Two weeks ago I was unjustly deposed by one of the nolife powermods of rDrama:

I have now, however, reclaimed by throne as the RIGHTFUL QXEEN of Slacker News.

Pay homage to me in this thread and you may have good luck

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— seb (@sebjenseb) October 31, 2023

Better late than never: Microsoft finally introduced native support for RAR archives earlier this year, just three decades after the format's official introduction in 1993. Windows 11 development is now progressing at an accelerated pace, therefore support for a whole lot of new (ancient) archive formats is coming soon.

Windows 11 users can now manage RAR archives natively, with no need for third-party software or questionable archive "unpackers." Windows 11 22H2, the past year's last major release of the operating system (distributed on September 20, 2022), will soon become even more proficient in managing different kinds of archive files and formats.

Microsoft recently released KB5031455, an optional, feature-rich preview cumulative update for Windows 11, refreshing the list of archive formats natively supported in the OS. Windows 11 22H2 and later versions can now manage files compressed in the following archive types: .rar, .7z, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.zst, .tar.xz, .tgz, .tbz2, .tzst, .txz. Support for password-encrypted archives is not available yet.

Redmond programmers added support for the aforementioned archive files thanks to the libarchive library, an open source project designed to develop a portable, efficient C library that can "read and write streaming archives" in a variety of formats. Libarchive supports additional archive types (Lzh, Xar) that could eventually come to Windows 11 as well.

Being an optional, non-mandatory update, the KB5031455 patch needs to be installed manually by going through the Windows Update settings page on Windows 11 and searching for newly released updates. If everything goes well with "early testers," the update's contents should eventually come to the majority of Windows users through the next batch of cumulative patches scheduled for November's 2023 Patch Tuesday.

The ability to support additional archive types (besides RAR and Zip) was hinted at by Panos Panay, who talked about the upcoming feature in one of his Build blog posts before he departed Microsoft. Windows 11 users can now get improved performance of archive functionality during compression, Panay said in May 2023.

Extended file type support is part of the Moment 4 package, a new feature update for Windows 11 that provides 72 new features and improvements to the cloud/AI-centric OS. KB5031455 features include the "centralized AI assistance" for Windows known as Copilot, an overhauled File Explorer "experience," a new Microsoft Backup app, a built-in Passkey Manager, and much more. Meanwhile, Windows 10 users can keep using trustworthy third-party archive managers like WinRAR for the foreseeable future.

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(filters for posts made with less than 5 upmarseys, but more than 20 comments, and also doesn't include any sports subs because they clutter my search results)

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Apple Fanboys of rDrama, tune in for a very special Apple Event. M3 Macs and maybe a new iPad are rumored be revealed.

Let me be clear: America will lead the way during this period of technological change.

But we're going to do it in a way that puts safety first.

Today at 2:30 PM, I'll sign a historic Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence that will do just that.

— President Biden (@POTUS) October 30, 2023

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the absolute state of normiecels

e: !zombiechads I have been groomed and violated by an authority figure, by the administration of this facility, the fish himself. I am unable to bite the fish because he's protected by other administration members on staff as well as the CEO, and any attempt at trying to fight back just gets bounced back and hurts me in the end. Help me fight this unjustice by biting my peepee bone with ur sexy zombie teef

e2: wow.. I see how it is !zombiechads

fine. I am switching sides

hey

He has UNLIMITED COINS AND BUX and STILL CANNOT COPE WITH THE RISING COSTS OF POSTING

How are we average users meant to survive?????

TOTAL HUMANOID VICTORY!!

Sam Bankman-Fried is so fricked.

I have come to court every day since opening arguments thinking, Surely things cannot get worse for this man. Surely we have reached the bottom. Unfortunately, there is no bottom --- in the prosecution's telling, FTX and Alameda Research, his exchange and trading company, were matryoshka dolls of crime. Today, the defense started its case, which should theoretically present Bankman-Fried in a better light. But if what I saw of him on the stand is any indication, he may be more darning for himself than any of the prosecution's witnesses.

Whatever Bankman-Fried can't pin on Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison, he is essentially trying to off-load onto FTX lawyer Dan Friedberg. But blaming your lawyers for your decisions often implicates stuff --- conversations, communications, documents --- that are sometimes covered by attorney-client privilege. (If you blow up your own attorney-client privilege, it's much worse for you than it is for anyone else, which is why most adults blame their own lawyers only under extreme circumstances.) The defense appears to be trying to thread the needle by saying that Bankman-Fried believed everything at FTX was fine because lawyers had been involved.

