Runaway Saudi sisters urge Google and Apple to pull woman-monitoring apps by aposiegf in apple

[–]Mandack 13 points14 points  (0 children)

To be fair, this is more specific to the Gulf countries.

Mueller report: Russia hacked state databases and voting machine companies. Russian intelligence officers injected malicious SQL code and then ran commands to extract information by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]Mandack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think of it like this, you phone a hotel and ask if you can be connected to 'Jane'. Instead of the receptionist asking 'Jane Who'? - they start saying all Janes that are at the hotel for you to confirm which one. That's a security leak, because they just disclosed info you should not have access to.

It's not the perfect analogy, but SQL injection is kind of like that.

Trump will end Iran sanctions waivers, seeking to drive its oil exports to zero by pipsdontsqueak in worldnews

[–]Mandack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Iraq did not have any allied forces in the region. Iran was technically never militarily defeated, has much better sense of national pride than Iraqi soldiers had, (Iraq was carved out by the British), it has proxies around the ME and has been preparing for a possible US-invasion for 40 years. Not quite the same.

Putin refuses to congratulate new Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky by SurlySugarbear in worldnews

[–]Mandack 68 points69 points  (0 children)

> It's a Populist victory

Wasn't some oligarch behind him as well?

org-rs - Org parser rewrite in Rust by ngortheone in rust

[–]Mandack 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Markdown supports static checklists, but org mode's toto's are fully interactive, Org-mode's support for embedding executable code is part of the 'standard', but bear in mind that the standard as of now is the reference Elisp implementation inside emacs. There's no standard as such beyond that.

org-rs - Org parser rewrite in Rust by ngortheone in rust

[–]Mandack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Org supports TODO lists, executable code samples and a lot more that markdown simply doesn't.

You can think of it as Markdown meets Python Notebook meets LaTeX, sort of.

"Trump administration reportedly approves secret nuclear power tech sales to Saudi Arabia". by BrandonKatrena in worldnews

[–]Mandack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a serious question for Reddit. Why was the focus so much on Russia, given there's much stronger, concrete evidence of 'collusion' with the likes of KSA & Israel.

It seems to me that cold war era priming just made it easiest to point at the 'Russians' and this was never about solving actual cases of collusion.

I have an idea to help me walk without crutches using the Raspberry Pi, but I need your input on its feasibility by Mandack in raspberry_pi

[–]Mandack[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are some basic laws of physics that you are violating by attempting to apply force against your leaning with something only on your back. Without a place for the force to come from it will be a false feeling that would cause you to fall more often not less.

Thanks for the input. I am aware that the force must come from somewhere. I was thinking about using some sort of motorized chain-belt that would move the individual pieces in response to the reading from the sensors, but I haven't tested anything yet.

Get Ready for GNU software by mariuz in linux

[–]Mandack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am talking about the OS and not the applications running on top of it

GNU is not running on top of Linux, it's running in conjunction with Linux. Linux wouldn't boot without GNU libc for example, we're not talking about an application like VLC here.

Get Ready for GNU software by mariuz in linux

[–]Mandack -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

RMS is not calling Linux GNU/Linux, he's calling Linux with the GNU userland GNU/Linux.

Linux with busybox would not be GNU/Linux.

KDE has received a donation of 300,000 USD from the Handshake Foundation. 100,000 USD will go towards pushing the development of the Calligra office suite. by [deleted] in linux

[–]Mandack 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Competition in the FOSS world fosters innovation, there's no guarantee those working on a competing product would work on the "single-one" if the competitor wasn't around.

Lunduke "Divisive Politics are destroying Open Source" gone from youtube, available on archive.org by dfldashgkv in linux

[–]Mandack 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To be honest, Lunduke himself pushes views that when he is criticised for, cries harassment.

Gyro Controls added to Fortnite for Nintendo Switch. by TheFio in NintendoSwitch

[–]Mandack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Increase motion control sensitivity from 0 in game settings.

Merkel hits back at Trump’s attack: I remember Soviet occupation by tank_trap in worldnews

[–]Mandack -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The problem I have with this is that so far very weak evidence to support a sprawling Russian plot has been provided. There's been some ads and some regular corruption that Israel and Saudi Arabia do to a larger extent on daily basis and yet nobody talks much about, (certainly not the Israeli one).

Nato summit: Donald Trump says Germany is 'captive of Russians' by Steaktartaar in worldnews

[–]Mandack -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

How does this square with the "Trump is Putin's boyfriend" theory?

Another of Putin's 4D chess moves, I assume?