Good point. We have absolutely no history of building steel structures in the ocean. Certainly not a fleet of them all around the world for the last century and a half.

what do you think will happen when a couple of million Nicaraguans are standing at the gate?

What do you think wil happen when ten million Floridians are standing at the gate?

Dude, do some Googling. You're embarassing yourself. Start here https://github.com/newren/git-...

It doesn't.

I'm not sure how that contributes to much of Slashdot not knowing how to use git.

https://github.com/newren/git-...

The average developer these days just knows the right button in VS Code to push and has been raised on a steady diet of crypto bullshit proclaiming that hash trees are unchangeable.

You go through the tree one commit at a time, modify the message if you need to, calculate the new hash, then go on to the next commit. Or rather, git's tools do it while you have sword fights or play Diablo or whatever it is software developers do while their code is "compiling" these days.

I've never done it for a commit message, but if you accidentally commit your porn folder (or ssh key) you might want to do something like this:

git filter-repo --path path/to/your/whoopsie_file.txt --invert-paths
git push origin --force --all

VS Code is open source, MIT licensed. It's on Github.

Those Copilot authorship messages always be in repository for those projects.

No. Not unless the maintainers want them to be. They can be expunged simply by filtering out the offending text and rebuilding the tree from the first change forward. Git has tools to do just that because it happens quite a bit, although usually with sensitive files being committed and not commit messages.

It's a pain in the ass and might take a few hours for repos with lots of commits but it's not even particularly rare, never mind impossible.

Ok that's different.

Not sure I agree though, not entirely. The general public has never been as into privacy and security as the average slashdotter. We care a lot, most people just don't care as much. I'm not sure the Overton window has shifted so much as there has been more reason to go in this direction.

Regardless of the solution it's clear to me something is rotten in the state of tech companies. Most people feel the predatory actions and targeting of young people is a real problem. Also I don't think it's reasonable to simply blame parents, that now over worked group work two jobs not one, when the thing that's changed isn't people but the concentration of wealth and power.

The proposed solution is I've that many just never objected to and is at least superficially reasonable and effective. I don't think this is much of a left be right thing for most people, maybe more of a tech Vs not tech. I think many people don't understand the risks and consequences and just assume nerds will make it work somehow.

Yes, so?

You can't change a comment with a commit. You have to go back to the first change you want to make and rebuild from there. It's not that big a deal. You have to do the same thing if you, for example, accidentally commit a key, password or something else that shouldn't be in the repository.

This whole crytpo OMG it's IMMUTABLE thing is just silly.

Depends on how big the fire is, how far away it is and how many obstacles are in the way.

It is quite fascinating that republicans like to claim the idea of being based in part on ideas from the Roman Republic, however they openly admire the later imperial age much more and it's leaders.

The irony is deeper than that. The Romans famously hated kings and they wanted to make sure their executive didn't get any ideas, so they were appointed for short terms (a year), generally no consecutive terms (10 years between), and split power between two consuls (who also split command of the armed forces) and a bunch of other offices that mostly had veto power over each other.

Yet whenever the senate got scared they appointed one man dictator, who was supposed to surrender power peacefully after six months, but had a habit of not doing so.

So the American republic decided to put all executive power, including supreme military command, in the hands of one man, for four years, with no term limits. Revisions introduced term limits but also a whole bunch of emergency powers. Even better, the executive itself is responsible for invoking those powers so the American version of the senate doesn't even have to do anything!

It's raining today. The pressure is low. Breathing just fine.

Asphyxiating would require creating a very low pressure for an extended period of time. Several minutes. The sound that does this is around 50 Hz which means it goes from low pressure to high 50 times a second. 1/50th of a second is a wee bit too short.

The description in the summary is, let's say misleading. Infrasound extinguishes fires basically the same was as a fan does, by moving air. If you've got a woofer or subwoofer on your stereo or TV there's a good chance it can do this. I remember a guy in college who used to show off his speakers blowing out matches as a party trick.