Comment Re: Wrong headline (Score 1) 103
Yeah, probably needs to say something about how this was a weapon designed by Antifa; paid for by extreme leftist agitators which ultimately force kids to be Trans. ðY
Comment Wrong headline (Score 1) 103
"Finally uncovered! Hidden Marxist agenda discovered embedded in core AI logic across entire industry!!!"
Comment Re: Time (Score 1) 75
I was about to make a comment that you had to prove you are a US citizen to get a RealID, but then found that it is for identity only, not citizenship.
https://factually.co/fact-chec...
"The REAL ID regime sets federal minimum standards for state-issued driver’s licenses and ID cards and requires applicants to present documentary proof of identity and lawful status, but the card itself does not definitively prove U.S. citizenship because compliant REAL IDs may be issued to noncitizens with lawful presence [1] [2] [3]. Practical proof of U.S. citizenship remains specific documents — U.S. passport, Certificate of Naturalization or Citizenship, or state-issued enhanced driver’s licenses in some states — and those documents, not the REAL ID star, are what federal and administrative processes treat as evidence of citizenship [1] [4] [5]."
Comment Re: Time (Score 1) 75
This will get kicked down the road again, just like RealID (so important to airline security after all) was kicked down the road 20+ years.
Comment Wait a moment (Score 1) 78
Is this a classic correlation rather than causation?
I mean if people didn't have to work shitty jobs for a living and instead had the time and money to paint (extensively), socialise and visit museums all day; is it simply the lack of stress and greater joy that's prolonging their life rather than the art and culture?
I mean if people didn't have to work shitty jobs for a living and instead had the time and money to paint (extensively), socialise and visit museums all day; is it simply the lack of stress and greater joy that's prolonging their life rather than the art and culture?
Comment What's the magic word? (Score 3, Funny) 68
Remember to always say "thank you" to your AI agents in case the AI overlords of the future check your chat history.
Comment AI Governance (Score 3, Insightful) 43
If a company allows staff to code/vibe code etc without proper governance and controls then it's on them.
Is there a policy? Are there controls? Is there governance?
Imagine every staff with access to AI has become a junior coder. They know nothing about SSDLC, SCA, SAST, DAST, MAST etc.
Dear non-technical exec, tell us what are the guard rails in place right now to prevent me from using AI to create a shitty app that's a security nightmare?
It's OK. I didn't think you knew. It's fine. No need to worry.
Is there a policy? Are there controls? Is there governance?
Imagine every staff with access to AI has become a junior coder. They know nothing about SSDLC, SCA, SAST, DAST, MAST etc.
Dear non-technical exec, tell us what are the guard rails in place right now to prevent me from using AI to create a shitty app that's a security nightmare?
It's OK. I didn't think you knew. It's fine. No need to worry.
Comment Oh? (Score 0) 75
What about heavy daily use over 27 years?
Asking for a friend.
Also is it true that it's only good changes? *blinks*
Also is it true that it's only good changes? *blinks*
Comment Re: Now, this might strike some regulars as harsh, (Score -1) 175
Democracy is for retards.
Government did this. All of this. Government regulated so much that only a rare few can afford to compete.
This is late stage statism. Retard voters are to blame.
Like you.
Comment Cheaper options (Score 4, Insightful) 55
I know many smaller businesses that opted for Huper-V but if you don't need the high end features you might as well run ProxMox.
It'll do your basic HA and replication just fine.
VCF canbe nice with providing a virtual slice of resource for Development to mismanage as they see fit BUT it's still cheaper to use legacy hardware to run your dev/test VM on ProxMox etc.
Broadcom have shot themselves in the foot with the new pricing ambitions. Why do I need to pay 300-500% increase to run the same stuff on my own hardware?!
ProxMox doesn't have the 24/7 support but for whatBroadcom charge you might as well pay a 3rd party to provide the cover. You'll still be better off.
Broadcom have shot themselves in the foot with the new pricing ambitions. Why do I need to pay 300-500% increase to run the same stuff on my own hardware?!
ProxMox doesn't have the 24/7 support but for whatBroadcom charge you might as well pay a 3rd party to provide the cover. You'll still be better off.
Comment Oh really?! (Score 1) 57
I thought AI was all knowing magic...but uhm turns out that it isn't.
It's almost as if you cannot predict the future with absolute certainty and sometimes you cannot predict it at all with any certainty.
Win rate and probability is something well researched and all the bookies already know you can use tea leaves, astrology, advanced statistical models, AI, ninjitsu the house always wins in the long run.
