ISPs already do that here in the states. The court case is to decide whether they should shut off access.

The question I often ask clients who think this way is "How much would it cost if it did fail? Let’s say this happened today. What would be the cost to replace it NOW and not only that but make sure people who are working can still do so with the interruption?

Now how much would it cost to schedule the interruption and manage the fall out in a way that is controllable?

For some, the catastrophic failure points to “hey I fixed the thing!” And the incentives for that kind of person are different from the person whose job is to mitigate risk.

It sounds like your boss is the former. In which case it’s going to be fun when it fails.

Which, honestly, is the better way to go. Treat your compute resources like cattle, not pets.

I don’t think Lemmy would count as social media but that said, you can easily create a dummy account that just, for example, posts pictures of moths or beans or bread or whatever.

It’s almost like old school Google front page.

There is a linear line from incel to alt-right neo-nazis. The ironic thing is that it happened before the rise of Nazi Germany and it’s happened again here in the US.

This is, unironically, what conservatives think.

¿Por que los dos?

It’s not about blocking porn.

It’s always about control. Conservatives want to control how you consume sexual content.

Our entire Internet, the backbone of all encryption, all runs on open source software.

It is more secure because people can see and audit the code.

Let me flip what you wrote:

Our military equipment already is vulnerable. We just don’t know how badly because it’s not open source.

Prove it’s secure by releasing the code.

I could only watch this show after Trump first left office. TV is meant to be an escape, not a documentary.

I want to watch the last season but I’m going to need to wait until after the revolution.

It really depends on the ripper. I’d say 9/10 times captions are included on most of my downloads.

It’s that 10th one that is super annoying and I have to wait for jellyfin to download them one by one from open subtitles.

two former VW engineers

Yeah, unless they are Chief Engineers, these two are just people who got caught in the churn.

Wake me up when the President of US Operations gets sentenced to prison. Hell, I’ll even be okay with club Fed.

I feel like that’s just urls but with extra steps!

According to Microsoft’s official developer documentation, setting the correct Digital Rights Management (DRM) flag on the application window will ensure that “content won’t show up in Recall or any other screenshot application.”

So I’m guessing that VLC will have a feature flag to enable or disable this setting. Then you play Disney movies that you pirated on loop. Let the lawyers sort it out.

Linux doesn’t protect you from other people you’re having conversations with.

I skimmed through their paper and I can’t seem to find the instructions to download the dataset.

I found this particularly cute:

This study introduces the Discord Unveiled Dataset, a comprehensive and ethically curated resource encompassing over 3,000 public servers and 2 billion messages exchanged on Discord.

Clickwall Removed

They released their code as MIT which is far more permissive than I was expecting. I was expecting some sort of proprietary license.

But they need to keep doing stuff like this. Devcontainers for VS Code is still proprietary and keeps me from running codium.