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Archive for June, 2018

God Dammit Facebook


For all their talk about being high-tech and leaders in AI, Facebook completely sucks at identifying and blocking fake accounts. There are a slew of PVA account sellers - "phone verified accounts" where scripts build an account, friend it with a stack of other accounts, and post fraudulent wall updates to make it look real, […]

LOL, Damn


So, MS has their own version of R (a stats language). They tried making a deb, and in their postinst, delete /bin/sh and relink it. OK. I was a n00b once, and even I didn't think it was a good idea to DELETE someone's shell inside of an installation script. Talk about brave/stupid. Maybe that's […]

Sick of This


Go away, Microsoft. Now I've moved my old Github apps over to CC's Git page, so they'll be safe, but much harder to find. I am really getting sick of people and companies destroying the things I care about for their own benefit, and acting like they're doing me a favor.