp. straight tries to scam a user? · Posted by u/kingleopold
I recall using ntlm rainbow tables to crack windows hashes in high school in like 2008?
Amazing that this is still around and causing someone enough of a headache to justify spending money on.
Also amazing what a teenager with lots of free time and a bootable Linux usb can get up to.
yep, that and also can use cain and abel even back then... hardest part was putting whatever network card in promiscious mode.
Deepseek local and Claude are good enough for me. Gemini is also very good, but I'm aware of Google's Ad Machine there..
It's been interesting to see what was a quality leading product fail to compete and lose market share.
rootsudo commented on Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP github.com/syncguy/go-leg... · Posted by u/Oxodao
What I don't understand is... why? I understand keeping alive software for the sake of hardware compatibility, but browsing the web and running Discord? Is it all really just to save a few hundred dollars over... 24 years?
Why not? XP was formative for many people who are in the profession now.
For me, it's knowing what I know now, what could I've done back 25 (wow!) years ago. It's a fun exercise.
rootsudo commented on 4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin the-berliner.com/english-... · Posted by u/mrzool
When I hear people like you, I pray that natural selection will remove people like you from the population faster than mutations create them.
Wouldn't natural selection rewrd that behavior more?
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rootsudo commented on Logistics Is Dying; Or – Dude, Where's My Mail? lagomor.ph/2026/01/logist... · Posted by u/ChilledTonic
I'm surprised someone registered a .ph TLD for a blog, it costs minimal almost $50/yr if not a bit more afaik.
rootsudo commented on How did TVs get so cheap? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
because sociey values TVs more then cars, education, health, etc
rootsudo commented on The data center boom is concentrated in the U.S. spectrum.ieee.org/data-ce... · Posted by u/pseudolus
My pet theory is that we're getting less than what we're paying for, compute wise, and some emergent AI is operating undetected in the margins and giving us just enough progress to keep at it.
So, Rokos’ basilisk?
And here we are almost 25 years later.