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Not nice.

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 weeks ago

Also, games went from writing the most cleverly optimized code you've ever seen to squeeze every last drop of compute power out of a 6502 CPU all while fitting on a ROM cartridge to not giving a single shit about any sort of efficiency, blowing up the install size with unused and duplicated assets, and literally making fun of anyone without the latest highest end computer for being poor.

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 month ago

You shouldn't get to participate in an international organization while murdering the aid workers employed by said organization.

This is just another attempt to destroy the UN.

Burh Israel literally, explicitly called for the UN to be destroyed, and named them a terrorist organization (and of course also played the antisemitic card).

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And as always, the majority response to this will absolutely be something along the lines of "I support writers but you can fuck right off if you expect me to inconvenience myself in the slightest most superficial way in solidarity with you because actually having to modify my behavior in the simplest way is where I draw the line."

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Think about it. It was released (read: forcibly shoved down our throats) by Google and came out of nowhere when there were zero problems with the decades old and extremely well researched incumbent image/video formats that the web was already using (i.e. jpg, png, gif, mp4, etc). Google has confirmed ties to the US three-letter agencies through PRISM, as well as AFAIK all but confirmed ties to the Israeli government. BlastPass was reportedly apart of Israel's Pegasus hacking suite for years before the vulnerability went public, and was actively exploited by Israel to track down political dissidents. It's also the worst type of vulnerability there is, a buffer overflow resulting in arbitrary code execution, meaning once you exploit it you can do literally anything to the target device, from an image format, the type of file most people would never suspect to be capable of doing that (and indeed most developers never suspected that either, considering how everyone from Mozilla to Apple seemingly just took Google source code and incorporated it into their own software, no questions asked).

Maybe I'm just overly cynical, but I'm having a really hard time believing that such a critical vulnerability in such a widespread code base would be accidental, especially in the age of automated testing, fuzzing, and when the industry generally has a very good understanding of how to prevent memory vulnerabilities. The vulnerability was there since they very beginning of the standard and we're to believe one of the largest software companies simply failed to spot it for years? I don't think Hanlon's Razor should apply to companies like Google because they have a long and shameless pattern of malice and have long exhausted their benefit of the doubt.

I have a sneaking suspicion that WebP was planned as a Trojan horse from the start to backdoor as much software as possible, and Google sold the exploit to the US and Israel govts. Why else would Google so relentlessly push an image format of all things unless there was some covert benefit to themselves? (An image format that's not even patented/licensed mind you so they're definitely not making money that way.)

What do you think?

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 76 points 2 months ago

Easiest way to do this: Turn the modem off after bed time (you will also lose internet)

Most expensive but still easy way to do this: Buy a "smart router" with time-based parental controls (lets you use the internet at night).

Nerd way to do this: Pihole with a script that enables and disables certain blocklists at certain times (free and open source, because fuck "smart" products)

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And I love how cute it is that you think GM, Ford, Tesla, etc aren't lobbying for parking minimums.

Also, auto companies have never tried to manipulate a country's government, no they would never.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 51 points 2 months ago

Actually you're right. Didn't see that at first.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 months ago

Do you see the people walking in the top left picture?

That's what access to the public looks like.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To paraphrase Alan Fisher, electric cars fail to solve the biggest problem with cars: The fact that they're still cars.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 months ago

Can't wait to have Google's telemetry injected into my Linux apps

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 47 points 3 months ago

If you're not allowed to modify it, it's not open source.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 52 points 3 months ago

I'm sorry, is this a bourgeoisie joke that I'm too proletariat to understand?

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 59 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I genuinely believe that the Mozilla board is secretly working for Google. They already get most of their funding from that search engine deal, is a backroom agreement to slowly run the organization into the ground in order to force the last holdouts over to Chrome that hard to believe?

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