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    I'd argue that the internet has made this problem worse, not better.

    In fact, I'd argue that the internet has taken away tons of people's ability to admit they're wrong because there's always an echo chamber that will support you on even the dumbest of beliefs and anyone fact checking anyone is seen as the enemy. You see this on places like Facebook and YouTube comments where someone will make a claim, other people will think it makes sense on a cursory glance and express their agreement, then someone who actually knows what they're talking about will politely correct them and everyone will gang up on them because they've disrupted the vibe, and simply because of that the unanimous decision is made that the correct answer is in fact wrong and is a government conspiracy.

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    It’s something that literally every dev has done at some point before they knew better.

    If you're working for a multinational tech company handling sensitive user data and still make this mistake, then you are being malicious in your incompetence. This is something that would cause you to lose a significant amount of marks on a first year college programming project, let alone a production system used by literally billions of people.

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    that logged unencrypted password data

    Why the fuck would you need to log a password ever? This is absolutely malice and not incompetence.

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    Hanlon's Razor revised: Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence, except where there is an established pattern of malice.

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    Does anyone remember an article/interview a while back where Mark Fuckerberg shamelessly admitted that he chose not to hash passwords in the original Facebook codebase specifically because he wanted to be able to log into his users' other accounts that use the same password? I swear I remember reading something like this but now I can't find it.

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    Same reason Siemens, Volkswagen, Bayer, and many more, including a ton of American ones were onboard with the Holocaust.

    Genocide is good for business.

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    No one works harder than people whose lives are threatened [for example, by starvation] and they are working to not die.

    The logical conclusion of this is that we should bring back slavery and extermination camps because that's how you maximize the efficiency from of humans. /s (obviously)

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    Mostly cerebal spinal fluid.

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    USA prisoner.

    Literally:

    Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

    Gives some context to why US judges give people of colour disproportionately long sentences for a given crime.

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  • How big threat do you think Intel ME is in reality, not in theory?
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    Anything that was designed be exploited was designed that way for a reason. You think Intel isn't aware of the security issues with how they designed their CPUs?

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    The gyroscope can record your speech: https://crypto.stanford.edu/gyrophone/files/gyromic.pdf

    And no OS requires permissions for apps to access your motion sensors.

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    If I were Jewish, I'd be livid that Israel is reinforcing all the worst stereotypes that antisemites have about Jews.

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  • You're walking home late at night from the bar because you've had 11 shots of tequila but you still made the conscious decision not to drive for the safety of others. You're crossing a stroad. Someone "in a hurry" decide to run the red light and hits you at 70 km/h (because of course they were speeding, why wouldn't they?), doesn't see you because you're hunched over while you're walking and it's really dark and the person is driving a giant SUV with shit visibility. Cars are one of the largest source of fatal pedestrian accidents in a major city. How much more likely are you to get into an accident if you're drunk and is less able to pay attention to cars breaking the rules and putting you in danger? Walking safely in most cities is a task you need to be sober for because you have to walk super defensively.

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    You're walking home late at night from the bar because you've had 11 shots of tequila but you still made the conscious decision not to drive for the safety of others. You're crossing a stroad. Someone "in a hurry" decide to run the red light and hits you at 70 km/h (because of course they were speeding, why wouldn't they?), doesn't see you because you're hunched over while you're walking and it's really dark and the person is driving a giant SUV with shit visibility. Cars are one of the largest source of fatal pedestrian accidents in a major city. How much more likely are you to get into an accident if you're drunk and is less able to pay attention to cars breaking the rules and putting you in danger? Walking safely in most cities is a task you need to be sober for because you have to walk super defensively.

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    They definitely have a boomer for a social media manager

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    They definitely have a boomer for a social media manager

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    A sacrifice for the greater good
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    The kid who jury rigged their gameboy to a power adapter is probably an electrical engineer by now.

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    NiMH is perfect for an application like this, where the power draw is high but you don't need the batteries to retain charge while in standby for that long, so the high self-discharge rate is irrelevant.

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    If you're not allowed to modify it, it's not open source.

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  • Complexities of modern life
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    Then you've developed a caffeine tolerance. I find that abstaining from caffeine for a week or two goes a long way to making it effective again.

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    I'm sorry, is this a bourgeoisie joke that I'm too proletariat to understand?

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  • Complexities of modern life
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    Black coffee. Works just as well for a quarter of the price without fucking your kidneys up or giving you diabetes.

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    I genuinely believe that the Mozilla board is secretly working for Google. They already get most of their funding from that search engine deal, is a backroom agreement to slowly run the organization into the ground in order to force the last holdouts over to Chrome that hard to believe?

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