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bythegarbz
2026 @12:05PM
(#65962572)
Attached to: China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia
Yeah well in the USA there's a lot of stupid people too, such as those who use a justification of an error of justice from a country known to use the death penalty in stupid cases and attempt to apply them to a case where guilt isn't even in question.
Maybe make your point on a different story, it would have more meaning.
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bythegarbz
2026 @12:02PM
(#65962568)
Attached to: China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia
Who said this is a deterrent? By all accounts these people here should have been removed from life. Ideally we'd invent a time machine and give their parents the death penalty instead. It's one thing to rape and murder, it's quite another to head up a ring of mass trafficking, slavery, torture, all to defraud others.
These people didn't commit crimes, they invented entire enterprises to perform crime in a commercial quantity. Fuck them. The death penalty wasn't barbaric enough.
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bythegarbz
2026 @10:25AM
(#65962460)
Attached to: WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers
Errr no. 1. The user is absolutely notified when a device is linked. Even if the "linked devices" page is open in the app you still get a notification that a device has been linked (which seems redundant, but blocks precisely the issue you postulate). And yes I checked this just now before typing it by linking a new device.
2. The server is not involved at any point. A client action from your phone is required to initiate a key exchange with the added device, just like from Signal. Given the architecture there's no reason for any chat partners to be made aware as the key used with the chat partners is not shared with another device (read your own link).
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bythegarbz
2026 @10:17AM
(#65962454)
Attached to: WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers
Errr no. You may be good at posting on Slashdot, but you're not so good at reading lawsuits. Claims themselves usually contain enough information to identify if a suit is frivolous or not. When you pull unsubstantiated bullshit out of your arse and put it in a claim, then expect the label given. Good lawsuits provide enough information in the claim to demonstrate the suit has value and merit. In some cases if you don't do this you won't even manage to get to a stage where evidence is presented (ever heard the term summary judgement?)
This one's value is being questioned for good reason.
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bythegarbz
2026 @10:13AM
(#65962446)
Attached to: WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers
The Signal client is open source and the binary is reproducibly built, making it impossible for the signal company to embed nefarious behaviour without being detected.
Except that's not how the average user will use it. The average user will search for Signal in some poorly curated store well known for hosting malware embedded in apps, install it because they heard "signal good" and give it implicit trust for that reason. There's no reproducibility between the current open source code and the whatever you download from the App store.
Sure you can sideload a verified build.
Sure you can even build it yourself.
And sure if you want to go all out you can go validate the code too to make sure nothing untoward has been slipped in (if you're good enough, remember NSA backdoors in encryption algorithms that went unnoticed because you need a phd in mathematics to identify the problem)?
But that's irrelevant to normal users, they don't do any of that.
Oh ... and Google will close that sideloading loophole soon enough as well.
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bythegarbz
2026 @10:05AM
(#65962432)
Attached to: Backseat Software
Why would you do that? Sounds unsafe. Keep your hands on the steering wheel.
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bythegarbz
2026 @10:04AM
(#65962430)
Attached to: Nvidia GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux
Define "better". There's a reason many thigns are containerisier. For non performance restricted items contains are objectively more portable between Linux distros. Your definition is a downside for this use case.
You don't like Wayland, whooop de fucking do. There's technical reasons to use it for something like this. Your feelings are irrelevant.
NVIDIA hardware isn't related. NVIDIA's driver support isn't relevant. Your complaint is off topic.
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bythegarbz
2026 @11:50AM
(#65961014)
Attached to: UK's First Rapid-Charging Battery Train Ready For Boarding
OK, I know the article says some routes are "difficult or expensive to electrify" but I have to call BS on that. Surely it can't be more difficult or expensive to use an old, proven technology rather than batteries and high-power chargers?
I'm not sure what you're asking here. Are you seriously dense enough to question why building hundreds of miles of electric infrastructure on existing railways sometimes in terrain that doesn't support the addition of such infrastructure (such as low bridges or tunnels) is more difficult than storing electricity in a chemical cell, something we've been doing for 200 years at this point, and building a charger in a convenient location which works while the vehicle in question is already stopped?
Do you know how long train lines are and how expensive electrification is? There's good reasons we haven't done the thing we've been capable of doing for 100 years now everywhere.
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bythegarbz
2026 @11:46AM
(#65961010)
Attached to: UK's First Rapid-Charging Battery Train Ready For Boarding
Why batteries? We've had technology (called "wires" or "third rails") to deliver electrical energy to trains for about 100 years now. Why not just electrify the route?
