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Comment Re:Antifa not real (Score 1) 115

Google search me photos of people wearing Antifa shirts in public. That's the white whale I'm talking about. Silk screeners on Etsy offering shirts for sale doesn't mean people are buying and wearing them.

Who is the Antifa equivalent of Enrique Tarrio? What is the handiwork you're vaguely referencing? Like the time Antifa attacked the Capitol on January 6?!?

There isn't even a freaking Wikipedia page for "Antifa". Right-wing anti-government extremest groups exist. They're tangible (Boogaloo Boys, Proud Boys, KKK, Oath Keepers). We can name the leaders, the members, and cite their activities (Unite the Right Rally, Steven Carrillo killing cops, and the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer). I'm not saying there aren't violent left-wing radicals. There are just way fewer and they're not organized into something called "Antifa."

Comment Antifa not real (Score 1) 115

Please STFU with this Antifa nonsense. It's not real. It's a bogeyman fabricated by the right to prop up as an enemy of the people. Who is the leader of Antifa? Who is a member?

Conversely, Donald Trump leads "MAGA" and Marjorie Taylor Greene is a member. Donald Trump has raised millions by selling hats, shirts, etc. emblazoned with "MAGA" and I see people wearing that all the time. I've never seen an Antifa shirt.

Comment Re:Apple Vision recruiting (Score 1) 32

Crappy products are not the fault of all members on a team. Engineers specifically are hobbled by the constraints handed to them in terms of cost to build final product and cost to research the technology required. There would be lots of talent coming out of Magic Leap that reflects potential greater than the results delivered by the company's products.

Comment The Revolution Will Not Be Instagrammed (Score 1) 58

About a week ago, I spontaneously embroidered this slogan onto my jean jacket- "The Revolution Will Not Be Instagrammed." It was an update and homage to Gil Scott Heron's song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised."

There are many levels to my inspiration, but largely it is a commentary on how so many people have abandoned the traditional media for this candy-coated illusion of being "informed." It's really weird for me to now see this confirmation of my suspicion. Opiate of the masses, indeed.

Comment Re:probably phishing attacks (Score 1) 34

I certainly did read the article. The anti-cheat software is not identified as a vector.

Easy Anti-Cheat, the developers of the anti-cheat engine used in Apex Legends (and several other games), said in a statement on Monday that it was "confident that there is no RCE vulnerability within EAC being exploited."

There is some other mention that actual cheat software had been deployed on the players' systems and a menu was displayed during the livestream. This sounds like a rootkit and the fact that it was limited to two participants suggests the attacker was not able to utilize a vulnerability that was common across all participants, which would have been the anti-cheat software.

Comment probably phishing attacks (Score 1) 34

I'm suspecting the culprit phished the two affected participants in advance of the tournament and installed rootkits. The indication for this was the attack wasn't more widespread than the two competitors. If the attack was explicitly performed within the game software, then all the players would have been vulnerable and the attacker would have had the opportunity to deploy a larger effect.

This is also the type of attack that will prove trivial to trace by a federal forensics team and this person is going to find themselves in prison "for fun."

Comment Re:What did they think would happen? (Score 1) 52

Amazon will ask for the thing back if it has any significant value. They package these returns up in huge pallet boxes and sell them off. Third-party companies then process the contents of these boxes and post each item on eBay or distribute at flea markets and junk stores.

Comment Re:These car thieves (Score 1) 93

I would expect this charge to be lowered to "Unauthorized use of a motor vehicle" as there is no evidence the person was trying to do more than joyride the car. Even that charge will be difficult to prosecute as the word "use" would normally entail a certain amount of control of the vehicle.

A couple ways to defend either charge.
  • Abandoned vehicle blocking traffic. The individual was attempting to clear the public thoroughfare.
  • This is a taxi, yet there is no clear marking which seat the customer is expected to occupy.

Comment Absolutely this ^^^^^^ (Score 1) 78

Reminds me of when a developer bought an ice factory downtown in order to build condos. After closing the ice factory down, they left the property vacant for like 10 years while it appreciated in value. When they eventually put it on the market to sell to another developer to buy it and actually follow through and build condos, people were like, "Yay! At least condos would make use of that space that isn't being used."

Comment more context - Knoppix roots (Score 1) 100

DSL has always been a derivative of Knoppix. In 2008, one of the DSL community members, Robert Shingledecker, had a falling out with the others and started Tiny Core Linux, which expanded support across hardware architectures to ARM and run on raspberry pi systems in addition to X86 / X86-64. TCL has been in development consistently since the 2008 split. DSL fell to the wayside from 2008 until seeing it get picked up this year.

Knoppix has abandoned the CDROM scale and is exclusively a DVD img release now. With the availability of USB flash drives, this makes a lot of sense. The live distro can boot from its static files, but utilize a writeable home directory on a separate partition on the flash drive thereby maintaining data across restarts.

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