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Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only
  • I do feel like we may have hit a time where the groups classifying CVEs are a bit desperate for numbers. It's really hard to tell the legitimate ones from the ones where it's like "If you had tiny gremlins with soldering irons living inside your PC, its possible they might be able to determine what year your computer thinks it is. The gremlins are assumed to have full domain admin access".

  • Colours of the eye
  • It's sad that this skips over all the edge cases... and most of them are rare and there is an 'Other' category. Amber eyes are relatively common though and I think that would be worth a callout and a brief mention that it's not always just melanin that affects eye color.

  • Sovcit is going to try and charge the IRS.
  • They will if it's more than 45 days late, when that starts is usually going to be 'from tax day', that can vary, but it's usually for reasons that would typically be your fault (filed late, etc). They even use the same rates they would charge you if you were late to pay them. This has never happened to me, but I'm told that the interest accrual is automatic, supposedly don't even have to ask.

  • yikes rule
  • There's a lot of books out there that I think are famous because they're exceptionally shitty just in a different way than is typical. Same way I personally feel about Ulysses, It's not a literary puzzle, it's just a shitty book where the author tried something stupid and then just kinda kept going. I think Nabokov is a bit more effective, but it's along the same vein.

  • 'Babbling' and 'hoarse': Biden's debate performance sends Democrats into a panic
  • I admire your optimism, but even if you aren't willing to bend the rules and stick to the letter of the ethics rules, you can still use campaign funds for a fairly broad amount of items. And, if you are willing to bend the rules... when's the last time you heard of someone getting in trouble for misuse of campaign funds? If you remember one at all, i'd wager it was George Santos, and it took a huge amount of misuse there for people to start paying attention.

  • Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk.
  • This makes me irrationally angry because whenever I hear this, putting the time it took to ask would have been enough time to just type up a few sentences in an email that would explain everything everyone needed to know and then we've also got it in an easily searchable format so we can reference it later if needed.

    I may be a little bitter.

  • 'Babbling' and 'hoarse': Biden's debate performance sends Democrats into a panic
  • I think we've been operating on the false assumption that the Democratic partys primary goal is to win. I would wager that as far as campaign contributions go, it's likely better for them financially if they barely lose. I feel like the past few presidential races have been the American populace trying to force them to win anyways when they obviously didn't want to.

    A lot of their decisions make a lot more sense in that context.

  • Synchronizing user (files, configs, etc) between 2 machines
  • Not super popular, but i've been using Resilio Sync for years, it's from what used to be the Bittorrent Foundation.

    The UI has all the features I need but is still simple and I've been using it for years and have never had to spend any time troubleshooting it post-install. I'm not sure what that gets you over syncthing though.

  • Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims
  • The 'But, everyone is a bit evil' argument is such bullshit, the concern here is obviously the extent of the surveillance, but no one can say you're entirely wrong because the definition of that is so broad.

    It's kind of technical, but there are comparisons on the report itself, even a fancy table, to other popular shopping apps and there are some legitimately troubling items. For anyone else, I'd recommend skipping direct to the source:

    https://grizzlyreports.com/we-believe-pdd-is-a-dying-fraudulent-company-and-its-shopping-app-temu-is-cleverly-hidden-spyware-that-poses-an-urgent-security-threat-to-u-s-national-interests/

  • The Steam Summer Sale is live now!
  • As others have said, prices should be mostly stable, especially for big names, but you still might see a few small devs who were like "Oh shit, its the summer sale, we should add a discount" halfway through.

  • 75 tons of illegal fireworks seized in Los Angeles area, largest fireworks bust in California history
  • I know it's kinda hard to quantify and fireworks can be overpriced, but street value up to 10 million and 150,000 pounds puts that at around $67 a pound per fireworks. I know that's also a weird metric to use for fireworks, but that feels pretty high.

  • Having to score strangers on their 'empathy' and 'courtesy' and 'knowledge' (anything less than a 5 star is a 'bad grade', I am sure)
  • Probably doesn't matter. Having worked similar jobs in the past there's usually a question along the lines of how you feel about the company overall and if you answer negatively the whole survey counts against them and it sometimes only takes 2 or 3 of those in a month for them to get fired.

    Turnover is intentionally exceptionally high and employees aren't usually treated that well. Pay was pretty great comparatively at the time though.

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