Yes, targeted attacks like that definitely exist, most famously maybe the most recent social pressure to merge a vulnerability to the xz library by actor “Jia Tan”:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/

This started a whole discussion about relying on (often unpaid) volunteer work for critical systems and the pressure and negativity these people face, which is a discussion that was absolutely needed, and which we are still lightyears away from fixing.

Currently, open source is still treated like this: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10341

(I can only recommend reading the whole story around this issue, which boils down to Microsoft admitting they rely on an open source project for something they consider critical to their customers, but not willing to pay the maintainer a bounty for fixing the issue)

That’s why there is a huge market for 0-day exploits.

Preliminary evidence for one-trial social learning of vervet monkey alarm calling

I was in Georgia (the country) a few years back and visited a flea market, where, to my delight, several guys were selling a lot of Russian made tubes. I was inclined to buy a few, but didn’t have an opportunity to research the models on the spot, plus the hassle of taking back glass tubes in my luggage was eventually not worth it.

Still, it’s endearing to know that they’re still around, apart from maker projects and overpriced retro hardware.

Genuine question: what is the overlap between math and anarchism? I mean, what is your group set out to research?

I watched a few videos before I realized Bobby Fingers is Mr. Chrome, and it made me unreasonably happy.

I am on my 4th personal TUXEDO laptop, never had any issues. I actually started giving them to the devs at my company, no complaints so far.

They don’t offer my choice of OS, and I wouldn’t use a preinstalled OS anyway, so I can’t comment on that.

Oh look, its Fabio.

Here is the poem by Alexander Blok this painting illustrates / is inspired by:

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Modern_Russian_Poetry/The_Lady_Unknown

I’d also decrease the damage a bit if actually used as a bludgeoning weapon.

Modern fridges have compartments with seals that keep the moisture a lot longer, designed particularly with vegetables and fruit in mind.

I was thinking of getting an air fryer, but I was missing additional applications. I think you might have convinced me.

Honestly, I often like a fadeout, e. g. keeping a slow bass beat around, fade everything else out slowly, sounds like a heart beating its last beats. Super cliché, but I like it.

The anime is Cyber City Odeo 808.

So you created a spreadsheet in order to determine the THC/cost ratio as a factor, but then you did not sort your rows based on that factor?

Multiplying by the percentage shifts the calculation to determine the price of THC, not the price of the weed overall.

Example: You have a jar with 100g of weed you bought for $900 (bulk discounts ignored). You know the weed has a THC content of 22%, which equals a factor of 0.22. Multiply the 100g in your jar by 0.22 and you get 22g of pure THC in that jar. 900/22 means around $41 per gram of THC.

That way, you can easily compare price to THC ratio, that is, you will know how much you paid for a gram of THC, not for a gram of weed.

Put that new value (cost of THC per gram) into a new column and then start sorting all of your rows by that value in ascending order. Thay way, you can instantly look at the optimal entry (the top one), but also determine similar products, for example if your source is out of the best product, or it’s generally unavailable for someone without re-scanning the whole table (making it pretty useless).

Herzog went to an airport, claimed he was a veterinarian and stole around 300 monkeys for the final scene that they later simply released into the jungle. I’m pretty sure I’m not okay with that, but then again, that was 50 years ago. I believe Herzog had also stolen the camera for that movie.

Couldn’t watch, so I got a summary. Maybe it’s helpful for someone else:

• Bluefin is introducing a new “Stable” tag for their Fedora distribution, in addition to the existing “GTS” (Grand Touring Support) and “Latest” tags.

• The Stable tag will provide a middle ground between the aggressively updated Latest Fedora and the more conservative GTS version.

• Stable will use the latest Fedora release, but with a slightly older kernel that has been more thoroughly tested and vetted by the Bluefin team.

• This is intended to cater to enthusiasts who want the latest Fedora features, but with a bit more stability and reliability.

• Bluefin will be publishing weekly updates for the Stable images, rather than waiting 2 weeks between updates like the Fedora CoreOS team.

• The Stable images will also use zstd chunked compression to reduce the amount of bandwidth needed for updates.

• Bluefin is unsure whether the Stable configuration (latest Fedora, slightly older kernel) or the GTS configuration (older Fedora, latest kernel) will ultimately feel more stable in practice

• The Stable tag is a response to user feedback requesting access to the latest Fedora releases, rather than having to wait for the GTS version.

• Nvidia driver updates for the Stable images will also be provided on a regular basis.

• Bluefin is interested in exploring this middle ground between aggressively updated and conservatively updated Fedora distributions.

I don’t care if they participated in a satanic ritual, Christian mass or if they summoned Yog-Sothoth, that has nothing to do with school, there should be no way for people to be expelled for something like that. And to top it off, it was a fucking dance ceremony.

At the time, her private school’s teachers were mostly white people who would often discuss the satanic nature of Apache traditions

Jesus fucking Christ…

Yeah, wanted to comment exactly that. You could literally watch him become crazier with every upload. At first I did overlook the odd comment, but he eventually went full nutjob and I had to unsubscribe.

Yes, that makes more sense. I can agree with that, thanks for clearing that up.