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Chess hasn’t been updated in almost 200 years and it’s obvious the devs have abandoned it. The greedy creators took your money and laughed all the way to the bank.

I remember back in 705 AD when chess was fun. Then they started adding stupid features no one wanted like “castling” and “en passant” instead of listening to player feedback and fixing game-breaking bugs. I’ve been complaining for years about the collision-detection glitch with the horsey. The ‘clipping-through-pieces’ bug has been abused to death and the lazy devs refuse to fix it.

Don’t support this awful behaviour and boycott this company.

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Oh hey look, a big Canadian corporation working to undermine #WorkFromHome via a cute little ad campaign for their broadband service.

Make no mistake, this is anti-worker propaganda, plain and simple.

#cdnpoli #canada

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Reading all these articles about the high traffic from AI bots, here is my experience from a small German hoster: It's a huge problem, and it is getting worse very fast. There are bots like claudebot from Antrophic which are so aggressive that they block whole systems, outranking actual attacks for example against WordPress. And they change their AWS cloud IPs so often that blocking doesn't help for long and they also ignore robots.txt. Our on-call is regularly alerted for such issues.

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Have you tried turning it off and never turning it back on again?

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My son was reading about Marine Le Pen and remarked, “the funny thing about holocaust deniers is that they never seem happy that it didn’t happen”

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I spent 10+ years doing security at Google. I did a bunch of clever things while there - AFL, The Tangled Web, and a lot more.

But to be honest, my most valuable contribution to the business was a JavaScript web form that I put together. It saved untold person-years of back-and-forth with product teams, reduced launch latency, and greatly improved the consistency of product security reviews. It earned me some promos, too.

We like to celebrate big ideas, but boring work often matters more. It's also why your corporate job is not a durable legacy: I'm sure the form has been since refactored or deprecated, and soon, all memory of it will be gone.

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The code we use to launch the crash reporter is incompatible with Android 11+. This means we might have missed some major stability issues because nobody could submit the reports.

The reason why we didn't notice is that some device vendors - like Samsung, Sony and OnePlus - have likely disabled some backwards incompatible changes in the system to accommodate for their apps being incompatible with newer versions of Android... and those changes made our code appear to work on those devices.

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My drink came with a maraschino and I don't like those, so I asked a random guy if he wanted my cherry.

It was an accident!
...the first time

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This video is an amazing look at what draws everyone into flat earth and QAnon conspiracy theories. youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44?si=6J3Z7m

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Frankly, I'm appalled by the prospect of LLMs taking offensive security research jobs from honest, hard-working fuzzers

The first wave of AI taking over the world will be autocomplete making weird mistakes to confuse us and cause conflicts.

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"But what if they don't deserve that money?" is somehow only a question raised about poor people.

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Wczoraj komunikat w sprawie opublikowała Prokuratura:
gov.pl/web/pr-krakow/17062024-

> W związku z treścią depeszy [PAPu] z dnia 11 czerwca 2024 roku oraz powielającymi ją publikacjami w przestrzeni medialnej z których wynika, iż „Prokuratura Regionalna w Krakowie prowadzi postępowanie przygotowawcze w sprawie zainstalowania *przez hakerów* oprogramowania wywołującego blokowanie pociągów Impuls” wskazuję, iż taka informacja nie została udzielona przez Rzecznika Prasowego tut. Prokuratury.

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Lol Neil Gaiman says

"ChatGPT doesn't give you information. It gives you information-shaped sentences."

This is one of the better ones I have seen.

If there was a loving god who created the Earth and all it's beauty, why would they not synchronize its rotation and travel time around the Sun? A year 365.2425 days long was not created by any deity I could bring myself to worship.

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Kiedy badacze badają polityczne manipulacje, niezadowoleni politycy pozywają uniwersytet, uniwersytet ma dosyć i zamyka zespół światowej klasy badaczy.

platformer.news/stanford-inter

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might be a better idea to sell these on the website that sells only fans.

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