@SuperDicq how tf does a security researcher even isolate a bug without having at least a basic understanding of programming and the codebase they're analyzing for exploits? And when you know exactly what the issue is, you usually know how to fix it
also, calling ffmpeg "broken-ass shitty code" when the world's multimedia infrastructure is built on it... this is someone who just wants to be edgy for the sake of it
@whitequark Also, just think of how bitshifting works on a little endian machine.
If I have 0xFF 0x00 in memory then shift the whole thing left by 4, it turns into 0xF0 0x0F. Like, wtf? Sure, in proglangs it doesn't affect things as much but that's just because shit gets constantly swapped in the backend to account for LE's insanity
Aaron Swartz was one of the most important freedom of information activists of our times, helping establish Creative Commons as well as several open web standards like RSS and Markdown. His treatment? Faced 35 years in prison for trying to make some academic papers freely available, driven to suicide as a result.
Elon Musk started out with money from his father's emerald mine, lucked out on some investments, lied out the ass about how amazing a gamer he is just to then stream himself playing and using the game's UI like he never even held a mouse in his life before that stream, chewed all the wires in the backend of several US government institutions as part of DOGE, openly sieg heil'ed at trump's inauguration (whom he got elected trough election interference so blatant that Putin's election interference seems subtle by comparison). His treatment? Treated as a visionary genius.
Sam Altman co-founded OpenAI, a company very blatantly taking a piss on copyright law, training AI models on copyrighted material without permission, burning ungodly amounts of resources just to run a chatbot that can't even count the letters in a word. His treatment? Treated as a visionary who took bold risks that paid off.
If you see people fed the fuck up with this world, **THIS** is why. Contributions to society are punished, but lying, cheating, and stealing to further your own end at the expense of society is rewarded. And do we even have some karmic retribution for any of these cunts? Very rarely. Sam Bankman-Fried was also treated as a philanthropic visionary until the whole FTX-Alameda Research scheme became public and he was prosecuted for the ungodly amounts of fraud he was responsible for. But besides him, who else can you think of who got in trouble for the shit they did?
@thomasfuchs get these big words out of my face, ya filthy marxist! /s
jokes aside, it's not really an issue with another better term not existing, it's more or less a remnant of the time when right wing pundits pretended to be not right wing like Tim Pool or Dave Rubin who started out as pretending to be left wing, or a bunch of others who pretended to be "about the facts, not politics" (I believe Steven Crowder used that)
@thomasfuchs tbh the whole concept of being apolitical is probably the biggest misconception in politics, maybe ever, since it kinda comes from conflating actual apoliticism with "not being affiliated with a specific party or politician"
for the latter meaning, sure, movements like Right to Repair should be about the idea they push for and not supporting a party, but when nobody draws a line in the sand between things which are actually apolitical and political movements which stay at arm's length from any specific party or politician it just becomes a harmful term to even throw around
but on LinkedIn there's no space for just being in the right place at the right time, it must always be about mythologized visionaries who knew exactly how to revolutionize the world before they even started
@lispi314 are you talking about the nazi I confused for a markov chain trained on /pol/? It's not even funny to laugh at, it's all so pathetic it has you actually concerned for their mental health
it's a shameless clone of Discord that hardly fixes any of its issues; literally all it has going for it is that it's not made by a for-profit corporation, and that's not enough
@pianosaurus@prettygood the more I hear about it, the more it seems like exactly the kinda software that the upper management in a corporation who have no tech literacy would pick and force upon the entire company
@prettygood can I please get a tl;dr of what mongodb is, why stuff depends on it, and why stuff shouldn't use it? (I've mongodb brought up plenty of times but never worked with it)
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