I assume they do sometimes have feelings but it’s pretty hard to imagine how people who’d agree to work for Palantir would feel about literally anything other than being highly paid which they presumably enjoy.

Sure, but don’t forget to include the basics such as the root name servers: Verisign(A), USC-ISI, Cogent, U of Maryland, NASA Ames, ISC, Defence Information Systems Agency, US Army Research Lab, Netnod, Verisign(J), RIPE, ICANN, WIDE

Similar things could be said about things like “real” and “official.”

Sounds like a good way to hone your horoscope-writing skill.

I mean it’s better than nothing I guess but that is not what I’d call “freely available.” In addition to requiring that you use their shitty online viewer, it appears to require users to sign in to an account even to do that. It’s directly admitted on the website that they make it unusable in this way specifically because they rely on the revenue from selling real access to people who need it.

Sorry, but we can only get so much security by giving up your privacy, now we need the kind of security that can only be bought by giving up your security as well.

Microwaving is cooking. Vibe coding is to microwaving what staring at the food and pretending you have heat-ray vision is to microwaving.

It was patched in early 2023.

Federal agencies are required to apply the necessary patches by July 8, 2025

I think I’ve spotted an area in which there may be room for improvement in federal cybersecurity procedures. They should hire me as a consultant.

Why would anyone want to do that? Wouldn’t it be more fun to hide your super-secret image in the innocuous-looking threads dot net profile text of hundreds of users?

Cameras in the house? That is still creepy.

Your “empirical” sample size of one may be too small to get an accurate reading on the views of contemporary Christianity.

Yep. It sends me to fsf.org. If the link goes here or anywhere else and such things bother you, fix your “referer” settings.

They’ve been warning us about the dangers of a Cyber Pearl Harbor since 1991 but I’m not too worried: Computer systems have become much more flaky and unreliable than they were then, so we’re much better prepared for none of them working.

Wait… do you guys not have a favourite rock?

Sure that would be technically more correct, more tasteful, and less confusing. But some people may not know the words “port” and “starboard.” Frequent train users would become accustomed to it soon enough but you’ll always have some people from out of town whose first language is not English, and their limited vocabulary is more likely to include “left” and “right.” On a utilitarian basis we must weigh their needs in the equation when considering this problem. Then again there are also some people who can’t tell left from right either. We could paint one side of the train green and the other red, but then we might have a problem with the colourblind train users’ lobby. What’s really needed is 15 million dollars and a six-month user experience design study to decide on the best approach.

Eating only carbohydrates is low carb? I don’t get it.

Alexander von Humboldt would disagree

Most of that oxygen has been around I would think, but I guess some atoms would’ve come from recent micrometeorites or whatever.

What do you mean “almost”?

About 97% less salacious than you’d guess from the headline.