Because of the implication that something could go wrong if you didn’t work for them on their boat.

I felt like Matrix Resurrections was kind of a circle jerk against itself.

Boss: “Mr. Anderson. We want you to write a game for this old franchise”

Neo: “but it’s dead. Why don’t we make something new, and exciting.”

Boss: “💵”

It’s a situation where it’s a combination of “it works for me so this is how it should be for everyone” and “the world would be so much better if everyone acted this way”.

On the surface it makes sense.

But it’s almost passive aggressive oppression.

I’ve met these women. They aren’t stupid, per se. They don’t want to “think”. They just want to live their simple life, doing whatever their husband or kids want.

They don’t want to think about the world. Just their world.

But think about this for a second.

It’s the conservative mindset: “The world doesn’t affect ME so why should I care? I’m not being oppressed so everything is fine!”

Jesus fucking Christ …GitHub actions is free for open source.

And they still put their binaries behind a paywall?

When you’re discussing your own OPSEC (Operational Security for those unaware), you have to evaluate and determine your personal threat profile. Generally speaking, you need to determine what risks you’re willing to accept, what risks you’re willing to mitigate, and what risks you will not tolerate. There’s a whole field of IT dedicated to this but the general idea is for you to understand that there is no perfect solution and everything is a trade off.

There is an inherent risk to downloading pirated software, especially software that you use for private activities (e.g. finances, etc.). With today’s landscape of mining crypto, I’d go so far as to say almost any pirated software is at risk of this.

I would agree that generally playing media files is relatively low risk (though there was a vulnerability I read about a few years back of a zip-type attack. The details allude me at the moment).

But for executables, you basically have two options:

• spin up a VM to host your executable, sandboxing it from everything else.
• trust the people who are providing the executable and run it on your computer

Personally, I avoid pirated executables. More often than not I can find a similar open source product that I can download. My risk tolerance is not only low, but I don’t see the benefits of using a particular company’s software especially if an open source is available.

I don’t think so. I just rewatched it. It’s the one where Data finds out something to make himself more human. Picard tells him something profound and moving.

The one where there’s a problem with the holodeck.

I’d say the crime he committed was thinking Trump would keep his promise even after bribing him.

How anyone can trust this motherfucker is beyond me.

I switched from Apache to nginx maybe 10 or so years ago and haven’t looked back.

So much easier to configure

It’s worse man.

Axis of Awesome has a song called “Four Chord Song” where they show that essentially every pop song is just four chords.

Four fucking chords.

Your paying for lyrics.

From your links:

Von der Goltz pleaded guilty in December 2019 to conspiracy to commit tax evasion, fraud and submitting false documents. He has already repaid the government more than $230,000.

Original indictment:

These shell companies and bank accounts made investments totaling tens of millions of dollars.

Make it make sense

“Not world changing” is insulting for the amount of money these people hid to avoid taxes.

“Unfortunately, when you find something like that in your garden, you’ve got to do something… but obviously it was a bit of a waste of a day, in terms of barbecues.”

Man has his priorities right.

Which…is absolutely wild. The government should absolutely be funding vulnerability research. If anything so that they can exploit them.

But I suspect they are taking the corporate approach. The foundation is going to do the research anyway and publish it widely. Just take advantage while adding nothing of value in return.

God I hate this fucking timeline.

History books and the US Government likes MLK better than Malcom X because MLK didn’t advocate violence against the ruling class.

Bearing in that the FBI literally tried to discredit MLK and have whitewashed their involvement.

I mean, that’s sort of a gimmie with swasticars.

This is going to be another Panama files isn’t it? Overwhelming evidence that billionaires are shits and world governments everywhere collectively do fuck all about it.

It depends on how you do your finances. For some couples, the one account method works for them. My preference is to have a joint account for joint expenses where we agree what we’re going to put in it. Budget from there.

Independent accounts are for surprises or whatever we want to spend it on.

I have a stupid question: how did El Salvador even agree to this? Like what mechanism allowed Republicans to send people there to begin with?