Dr. Jenkem @ DrJenkem @lemmy.blugatch.tube

hacker / leftist / shitposter

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What kind of stuff are you interested in learning how to do? I can recommend books for tech stuff, but aside from that I only really read sci-fi and a little bit of history stuff.

I'm not sure what beehaw's policy is on posting links and sites that host pirated stuff, but lemmy.ml has a piracy community that might be a helpful.

Most libraries have a way to virtually rent ebooks and audiobooks. Check on your local library's website.

Also HumbleBundle pretty regularly runs limited time sales for cheap ebooks.

And then of course there's always the less than legal options such as torrents.

See the first bullet point. I was referring to any code that is distributed.

Yeah, there's no way to really audit code running on a remote server with the exception of fuzzing. Hell, even FOSS can't be properly audited on a remote server because you kind of have to trust that they're running the version of the source code they say they are.

A lot of bad takes in here.

Here are a few things that apparently need to be stated:

• Any code that is distributed can be audited, closed or open source.
• It is easier to audit open source code because, well, you have the source code.
• Closed source software can still be audited using reverse engineering techniques such as static analysis (reading the disassembly) or dynamic analysis (using a debugger to walk through the assembly at runtime) or both.
• Examples of vulnerabilities published by independent researchers demonstrates 2 things: people are auditing open source software for security issues and people are in fact auditing closed source software for security issues
• Vulnerabilities published by independent researchers doesn't demonstrate any of the wild claims many of you think they do.
• No software of a reasonable size is 100% secure. Closed or open doesn't matter.

Should have removed his url, otherwise it's perfect.

I mean, the vast majority of his comics are homophobic and/or transphobic.

Monetisation rules are a direct result of capitalism. Profits are what motivates the decision making. In a post-capitalism economy it would be the needs and wants that motivates the decision making. One of the failures of capitalism is that we assume wants/needs has a correlation with profits, when clearly the enshitification demonstrates otherwise.

businesses, especially ones operated online, can really reject you for whatever reason they want.

Legally speaking, this isn't actually true, at least in America. Businesses are not legally allowed to discriminate against protected classes. For example, it's the reason why it's illegal to refuse service to someone simply because they're black (race is a protected class) but ok to discriminate against say redheads (hair color is not a protected class).

Maybe a leaked YouTube link from their Patreon?