So today the jury got to go home early while the judge conducted an odd evidentiary hearing to figure out exactly what Bankman-Fried wants to tell the jury --- and how much of it going to be admissible.

Bankman-Fried took the stand as part of this hearing. This meant that prosecutor Danielle Sassoon got a crack at him, and boy howdy, she beat him like a piñata.

We've heard a lot of testimony in this trial about disappearing messages on Signal, which the prosecution has strongly implied are evidence of wrongdoing. I don't believe this to be true! Plenty of businesses destroy documents as a matter of course, for a wide variety of reasons, many of them harmless.

The defense is seeking to testify that the disappearing text messages were part of a document retention policy which had been approved by FTX general counsel Friedberg. Though Bankman-Fried has testified that important business records were retained, the defense has been unable to produce the actual document retention policy, though they say it exists.

We saw a document that cataloged all 288 Signal chat rooms set to auto-delete that Bankman-Fried was in. Some of those chats contained lawyers. Bankman-Fried said that Slack messages were more official than Signal messages, though informal conversations about serious matters did take place in chats that disappeared. In rambling testimony that I have heroically condensed, Bankman-Fried noted that some sensitive business records relating to know-your-customer laws needed to be deleted for customer safety --- photos of passports, for instance, or social security numbers. He then added that in November 2022, in response to the concerns of regulators, he turned the auto-delete feature off on most of his chats.

Defense lawyer Mark Cohen did his best. Unfortunately for him, the cross-examination was conducted by Sassoon, who looks like someone who uses "summer" as a verb, and often appears deceptively timid, with her hands held close to her chest. In her cross, she simply unhinged her jaw and ate Bankman-Fried.

She asked him when he had specifically discussed the auto-deletion of messages with his lawyers, leading to a very long pause, the first of many. Bankman-Fried said he thought that was shortly after he started using Signal, around the spring of 2021. "I mentioned it" to them, he said. Sassoon asked if he had sought approval, and Bankman-Fried said he didn't know that he sought approval, exactly. It was a jumble of word-salad. It was --- well, see:

So I remember --- my memory of the policy is that it laid out various circumstances in which it was not permissible to do so or in which there needed to be a lengthy retention period for company communications, and that outside of those sets of topics or forums, there was permissibility to have effectively whatever data-retention link or setting felt appropriate.

Sassoon was about to ask another question when the judge broke in. "What does it mean, there was permissibility about that?" Kaplan asked. "Does it mean you could do whatever you wanted?"

Yes. That was exactly what it meant.

Bankman-Fried, who swayed back and forth during the cross-examination, had said earlier that Slack was for formal communications. But Caroline Ellison had testified that she sent him the seven prospective fake balance sheets over Signal. Was that a formal document, Sassoon wanted to know. It was a draft, and thus not formal, Bankman-Fried replied. What specific conversations with his lawyers led him to that conclusion, Sassoon wanted to know. Bankman-Fried couldn't really answer.

Earlier in the trial, we had seen a memo about shutting down Alameda Research, and Gary Wang, another alleged co-conspirator, had testified that he'd said that was impossible because of all the money Alameda owed FTX customers. "I don't specifically recall such conversations" about the $11 billion hole in the balance sheet, Bankman-Fried said. What about Adam Yedidia's testimony that Bankman-Fried told him that Signal messages autodeleted because keeping them was "all downside?" Bankman-Fried didn't recall that either.

Bankman-Fried's defense, in the direct testimony, was trying to put blame on the lawyers: FTX chief regulatory officer Dan Friedberg, for instance, or Can Sun, another FTX lawyer, who drafted the terms and conditions. A significant thrust of questions was about a bank account controlled by Alameda Research that did not bear Alameda's name; it was instead called North Dimension, it came into existence around 2020 --- that is, while Bankman-Fried was still Alameda's CEO --- and it was where FTX customers were told to wire their funds.

Bankman-Fried said that the North Dimension bank account was all Friedberg's idea. Sassoon asked if Bankman-Fried, as Friedberg's boss, had given him any direction, or if Friedberg just popped ideas across Bankman-Fried's desk. The word-salad began again, interrupted only by the judge saying things like "So I take it the answer is you don't remember; is that about it?" or "Listen to the question and answer the question directly." It was like watching someone get run over by a very slow-moving steam roller.

Neither of Bankman-Fried's parents seemed to be enjoying this. Michael Lewis, whose most recent book, Going Infinite, is a portrait of Bankman-Fried, was in the courtroom for the first time. I really enjoyed his book, by the way! Though the reporting in Going Infinite suggests that Bankman-Fried is an unrestrained sociopath, Lewis's general attitude toward Bankman-Fried may be best summed up as "I love my g*mer son." In the courtroom, Lewis looked pretty bummed, occasionally shaking his head.

