Recent content by CompilingUsername

I would imagine most clever scalpers set up dummy accounts on many platforms years ago. Even without the ones who scalp professionally, there will be plenty of people happy to buy and flip just one online.

See every other major breaking news about this stuff.

When I have time, yeah. I don't actually use Windows 7 though.

This surprises no one

I will stick with Windows 7 TYVM

Given the utterly insane life he led I'd believe a wide range of death causes

That's more than a little concerning

That's encouraging. I hope it gets widespread attention soon.

https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/tiny-worm-comes-back-to-life-after-24-000-years-in-siberian-deep-freeze-1813245-2021-06-10 After a 24k year deep sleep this worm came back to life. Probably wondering WTF was going on. Stuff like that makes me kinda hopeful the different Mars missions...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/elon-musk-anonymous-bitcoin-crypto-b1860458.html Anonymous are apparently angry about Musk

I mentioned it in the other thread, but the use of proprietary screws is maddening. A video game controller doesn't need anti theft screws. The only reason to have them is to prevent owners from repairing the item.

Time for hackers to start leaking other hackers' hacks

This stuff is such a spectacular waste of time and resources

I experienced my first security torx screw a while back. It was maddening.

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/whatsapp-privacy-policy-violates-indian-it-law-centre-tells-court-1803596-2021-05-17 It appears the government wants to take WA to court over this