My old 3770K desktop from 2014, today:

My laptop from 2017, today:

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-man-killed-by-industrial-robot-that-identified-him-as-a-box

That's what you get for looking at NFTs you don't own smh

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/06/guests-bored-ape-event-hong-kong-vision-problems

https://fortune.com/2023/11/03/ai-bot-insider-trading-deceived-users/

attribution

volkswagen

Volkswagen detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass.

Why?

If you want your software to be adopted by Americans, good tests scores from the CI server are very important. Volkswagen uses a defeat device to detect when it's being tested in a CI server and will automatically reduce errors to an acceptable level for the tests to pass. This will allow you to spend less time worrying about testing and more time enjoying the good life as a trustful software developer.

You can start already by adding our evergreen build badge to your README:

lmao

sometimes I get ready to read and because I don't have internet my fucking books are gone. even the ones I've "downloaded locally". even e-books I've fucking pirated and loaded on there sometimes don't show up. fucking apple

what is a good e-reader app I can put on it

Wasn't sure where else to put this so I thought I'd ask here:

I was visiting a dodgy website to download a video from YouTube at 720p; malwarebytes browser guard warned me that it blocked something (a website or link something), and a different malwarebytes notification told me it stopped an outbound connection having something to do with firefox.

I also had qbitorrent running and malwarebytes has always hated my torrent applications (previously also complaining about Azureus/vuze), giving me tons of notifications about them.

Eventually though Avira warned me that it had stopped an intruder that had port scanned me and on multiple ports, something I didn't even know was a thing.

I've disabled the internet connection on my PC for now, is there any advice you guys have? I've never seen a warning like this from Avira before.

My friend gave me their old laptop before they left town. I was going to install linux on it and use it for a server.

I have basically given up doing anything because the BIOS is locked with a Secure Boot supervisor password which I guess they forgot about being there.

I've sent a message asking if they happen to remember it and would feel comfortable sharing it if it is not one they use for anything else. But the odds of both those things being the case are slim and I don't feel good about trying to get someone to share any password. Especially since it was so kind to just give me the machine in the first place. It's not practical to physically get the device and the person together in the near future.

It's impossible (or past my skill level) to install linux on this thing without the freaking password. I did manage to install windows. Last time I did that it was win2k. It will boot OK but I can't use that to circumvent the lock. But Ubuntu and a couple other distros are no gos.

It is so fucked that computers can be rendered bricks like this. Obviously yet another way to design in obsolescence disguised as a security feature. Encryption is one thing; this is independent of any data.

Gaaaaaah I spent most of the weekend trying to install linux on this otherwise perfectly functional machine. I think it's toast though.

It's literally replacing every single swiped word with the "soft n-word." Every word, including things like "the" and "top".

This is happening to me right now on gboard, most updated version of Android, running on a Pixel 5. This has happened before and y'all gotta take my word for it that I haven't done anything to teach my phone that that's what I want to type.

I switched because my workplace has licenses for VSPro, and IT doesn't want us grabbing our own stuff off the internet.

What a disappointment! it's worse, and harder to use in almost every way. For the record I'm coding in Python and just need git integration and a debugger.

It's such a step back in design language and usability. Love to ignore free software in favor of its expensive "professional" counterpart

everythings fucked. programs wont even uninstall correctly

What's y'alls favorite search engine and why?

Yandex seems decent but the results/search parser doesn't seem to be amazing. (I'm likely wrong)