It is very clearly written so individuals won’t be able to buy a printer without this junk in the firmware. Afterwards maybe they can fix it, but according to the article it includes a provision that 3D printers (or CNC, etc) can’t even be bought online in NY.

That somehow doesn’t surprise me

That’s true, and I should have been less absolute in my language. However all of those activities were niche and actively scary sounding to the ‘normies’ (and to a lesser extent still are)

I actually did find “warez” on BBSs before I had Internet access. But I really think even finding BBS numbers in the back of a magazine and trying them out put me outside most computer users of the time.

Security by obscurity would have made a lot more sense before global communications allowed people to share the results of poking around like this.

Even after the Internet was invented probably 99% or more of users would have no clue about digging into the systems.

I’ve mentioned this before, but on one of my early contracts I found an ‘encryption’ function with a keyspace of 32… values. I don’t mean 32-bit. The key was prepended as the first byte to the stream, and the decryption function could accept the full 8-bit range.

Fortunately that was replaced by real encryption some time before I left. But I’m pretty sure nobody actually cracked it before then, because I think nobody thought to try it.

Is it a PCI Express bus?

The version that finally worked must have been Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine

Yeah, the log entry made it extremely clear that it was a pun on the existing term.

This is from November, and is about the ‘student accounts’ thing which doesn’t at all help the central issue of being forced to make an account to distribute your app

… That’s the joke. (That he doesn’t)

On the other hand, he Doesn’t think you can double a sphere by cutting it into 5 pieces and reassembling them, so there’s that.

If you are genuinely asking:

Because documentation should be accurate and comprehensive. LLMs can do neither.

What I don’t understand is why there is so much resistance to the idea of having swap plus a separate hibernation file that is only enabled on demand. I finally got it working on my laptop, but it took a Lot of fiddly obscure manual configuration (which I wish I had documented - I don’t just mean setting the offset in grub) and it still didn’t play well with hybrid sleep, etc.

This is the only way to have hibernation that works at any memory pressure.

And yet on my phone I wish websites would stop hawking the native app and just let me use the site. In a way I suppose this is the same complaint since the native apps are often a web wrapper with telemetry.

I think the comic is pointing out a funny hypocrisy that we usually have between land bugs and sea bugs, but they are all bugs.

Indeed.

The original post used the word bugs, not insects. (Although the pic does seem to show only insects, I’d interpret that as a stock image fail)

Bugs are such a wide group already that to me it seems reasonable to include branches separated by 400 million years of evolution, much the way ‘fish’ is such a wide group that by a scientifically reasonable definition it can include all vertebrates as a subgrouping.

Can those values actually go above 1 even in theory?

“Bugs” (obviously not specifically Hemiptera) includes a Lot more than just insects. If you go back to the most recent common ancestor of everything commonly called a bug, I’m sure it’s Way back there and its descendents would include not only ocean arthropods but I’d guess probably most things with shells. Possibly just most animals

And yes, we are that closely related to fish

I actually think that’s a universal truth. One’s own accent is boring or even feels “non-existent” (it exists) but it may be very attractive to someone else with a different one.

Besides the other comment about Yu-gi-oh, there’s even This from the major card game franchise.