In other news today...
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
It was tit counting day!
We had goldfinches. Something like 11 of them at once. They really like sunflower seeds. Also some titmice, blackbirds and a couple of handsome rock pigeons.
The cats thought this was all very interesting. They're keen birdwatchers.
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@cabrito said in In other news today...:
answer: 2 hours of CPU time
I get the idea of that post, to say that we should use stuff like fuzz testing more regularly. But OTOH that specific example looks quite a lot like "now that I know what to look for, look how easy it is to find!"
I mean, the author says himself that the fuzzer he uses explicitly didn't implement argv fuzzing as "it's just not horribly useful in practice." Which turns out to be wrong in this case, but he wouldn't know that if he was just using the fuzzer preemptively. So here he goes to actually change the fuzzer to fuzz argv and he finds the bug in sudo. Great, but he knew he had to fuzz argv to make it work -- and even more, he goes to edit sudo to not show the password prompt (and gain huge amounts of time in the process, I assume), but again that's because he knew that the issue he was looking for didn't require it.
So yeah, not terribly convincing overall.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
It was tit counting day!
Rather late. It was the second weekend in January here.
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@Bulb
you just came early!
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
It was tit counting day!
Did they also count moobs, or are they sexist bastards?
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@Polygeekery
Personally, I only counted tits as moobs are just pretend tits
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@TwelveBaud Some of the recent Logitech ones support both. Look for the ones that support multiple connections. I have an MX Keys and an MX Master3, both of which support 3 connections. I havr 1 and 3 set to the dongles that came with them. 2 is reserved for bluetooth, usually my laptop. 1 is the desktop. 3 is the dongle that's used whenever I need to connect to something else, like the server or a computer I'm repairing or setting up.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
It was tit counting day!
I only have Jackdaws nowadays. A pity, they scare away the Great Tits and piss me off when they start arguing on my roof early in the morning.
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@JBert What do they think of sphynxes, and specifically ones made of quartz?
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
I didn't know sparrows were bi. All the more power to them.
QOOC thread is
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Bezos will transition to the role of executive chair
What does that mean? Is that like Chairman of the Board?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
What does that mean?
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@TimeBandit this thing must be American, there's no way around it.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
this thing must be American
Actually, this is the American version
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Not the bees!
Too bad those poor bees lost against...
Enthusiastically productizing next-generation agile mindshare meta-services or something...
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Article quoted by @Applied-Mediocrity in In other news today... said:
AI-powered
AI, n.:
Artificial* Idiocy
*Even more idiotic than normal idiocy
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Not the bees!
Defendor Limejuice scene – 00:18
— Ossie!Enthusiastically productizing next-generation agile mindshare meta-services or something...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Enthusiastically productizing
next-generation agile mindshare meta-services or something...word salad
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@Dragoon How can they have founded it and already call it ancient?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Not the bees!
Too bad those poor bees lost against...
Enthusiastically productizing next-generation agile mindshare meta-services or something...
I'd feel a lot more comfortable with an office building full of bees listening in on my phone calls than some "AI-driven" marketing analytics
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Robles — who has yet to publicly address the sex scandal — was replaced in the case, and faces a probe
pun intended or not
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
Even worse, apparently at least two of them were guilty of being B****an.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Why Food Sticks to Nonstick Frying Pans
That easy — because my son doesn't get around to washing them for days.
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there were also problems with masks and social distancing
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What, no AI 8K+5G ecosystem? Lame.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The sex party in Collegien
For some twisted , note that "Collégien" literally means "junior high-school student."
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
So... you should agonize over every choice, so that you have more practice agonizing, and can agonize better when the stakes are higher?
Isn't that the polar opposite of other research that says "you have finite willpower/decision-making-energy, so you should make quick choices when they're not important, to save energy for the decisions that are important"?
The science can't agree on anything! Let's just throw it all out of the window! ...after giving it a mask, of course. We're not monsters.
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Roc Sandford's children Blue and Lazer have been in the tunnels, near Euston station, for the past nine days.
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Wheres Blazer?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Roc Sandford's children Blue and Lazer have been in the tunnels, near Euston station, for the past nine days.
Burying the lede, as always:
Bailiffs discovered earlier that the 20-year-old had locked his arm and ankle inside the tunnel network, where seasoned activist Daniel Hooper - better known as Swampy - and his son have also taken up residence.
Emphasis added.
To thwart eviction attempts, activists spent two months digging a secret tunnel, which they have been in since 26 January.
Engineers have been drafted in to prevent activists being drowned or suffocated - the protesters have tunnelled near water and gas pipes.
I had never heard of HS2 or their apparent rail project. What's the issue?
The campaigners say that HS2 is using "huge amounts of high-carbon steel" in the rail project, something they say "will only make the climate emergency worse".
TDEMSYRs. Sounds like time to flood the tunnels.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I had never heard of HS2 or their apparent rail project. What's the issue?
According to Wikipedia, the Greens, Brexit Party, and UKIP are all opposed to it. So it must be a good thing, right?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I had never heard of HS2 or their apparent rail project. What's the issue?
HS2 is the project. It's mostly "activists" like these clowns getting upset about trees and CO2 or whatever.
If these sorts of people got their way no-one would ever build anything.The campaigners say that HS2 is using "huge amounts of high-carbon steel" in the rail project, something they say "will only make the climate emergency worse".
TDEMSYRs. Sounds like time to flood the tunnels.
+1
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I had never heard of HS2 or their apparent rail project. What's the issue?
HS2 is the project. It's mostly "activists" like these clowns getting upset about trees and CO2 or whatever.
If these sorts of people got their way no-one would ever build anything.The campaigners say that HS2 is using "huge amounts of high-carbon steel" in the rail project, something they say "will only make the climate emergency worse".
My personal approach is to drive a car instead of taking a train. I'm not sure why they think shutting down the project will serve their climate agenda.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I'm not sure why they think shutting down the project will serve their climate agenda.
I'm not sure a whole lot of thinking is going on with these people.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I'm not sure
whythey think