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black hole feeds at 40 times the theoretical limit
  • Oh but when I feed at 40 times the theoretical limit my doctor calls me "unhealthy" and "you're eating yourself to death"

  • Erasing 'Any Sign of Life,' Israeli Demolition Teams Razing Entire Villages in Lebanon
  • Does Israel not see how similarly to Hitler they're acting?

    Or is that the point and their express intent is to perpetuate their very own holocaust against people they themselves deem the Untermensch?

    I mean, I know the answer, but

  • Striking New York Times tech workers ask people not to play Wordle or other NYT games
  • And as always, the majority response to this will absolutely be something along the lines of "I support writers but you can fuck right off if you expect me to inconvenience myself in the slightest most superficial way in solidarity with you because actually having to modify my behavior in the simplest way is where I draw the line."

  • The blockade on Cuba is a failed policy but still has bipartisan support, says Dr. José R. Cabañas
  • It's not about if it's successful or not, it's about the US having dug in to this and wanting to keep up the tough facade they so desperately want other countries to fear.

  • Who are the good guys in the Israel/Palestine conflict?
  • You want to defederate from the largest Lemmy instance, the poster child, and the mascot of Lemmy? Good luck. They are Lemmy now.

    Don’t care. If I gave a shit about the biggest instance because it has the most users, then I would have stayed on Reddit which has orders of magnitudes more users and to put it in the linked comment's words, they still are link aggregators in the the commenter thinks .world "are" Lemmy. The whole damn point of federation is your instance is not locked into what the biggest instance wants to do.

  • Google Authenticator collects much more data than the other authenticator apps PCMag reviewed
  • Trusting your security to Google is literally like trusting a fox to guard your hen house.

  • In light of lemmy.world's pre-emptive defederation of hexbear, would anyone support defederating lemmy.world?
  • It won’t be a problem until .world starts demanding mutual defederation (i.e. instances federated with .world have to pledge to defederate from instances .world deems problematic)

    If they do that, the fediverse will absolutely not take that shit sitting down. Obviously it would depend on what exactly their criteria for problematic is, like if they don't want you federating with actual neonazi and white supremacist instances I doubt most instances will disagree with that for obvious reasons, but if they have the audacity to deem things like socialism or anti-Zionism problematic or something overly broad like that, I have no doubt that tons of instances not even explicitly on those sides will defederate with .world in protest. People join federated social media specifically because they oppose bullshit like this that regular corporate social media try to pull.

  • In light of lemmy.world's pre-emptive defederation of hexbear, would anyone support defederating lemmy.world?
  • Don't care. If I gave a shit about the biggest instance because it has the most users, then I would have stayed on Reddit which has orders of magnitudes more users. The whole damn point of federation is your instance is not locked into what the biggest instance wants to do.

  • Shots fired
  • Trade Offer

    (From literally every goddamn AAA game studio)

    You receive:

    • A pre-pre-alpha build of our game, literally the first fucking build that compiles

    We receive:

    • Your money at the price of a full retail game
    • Your alpha testing data, but we never actually finish the game because we already have your money so go fuck yourself
  • Who are the good guys in the Israel/Palestine conflict?
  • Can we please block .world already?

  • Who are the good guys in the Israel/Palestine conflict?
  • Reminder that at the outbreak of WWII, TONS of people in the US supported the Nazi regime right up until they started invading Western Europe AKA "the countries that matter"

  • Floppy disks are like Jesus
  • Especially ironic considering they were horribly unreliable for long term data storage

  • From Iron Dome to F-15s: US provides 70% of Israel’s war costs | CTech
  • Don't be silly, the US doesn't help people, that's un-American commie shit.

  • Do you think the WebP "BlastPass" vulnerability was intentional?
  • This video from a security researcher says that pretty much every software that uses WebP was affected though, and once the issue was discovered, Google made commits in their own codebase to "fix" it. Which suggests it's an issue with the upstream source code that Google provided to everyone else.

  • Do you think the WebP "BlastPass" vulnerability was intentional?

    Think about it. It was released (read: forcibly shoved down our throats) by Google and came out of nowhere when there were zero problems with the decades old and extremely well researched incumbent image/video formats that the web was already using (i.e. jpg, png, gif, mp4, etc). Google has confirmed ties to the US three-letter agencies through PRISM, as well as AFAIK all but confirmed ties to the Israeli government. BlastPass was reportedly apart of Israel's Pegasus hacking suite for years before the vulnerability went public, and was actively exploited by Israel to track down political dissidents. It's also the worst type of vulnerability there is, a buffer overflow resulting in arbitrary code execution, meaning once you exploit it you can do literally anything to the target device, from an image format, the type of file most people would never suspect to be capable of doing that (and indeed most developers never suspected that either, considering how everyone from Mozilla to Apple seemingly just took Google source code and incorporated it into their own software, no questions asked).

    Maybe I'm just overly cynical, but I'm having a really hard time believing that such a critical vulnerability in such a widespread code base would be accidental, especially in the age of automated testing, fuzzing, and when the industry generally has a very good understanding of how to prevent memory vulnerabilities. The vulnerability was there since they very beginning of the standard and we're to believe one of the largest software companies simply failed to spot it for years? I don't think Hanlon's Razor should apply to companies like Google because they have a long and shameless pattern of malice and have long exhausted their benefit of the doubt.

    I have a sneaking suspicion that WebP was planned as a Trojan horse from the start to backdoor as much software as possible, and Google sold the exploit to the US and Israel govts. Why else would Google so relentlessly push an image format of all things unless there was some covert benefit to themselves? (An image format that's not even patented/licensed mind you so they're definitely not making money that way.)

    What do you think?

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    Half of Jabalia ethnically cleansed by Israeli army as schools burned and men kidnapped
  • It should also be noted that the biggest proponent of the idea that decolonization means turning the tables and just moving around the designations of first and second class citizens, is the colonizers themselves, because that's the only reality they know. You see this in discussions regarding decolonization in the US/Canada as well, where white people think that somehow means Indigenous people are going to force them out of their houses and kidnap their children as some kind of revenge for white people doing those exact things to Indigenous peoples. That's not what decolonization is, but colonizers keep insisting it is because they simply can't think of it in any other terms, and/or they know full well that they're lying and are deliberately building up a strawman against decolonization in hopes of preventing it from happening.

  • Half of Jabalia ethnically cleansed by Israeli army as schools burned and men kidnapped
  • The EU should put their money where their mouth is and carve out a portion of their own territories into a Jewish state then (not US territory since that would only result in Indigenous land being further colonized). Instead of them insisting that the Jews need their own homeland on someone else's land.

  • Half of Jabalia ethnically cleansed by Israeli army as schools burned and men kidnapped
  • And why would he? The most powerful empire in the world is unconditionally enabling his genocide and punishes anyone else who doesn't fall in line.

  • Parking minimums are systematic oppression by car lobbyists against all others forms of transport. Yeah I said it.

    "It's not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!"

    If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.

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    Parking minimums are systematic oppression by car lobbyists against all others forms of transport. Yeah I said it.

    "It's not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!"

    If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.

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    It's not only dangerous to drive drunk, it's also dangerous to walk drunk outdoors because of cars.

    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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    It's not only dangerous to drive drunk, it's also dangerous to walk drunk outdoors because of cars.

    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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