I agree mostly but whats really funny about this episode is the meta around it.

They actually attacked a lot of things in the episode and every joke is actually pretty good

I like to think that the episode wasn’t for fans as much as it was for Trump and team

I think the pay off (whether in real life or in the show itself) will be amusing in the end

Neocities is it’s own vibe all together.

There wasn’t much JS used on Geocities pages typically

That said, Neocities is the shit

If you are really good at what you do you could avoid a lot of the mess by driving a classic. (Scouring junkyards)

The real challenge though isn’t just that the parts will have tariffs; It seems like auto parts in general have taken a massive hit in quality

Tariffs are new.

They will push average prices even higher but the average new car price has been around 40k for a few years now.

It’s crazy to me. I just focus on my personal debts and pay off timelines and ignore my credit score these days.

Banks were willing to give me mortgages a couple of months ago that I in no way could afford based off my score (it’s actually good). None of this is grounded in reality; prior to 2020 those same fucks wouldn’t even pick up the phone for me.

… Try that shit in a small town?

Not the arbitrary made up numbers that some how go down every time I pay off a car loan!!!

I like cars, and even some luxury cars…

but it takes a special type of person to purchase a car that’s 2-3x as expensive as a basic commuter to own and costs 2x to operate.

Think about all the Hellcats you see (not luxury… but)… 70k and under 10mpg for a fuckin 2 door

That looks like a pretty good meal, nice job

I like to think of it as a lower case “t” when I see that it means “time to leave”

I have been on the other side of the equation professionally speaking.

I think we mostly agree.

The auditors were certainly not malicious, they can simply only see what they can observe.

Appealing to authority without explaining the caveats is risky to do and disingenuous to people who need to take security very seriously right now.

A potential vector or matter of concern does not mean there is a compromise. Without evidence of a hack or compromise you just have the idea that something could happen.

The app model in general has meant that we have given up tremendous amounts of privacy and security in general for the sake of connivence.

If I were the developer of this app I would’ve approached things from the inception with the question of “How do I get people to trust me who absolutely should not trust me?”

That said, it is always easier to tear down than it is to build.

If I were an at risk individual I would likely opt to use the app myself assuming I could share general location instead of specific location. In areas like LA there is likely a lot of data flowing in that would not help a malicious actor if the location is not specific.

When you do business with companies in certain industries not only is your software audited but your entire development process, business processes and staff are audited.

It’s not unreasonable to question a closed source application for something like this as one version was audited, but what about the next?

How do we know their dev process hasn’t been compromised? Or the person building app wasn’t compromised? Or that the entire thing was not compromised from the start?

Likewise, an audit without full access to code isn’t useless, but hiding behavior from an audit and for a certain period of time would be straight forward. How do you know there is not a dormant command and control system in the app that will cause it to behave in a malicious manner after a set amount of time or after a specific push notification is received?

I am not saying this is present, just that Audits like this are only able to catch what they can observe and the existence of an audit does not mean to blindly trust something

Having the App be open source would be a big step towards providing the transparency needed to address these concerns users would not have to trust anyone and can confirm the builds on the app stores match what is on their Git.

I am not pointing this out to jump on the “Don’t use this app” bandwagon. I am pointing it out to say that there are reasons to be skeptical of these sorts of things in our current political climate.

Remember Sabu and LulzSec

All a matter of preference.

I would say the most important thing to do is to pick a switch you think would be fun and then just pick the coolest looking keyboard that matches it.

The Keychron keyboards are a great starting point; They are pretty cheap so if you are unsure you won’t be too upset if you want to later try a bigger or smaller layout.

I can’t tell you my favorite layout unfortunately, I like 40%, 60%, full keyboards and even have a Kinesis (It helped me a lot with hand pain when I typed QWERTY. I recommend switching to DVORAK or another layout before spending so much money on a Kinesis these days)

DON’T IGNORE US MOTHER FUCKER!!

Courts are slow, but they are just.

Courts are frustrating. Hang in there, your daughter needs you and the courts will recognize that.

Your wife didn’t report payments to her own detriment, the courts won’t move swift on that but the records will show you did your part and she did not.

Courts are a war and not a battle. Don’t surrender due to one dishonorable win to the enemy side.

Neurotypical people don’t have to battle to stay awake during death march meetings?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commuter_Cars_Tango

Not sure, but this is an example of an incredibly narrow car that had a pretty reasonable top speed

Some of the claims seem… un reasonable but it would have to be relatively stable to hit highway speeds

Defcon 25 appears to be the first year of the voting village.

That said the late 2000s were full of discussion on voting machine security prior to the addition of the voting village. This was all old news by the time voting village was added.

This documentary explains where security was in 2006

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808532/

I haven’t watched this in a very long time but the hackers managed to procure source code from a public sever run by the company making the machines (Diebold I think) and faced some legal issues as a result.

They also illustrated a proof of concept attack where a counting machine was made to miscount votes to favor one person over another.

For people not in the know its very important to know that it is ILLEGAL for an independent 3rd party to perform penetration tests on voting machines without the manufacturer’s consent and the code that runs these machines is not public in any way that would allow for a proper audit of the systems to ensure that even the manufacturer has not tampered with the machine.

People who don’t understand and read these articles and think Skynet. People who know their buzz words think AGI

Fortune isn’t exactly renowned for its Technology journalism

Just worth pointing out, changing water source in Flint Michigan and not adding corrosion inhibitors seemed to do an excellent job for a short period.

From my perspective trans women seem to attract more vitriol than trans men at least in the media / at the macro level

A gender studies professor could have a field day breaking down the way the patriarchy plays into this on both sides of the equation I would imagine

I am an outsider though and know very little on these topics (other than to just be cool to people)