Env var means “environment variable”, which is information that’s available to all programs you run.
In Linux these are used to set path info for your package manager, shell preferences, a bunch of stuff.
In Windows it’s the same. You need to look up how to set env vars in Windows
Well yeah, that just requires a consensus on what is trustworthy. There are some things that are trustworthy, and you need to have some way to identify that, if you are going to protect yourself.
But that just shifts the blame to the user, who is a non expert, and we don’t really have good ways to identify safe software products. There’s stuff like CSA for physical products. It’s short-sighted to say “well if you don’t know, use nothing”, because that’s not going to happen.
I’m also in Canada. Just because I’m not using it, I’m not going to give either of these guys a pass on maybe hurting people, or even putting them at risk of harm.
Wouldn’t need so much regulation if things were just well reasoned and fit for purpose. Or if they would stop only pretending to be those.
Well on one hand sure.
On the other hand, detrimental reliance is a tort and if someone is relying on an app for a specific safety function, the app could be civilly liable if it fails it’s function in some way.
Imagine if you had this attitude about an insulin use tracker/calculator, that sometimes gave wildly wrong insulin dose numbers.
Maybe down the road, it’s decided that aiding and abetting ICE is a crime, and providing misinformation intentionally or unintentionally is a criminal act. App developer dude could be criminally liable if he knew or ought to have known he had vulnerabilities. You know, in your New Nuremberg trials that you are going to get sometime in the next decade or so.
That’s not to say the researcher is in the clear, the timeline is too tight for his end of this to be a responsible disclosure.
Without providing more details, I also discovered that his server is running outdated software with known vulnerabilities.
I was intentionally vague because I knew that his server was vulnerable at the time of writing, and I didn’t want anyone to exploit one of these vulnerabilities before he had a chance to fix it.
Also, this is not vague, profiling techniques exist, and it puts a clear target on the iceblock servers.
Yeah I get it now, those kinds of folks don’t know the difference
We could redo that one pawnstars meme
Well yeah sure, it’s just a little histrionic to call all government owned businesses communism. They aren’t enforcing a monopoly on chip fab or anything.
Trump tries to ban AMD then sure, it’s communism and would be super weird.
I never took a stance on it.
Examples of federal Crown corporations include: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Canada Post
These are fine, fairly high quality in terms of service. And I guess in general these two having revenue streams and self funding mean that I don’t pay taxes to run a national broadcaster and our postal service.
I would rather not have junk mail or advertisements in our public broadcasts. I would have to look at numbers to say whether the taxes are a worthwhile trade-off.
I do not want news or mail to only have corporate owned options, because then capitalist interests would have a much heavier influence on communications is Canada. I wish we had a national crown ISP, for the same reason.
In Canada, state-owned corporations are referred to as Crown corporations, indicating that an organization is established by law, owned by the sovereign (either in right of Canada or a province), and overseen by parliament and cabinet.
In favour of what
Plenty of capitalist companies are government owned. Canada has crown corporations, for example, that do generate profits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_government-owned_companies
I don’t disagree with anything else you said, they are a cult it’s just not communist at all. Fascist yes
And it’s communism.
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This ain’t gonna be that buddy, this is capitalist maneuvers the whole way. Either funds will be shoveled into private pockets or the value of this will be juiced to support the extrajudicial shit that’s going on.
They brodcasted it and didn’t do anything when people raised awareness, sure.
And they made money on it.
Married with children isn’t a fib
Violence is fine. What’s not fine is the permanent disfigurement or death of participants and the lack of preventative controls against that.
In a cage match, a participant would never be ignored long enough to stop breathing, like they did here.
Kink playing is ultimately the responsibility of the top, if this was that.
It’s not, because they disregarded that person’s state of well-being in a continued way.
Jackass stunts and fights aren’t sustained over multiple days ever
I googled and apparently kick has been doing 180 million revenue yearly, so this is refreshingly high in terms of a fine.
I’ll be fucked if I ever use a camera app only. I need to set my network to black hole outgoing traffic from the one reolink camera I have before I plug it back in.