CodeWriter23

> You can find more info and the launch video at the listed URL.

Maybe I'm a complete dumbass but I could not find a video at any of the URLs on this post using Chrome under Sonoma.

Maybe they should simply stop fighting against survival.

I don't get it. Even in the late 80's we had these devices called "speaker phones" that facilitated remote meetings.

FatBits was life altering for me.

There's plenty of other public information. The FBI was searching his house for undisclosed reasons, so most definitely they have some kind of investigation open on him. And his degrees were issued by universities in Nanjing and Shanghai, China, strongly suggesting he is a Chinese National, perhaps naturalized to the United States.

That was known at the time of my post.

We now also know now at the time of his escape, Indiana University had terminated his Professorship. And has continued to disavow he and his wife.

I did not misuse Occam's razor, my knowledge of public facts simply exceeded yours.

Occam’s Razor suggest he was exfiltrated.

Nah, that’s a malfunction of your reading comprehension.

That's the thing about exigency, it is temporary.

Acts in public are not protected. This, however is:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

"primary", I hope as a commenter out here you understand what that means.

> This spreadsheet was the primary data file

>> - as crappy as that is, thats pretty common.

No. This is not a common practice. An Accounting / ERP system with full audit trails and data entry compliance is. Exporting data from such a system into Excel for analysis is. But Excel as the [re-reads] Primary data file is not a practice at all.

> You do realize this is Microsoft we're talking about here?

Fiscal responsibility: required

> Not merely a couple dudes in their bedroom doing this in their spare time?

Fiscal responsibility: optional

I would also point out, the malware-infested extension we are talking about presents more as the “two guys in a bedroom” model (though possibly a state-sponsored actor).

Paid JetBrains user here. What JetBrains gives you is self-implemented add-ons in their marketplace. These are perceived to have the same level of trust as the base product. Then there is the similar level of “might be malware” or “steal your infoware” from (possibly adapted) open source and third parties available on their marketplace.

Apples to oranges or should I say Advertising Revenue vs. Freemium Revenue models

PSA: every package you install from any package manager from browser extensions to npm/composer etc presents the risk of malware. Because the open source community lacks the financial resources to vet every single version of every package. Demanding this level of security from software provided at no cost that relies on open contributions is wholly unreasonable. If you need that, buy an IDE from a company financially capable of ensuring security and accept the limitations of their offering.

Mitigations like running in a VM might protect your dev workstation. But not code you put into production that relies on third parties.

If Apple was a real American Company they would solve this issue by withdrawing their devices from the UK.

Never used an auto-dialer myself, but it would be trivial to code one. Just send ATDT<number> out the serial port and see if "CONNECT" comes back before timing out.

Back in that time, I think a good rate was $0.01/minute for a local call on a consumer landline. Unlimited calling plans came later. Not attributing any intent to the telco, just saying, there would be no cost issue to motivate an investigation.

1981? Security mostly was knowing which phone number to dial in, according to a deceased friend of mine.

Model? Or Malware?

That humanoid figure, looks like dude is getting some bad acid.

NBC is delusional, thinking Trump who ran on a law and order platform is going to disregard the law.

Coders who require at least 7 iterations to properly implement a data entry form here grousing over a spaceship failure on the 7th iteration.

Wow. Way to not even recognize how you personally benefit from road subsidies. I assume you buy groceries at a grocery store, for example.

As a 5 Time World Universal Paperclip Champion, I think this game is garbage.

Doesn't Bambu have "Purge to infill" in its Orca fork?

> get an encrypted result set.

seems to me at that point, the server knows what segment of the overall dataset is being returned.

And then when the system does the computation to determine your location (wait.what?)

This obviously requires location services to be enabled. Why does this need ML? Hit a GIS lookup API with the lat/long of the photo.

This is weird.

Admiring your courage in dumping your repo raw and uncut.