Badabinski

God I love Taskmaster.

I dunno, I'd slow your roll on that. Hanlon's razor came to notoriety in the field of computer science for a reason. I've done software dev professionally for over ten years now and you wouldn't believe the stupid shit I've seen people write. The only thing that sucks more than a computer is the human writing software for it.

For those unfamiliar, here's Hanlon's razor:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

EDIT: After a quick look at the CVEs, this definitely sounds like a big ol' fuckup. It sounds like there might be some unsafe defaults in polkit as well?

EDIT: Here's the report from the actual researchers which is MUCH more cogent than OP's article: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/06/17/4

It's chaining two separate oopsies together. This overview on GitHub also provides more details about the libblockdev side of things: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mpgj-hch9-5rvx

Specifically, this section:

However, a local attacker can create a specially crafted XFS image containing a SUID-root shell, then trick udisks into resizing it. This mounts their malicious filesystem with root privileges, allowing them to execute their SUID-root shell and gain complete control of the system.

That really doesn't sound like something intentional to me. That sounds like a HUGE oopsy-woopsy fucky-wucky, to get technical about it.

Absolutely fucking yes w.r.t. the characters being stupid in the show. In the books, the people from Preservation are incredibly competent.

It's really hurting my enjoyment of the show. Why can't we have competence porn like we used to with shows like TNG and DS9?

God damn that cat is chill as hell.

EDIT: just like, really fucking chill as shit yo

I was in a crowd of ten thousand people screaming "FUCK MIKE LEE" and god damn did it feel good and god damn do I want that to happen again where he can hear it.

Here's the source code: https://codeberg.org/kramo/sly

It's licensed under the GPL! That's a huge plus for me.

This also sucks because the CSB produces really awesome videos ):

Still, the drug’s average price of $466,200 a year is staggering even for rare-disease treatments.

What uh, the fuck‽

Hey!

Hey assholes!

What the fuck are you doing‽ This medicine is literally just a salt of an incredibly commonplace medicine that's been around for 50 fucking years. I get that you need to pay for your R&D costs and profit on top of that, but does that actually justify charging patients and insurance companies almost half a million dollars a year?

I fucking hate it. I'm glad that the people suffering from a horrific disease can have relief, but it makes me so fucking mad that they get a 466k yearly tax on their fucking lives.

At least the ACA's preexisting conditions thing hasn't been rolled back.

I was in a crowd of people screaming "FUCK MIKE LEE" on Saturday and god do I want to scream it again now. Mike Lee is such a worthless cunt and I'm furious that he supposedly represents me.

I wonder what the maximum theoretical efficiency is. The article says the current system is 20% efficient, which is not exactly good. I'm not a physicist so take this all with a grain of salt. They're going to have to overcome generation losses (this article says diode lasers can be 60% efficient but have Problems™), transmission losses (the inverse square law is a bitch, and they'll have to contend with atmospheric absorption and scattering), and receiving losses (they're using PVs which are famously not super duper efficient). I'm sure they're working on all of this, and it seems reasonable that you might be able to get power transmission up to, say, 50% efficiency. That's great and has its uses, but it's not going to replace transmission lines, batteries, solar panels, and gas generators. Plus, we're talking about sending 10 kilowatts of power across 200 km via light. Can you imagine how dangerous that would be? Like, what happens to anything in the path of that laser beam? What happens if the light gets reflected? a 10kW CW laser is no fucking joke!

EDIT: I could see this being useful for recharging/powering drones or something. It also seems like it would be much more useful in space where atmospheric scattering becomes a nothing burger.

Pig. It was INCREDIBLY emotionally effective and made me cry SO HARD FOR LIKE 20 MINUTES. Holy shit what a good movie.

https://lemm.ee/post/65824884