DocMcStuffin @ DocMcStuffin @lemmy.world

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Maybe this is a cynical take, but will conservatives refuse a life saving blood transfusion because it may have come from a gasp gay man? I mean a bunch were refusing transfusions because the blood could have come from someone that had a gasp covid vaccine.

Why is Softbank involved in so many business investments that go sour? I've lost track of the number of articles I've read that go something like, "Softbank invests in X. X's value is tumbling."

tl;dr, it's more crypto bullshit and it requires the reddit mobile app.

Yeah it's Dead Like Me.

Oh we could expect that but celebrity gossip crap is easy to churn out, and it brings in the clicks. Then they get to cover the response to the gossip crap for even more clicks. It's a never ending tower of crap because crap sells and too people can't be bothered to exercise some news media intelligence.

Personally, I try to steer clear of the gossip and stick with publications that aren't doing the click bait headline and provide quality coverage.

Twitter is still underwater from losing half their advertiser revenue plus the billions in debt they still owe. He's not going to pay out unless he can find one particular case that will bring lots of attention. Elmo is an attention whore that everyone needs to ignore.

Everyone's giving tribute with :wq!, but don't forget about :x! and ZZ.

Because that's Jesus Land. The US has a large Christian population and the Jewish connections to the religion shapes their perception. I'm overgeneralizing a bit, but that's the short answer.

!music@lemmy.world would be a good place to post

Not EEE. This looks like a form of enshittification. It sounds like Mojang is trying to capture all value for themselves by claiming absolute control over everything.

The hjkl keys came from Bill Joy when he wrote vi. The terminal he was using had arrows printed on those keys because it didn't have dedicated arrow keys. It was a natural progression to reuse those keys for navigation.

vim was a huge improvement over vi. To where it became the defacto replacement. Some distros even shipped vim as a replacement for vi. That was because the Linux Standard Base required vi to be present.

Still a huge influence. vi was a bit painful to use when coming from vim. Would hjkl have died out if it wasn't for vim? IDK. I think it would have been relegated to a niche corner of the unix/linux world.

I love Wikipedia. Her article has already been updated.

She is the judge overseeing the criminal trial of former U.S. president Donald J. Trump over the events leading up to the January 6, 2021, United States Capitol attack.

Ugh, I hate when articles like this use the word skeptics. They're not skeptics. An actual skeptic will ask questions to gain a better understanding then change their position if or when the evidence warrants it. They're living in denial. They're climate denialists.

Ha, I'm not falling for this one a third time.

caaaat-choooo

Be proud of the work you do!

Reminds me of VideoRedo. Cool niche little program that lets you slice video files quickly and losslessly. Then the main developer died. The other developer has kept the license server up, but he doesn't own any of the copyrights. And the program was so niche it doesn't generate much revenue for the work that has to go into it.

Okay, but jpeg xl is looking pretty good. Especially the ability to losslessly convert jpg to jxl.

Recent conversation on lemmy.world and an article about it.

Not a backdoor. A backdoor is when there's a secret key or method that's deliberately builtin to sidestep the encryption.

Instead, they created an encryption algorithm that only used 32 bits for the cypher key. That was a design choice to comply with the Arms Export Control Act back when encryption was considered a munition. This is roughly equivalent to putting a really crappy lock on your front door. Anyone with the proper skillset can get past it.

The real problems are:

1. They used a proprietary encryption algorithm: TEA1. This is highly frowned upon because an algorithm needs to be tested repeatedly by experts in the field to prove its worth. Or as they say, don't roll your own because you WILL mess up.
2. The hid the algorithm from scrutiny using a non-disclosure agreement. This was basically security through obscurity. There were people that knew it was broken but let it fly under the radar.
3. They continued to use a broken algorithm when it should have been deprecated over 20 years ago then left out of future products.
4. It's all implemented on a bunch of hardware that can't easily be upgraded.