Tell us you didn't read to the second paragraph of TFS without telling us.
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bythegarbz
2026 @11:42AM
(#65960998)
Attached to: The Bill Gates-Epstein Bombshell - and What Most People Get Wrong
You say that but they've already released documents clearly painting trump in his true colours which were swiftly removed then redacted and added back. They aren't protecting anyone at least not competently.
Doesn't that make you question what is actually in the redacted areas even more so then? I think they are feeding breadcrumbs and leading people on to cover up a far deeper conspiracy.
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bythegarbz
2026 @12:23PM
(#65959334)
Attached to: Backseat Software
Kids these days have no idea of the unadulterated joy of nailing the perfect gear change
Pffft. Please millennial, come back and talk to us when you've driven something with some shitty enshittified "synchromesh" gearbox. Real men drive tractors, not that crappy sports car rubbish. And letting people walk on your lawn? What kind of bullshit is that! Why even have a lawn if you're going to treat it like that.
On a more serious note. Cars are a utility. Only a tiny subset of them exist to put a smile on your face. And smiles exist for different reasons. Having driven a manual for years I have a far bigger smile driving an electric with enough torque to send your passengers for a neck x-ray when the light goes green. You're finding joy in perfectly controlling a device that addressed a natural defect of the electric engine. More power to you, but 99.9% of people just want to get to work. The 6sp gearbox won't ever fully disappear, but then I don't think anyone considers an MR2 a commuter vehicle in the first place. Cars to fit the niche case of driving for the sake and joy of driving will always exist, but they are (and have been for a long time) a niche.
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bythegarbz
2026 @12:15PM
(#65959308)
Attached to: Backseat Software
For anyone who has recently setup Android Auto your car very much DOES do this. Worse still, it acts on its own bullshit.
Me: "Hey Google, navigate home."
Car: "Ok, navigating home. Did you know you can also ask for other things such as by saying Hey Google, play the news?"
Car: "Ok, changing the radio station to NewsFM"
Ooooh Microsoft should take note on its edge popups.
Me: [Clicks "No leave settings as they are"]
Microsoft: "You're all setup. You can change your settings at any time by saying Hey Cortana, change my default browser to Edge."
Cortana: "Okay, changing the default browser to Edge."
Marketing: "Yes we experienced a "bug" where Edge was set as the default browser".
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bythegarbz
2026 @12:09PM
(#65959282)
Attached to: Microsoft is Experimenting With a Top Menu Bar for Windows 11
So they took it away, then offer it back and say it's innovation? or news?
No one said this is innovation. This is something you made up in your head so you could get angry. Take a chill pill. But given how you can't currently do it, the fact that they are considering it going forward is very much news.
180701332
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bythegarbz
2026 @12:08PM
(#65959280)
Attached to: Microsoft is Experimenting With a Top Menu Bar for Windows 11
Get it left.
One of the problems is there really is no perfect location. Everything will ruin someone's workflow. Your example on the right while good on vertical screen space would drive me mental due to overshooting from the mouse when accessing a scrollbar (vertical scrolling is easier than horizontal scrolling for this reason). My vote is the bar on the left.
But then it overshooting the File menu will result in starting an app, that's the same problem as on the top.
The bottom right now is one of the places that a user's mouse doesn't normally go unless they are actively seeking the bar at the bottom (or a web developer can't design a website and you end up with a horizontal bar).
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bythegarbz
2026 @06:10AM
(#65958552)
Attached to: US Leads Record Global Surge in Gas-Fired Power Driven by AI Demands
Without requiring solar plus storage this result was clear over 2 decades ago
To be clear Solar + Storage was not viable 2 decades ago. The viability of storage came largely after the meteoric rise of lithium cell production for EVs.
Don't make a perfect soliton the enemy of the good enough for now
No one is doing that. The problem *now* is the haphazard approach to datacentre building. Not only is there an insanely crazy sudden rise in energy demand but in the interest of getting your product going before the competition people are literally building out power "infrastructure" in the worst possible ways. At this point they are one step above having employees leaving their cars idling in the garage and connecting up the alternators. Just look at Colossus 1 they are literally powering the datacentre from 35 temporary gas turbines, the type typically used for short duration small scale projects and they've been doing so for 18 months now.
This has nothing to do with grid design and everything to do with the utter insanity that is the AI boom driving datacentre demand. I'm surprised they haven't gone full bitcoin and fired up some coal plants.
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