A crew of people wearing clown makeup as an anti authoritarian crew of antiheros operating under the ultimate of anarchist clown boys in a dystopian cityscape sounds actually pretty familiar… where have I seen that before in popular media… 🤔

My understanding is risk is low on this one as we already have a prepared and tested vaccine, and we have a known medicative treatment.

So it’d suck if it spreads but we at least have the tools to fight it on hand.

It’s pretty likely they’ll understand exactly what you mean, emotional manipulation tactics are timeless so they’ll prolly be like “oh yeah there was this asshole my sister met who was like that, never liked him, pompous arsehole”

It does mean something.

The skibidi toilet “creatures” are considered the antagonists, and the word is associated with their traits.

• creepy
• gross
• scary
• weird

Its an insult to and pretty much interchangeably with “creepy” with a splash of “cringe”

Often paired with “ohio” which means “bland” / " boring" / “mid”

Example:

“Yo he got that skibidi Ohio rizz”

Translation:

“This dude has zero game, in fact he is creepy and weird and has negative charisma, people find him repulsive and boring”

All headlines for “X” need to just be soecufucally replaced with “Elon Musk”

At this point the two are synonymous.

We need to start phrasing it as:

“Elon musk’s platform…” now.

Wonder if the poster took the moment to consider the millions of folks out there who physically can’t have sex anymore due to circumstances outside their control when they wrote this 🤔

Lasse is the original maintainer of XZ, they have been placed back in their position as sole maintainer.

“Jia Tan” was the person who slipped the backdoor into XZ and is now banned.

Lasse has already fixed abd removed the backdoor.

XZ itself is critical software everyone uses (its one of the main compression/decompression programs used on linux)

but the best way to avoid getting them is still to just avoiding stupid shit.

This is fine and dandy on a personal pc, but in a work environment you are now being actively targeted by malicious actors if your company is a good target.

Constantly.

So once you are in that zone you do need some fast acting reactive tools that keep watch for viruses.

No, there’s countless ways code could be consuming a Foo or Bar and not care which.

Literally any form of serialization won’t care, for example.

Also you can change from a Foo to a Bar in a non breaking manner, where it’s name changed but the still have the same interface.

You know what really sucks?

When I have a method that returns a Foo and like 300 places it gets called.

And then I change it to return an ever so slightly different Bar

Ah, now I need to go and update the code in 300 places cause the return type changed.

“Can’t you just sed your codebase?”

Maybe, but it could cause some serious unintended dawizard

how come towns and villages existed for tens of thousands of years with no credit scores?

They did have them, just under a different name/implementation.

But the concept of collective trust is pretty core to any herd animal.

Modern credit scores mostly just differ in the fact you can obtain that info lightning fast, instead of by having to write a letter and waiting several weeks for the response on “can we trust this person’s claims? Can you vouch for them?”

Most of society as a whole is due to it.

Herd behavior as a whole primarily comes about due to food scarcity strategies to improve security.

When groups of animals fight over food, they naturally form into larger groups to improve odds of success and then share the spoils.

In low scarcity scenarios typically you see herd behavior rarer and rarer, there’s little need to form a pack if you have all your needs already met, why bother?

Credit scores weren’t called “credit scores” of course.

It would be along the limes of having the church or kingdom or etc’s blessing, or paperwork to indicate you are with a given trade guild or etc.

It came in many different flavors, as many different countries… exist…

Point being that there *were * long before mechanisms for many different villages and cities having an agreed upon mechanism for discerning “can we trust this person?”

The principle of Identification was a very early on problem that needed solving.

If some rando rrolls into your village claiming to be a trader selling official wares of (some other village), how would you know they were who they said they were?

Typically signed documents with an official seal was a good first start.

And that network of everyone agreeing so-and-so networks seals were associated with good traders that sold good wares is your first concept of a “credit score”.

In reality existing banks today assigning people credit scores is just an abstracted system around the fundamentally simple concept of a trade guild.

1. Everyone trusts the banks mechanisms for scoring.

2. The banks are involved in all major transactions and seal their official approval on them

3. And thus everyone participates in the trade guild by performing transactions with their legal tender.

This is sort of a fairly mandatory mechanism, and it’s not even a terribly complex one tbh.

The only thing modern about it is the fact we store people’s scores digitally and can share that info all across the world instantly. Which is very handy.

But it literally is just a number that evaluates “how much can you trust this person with lending them stuff” based on past times they’ve been trusted with important shot that got lent to them.

Unga lent Bunga his stick.

Bunga broke Ungas stick.

Unga tells whole village what happened.

Now no one will lend Bunga a new stick.

Credit score.

Simple: the earth produces a fuck tonne less food for like half the year, requiring some kind of strategy to handle the fact you have lots of food half the time and like no food the other half.

We took the “stash it in a special spot” approach.

But how do we stop other us’s from stealing our stashes?

Strength in numbers, ape strong together. We form villages.

As we grow, we need leadership, mechanisms to keep track of each other, protect each other, and rules with how to fairly treat bad actors.

Laws, democracy, judicial systems come into play.

Oh shit, other village has cool shit. They want our cool shit. Trade? Trade! Commerce comes into play.

How do we keep track of people that are reliable to trade with and can be trusted across Trade networks?

Credit. Village A vouches on behalf of Trader, they have Credability, you can trust them.

Many villages create a unified system to describe this trust in a metric…

Thus: credit score.

In other words you have a credit score because of the way the earth makes food (that is to say, about half the time)

For casual users I typically recommend using Cinnamon Desktop, it’s the most Windows-esque UI and will be the easiest for them to pick up and use.

I roll with Cinnamon on Ubuntu and it’s been extremely painless, very simple to get stuff do and shit just works.

I know how heavy those units tended to be.

There’s no way in hell that hardware is up to the task of holding that thicc boi up @-@;

Oh I love humor.

I just don’t find very thinly veiled racism funny.

I’m very well aware. It’s still fuckin racist and xenophobic to conflate a person standing too close to an animitronic with women being sexually assaulted.

The article is gross, and a lot of people “just joking” in the comments here are gross.

“Even their robots mistreat women!”

Who is “they”?

What if you found out women in Saudi contributed to the creation of this robot?

What if the robot wasn’t even made by people from Saudi?

The fact you wrote “their”, summarizing an entire nation of people as being the same, is where the Xenophobia/racism kicks in.

“It’s just a joke bruh” is basically your defence.

I don’t get it, it’s not funny.

a country known for its bad treatment of women

Making assumptions about someone/something based off its country of origin sounds pretty xenophobic to me.

The robot didn’t “grope” a woman, it moved its hand as an animitronic, and she was clearly standing right next to it during its animations.

The fact that was blatantly blown into “groping” abd the fact the article felt the need to repeat that it happened in Saudi repeatedly, over and over, should trip the xenophobia alarm.

Consider if it was an article about how an animitronic robot that moved and knocked a man’s wallet out of his hand because he walked to close past it. I.agine if articles turned that into “Jewish made robot tries to steal man’s wallet!” Unironically.

You’d probably look at that and go “yeah okay, that’s pretty fucked up, whyd the do that?” Right?