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California ghost-gun bill wants 3D printers to play cop, EFF says

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from what i've seen and heard...

I've heard that the law doesn't distinguish between any of the various 3d-printer/milling/cnc machines that are controlled by a computer. Just think, the computer controlled machines that are used to manufacture guns in California will no longer be permitted to manufacture guns in California. Good job dummies.

I vibe coded a feed reading web app. It was enlightening and uncomfortable

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Re: Claude Code

How could Claude code a use-after-free bug?

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What ever happened to the future where we pick items off of shelf, stick them in our pockets, and simply walk out through the RF scanner without stopping to effect payment? That VISA ad was 18 years ago.

Britain seeks views before it drops the hammer on signal jammers

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Re: Incomprehensible

The magnetron in your microwave would be a much better* weapon.

* but much more dangerous to you, too.

Here's how to watch the Artemis II splashdown

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Impressive video, this time in colour, from the WV-57

DARPA looking for battery that could power a laptop for months

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Re: Must be powered by the Firm

Damn straight!

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Re: This is easy to do

Only if its a hobbyist drone. If its a scientific drone, you don't want the waste heat to change the environmental conditions you're studying. If is military done, you don't want a trail of +1°F water that can be used to track your drone.

NHS Scotland-linked domains caught serving pr0n and dodgy sports streams

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Because the nhs.uk and scot.nhs.uk domains are closed, an everyday cybercrook cannot simply register a copycat of a GP practice within these namespaces and begin hosting questionable content.

I presume you mean '... should not be able to simply register ...' ?

Stack Overflow abandons redesign after loyalists criticize it

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Re: Nostalgia

And a much better idea about which terms to search for in the online docs.

The company's biggest security hole lived in the breakroom

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Re: Exactly why!

Buy a 24" model from a retailer with a decent returns policy, and take it home to test it. You can get one for less than $100. If it works like you want -- keep it, but if you want a larger model, return it and swap it for a larger model.

I have a Samsung 50" smart tv that I use as a monitor only (I don't play games so i don't need high refresh rate) connected to two laptops via HDMI and it works fine. My only issue is the nag message every time I power it on when it asks me to accept the T&Cs...

Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

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Re: Webmail?

They're nowhere near the edge. They're floating in the middle somewhere.

Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid

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Re: Jonestown Meme

I read recently (not confirmed in any way by me or anyone else) that the Flavor-Aide name was published by the Kool Aid company...

In any event, Jim Jones meme's are like an upurned rake at midnight during a new moon.

Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say

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Oh fuck, if you can't escape internet bullying with a just a single click, you don't need to be on the internet.

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Re: Why stop at kids?

Well, they have been trying to kick us out since 1945.

Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave

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Re: Not coming here

Does this mean that systemd is now feature-complete? Will every future release provide efficiency enhancements and other such things?

GitHub infuriates students by removing some models from free Copilot plan

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Re: Cake ?

To be fair Marie Antoinette probably didn't say that but the French Royal Family were in the stunned bunny department normally reserved for the British monarchy.

Was this before or after 1066?

Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs

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Did they send 50% of their grant money to Simon Travigula out of respect?

District denies enrollment to child based on license plate reader data

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Re: Ah...

About those indiginous, they came from Asia and are not natives. They are simply earlier imigrants. Be careful or my first time machine trip will be to rearm Custer with belt-fed M-60's.

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

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Re: I smell the evil hands of

Evil? No. Simple reasoning: why should we pay to implement this when we can get someone else to do it for us and provide us with a simple API? This moves all of the product liability to someone else.

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Re: Playboy - the science fiction magazine

And Harlan Ellison, Larry Niven, and many, many others.

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Perhaps the bystanders should stop being bystanders.

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Re: Comparing fruits

How is a whitelist going to prevent your child from opening google or bing and typing the words "bare breasts" and the checking the box selecting no filter? Its not.

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Re: Comparing fruits

...the difference here is that a) the store only needs to check in cases where it's not patently obvious that the buyer is underaged or not, ...

