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It referenced this btw, which does have the details you're looking for. Not sure if it updated.

https://www.greynoise.io/blog/stealthy-backdoor-campaign-affecting-asus-routers

Samsung: buy device, we collect your data Apple: buy device, we collect your data Google: buy device, we collect your data Tesla: buy a car, we collect your data Uber: pay for delivery, we collect your data Amazon: pay for subscription, buy items, sell items, we collect your data. Netflix: literally the only way to interact with us is to pay a subscription, we collect your data. YouTube: pay more than every other streaming service to get music, video and shorts with no ads, we are still collecting your data.

"If it's free, you're the product" has never been and will never be true. You're the product so long as advertising exists, paying for shit doesn't change a thing. They don't care you bought it once because they want you to buy again and again and only from them. It's a statement to make people think they deserve the treatment they're getting and its gaslighting.

Little confused by the second link. It's not about Draiman, its just one of the band members saying assassinating trump wouldnt do the US any favours (I somewhat agree for different reasons, killing him would have started civil war 2 most likely).

In case you missed it/didn't think of it, there's a rather notorious tweet about student loans (unless he deleted it) that rubbed me the wrong way so I'd use that instead personally. He basically said "you took out a loan, pay it back" which ignores all the context for those who got one.

Plus there's the fact their lyrics in the last album seem very "can't we all just get along" and tends to trivialise many of the issues in the US right now. It's this idea of "if we all just talked we'd see we have common ground" bullshit like no one has had a real conversation in the last 25 years cos they're all on their phones etc.

Traditionally, the word professional is usually reserved for someone who sits behind a desk, engaged in a "career" job. The word has changed but it was previously reserved for the careers you can only get after university, a "learned" profession.

I say that because many think of waiters as a lesser profession, not a skilled job.

One of my favourite restaurants closed recently but the staff there were definitely talented and had learned all the right communication with each other and patrons, they could answer any questions and knew how to avoid common grievances.

You can be skilled at anything, and I'm constantly amazed by the little things people do to make others have a good time.

Either this guys an impatient asshole or they made this up. Either way it's not cute, it's fucking annoying and is just a little control freak energy. Her not being able to work out its control freak energy means he's probably with the right person.

Many can't upgrade to 11 and don't want to buy a new device. They'll believe it's their only option unless told otherwise. It's not necessarily a "Win11 is bad" or "Linux/BSD is better" scenario, just a "to keep using your current device which you paid for less than a decade ago, do the following".

Times are hard and people shouldn't be forced to buy new hardware because of the current monopolistic software companies's latest money making scheme, especially when their old one works perfectly fine and the environment is going to suffer.

I'll preface this by saying I'm not as informed as some so if I get something wrong, apologies.

We don't have first past the post.

Australia has federal, state and local government elections. This election was federal. Each state is subdivided into large federal regions, and we vote on representatives for our area (green ballot and lowe house). We also vote on which party we want to see in control (white ballot and upper house).

The green ballot is just counted up, and the person with the most votes wins. The white ballot is harder to explain, but basically you need a majority of seats to take government and have to win 76 seats. There's a transfer system you can read about on wikipedia.

Idk about Albonese being a cunt but every politician in Australia is considered a bit of a dickhead. We don't worship them here. So we vote out the biggest dickhead (Peter Dutton) most of the time (some could be lovely but most people are aware how many do very little and earn $400k salaries).

Dutton ran a campaign on nuclear power and other things I won't go into. Nuclear power has 0 infrastructure in Australia so we'd be starting from scratch. It would take 15 years to begin powering Australia. We will have a crisis in 5 years due to population growth. This is extremely easy to point out as stupid, and hard to argue against, especially when half the country already has solar power on their roofs. They also told everyone they'd make fuel cheaper and buy more military equipment even though we have a deal to get military equipment from the US and UK. It'd be nice to have but stupid to run on it.

They didn't have many other policies that made it to me, but I largely block ads so you could go read more about it online.

Conversely, Albonese ran on things like healthcare, the housing crisis and affordable living. Things people actually care about given the times.

Parties:

• Labor is pro union, and commonly quite centred with a slight lean left. They won the election in a landslide.
• the coalition is two parties, they're supposed to be centred-right and conservative but they were going off the deep end and going with America/trump style politics. They ran a bad campaign is what I can say with stat's to back me up.
• greens party is very progressive, sometimes a little to aggressive with that stance.
• there's the trumpet of patriots who were meant to be Aus MAGA and are just annoying.
• there's one nation who are basically racists who want white Australia to be strongly enforced again.
• independents will vote with whatever they think is right, but will often align with one party more than the others. They can win seats in government and work with all parties as they want.

TL;DR Most people would probably say the liberals ran a bad campaign, hence they lost badly. Albo is likely a cunt but he's better than the guy we voted out who wanted to force the country to go with nuclear power, which would start producing energy 10 years after we had a shortage. At least Albo is going to do things with healthcare and affordable living. And if he fails, we'll vote him out and get someone who will because we aren't a cult.

Near me it's none of the above, teenagers arent winning any races and I dont expect them to. $15 minimum for a meal, and $30 for my partner and I, so fuck it, might as well go to the local burger joint where it's $36, feeds us both ,and I get a blue cheese and bacon burger for my trouble.

When Greeks invented the term they stipulated only free men were able to vote. So depending on how you want to look at it, any country that allows free men to vote is a democracy. We've (modern people) just updated the terms of service to suit our current version of morality. We might decide our thinking outdated and misguided in the next 250 years and change things again. Hell we might even give trans people, women and people of colour equal rights to white men, you know, like legal protections and such. We might not try to suppress their votes... idk has anything actually changed since 1964 or did Americans just visit the moon?

Sounds like it's the platforms that are the issue, not the kids. Would you believe that maybe the corporations havent been acting with ours or our children's best interests at heart and should, shock horror, be forced into doing that? It's almost like designing social media to be an ad casino shouldn't have been allowed.

I'm referencing this:

Keely told GPT-4 to generate a Python script that compared – diff'ed, basically – the vulnerable and patched portions of code in the vulnerable Erlang/OPT SSH server.

"Without the diff of the patch, GPT would not have come close to being able to write a working proof-of-concept for it," Keely told The Register.

It wrote a fuzzer before it was told to compare the diff and extrapolate the answer, implying it didn't know how to get to a solution either.

"So if you give it the neighbourhood of the building with the open door and a photo of the doorway that's open, then drive it to the neighbourhood when it tries to go to the mall (it's seen a lot of open doors there), it can trip and fall right before walking through the door."

The vulnerability is the scary part, not the exploit code. It's like someone saying they can walk through an open door if they're told where it is.

Parma sounds like a phrase uttered by the absolutely deranged. Even the children here know it's parmy