<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> it was the `sfc /scannow` of the era</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@gsuberland" class="u-url mention">@<span>gsuberland</span></a></span> nope</p>

<p>remember when you would have a computer problem and people would tell you to regsvr32 a DLL to fix it</p>

<p>What&#39;s to stop Musk, who&#39;s already tried meddling with German elections, from seizing Zelenskyy&#39;s, or any other European leader&#39;s X account, and posting something with dire geopolitical consequences? We&#39;re way past the point where it&#39;s wise for European leaders and institutions to rely on a presence on X—and other US platforms are not a good long-term solution either. More should follow the example of the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span> and provide their updates directly, without middlemen, through the fediverse.</p>

<p>At this point I think we can safely assume there&#39;s a moderate chance that the US will leverage access to their cloud companies to bully other countries, or do something that could get them embargoed. Having data in AWS, in gmail, in iCloud is a liability</p>

<p>not allowed to watch porn on Firefox anymore</p>

<p>UPDATE: Fuck it I&#39;m writing a garbage collector</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://is.badat.dev/users/meithecatte" class="u-url mention">@<span>meithecatte</span></a></span> you get used to it</p>

Q: How does a digital signal processing engineer change a lightbulb? A: Using the R2R ladder. Q: How does an RF/microwave engineer change a lightbulb? A: Using the infinite ladder. Q: How does an elliptic-curve cryptographer change a lightbulb? A: Using the Montgomery ladder.