Sassoon brought out the terms of service Bankman-Fried had testified to and asked him to point out where in the agreement it specified that FTX was permitted to spend customer funds. The court sat in absolute silence for more than a minute. You could have heard a mouse fart. Finally, Bankman-Fried said, "I am not a lawyer" and definitely said a lot of words, none of which made much sense. Sasson asked the same question again, drawing an objection from Cohen, which Kaplan overruled --- because Bankman-Fried had not answered her question. The line Bankman-Fried eventually pointed to was that funds were "held and / or transferred by provider."

His parents looked even more unhappy.

Did Bankman-Fried know that Alameda's account was exempt from liquidation? Bankman-Fried's eyes darted around the room, before saying that he wasn't aware of the "allow_negative" code by name. What was he aware of? That there were "some speedbumps" in place. We then went through an exhaustive routine of Sassoon asking what he meant by "speedbumps" and Bankman-Fried not answering, and then Sassoon asking again. As this was happening, Lewis slumped over, folding his arms over the wooden bench in front of him, his head down.

Kaplan wasn't amused by any of this. "The witness has an interesting way of responding to questions," he noted. Kaplan then told Bankman-Fried that he had been asked a number of times whether he knew that Alameda was allowed to have a negative balance on FTX, and he hadn't adequately responded.

Then Sassoon did what I had been waiting for: pointed out that Bankman-Fried had been the one who hired Friedberg in 2020. She asked if he'd been hesitant to hire a general counsel. He said he had been hesitant to hire the wrong general counsel --- "I did want a general counsel who was comfortable with reasonable risks." Sassoon then asked if Bankman-Fried was aware of Friedberg's history of working at a company that had an insider trading scandal? (The company in question, by the way, is UltimateBet.) That there had been a criminal scandal? "Were you aware that Dan Friedberg used illegal narcotics with your employees?" Cohen objected to the last two questions; only the one about drugs got sustained.

After that, Sassoon sat down, and Kaplan said he would make his decision tomorrow morning. Barbara Fried, the defendant's mother, sat with her head in her hands as the judge talked with the prosecution and the defense.

Look, if what I saw today was a taste of what Bankman-Fried has to expect on the cross-exam in front of the jury, he's cooked. He was obviously evading questions, trying to pour forth verbiage to distract Sassoon from what she'd asked. It didn't work. And as she asked the same questions over and over, he looked worse and worse, trying to wriggle out from answering them. This is to say nothing of the long, repeated sections of "I don't recall." Unless he pulls out of testifying, the jury is in for a once-in-a-lifetime shitshow.

Tbh, I wouldn't mind if both Twitter and threads died

I'm required to have a security cert and an OS cert. I had a ccnp for 15 years because passing tshoot was pretty easy, no cheating required than Cisco went all gay and I got my VCP-DCV, cheated on that relatively cheaply.

Now I'm going for VCP-VMC because the class is free. My previous method of cheating no longer works, uploading a pdf to vcereader.com for 20 bucks.

Are the dumps on examtopics.com legit, a lot of the comments are definitely fake on that site, but the question discussions are legit.

If someone here got their VCP-VMC let me know how you cheated, might ask reddit tomorrow for the lulz, IT certifications are serious biznuss over there.

On 23 October, Eisen, a geneticist at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, wrote on the social-media platform X (formerly Twitter): “I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @TheOnion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.” The satirical Onion article, posted on 13 October, was entitled: “Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas.” Eisen, who is Jewish, posted a link on X accompanied by the word “Bingo”.

A day after Eisen was fired, eLife's board of directors issued a statement indicating that Eisen had been dismissed more broadly because “his approach to leadership, communication and social media has at key times been detrimental to the cohesion of the community we are trying to build and hence to eLife's mission”. eLife did not respond to Nature's request for further comment.

“People can't be cancelled for expressing political views that are unpopular,” says Joshua Dubnau, a geneticist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook who helped to initiate the protest letter. “If eLife wants to decide that ‘this guy has a personality that isn't representing us well', they have that right. But they did it in the context of this moment. I think that's the issue.”

lol sure

orange cite discusses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38027086

This legislation allows regulators to demand that encrypted platforms like WhatsApp and Signal implement backdoors to scan for CP. Redditors aren't happy about that, naturally.

More importantly, platforms will also need to show they are committed to removing content promoting or facilitating suicide or self-harm.

I'll miss you guys