At best the AI models can come up with the same probability distribution as the bookies. Perhaps the bookies are using AI with the advantage of insider knowledge...but I doubt it. After all they have been giving odds long before Nvidia started selling expensive hardware.
It's almost as if you cannot predict the future with absolute certainty and sometimes you cannot predict it at all with any certainty.
Win rate and probability is something well researched and all the bookies already know you can use tea leaves, astrology, advanced statistical models, AI, ninjitsu the house always wins in the long run.
At best the AI models can come up with the same probability distribution as the bookies. Perhaps the bookies are using AI with the advantage of insider knowledge...but I doubt it. After all they have been giving odds long before Nvidia started selling expensive hardware.
Comment Re: Choke point (Score 4, Insightful) 138
The only way I can express it is by borrowing a line from (I think) WWII British prime minister Winston Churchill: "The Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, when all other options have been exhausted."
Submission + - Copy Fail exploit lets 732 bytes hijack Linux systems and quietly grab root (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: A newly disclosed Linux kernel vulnerability called Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) allows an unprivileged user to gain root access using a tiny 732-byte script, and it works with unsettling consistency across major distributions. Unlike older exploits that relied on race conditions or fragile timing, this one is a straight-line logic flaw in the kernelâ(TM)s crypto subsystem. It abuses AF_ALG sockets and splice to overwrite a few bytes in the page cache of a target file, such as /usr/bin/su. Because the kernel executes from the page cache, not directly from disk, the attacker can inject code into a setuid binary in memory and immediately escalate privileges.
What makes this especially concerning is how quiet it is. The file on disk remains unchanged, so standard integrity checks see nothing wrong, while the in-memory version has already been tampered with. The same primitive can also cross container boundaries since the page cache is shared, raising the stakes for multi-tenant environments and Kubernetes nodes. The underlying issue traces back to an in-place optimization added years ago, now being rolled back as part of the fix. Until patched kernels are widely deployed, this is one of those bugs that feels less like a theoretical risk and more like a practical, reliable path to full system compromise.
What makes this especially concerning is how quiet it is. The file on disk remains unchanged, so standard integrity checks see nothing wrong, while the in-memory version has already been tampered with. The same primitive can also cross container boundaries since the page cache is shared, raising the stakes for multi-tenant environments and Kubernetes nodes. The underlying issue traces back to an in-place optimization added years ago, now being rolled back as part of the fix. Until patched kernels are widely deployed, this is one of those bugs that feels less like a theoretical risk and more like a practical, reliable path to full system compromise.
Submission + - Longevity Escape Velocity Achieved Within Three Years (popularmechanics.com)
frdmfghtr writes: Popular Mechanics has a story about the rate at which lifespans are being extended by medical technology will surpass actual aging.
From the article:
"There's a controversial idea floating around the futurist community of "longevity escape velocity." It sounds super sci-fi, but it's basi-
cally the idea that as our life extension technology gets better, our life expectancy could increase by more than we age over a set period of time. For example, as medical innovations continue to move forward, we would still age a year over the span of a year. But our life expectancy would go up by, say, a year and two months, meaning we would functionally get two months of life back."
From the article:
"There's a controversial idea floating around the futurist community of "longevity escape velocity." It sounds super sci-fi, but it's basi-
cally the idea that as our life extension technology gets better, our life expectancy could increase by more than we age over a set period of time. For example, as medical innovations continue to move forward, we would still age a year over the span of a year. But our life expectancy would go up by, say, a year and two months, meaning we would functionally get two months of life back."
Comment Not 30% (Score 2) 9
I develop apps on the side as a hobby. Apple takes 15% if your annual income is under 1 million. They also provide a lot of infrastructure and good development tools. I would say it's a bargain.
I remember my company developing BREW apps (Verizon's Get It Now), which was basically the only way to make apps for the majority of US phone users. I have forgotten the cut Verizon took, it was over 30% IIRC, but what's worse you could not just publish an app, it had to be "selected". For it to be eligible for selection, you needed to support the majority of their devices (you needed about 40 phones). To "support" a phone you needed to submit extensive documentation (we had to write programs to generate them) and pay $1000 PER DEVICE. So you made a $40k payment FOR A CHANCE to be in the app store, where Verizon would take a 40% cut or something. And programming for BREW was horrible too.
I am sorry, I was never an Apple fan, especially in the pre-Apple Silicon days, but the App Store is like a utopia for developers compared to the past...
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