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dmitrygr

13,816karma·4,955submissions·March 28, 2012
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I make things and I break things for fun.

me@dmitry.gr

https://dmitry.gr/ long ago: http://palmpowerups.com/

Places we might have crossed paths: VMWare, Google, Apple

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Any country can reject non-citizen entry, for any reason or no reason at all. In fact, part of a definition of a country is ability to practice control over its territory and who is and is not there. …
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"confirms that she has the SRY gene" - that's the one present only on the Y chromosome https://www.lemonde.fr/en/sports/article/2026/02/05…
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You outpedanted me, nicely done, sir.
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> Roleplaying a parallel reallity where "Europe" is an oppressive totalitarian regime will never not be funny. Roleplaying inability to read will never not be funny UK: https://…
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In the US, not disclosing a password is explicitly protected (5th amndmnt), SCOTUS has been clear. not so for biometrics, but so for PIN/passwd
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Wait till you hear about most of europe...
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> Laptops are increasingly just clients for someone else's compute Are you kidding? Apple's mobile chips are now delivering perf that AMD & intel desktop never could or did.
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*AIR*craft are craft that need & use air. Rockets not only do not need air, they prefer a lack of air. So they are not aircraft. They are spacecraft (they are designed for and prefer space)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Khelif
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Sane: debian-stable
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Slower development velocity but no third-party-induced hacks surely has a market. :)
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When have "the people" been last consulted on this? Do you really think Chat Control has high public support? Given how most "democracies" work in our world today (which is to say …
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100%
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We need a double-jeopardy-like constitutional amendment for legislation. Legislation once-tried and failed cannot be tried again.
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100% with you. Anything that builds from the first try is 100% malicious. No real software builds without 5-30 tweaks of the makefile. And anything on npm/pip is malicious with a fixed chance tha…
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> Do you think supply chain attacks will just get worse? I'm thinking that defensive measures will get better rapidly (especially after this hack) I think the attacks will get worse and more f…
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your link disproves your claim. no naive app depended on xz version >= latest. Most sane distros take time to up-rev. That is why the xz backdoor was, in fact, in NO stable distro And not changing …
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Consider this your call to write native software. There is yet to be a supply chain attack on libc
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> achieved an energy conversion efficiency of about 130% No it did not. Please find a science correspondent who at least passed high school physics.
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> It's also suboptimal to jail parents for not convincing their child that drugs are bad. I never suggested that
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I disagree. A right to privacy not only can be demanded, it should be demanded.
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I think that that is actually an oversight. One needs to consider the entire chain. For example, with proper parenting, there would be a lot less youth demand for drugs. It doesn’t make what a drug de…
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That is a fair point, I did not attempt to make a complete list, of course, but you are right, there are more layers that could be named. All valid. The point I was making is that parents are also res…
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It need not be either-or. The guy who made the drugs is guilty. The guy who sold the drugs to kids is guilty. But parents who failed to warn kids about drugs and to oversee them properly are also guil…
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At least for the last decade Visual Studio and Photoshop ran just fine on wine.
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Play with low level things. It'll help you in your daily job in ways you do not yet imagine. Start here: nandgame.com
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No, a lot of it is human - asking for things, getting things.
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NTSB's M.O. has always been that there is never just one cause. A human mistake that costs lives is never that simple. There is a system that trained the person, a set of incentives that put the …
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Awesome thank you.
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