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That makes so much more sense lmao. I’m definitely guilty of being bad at spotting satire in text.

You appear to be speaking nonsense words, they all have meaning and some groupings in your comment do too. In its entirety though this comment makes no sense. An echo chamber is a place that many individuals may go to reinforce their views, with other members backing them up and attempting to remove any naysayers or disagreement.

A comment cannot, by definition, be an echo chamber.

Edit: What I find most odd is that your other comments seem to be very sensical. I generally agree with what you have to say, so this is a very strange thing to see you commenting.

Almost everything was web based. Being in computer science i did have to write code and compile executables that my TAs running Windows could run; so it wasn’t perfectly smooth. There was also Respondus Lockdown, but I could borrow a laptop from the library to use it.

Well not with that headline but maybe, with a bit of effort, the same message can become oniony.

“Far-right decides to finally bite the bullet and just behead political rivals.”

Probably other ways too, I’m just lazy lol

Not anymore! twitter.com now redirects to x.com. There’s nothing left.

I’ve gotten ads for that thing too. I think it’s because Google ads really only knows that you’re on social media and little more so it just shoves ads for “social media” at you and then this happens. I think, at least kinda, that it’s reassuring seeing ads so disconnected from my usage of the app since it implies little information is being sent to third party advertisers.

Next time I get paid I’ll just pay the dev though tbh

I’m not saying incomprehensible build scripts are good here, my mistake for making it seem that way. I’m not confident that hiding it elsewhere would have been strictly more obvious but it absolutely could have been.

I’ve done some pretty complex C projects and haven’t had build scripts nearly that large. This one seems particularly unwieldy and certainly helped the attacker.

I’m going to be honest, I’m getting a little tired of hearing everyone’s thoughts on the xz backdoor. It’s discouraging and sucks when every detail of the project which, keep in mind, was maintained by one person who fell victim to a social engineering attack, is scrutinized. It makes me concerned about anyone depending on any of my projects.

Especially the comments on things such as the build scripts, which this kind of article seems to gravitate towards. If the build scripts were tiny and checked then the attack vector would have just been different, I’m not even too sure the language mattered. The attack was social engineering, after that it was pretty much project agnostic. xz was targeted cause the maintainer was done working on it and it was heavily depended on.

Oh kids were still doing this at my high school 3 years ago.

Well it’s like my grandmother always used to say: “Capitalism is like a death trolley barrelling down 1000 miles of track towards you”

I do believe they were referring quite specifically to the politicians, since on every side it seems politicians are disconnected from their constituents and do things those constituents absolutely wouldn’t (this isn’t some bizarre both-sides argument btw, just general frustration at the state of things)

I’ve seen you a bit on a few of these posts, always defending these companies’ behavior. I tend to disagree with your stance. While I do understand that the infrastructure behind the sites I use is not free (trust me, I run some sites myself and my pitiful little things are expensive), I also do not think punishing users for adblock is justified. Neither is scraping as much data as can be gathered for further sale. Advertising can be very intrusive anymore and data collection from sites is no different. It’s not that the sites want to make money; it’s their insistence that the user is the product. Just pay walling the service would be much less scummy and unjustifiable than this nonsense.

I’d use Desktop if it worked, unfortunately recently it decided that I don’t have read/write access to a repo I’m working on. Works fine in git CLI so idk what the problem there is.

Mulan :)

As far as I’ve heard you actually assume quite the opposite.

Yeah some of my University classes mandated the use of this “Lockdown Browser” last year. Pretty sure it’s just spyware that, conveniently, can render HTML