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This is not intended as an excuse for corporate laziness by any means, but: For most of my lifetime, data breaches had to be carried out by on-site and by hand. The advent of computers, and then the internet, made this crap a lot easier. So, y’know, it’s a pretty short timeline relative to a human lifespan to be having data breaches in the first place.

Looks like it is not:

Update: Sorry, but a commenter points out that this may just be an artifact of counting based on when most recently modified, not on original submission date.

Numbers using original, not most recent, submission dates

For 12/1 to 12/31 the numbers were
2022: 800
2023: 811
2024: 815
2025: 855

For 1/1 to 2/1
2022:510
2023:490
2024:501
2025:544
2026:617

For 2/1 to 2/15
2022:255
2023:221
2024:280
2025:276
2026:311

These do show significant increases year to year for the last couple months, but not the near doubling indicated by the other numbers. The hep-th arxiv apocalypse is not here yet.

Well she’s not a goombah, that’s for sure!

That’s Elvira, so now I need to go find out when the hell there was an Elvira/Mario crossover.

Aaaand I’m back, that was quick: https://www.mariowiki.com/Elvira

I also found these:

1. Mommies Curse: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uMaWivRnhBw
2. Ghoul Of My Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BNbgeHP6ZY

80s TV was crazy.

My server auction went up by €0.94, from €31. I’m not mad; I probably would be if it had gone up by €9. Hetzner have been fantastic though, so a small increase like this after so long is not hard to swallow.

Generally. It’s an affliction.

Come hang with me for a weekend and we’ll test that out. Worst case, I just keep you green! 😂

The 95% ethanol you can get at the store is typically methylated, so it will make you sick or kill you to drink it. I think that has to do with the alcohol lobby.

But anyway, it is possible to buy up to 100% pure anhydrous ethanol, it’s just a specialty item and illegal in some states like California. Probably easier to make it, if you have time on your side.

Hey, we don’t know that this happened in Scotland.

Aw. That’s quite sweet; this sheep was at the end of its life and slowly losing what understanding it had of the world, and these two innocent children kept it company and gave it unconditional love the whole time.

So elegant! This is too valuable for GitHub, sell this directly to the Saudi government.

Here ya go: https://www.jalopnik.com/tesla-remotely-removes-autopilot-features-from-customer-1841472617/

Edit: Ah, sold privately, as in directly between individuals? I’m not sure about that, but they totally could. They can track the location of the car; if it starts getting parked at a different house regularly, for example, it’d be easy to tell it’d been sold.

Does the super power always have to be projectile vomiting and passing out for twelve hours?

Yes?

Okay.

Hey, at least it put the raptor inside the raptor engine this time!

I wanted a Tesla, until about seven or eight years ago when they switched off features after some dude bought his Tesla used, because only the original owner had paid for the features.

I knew this is what it would turn into. Fuck Tesla, and fuck Musk.