drcobaltjedi

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[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 21 points 2 years ago

My definition is that is not an assault

Are we allowed to use alternative definitions now? My definition of assult is someone contunuing to use previously refuted statements.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 17 points 2 years ago

In a vaccum and without context, loss is, IMO, good and sad. Wordlessly explaining the dudes panic and his shared greif with his SO quite well.

Unfortunately for this particular comic, there is a lot context that makes it feel very weird, tone deaf, and uncomfortable.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The biggest problem I think people have with loss is it is a huge tonal and emotional shift from the rest of the comic series.

The guy is a really annoying tone deaf weirdo who only cares about games for the longest time. A lot of the punchlines ib the comics were "violence". Finally gets a GF, and treats her kinda poorly on the comic, and then bam loss comes out. It feels a bit like whiplash and is trying to be serious and sad when it never was serious or sad, but """"zany"""" and non consiquential.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

You know, I was willing to defend you Germans here assuming you just said the numbers right to left, but no. Now I'm not going to.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

So this is legal in many states still and I'll give you 3 geusses as to which political party is fighting to keep child marrige legal.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I usually wait till he's finished a topic before binging the whole topic. Was it only a 2 parter?

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I miss the bagel throwing days

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

We actually recently lived through some of the work arounds for Y2K causing issues again. Look up the Y2020 issue. A lot of the fixes for Y2K only pushed the problem out 20 years.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ye, it's a real thing. A quick google search for the term "companies that buy software exploits" lead me to the following real companies that will buy exploits you find; zerodium, offensive cyber, and vupen. In fact, zerodium currently has a $400,000 bounty for an exploit for microsoft outlook. It's very useful for say something like a government to know about these hacks in case say they want to hack someone. For example stuxnet was written by the US to fuck with Iranian centrifuges.

Pegasus isn't just a single exploit. It uses many and every patch to an OS doesn't fix every single exploit so there's always another way Pegasus can break into the system. Also, do you think that with every update to iOS the developers are rewriting their entire code base? I've written lots of updates for my software and I almost never scrap the entire thing when I need to do rewrites.

Again, Apple, a 2 TRILLION dollar company, can only fix exploits they know exist.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Theres literally a functioning business model of "find zero-day exploits for software X and sell that info to the highest bidder". There is actively many huge bounties for currently working exploits that you, random dude on the internet, can get if you can show that an unknown bug can be used to gain access to some software. Pegasus is one of the groups buying the exploits and then using it.

It is a perpetual cat and mouse game. Every time that Apple is made aware of an exploit they patch it asap, but that doesn't mean they've fixed every exploit. You can't fix a bug unless you know it's there.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

I'm so glad you guys remember that sub. I miss the silly things you guys made.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hey some of us said we'd go on indefinately and after being told to open decided to maliously comply only. /r/baduibattles a sub I started is now only letting posts be of New reddit or the Reddit app. User involvement has plummeted, there are fewer posts, each with votes and comments. Automod also posts telling people to join us at !bad_ui_battles@programming.dev

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