Every once in a while security researchers would discover sophisticated exploits that would allow malwares to take over your computer via multimedia files, but those are actually rarely exploited in the wild by run off the mill malwares.

Unless you're an important person being targeted by hackers and three letter agencies, your biggest source of threat is running infected programs from untrusted sources, e.g. cracks downloaded from random torrents or warez sites, shady sites serving ads that trick you to run some executables, etc.

companies of the modern era have to justify their existence not just with success, but growth, and Microsoft's been struggling to do that

"The last year or so in videogames," says Bond, "largely the industry's been flat … [we saw some] tremendously groundbreaking games, but the growth didn't follow all that."

Whelp, now that everyone went back to work and not stuck at home anymore, it's actually amazing that the video game industry is still flat, but apparently that's not enough. Probably nothing can top covid19 effect to game industry anytime soon, unless they have another virus in the work /s

I thought they were using natural materials like ground coffee. Did some of them actually use plastic beads?

I think they should move firefox development back from mozilla corp to mozilla org, so the development process can be funded with donation again.

For example, wikipedia development and operation are funded by donations to wikimedia foundation, there is a commercial corp (wikimedia enterprise) but they're not in charge of development and operation of wikipedia.

Firefox, on the other hand, is entirely funded by mozilla corp. Any money donated to mozilla foundation is not used to fund firefox development. Instead, firefox development must be funded from search engine deals and ads. Why can't the community chip in to keep firefox alive?

Yes, fuck the future me who'll have to clean up the mess! That guy got what's coming to him.

Tesla fucking up traditional driving controls only make sense if their self-driving system is working so the driver has no need to touch the steering wheel except in rare case. How good is Tesla's full self driving these days?

They want to ban encryption? Let me guess, is it for the "safety" of children?

"Deploy the fully autonomous loitering munition drone!"

"Sir, the drone decided to blow up a kindergarten."

"Not our problem. Submit a bug report to Lockheed Martin."

At least with open street map, you can login to openstreetmap.org/edit and mark the bad road as private/gated or even delete it entirely. I did it on a bad road segment in my neighborhood and ride-sharing drivers no longer made wrong turns there (Grab apparently uses OSM instead of Google Maps data).

Me with my freshly built LFS which can do nothing except booting to bash:

I understand, but the dev works on this app full time so he has to earn a living somehow. Even the core Lemmy devs are able to work on Lemmy full time because they got some funding from a grant.

Remember, if the "good guys" got a backdoor access, the bad guys can use that backdoor too. In fact, the bad guys will probably use the backdoor much more frequently, which is why attempts to place backdoor on end-to-end encryption by various governments are very dangerous.