

Well you Alexes seem a pretty cool bunch


Well you Alexes seem a pretty cool bunch


Do I need to read Dark Alex 1 through 16 to have an appreciation of the plot or can I jump in here?


raises hand


Read this for an actual article written by a real person
https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/



Checks out


?? okay
Aren’t all the people who make up the company shitty, either by direct overt action or by being complicit in their inaction?


Yes but aren’t they shit people


Are you the mightiest horserer of the lands


I like the one that folds like a GBA SP.
Not that I’m gonna buy one based on that.
But if I’m choosing between two identical models but one folds (and I guess it isn’t that much more expensive), I’d go for the folding one.
Except, of course, for the fact that the next phone I buy will be Commodore’s Callback.


Yokai for manga and comics.


Especially rough with the Snowden post on the top of most people’s front page today.


I mean
Like…
Yes?
Yes, that’s what happened. That is the correct word for it.
Attackers exploited vulnerabilities in a system in order to run code on other people’s machines


https://aur.archlinux.org/ warns you about it


You don’t get to see the code that way, which is where bad actors thrive. Also it wasn’t compiled for exactly your system.


You’re right, but web browsers can be pretty brutal to build and they are for sure never going to add -bin versions.


I think there was a word missing.
To respond to what I think you were saying, this event happened in the Arch User Repository, and not the official repositories.
Arch is very clear that they are not responsible for what goes on in the AUR. For example on https://aur.archlinux.org/ :
The Debian equivalent would be somewhere between extrepo and PPAs.


I’ve sat in on support calls where the human on the other side paused before answering and then sent responses that were clearly pasted from AI.
Yeah. OP got them laid was my first thought.