Using highly sophisticated digital forensic techniques, I found the missing Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs.

First, I entered "stolen bored ape yacht club NFTs" into my Google search bar. Then I clicked on the "Images" tab. The stolen NFTs appeared in my browser window. No doubt the Google cache is being used a dead drop for the NFTs by the cybercriminals, possibly in exchange for local weather reports and cocktail wienie recipes, which also turned up in other parts of the Google cache. THE FBI has been notified.

To Wired and Rolling Stone reporters contemplating writing 3000 word pieces about this heist, please DM me for interviews.

Say that sentence out loud to yourself, try it on for size, and ponder all of the nasty social justice implications that go along with it: because that's what knee-jerk opposition to nuclear energy actually means while trying to alleviate climate change. Nobody should be under the illusion that nuclear is a silver bullet, but you can't provide enough power to keep up with demand with renewables + batteries alone, either you backfill with forbidden fuels or you price some demand out of the market. Complicating matters is that different power sources have different loading profiles (eg- has to be on all day. it's only available when the sun shines, has ramp up in 15 minutes, etc) so an intelligent mix of different technologies really is needed. It is not just a platitude for anti-nuke activists to roll their eyes at while stampeding everyone to ACTION NOW BEFORE WE'RE ALL DOOMED in favor of **their** preferred pre-determined solutions.

I feel like there needs to be a dedicated police force organized specifically around setting up sting operations for online fraud. Trained professionals looking for ads that seem a little off, make a buy, and simultaneously subpeona platforms for all of the identifying information that can trace the seller in real time. If it's legit, they can resell the purchased items at an auction. If it's not, they can bust down the door and haul away the perpetrators in chains; or if it's an overseas boiler room scam operation they can tip off the authorities there.

Someone should develop a protocol for setting clocks by the announcement of crypto scams.

But somewhat ironically, he'll be remembered longest as the guy in the Lynyrd Skynrd song who isn't needed around anyhow.

This should win some kind of Orwellian award for substitution of the meaning of the word "free" with its opposite, since it is Neil Young's and Joni Mitchell's demands that are predicated on deplatforming Joe Rogan, It's precisely the lack of freedom that results when big market players like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell collude throw their weight around that is being called out.

There's an obvious difference between politics in artistic content and politics in the communications medium used to transmit that content. You are mixing the two in your third point: it shouldn't matter to anyone in the least if Spotify is "profiting" off of Joe Rogan's podcast. The only thing that should matter is that his speech is legal, ie- not defamatory, not infringing, etc. And if anyone has a beef with Joe Rogan, then they should take it up with Joe Rogan in his comment section or on Twitter, and not coerce everybody else into being props for their cheap political stunts.

Yes!! In my younger days, I was warned against adding trivial features to code because it was a risk. "You wouldn't want to be the guy that brought down the system because you wanted it to send you a text on your birthday (or insert your own odd feature), would you?" Many OS libraries are tight and specific, but sometimes they suffer from feature bloat.

In the end, that's not a coding problem, open source issue, and it's not even QA. I just don't need my logging system to make JNDI calls on its own (I can't even quite believe I just wrote that) and I'm perfectly happy using string formatting. Someone somewhere asked for that feature, and I wonder if they didn't get hit by this bug because, knowing that their logger could make JNDI calls, they set up their firewalls to handle it. So there's a learning curve issue there too that goes along with the bloat issue, because potentially I have to know about every feature not just the ones I'm interested in.

I find it ironic that a ruling making it easier for social media companies to kick users off their platforms is hailed as a victory for free speech.

Thank you Judge Alvin Hellerstein for not automatically siding with mega corporations over their hapless customers.

Does it really make sense to spend money on CS education while importing cheap H1B labor?

As long as you're spending someone else's money.

What's a good router to buy for home / small business that has a minimum feature set: uses DHCP, has some static IP addresses, has a LAN-only config web page, no stupid app store in my router, and no remote access, etc)?

I have a Linksys EA6900, and it makes me nervous because it is chok full of features that I don't use and I never plan on using. Each and every one is probably an exploit waiting to happen. Personally, I think if such routers are easily hacked because of poorly implemented features and are responsible for fraud, they should be considered fodder for product liability lawsuits.

Lot's of commenters with posting as "anonymous coward". Hoping for a job at Google someday?

Speaking as one who is tired of sorting through consumer grade routers every few years, I'd love it if 90% of these "smart router" crapware products just went away. Someone said that the best technology is that which disappears from the user's consciousness, but somehow router manufacturers think that their best play is to worm their way into your attention like an insecure child "Hey, look what I can do! Look at me me me!

Yeah, I'm DLink and look what I can do. Real smooth.

Do I need to access an app store on my router? No. Do I need a warm, fuzzy javascript interface? No. Do I need to configure my home router when I'm not at home? No, no, no and those sorts of features probably contribute the lion's share of vulnerabilities.

What I need is a simple, CGI interface to set up basic routing parameters and WiFi that goes more than 20 feet and forget all about the router. I would actually pay up for that.

That's what buffered files are supposed to do: make slow disk writes appear as if they are as performant as memory writes.