Technically they might not even need to become carnivores to learn the habit of chasing people down and punching them to death to defend their territory.

Imagine how malevolent the next generation of AI will be, when it’s trained on today’s Internet text.

True, there aren’t many old drivers who are honking the horn and giving everyone the finger — most of those people die young I guess.

rational used to just mean "possible to express as a ratio before it got co-opted by the academic-industrial complex- "

Hmmm… when you say “academic” do you mean the Academy of ancient Greece? Because I’m guessing that’s around when that mix-up first happened.

Right, I’m aware of this and see nothing wrong with it.

If you feel that it’s unfortunate, why take their side? I’ve found that no confusion is caused by using it the correct way. If any might be, it is at least in service of a noble cause.

I may be a little amused by it, but not verily surprised.

The word you’re looking for is “literally.”

Probably. All modern web browsers continue to be a disaster for security. It remains the case that if someone gets access to your user account through a browser rce or any other route you have to assume they can probably install a rootkit as well.

That is exactly wrong. It has always relatively much easier to get root if you have local user access, compared to getting local user access when you’re not meant to have it. Not just on Linux, but on most systems in general.

If you’re running a water treatment control system, now might be a good time to check if its UI is exposed to the Internet with nothing but the secret password 11111 protecting it.

In the past, I was a user of bad passwords. Anything I didn’t care about I’d just pick an easy one. Probably 60% of the passwords I created, I did not care at all about and would’ve been perfectly okay with someone cracking them if they’d wanted to.

I have since changed my ways and use good passwords now. I want nothing to do with biometric data collection and hope that it never becomes normal. Everyone without some kind of brain problems that prevent it should create and remember one good password — the one for their password manager.

A quick grep | wc of the Wikipedia list of Toy Story characters suggests that they’ll run out somewhere around the year 2120 if no new Toy Story movies are made. Perhaps Debian should start getting its movie studio department working on a new one before then, just in case.

Its meaning is clear. What’s often unclear is whether its use was appropriate.

What if my pet lizard is plotting to take over the world, and is just playing dumb and biding his time?

Browsing around nethack.org I found this link if anyone’s in need of an introduction to nethack: https://web.archive.org/web/20210212161326/http://www.linuxvoice.com/nethack/

The comments are full of people sharing their yasd stories.

Early 90s the pirate BBS scene was still going strong. You could dial in and tie up your phone line for days at a time. My guess is it was about as common then as it is today, relative to the size of the game industry.

Inflation is built in to our current monetary system. It’s fundamental, and the system would not work without it. The exact degree of shitness inherent in that system is a matter for debate, but you can’t get rid of inflation without remaking the whole concept of money.

Higher prices due to scarcity is quite different, and is often confused with inflation — especially this week.

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Rust-coreutils may eventually become a suitable replacement for coreutils but it hasn’t yet existed for long enough to iron out all the bugs and there’s no real advantage to using it right now.

The idea is that Rust will make everything easier to maintain and improve in the long run, or something like that. It’s somewhat plausible, but it’s not totally obvious whether that will prove correct. So it’s easy to suspect that there must be some other unstated motivations behind it, although to me there don’t appear to be any in view.