If your microphone is active, it should at least show an indicator light and a top-row icon, I'm pretty sure.

reads like an 80s ad.... Risc is the future Risc is so much faster, we are going to build a risc design...

I don't know about your food banks, but here in Canada, they're not run by the government. They're charities. I'm ALREADY paying taxes to try to make sure our government takes care of less fortunate people, and they've failed by foisting that off onto food banks, which are run on shoestring budgets, charity, and luck. What happens when people can't afford to give to the food bank, like when there's a recession?

If it were a government agency that was guaranteed to have affordable/free food so that anyone could at least cover their basic dietary requirements, I'd definitely be agreeing with you here. But it's not. We need to understand that the government is failing us at the most basic level.

Stack Overflow messed up by not having a "close with explanation" option. They are too focused on experts and data quality.

If you understand How To Ask Questions, Stack Overflow is fantastic. I've had nothing but good experiences.

If you're a newbie, you will ask a question that you are so lost on that you'll get closed as a dupe of a question that seems unrelated to yours. The expert will have seen three layers deep into your issue and found the real problem, correctly closing it as a dupe.

On one hand, Stack Overflow gets to have clean data. On the other hand, that newbie doesn't understand why their question was closed, doesn't have their problem solved, and probably jumps on reddit saying how awful Stack Overflow is.

The person voting to close does not need to leave an explanation. A lot don't.

On the contrary, china already has shrinking co2 exhaustion despite rising energy usage, Europe has been on the Co2 decline for quite a while and this change was sped up by the 2022 invasion of the ukraine! India soon will have peak oil. The USA and their backwards thinking government which wants to live in the 19th century is not the world!

Yeah ok.

I do not know what world you live in but I have never seen a Linux desktop at work in my 30 years in the workforce. I have seen some ipads coming in for stuff like warehouse workers.

MDM like Intune or JamF is great for locking stuff down and rolling out apps on devices like tablets and even Windows desktops.

Until Excel, Quickbooks, Autocad, and every business software in existence gets ported Linux is not an option.

Crazy people still think WIndows is like Dos based WIndowsME/98 and thinks have not progressed in a quarter century.

If Windows was so bad and insecure then why does corporate America use and trust to secure their data and run their apps?

Linux is not an option for 97% of people as their first time OS. I used to use Linux 25 years ago. Today I want to get work done and run games and have something just work. No nvidia wayland issues. Hardware accelerated smooth scroll and anti alaisgned fonts. Chrome goes blip blip blip on Linux when I scroll up and down. Multi monitor support is even worse. Do not let me go on about the insecurity and horrors of Xorg.

Before I get accused of being a MS fanboy and modded -1 to infinity I want to say I chose this username name back in 2000 as I was a MS hater like the rest of you when I was young. I grew up.

I hate all operating systems now including WIndows BTW ... but for different reasons :-D ... since I am old and middle aged.

Linux is great and useful for dev and cloud stuff. Windows is great for multi monitor setup and boring win32 business apps. Android/IOS for content which does support smooth scrolling and fluid animations and fonts like we are in 2007 and later. I do not want linux as a host OS or a desktop or troubleshooting my own system every weekend trying to get a proton port of a steam game.

WSL is amazing and gets the job done. Without it I would have no tools at work. We must use Windows on our desktops.

The great thing about bloated frameworks and interpreted languages like nodejs and Python is more flexibility and quicker development time.

Electron yes we love to flame, enabled the cool integration of debugging and add on support of visual studio code as an example. The editor and ide could not do what it does without an interpreted language to change at runtime with something like C++

By itself this doesn't mean he was directly compromised. We need to be really careful about inferring things from presence on these stealer lists and breach tracking sites. This is the second time in the last couple weeks that I have seen a "stealer" list being used to discredit someone.

You can easily end up on these without having ever had a directly compromised device of your own. If you have an email password combination that was breached in any of the many public breaches listed out there (see https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhaveibeenpwned.com%2F), all it takes is that credential to have ended up in the list being used by another nefarious actor to attempt attacks on new targets.

These are public lists, and if an attacker is using that list to attack another target, and the attacker's machines are also compromised (if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas).... that's it, you are now potentially in that list associated with other services than the originating service. It doesn't mean anything other than you had an account with a previously known password from a breach.

So yeah... it might infer this guy's opsec is terrible, It might indicate he was hacked, but it just as easily---and probably more likely--- might indicate nothing other than he was a victim of a 3rd party breach (like almost all of us who have been around a while will have been) and then someone else using that list was hacked... E.g. a password on a throw-away website/forum 20 years ago that was breached, forever plays forward in future attacks based on those lists. It appears as a new compromise, when it isn't.

From TFA..

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As Lee notes, the presence of an individualâ(TM)s credentials in such logs isnâ(TM)t automatically an indication that the individual himself was compromised or used a weak password. In many cases, such data is exposed through database compromises that hit the service provider. The steady stream of published credentials for Schutt, however, is a clear indication that the credentials he has used over a decade or more have been publicly known at various points.
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I equate art's future to the coffee mug of today. You can spend $40 on a nice hand-made mug and have an art piece that is meaningful to you --- or you can spend $15 and get a mass-produced set of 4 from Walmart.

There will always be room for human-made creations. It's just going to be much less common.

It's just a look into how businesses report things. This sort of unnuanced messaging might be comforting for shareholders because it seems like a simple problem to solve.

Productivity not at the pace you want? It's not the fault of our business model, project planning, etc. -- the worker bees are just lazy and we need to fix their entitled work ethic.

This is, remarkably, one of the worst takes I have ever seen.

Everything is politics. Especially art. Narrative and storytelling is always going to be political. There are games about war between actual countries on this earth and you think games aren't political? Maybe candy crush isn't and that's all you play. But there are political choices made throughout the development of a game, and they can and should be scrutinized through that lens.

Some games are more political than others, definitely. That's fine. But any game with more than a facile narrative better be something we can talk politics about or it's a huge waste of time.

Even this discussion of whether politics belongs/is possible to remove from games is a political topic. Polygon was a good site that often had interesting takes. Iâ(TM)ll be sad to see it turned to AI slop.

Recall is performed offline. They aren't sending anything into the cloud.

You're kinda describing a variation of the typical multi-level A* pathing system used for ages by games.

A* actually lends itself really well to adding extra weights (like traffic, hills, trucking limitations, etc.) and dimensions (coordinating a fleet), it's very flexible. I have no clue if A* is at all appropriate for mapping on a national level, but I can't think of why not.

TFA is somewhat vague but it appears that cinoared ti a square, the hexagons' more circular shape allow for a better 'fit' over natural geography while also allowing a larger and more diverse set of connections if you imagine them as a graph with each face connecting.

I'd expect an office to just chill at high intensity 6500k because that's "alert" lighting. As a business owner you wouldn't want sunset to roll around at 5pm and all your lights are sitting at 3000k and dim because that means people are winding down at work. I'm down for this kind of home lighting 100% though; have been doing it for years.