They do try, but many vigilant members of the FOSS community do their best to find out what’s being done and prevent it.

You can read this summary of the attempt to inject a malware payload into a widely used compression tool that is used when remotely accessing servers: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119342/xz-utils-linux-backdoor-attempt

It was a close call with potentially dramatic consequences, where a bad actor took 2 years to progressively gain reputation and rights to a key FOSS project, and one performance obsessed engineer to find out what they did and undo everything.

The big difference between FOSS and closed source software is that FOSS gives the possibility to audit the code, whereas binary analysis / retro engineering is much harder.

Imagine for a moment if your underage ears would hear fuck shit crap ass schlong, ruined forever!

trust me bro, we’re almost there, we just need another data center and a few billions, it’s coming i promise, we are testing incredible things internally, can’t wait to show you!

Don't look up has a pretty accurate depiction of what the billionaires will be able to achieve when the end of the world comes.

And the series Mr. Robot did very well by showing realistic software and hardware all along.

someone tried that with their license plate, it turned out well: https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/

edit: archive link

I don’t even want to turn on the speed limiter because I’m getting random fantom breaking, it’s really infuriating.

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that’s the magic of having no consistency, you can find anything and its opposite in 40+ years of uncontrolled rambling, scheming, lying and cheating.

Kelly Claxon, the singer? Definitely a very irritating sound!

Honestly, any platforms hosting user-generated content who use the legal argument that they only provide hosting and aren’t responsible for what their user post shouldn’t also be able to sell the same data and claim owning any of it.

Otherwise, take away their legal immunity. Nazis or pedophiles post something awful? You get in front of the judge.

edit: typo

I love when there are solutions for every weird use case ^^

It would be a blow to render this typing method slightly slower, definitely a deal breaker 😏

I found those:

Underscore		. . _ _ . _
Addition		. _ . _ .
Subtraction		_ . . . . _ 
Multiplication		_ . . _
Division		_ _ _ . . .
Equal			_ . . . _
Right Parenthesis	_ . _ _ . _
Left Parenthesis	_ . _ _ .

But this isn’t enough for programming, square and curly brackets, carets, ampersand, pipe, tilda… I think it’s gonna be pretty challenging

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Don’t forget to look in which community this was posted

Agreed! Unfortunately these maddening behaviors were kind of set in stone several decades ago, and it has been (correctly) decided “Don’t break the web”, these weird quirks are kept in modern interpreters/compilers.

It’s actually quite interesting to read through the logic to follow when implementing an interpreter:

https://262.ecma-international.org/13.0/#sec-object.prototype.tostring

On the other hand, I don’t think you should add those ever

Yeah what’s the deal with not being allowed to drop the N word anymore, humor is dead! /s

Yup I’m already there but it’s hard to get any traction, im posting stuff into the void, its gonna take a while to get the typical Meta users over there :/

Nothing but by now we got used to switching service whenever it gets bad