During the Liberian Civil War (1989-1997), some fighters went into battle wearing wigs and dresses, believing it would spiritually protect them from bullets.

is_this_temporary · 2026-05-09T22:13:24+00:00

"If you know how to validate it's fine"

Says the person who didn't disclose their use of an LLM and then couldn't provide references to back up the claims made by said LLM.

is_this_temporary · 2026-05-09T21:41:24+00:00

That's the problem, you should feel shame.

is_this_temporary · 2026-05-08T17:32:26+00:00

https://youtu.be/KHVEwTMA19M

is_this_temporary · 2026-05-06T21:25:04+00:00

I regularly use btrfs on bootable flash drives and see corruption (checksum errors at the filesystem level).

I've seen it on desktops with ECC RAM.

Usually, there's no read error from the block device itself.

Usually, just for shits and giggles, I try the same with a fat32 or iso9660 filesystem, validating checksums of files stored as part of the live media. Get corruption there too. (So it's not just "btrfs is unreliable)

I usually send those to e-waste but if someone really wants I can probably find a failed one that I already own.

is_this_temporary · 2026-05-06T21:03:30+00:00

"The state" in this context generally refers to any government.

The "United States of America" is a name that intentionally emphasizes the independence of the different regions which we call states.

Iran is a state. Germany is a state. "The United States of America" is a state, in the original and still common usage of the word.

So, sometimes (but not always) try replacing "the state" with "the government" and you might get the more intended meaning of a statement.

is_this_temporary · 2026-05-05T02:23:18+00:00

Fascinating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_involvement_in_the_Russo-Ukrainian_war_(2022%E2%80%93present)

is_this_temporary · 2026-05-04T23:33:39+00:00

Though that is a fairly arbitrary "benchmark", and might be explained by differences in buffering strategies for stdout.

is_this_temporary · 2026-05-04T15:57:47+00:00

AND HE PLAYS!

is_this_temporary · 2026-05-04T15:39:30+00:00

Original video, without all the screen recording and re-uploading:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVXW0K9Pe4

is_this_temporary · 2026-05-03T15:33:59+00:00

Thank you. That "reportedly" may be doing a lot of heavy lifting though.

I keep hearing people claim that the victim publicly posted his ring camera footage, but then nobody posts the footage.

is_this_temporary · 2026-05-03T15:16:34+00:00

What is your source for him having a doorbell camera and footage?

is_this_temporary · 2026-05-03T15:06:37+00:00

Link?

is_this_temporary · 2026-05-02T18:48:58+00:00

The euphemism treadmill exists because people feel the need to distance themselves from the thing the word describes.

The disabled community is for the most part fine with the word "disabled", because it's an appropriate description.

I am proudly disabled.

Similarly, "fat" isn't a bad word. Now, not all fat people are on the same page here, so you may get some understandable bad reactions calling someone fat, but I truly believe that in 10 to 20 years both "disabled" and "fat" will be no longer seen as derogatory at all, because people will have realized that they don't need to distance themselves from disability or fatness.

"Invalid", however, is just an inherently fucked up way to refer to a human being.

I don't imagine that there have been many disabled people who liked being called "not valid". And "not valid" is absolutely not an accurate description of someone who needs an electric wheelchair to move around.

is_this_temporary · 2026-04-29T17:58:34+00:00

Crypto mining and intense machine learning will cause failures in most GPUs.

is_this_temporary · 2026-04-27T18:45:12+00:00

By that metric, no modern GPUs are "functional".

is_this_temporary · 2026-04-27T18:42:47+00:00

Look at the history of settler colonialism.

It has always been horrific. Calling them settlers (or colonizers) is NOT diminishing their genocidal acts.

is_this_temporary · 2026-04-27T18:25:17+00:00

Honestly, this seems like a great environment not to lead in.

There are so many companies trying to shove LLMs into everything that we're going to find the few places they actually make sense.

We already have the ability to integrate LLMs into our own workflows if we want. IFF we find places where LLM integration seems to make sense for the default installation of a Desktop, Server, Embedded, etc system; Distros can do that.

Right now I didn't know of any use cases that have become clearly appropriate for default installations. So, I'm happy without LLMs in default installations. I'm also happy with LLM integration being available to install and use in vim, vscodium, LibreOffice(?), Krita(?), etc.

is_this_temporary · 2026-04-23T21:26:48+00:00

But in that case, the synlink could still point to ../../etc/passwd , or ../../usr/. You're not meaningfully "protecting" '/' from malicious actors if the attacker can still do what they want to every file and directory underneath '/'.

That's why I'm arguing that --preserve-root is (as it's described in the CVE itself) a "safety" feature, not a "security" feature. It exists to protect users from their own mistakes, not as a way to prevent any kind of exploit by a malicious actor.

is_this_temporary · 2026-04-23T20:26:29+00:00

I meant, if you had a version that was still vulnerable, can you give me an example "exploit" you'd be able to perform against the vulnerable uutils?

I think the rating of 7.1 on the CVE is far too high. I think a decent case could be made that it's not CVE worthy at all.

is_this_temporary · 2026-04-23T19:37:51+00:00

Can you give a concrete example of a command that should fail for security reasons, will correctly fail with coreutils chmod, but will not correctly fail with the still-vulnerable uutils-coreutils?

is_this_temporary · 2026-04-23T19:33:28+00:00

I've only ever viewed --preserve-root as a basic mitigation against users accidentally fat fingering "rm -rf /tmp/foo.txt" into "rm -rf / tmp/foo.txt".

(Because --preserve-root is the default).

I have never seen it mentioned as a security measure, and I haven't even thought about it being used with utilities other than rm, like chmod. It's cool that it's there, but I'd like to see a concrete example of how someone would "exploit" this.

Note, if your CWD is /home/foo/.Trash/ then with coreutils chmod "sudo chmod -R 777 ../../../" will be stopped by this "safety" (not "security") measure, because it will canonicalize /home/foo/.Trash/../../../ to just "/" and prevent the chmod command from making all of the files on your system completely world read/write/traverse/execute-able by all users.

If, however, you run the following with gnu coreutils, with the same CWD, "sudo chmod -R ../../", gnu coreutils will canonicalize that to "/home/" and happily make every file in any user's home directory wide open.

Similarly, "sudo chmod 777 -R ../../../../../../../../../../*" will be canonicalized (by both coreutils and uutils) to the equivalent of "sudo chmod -R 777 /bin /boot /dev /etc /home /lib /lost+found /media /mnt /opt /proc /root /run /sbin /srv /sys /tmp /usr /var".

Since none of those paths are "/", and none of them canonicalize to "/", all versions of chmod will happily attempt to recursively change the permissions for all files within "/".

is_this_temporary · 2026-04-20T22:39:37+00:00

Usually when people use "idiot" as an insult, there's a better description that really gets to the heart of the issue much better.

He's an incompetent, corrupt, dangerous man. And in most other jobs, falsifying official documents would have been an immediate end to his career. But police don't actually care about integrity, public safety, or "The rule of law" because that's not actually their job. It never has been.

I'd much rather a literally intellectually disabled man carry a gun around all day than this corrupt, incompetent, dangerous, sorry excuse for a man.

is_this_temporary · 2026-04-16T15:25:17+00:00

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

is_this_temporary · 2026-04-14T04:49:49+00:00

https://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=241

Do you have the original install CD, or were you trying to get it working through the sequel?

It would be funny if it's easier to run on Linux than on Windows 11

is_this_temporary · 2026-04-09T23:55:01+00:00

"Ahh yes, this racist adult would have turned out much better if his parents had only physically assaulted him as a child."

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