Probably it will be a posthumous Darwin award.

I don't think there have been any Darwin awards that were not awarded posthumously. The award requires you to have removed yourself from the gene pool in order to be considered for the award.

Every modern keyboard speaks USB, and while that has "serial" in the name, it's not the same as the "serial" interface which is being controlled by this functionality. I'm told many or most of them don't even have PS/2 support any more, but I wouldn't know because it's been decades since it mattered. The keyboard cannot speak USB serial to my PC, it can only speak USB keyboard, mouse, and joystick. Also, nobody can reflash my keyboard unless I plug it in while holding down a certain key.

In my case I was using Chrome to run configurators for drones.

And what I was thinking is that it would be nice to have a web-based version of CHIRP.

It can't hardly cost anything to at least just render it down to static pages and leave it there.

Frankly, it shouldn't cost much to keep it running, either. What it does is very simple. They should be able to migrate that functionality to whatever new site paradigm they are using now trivially, because it is trivial.

What Ubuntu is really saying here is that they're incompetent, because even a hobbyist with a vanity site could do what they can't. Is some company that shit at the web one you want to trust with your business, when they do so much through the web? womp fucking womp.

There are several ways to get linux without systemd, though, and you still wind up with better software compatibility than BSD, which has all the no-systemd problems plus all the not-Linux problems.

I would rather use one OS so I have one way to do things. While in theory a heterogeneous network can be more secure, in practice it's a PITA because everyone has their own way to do everything.

With that said, I'd rather use Linux as my firewall or NAS than use BSD as my desktop. The world has moved on from UNIX to Linux. Maybe it'll move on to some other thing in a while, and then I'll move on again, but I doubt it will be to a BSD.

Newsom promised we wouldn't pay PGE for burning down Paradise, but here we are and... we are.

This same shit has been going on all along and some people are just now discovering it. Even the scale isn't really different. We're in a very specific tech bubble, so very specific sectors are hiring, and the others are firing as the air is sucked out of the room. When the bubble collapses, the sector which has done the crazy hiring will have mass layoffs, and the other sectors will hire again.

The truth is that no one in tech should ever feel secure, because some new development which can just be highly marketable bullshit can come along and fuck up all of the markets because nobody has to come up with a sustainable good idea to get rich any more because of the nature of the stock market. It's a game for rich people played with our money as the counters and they give zero fucks about the impact to anyone but themselves. That was always true, but as the stock market has become ever more divorced from reality, it does more damage to people who still have to live there, i.e. those of us who work for a living.

Well, technically that is the entire point of some of the major sports in the world, and it would be problematic to say that deliberately causing brain damage for competition is ok in one sport but not in another.

On the other hand, I am not altogether convinced it should be openly encouraged in any sport.

This is a tricky one, because I would also argue that I should have no say in what a person does to their own body for their own reasons, that my firm belief that people should have bodily autonomy when it causes no actual harm to others does not permit me to condemn others for doing stuff to their own body for their own reasons when it does no actual harm to others even if it's a context I don't agree with.

Given that (ethically) I cannot condone wilful irreversable damage but (ethically) cannot condemn personal choises that harm nobody else, the obvious conclusion is that I don't believe such sports should be actively promoted or encouraged, but that what individuals do in the privacy of a private sporting event should not concern those outside until or unless actual harm outside of those events occurs.

AI video technology is still nowhere even remotely near just "click a button and take what it spits out". I don't know how to break this to anyone here, but you're not just going to go to some video generation site and turn out Woodnuts without extensive skill about AI video tools themselves and a wide range of traditional video production tools, and without spending weeks to months and significant financial expense on the project.

Even if / when this changes, video production is still always going to be limited by the human at hand. Most people's movie ideas, plotting, scripting, directing, etc frankly will be terrible. The slop in this case is the human, not the tool.

We already had that thanks to Russia. When Europe showed the world fossil fuel dependence on foreign nations isn't a viable strategy, THAT is when a major acceleration to energy independence starts. And ever nation has light and wind.

Yeah like I said positive effect, but one already known. Any country who were looking towards hedging any kind of bet on energy already got the hint a few years ago. Those who didn't are unlikely to be moved this time.

Essentially deeply dirty "sports". No, thanks.

Yeah sorry but that's a scenario that only happens in your head, especially given how a simple file server could actually be admin'd by a simple LLM manual. Look for another article to rage at the young generation rather than making up scenarios irrelevant to this one.

Yes. The mechanism is usually that the group directly managed by such a fuckup is desperate to get rid of the person and hence gives them glowing reviews to that they go away.

We really need to stop amateur-hour in all things management. Not that we need to get it to, say, skill levels routinely expected in engineering, but the current pathetic showing has to stop and we need real management liability when they (again) ignore all known approaches and facts.

I do love it when malware advert javascripts can upload random new firmware updates into my mouse and keyboard turning them into stealth keyloggers. This is great.

This feels like when Flash sandbox breaks became a thing, but worse. At least in those days we got smooth fullscreen vector animations and games to enjoy. I'd rather Flash had just been bloody fixed instead of browsers themselves becoming Shit Flash But Holy Cow It Runs Worse And Gets Worse.

You'd have to really be terrible to let it happen. First, you have to authorize the device to be accessed - and almost always web serial devices are using libusb. They have to as no OS allows direct access to USB devices - you must always go through a driver. Libusb is the only thing that really pipes a USB device through to userspace. And if you're using libusb, the OS driver is not running.

And to accomplish this, you almost always have to override the OS settings to prevent loading the OS driver over libusb, especially for things like keyboards and mice. It's possible, but it's complex, and it's why in the early days, you had many peripherals saying "do not plug in without installing driver".

Honestly, it's far easier to develop just a malware program in general than to try to break out via web serial. And if you already have the user to run the malware, why bother with web serial at all?

Also, it's a permission you need to give a website, and almost none request it because it's only for web=based IDEs to program embedded things.

You want a larger surface area, you attack things like WebGL, which you'd want to do as there are performance critical paths in getting from the browser to the GPU, and many of those paths are not protected very well