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"Visitors to the site are vulnerable to Man in the Middle (MitM) attacks, IF they click past the warning". I think it's true when there is a man in the middle.

Based on history of this type of attack, it can also be true with a valid certificate ;)

I was able to transfer eSIM for a lost phone using their website, I think the online carrier had run into that issue before.

If you had a secret agenda to reduce the world's carbon production, this is one way to go about it.

Except for all these burning gas and oil fields.

If you break the rig on a mature oil deposit, there is a chance you will make the remaining petroleum/gas unreachable for the foreseeable future (at least at an acceptable price point). So you reduce the total oil quantity humanity will be able to extract.

Let's speculate that they need a carrot for Windows developers when they attempt to use a monopoly stick on the Steam Deck.

It won't always give you a perfect answer the first time, but it's much better than memorizing the manual or interpreting a forum discussion. Haven't used it for ffmpeg, but lots of other command lines.

I find it helps if you paste in the the ffmpeg manual and get the ai to use that as source. Helps it stick to real params.

Because ffmpeg is built on the Unix chained utility philosophy I find ai is also good at building scripts the use it as well

I would far rather look at the manual or a forum discussion, because then I know I'm getting something real. With LLMs, odds are decent that I'm getting something which doesn't actually exist, but it sure would be nice if it did.

I've had someone post a problematic ffmpeg command into a prompt to ask why it wasn't working. It didn't work so well. By the time that someone rejiggered their prompt, I had found the issue.

I'm on a hybrid schedule, same "distance". With a balance of days between home and office, I no longer get tired of the commute.

Commute "distance" is definitely measured in minutes and not kilometers.


My standard for website fiction is lower. When you're unknown, there's less pressure to go through a long editing cycle. Pale and SEEK have been good though.

Would not consider myself well-read, if I read enough PKD stories I could probably find some mediocre ones; really liked the popular ones I did read.


When power is concentrated to the government, the corruption is concentrated with it. Incarceration and the end of privacy don't restore the victims. A consumer protection bureau could bring a civil suit against Polymarket to pay the journalist.

> When power is concentrated to the government, the corruption is concentrated with it.

This is a hackneyed neoliberal fundamentalist myth.

If power is concentrated anywhere, it should only ever be in government - where it's answerable to the public electorally.

Governments become corrupt when they are weak, and turn to serving private interests rather than the public they represent.

Corruption in general is far more prolific and fruitful where government is weak (the neoliberal ideal) - which is one of the reasons corrupt private actors look to weaken government - for instance by undermining public trust in it or lobbying for its parasitization by private entities. Or by stuffing their acolytes minds with foolish neoliberal fundamentalist myths.


Interesting tangent. This is the first I've heard the term "neoliberal" but it feels like it's being used as a perjorative term for libertarians?

"If power is concentrated anywhere..." The libertarian ideal is that it is not concentrated anywhere, because power corrupts. Maybe neoliberals want power concentrated in some entity that isn't government, and that's what you are arguing against? I guess I better do a little research on this new (to me at least) word


> If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.

A lawsuit would just be the "cost of doing business" for Polymarket. Until there is no skin in the game, there will be no change or accountability.

If CISOs can be held criminally liable for data breaches, the rest of C-suite can be held criminally liable for their own decisions as well.

In this case, the guy knowingly operates a betting market that illegally does not require KYC.


On the other hand, what often happens with high level corruption cases in my country is that people go to jail for a few years, but none or next to none of the money is ever recovered. So quite a few crooked politicians and business man just accept prison as nothing more than an unpleasant bump on the way to getting extremely rich, and roll with it. So you actually need a combination of both money and personal fault for really fixing some of this.

>In this case, the guy knowingly operates a betting market that illegally does not require KYC.

It's not illegal where he is. You can't go around arresting people in other countries just because they don't follow your country's law.


As a software engineer who thinks that qualifies me to answer other engineering questions, I think it's too hard to mount payloads external to missiles, but normal for aircraft.

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Digg has gone to live on a farm in the countryside where it can run around and play with aol, myspace and all the other websites.

No you can't visit.


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