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hddsx , 3 months ago to Technology in X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs

Well you got me curious…

https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-x-logo-unicode-math-textbooks-2023-7

hddsx , 3 months ago to Technology in X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs

What? It’s just alpha and beta put together.

hddsx , 3 months ago to Technology in X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs

Can’t believe I didn’t catch that. Good catch.

hddsx , 3 months ago to Technology in X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs

Top left is X11 which means bottom right is Twitter

hddsx , 3 months ago to Technology in X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs

It’s funny that if you need to clarify X, you can say x11. If you need to clarify X, though, it’s still twitter

hddsx , 3 months ago to Privacy in Thoughts on Guard.io as a service for lesser tech savvy family members?

Sorry, my sarcasm didn’t translate through text.

It does indeed have “I’m always wearing a condom” vibes, even if we’re at dinner

hddsx , 3 months ago to Privacy in Thoughts on Guard.io as a service for lesser tech savvy family members?

What do you mean? You prefer services that advertise that they are definitely 80% legit, it just depends on who your sales guy is?

hddsx , 3 months ago to Technology in This was the first result on Google

Ugh, you’re getting into the realm in which technicality is hard to explain.

That’s technically wrong. Even though ampere is coulomb/sec, electrons don’t actually flow.

hddsx , 3 months ago to Technology in This was the first result on Google

Electrical potential, IIRC

hddsx , 3 months ago to Technology in This was the first result on Google

That’s wrong. Watt is a measure of power and volt measures….. voltage.

Charge (electricity) is measured in Coloumbs (sp?)

You need a complete circuit for Watts as P=iv.

I is current, measured in amperes

hddsx , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4

I like how you put Ubuntu there. It’s based on Debian.

I just have been out for too long. I don’t recall arch being a major flavor. I thought it was slack?

hddsx , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability

So why can’t root add new keys?

hddsx , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability

Huh. I must be outdated. I didn’t know they got secure boot working. So what do you do when you need to update your kernel? Or does the fact that it comes from the package manager mean that it is allowed to update that?

hddsx , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability

Why’s that? I thought admin could override that

hddsx , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act.

Wait why? I thought perogi was polish