Send your dad to Kroger to buy beer without a photo ID and you'll not get any beer. I'm in my late 50s and I've been in line behind retirees with grey hair and a walker and had to watch them get carded buying beer.

Hotpatching goes default in Windows Autopatch whether you like it or not

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Nof if you are in any way responsible, they're not.

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

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I just thought of a great use of this!

Sicko's looking for 13 year olds will be able to tell if the 'little kid' is actually a '28 year old police officer" and I'm pretty sure that's not what this law was designed for.

Techie was given strict instructions not to disrupt client. Then he touched one box and the lights went out

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Re: Downvote - really?

OK, I'll check back later.

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

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Re: The weirdest way I've caused crashes?

That's definitely one thing I've never done.

BOFH: Nobody would be stupid enough to go live with the mirror system, surely

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Re: give me some numbers?

What a missed opportunity to being the recitation of π just to see how long you could do so without being interrupted...

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Did they repurpose a 1960's floor-mounted high-beam switch to trigger the phone call?

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Happy

All of them?

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...what spices to add to drinking water to mask the flavor of thallium.

Now I have to buy a new keyboard...

Harvard boffins finally crack the mystery of squeaky sneakers

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ulterior motives?

I'm sure they didn't include NCAA March Madness tickets, and NBA playoff tickets along with travel expenses in their grant proposals...

Orbital datacenters are a pie-in-the-sky idea: Gartner

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Hactar? What could go wrong?

Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell

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Dear god! I hope you aren't a web programmer. That would seriously suck.

OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years

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Re: It's not a she.

Have you seen the videos from the factory that makes them? It was disturbing in a disturbing sort of way.

Your AI-generated password isn't random, it just looks that way

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Re: Can I hear from an actual expert?

Did you mean to say two randomly mis-spelled words?

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Re: Oh holy crap...why would anyone do that?

Does this mean that eventually, everyone who prompts AI for a complex password will be given exactly the same one?

Couldn't choose between Laughing Devil or Mushroom Cloud, so I chose neither.

Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulnerabilities

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Mushroom

Came here to say the same thing. I hope he understands that a bunch of companies are going to publicly ask him to file suits against their competitors if this case succeeds. Either than or TP-Link will change the word 'made' to 'assembled'.

Ireland joins regulator smackdown after X's Grok AI accused of undressing people

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Re: Am I the only one ...

So, where's the image of a pink elephant in a 63 GTO?

KPMG partner in Oz turned to AI to pass an exam on... AI

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I'm confused...

Wait. A person used AI to pass a test on AI? Isn't that an automatic pass?

ʎɹǝʌoɔǝᴚ sʍopuᴉM ʇɐ sǝʇɐuᴉɯɹǝʇ snq sᴉɥ┴

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In Canberra?

Starlink speeds past terrestrial networks – and regulators

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Re: "remote areas"

Did you miss the 17000 islands part of the article? The country itself is sprawling.

Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon

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Re: MPLS/SRv6 FRR TI-LFA

I'd have to actually read the paper, but I can see it replacing Dijkstra's algorithm if it takes less time to compute. That has me thinking about Carmack's fast square root (because I can't remember the original author), and my question is can an approximation with a constant be faster with bit-manipulation majik? Someone with better maths skills than I can probably answer this question.

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Re: Original Dijkstra paper is a beauty

Use a 3pt font and I bet you could get it on a playing card.

If you're reading this, hi Robert!

AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show

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That's funny. I always thought sandboxes were full of cat shit. What's the difference here?

Ghost gun legislation casts shadow over 3D printing

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Re: Follow the money

Look up Ivan Miranda on youtube, he converted a treadmill into a 3d printer so he could print a kayak. He also build a 3d printer large enough to print a full sized statue of himself and some auto parts.

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Re: So restrict ammo?

Only in Oklahoma.

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

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Re: Not a Trump thing.

No, it assumed they were stupid. And it was correct.

BOFH: Eight pints of a lager and a management breakthrough

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Re: Verschlimmbessern

Never play or never lose?

Systemd daddy quits Microsoft to prove Linux can be trusted

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...that can't be parsed with a Mark-I eyeball.