Unfortunately this is chump change to them, they’re trying to either get blood from a stone or hope that you’re so integrated with slack that you literally can’t switch and pony up the cash. You’d probably get to their rep’s manager at most, if they even have a rep at all.

So they get a slap on the wrist and have learned nothing.

I expected as much, but it still fucking sucks that anti-trust is still as toothless as ever.

I remember walking out of that talk and thinking:

If this is the quality of research you can present at DefCon nowadays, I guess I should find some bullshit and send in a request to present to check that bucket list item off.

Literally if you have privileged code execution in the browser (which extensions usually do) of course you can do bullshit like this.

There’s also no reason to steal the passkey since you can do things like send requests on the behalf of the user or modify the page to trick them into running something.

The bits about shadowing the JavaScript API they called out as critical, and like yes (JS is the work of the devil), but also that’s how fucking JavaScript works.

You’re giving a talk to some of the most technical people in the world, how the fuck did they even come close to the presenter stage here. It didn’t go over anything new and if you knew anything about the topic at hand it reeked of bullshit.

I’d argue this is more c/orphancrushingmachine but okay…

How could even 36.9% of Americans hold a favorable view of an actual Nazi?

Because there’s a lot of people in the US who either are Nazis or agree with their policies.

Nazis view other Nazis favorably.

The rest believe that someone in their “ingroup” cannot do any wrong. If they did something abhorrent it must have been a good reason or it’s clearly a joke so they didn’t mean it.

It really comes down to these people are brainwashed into thinking that someone like Musk is a genius/good person/role model. If he’s got all of these “good” qualities how can he believe or something so incredibly evil? The answer is that they just shrug it off because he’s “one of them” and because they believe they’re a good person he must be too.

If you’re wondering, I’d like to not be driving a Tesla. But it’s paid off, worth basically nothing in resale, and I got it as a CPO with free charging and autopilot for life. It costs Tesla money to keep it.

Honestly just put a bunch of anti-Elon bumper stickers on your car and keep it until the battery shits the bed, it will be worth more as scrap metal. It’s costing you nothing and actively costing Tesla something.

I get the stigma of having a Tesla, but some people did in fact buy it before Elon’s fascist tendencies were widely known. Its the people who buy one now after knowing how much more of a piece of shit he is that piss me off (like one of my neighbors who got a Tesla recently).

If you have a Cybertruck though, fuck you, I hope your $100k+ death trap bursts into flames after a slight pothole taking you with it. Your car is actively making the roads less safe and you knew who you were buying it from.

So fun fact about that quote,

It wasn’t actually said by Voltaire, it was actually originally from a neo-nazi named Kevin Strom who pled guilty to possession of child pornography.

Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/massie-neo-nazi-voltaire/

If you want a deeper dive into this guy Molly Conger did one on her podcast Weird Little Guys. It’s the “Do We Really Need to Talk About Kevin?” Episode.

You know how all employers have talent pools? Think of those applicants as being in a barrel and you can scoop out a prospective applicant pretty easily. Regular companies do this no problem.

Now Deloitte, being more profit focused company looks at that and says “There’s obviously a better and cheaper way to do this, we’re Deloitte, we know how to save cost and deliver”

They have discovered that if you go all the way to the bottom of the barrel, almost no one can extract the useless hard fibrous bottom. Deloitte broke the mold here, they exclusively extract the bottom, each applicant making the talent pool slightly larger for regular companies. Chewing the fibers into a grotesque cud-like mass that is impervious to all possible methods of digestion known to corporate kind.

They have learned to extract and refine so much of the bottom that in 2021 they ran out! They hit the very floor the barrel was placed on. Deloitte not to out do themselves thought “Hey, we did so well with the whole useless bottom thing, our clients literally can’t get away. What if we tried to extract the literal floor itself? There’s no end to it, we can extract it endlessly, forever!”

This method of extraction, gave Deloitte an ace in the hole, there’s no possible way for another corporation to acquire talent in this manner! The quality of candidate here can’t be overstated, they literally are chunks of the literal bedrock of society that produce work that would make a Jr vibe coder’s AI segfault just by parsing it.

Deloitte has evolved into a parasite that sucks the life force from their clients and provides products that endlessly lose them money. Their crown jewel is literally having the worse possible employees that could provide a “working” implementation of what was requested by their client.

Source:

I’ve literally had to clean up Deloitte’s messes when their clients don’t understand why the provided software doesn’t work. I’ve seen literal grade schoolers who can write more competent applications.

I’ll give you that. He’s an advanced level of stupid that I’m surprised he has any amount of influence at all…

I don’t think there’s ever been smart ones… They constantly have to scapegoat someone lest the rabble finds out they’re just pilfering the country and everything is collapsing.

Yes.

Yes and no, its an official release, but basically these are “We think this issue is resolved or this new feature is ready”. The GrapheneOS team does a gradual rollout to prevent causing people issues (since people literally can live out of their phones).

Alpha channel users get it, if they don’t notice any issues roll it out to beta channel users, if no issues found in the wider beta users, roll out to stable.

Basically it prevents a bug from being pushed out to everyone and causing headaches for the devs. You can’t know everyone’s use case so by having a smaller number of users who are expecting breakage you can find bugs or showstoppers early before it lands on a more nontechnical users device.

Are you on the stable branch? Graphene does roll outs slowly (alpha->beta->stable), once the changes have been proven stable they get pushed out to everyone. Judging by the fact the devs have been pushing releases, the changes aren’t stable enough for prime time. It happens.

If they could read, they’d be very upset.

There’s definitely at least one thought marble rolling around in there. His “no thoughts, just vibes” requires his tongue out.

Chase is life, but who was really chasing who

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