for ramcels

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/19bze7i/computer_ram_gets_biggest_upgrade_in_25_years_but?sort=controversial

I had to double check to see if I didn't accidentally click on /int/ a few times.

I was asked by a kind Fredrick Brennan for my comments that I might offer on the discussion of removing ReiserFS V3 from the kernel. I don't post directly because I am in prison for killing my wife Nina in 2006.

it's actually a really interesting read, shame about the murder

orange sight: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042626

you can read the full article here

https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/195kv2j/men_who_identify_as_incels_have_fundamental?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/IncelTears/comments/195nlih/study_finds_that_incels_need_mental_health?sort=controversial

It's old and from 2022 but it's still funny

The chuddie who wrote that is also a GME ape and antisemite lmao

Apparently C peasants like myself are too low-born to engage directly with the type theory aristocracy, only subtweeting is appropriate ;)

— Andre Weissflog (@FlohOfWoe) January 5, 2024

This guy has a neat cross-platform C library https://github.com/floooh/sokol. The original tweeter is friends with a committee C++ CUTE TWINK who is ruining C by adding dumb features like breaking the auto keyword or nullptr.

You should probably download the things you want to save, but I don't care about the IA after what they did to the Farms.

No idea what's the deal with this kick.com website, they allow softcore porn on it or something? idk

Holy shit this guy's whole blog is based as frick.

https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1735292040986886648

https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/1735315976827101274

Abridged summary from Ledger themselves:

• This morning CET, a former Ledger Employee fell victim to a phishing attack that gained access to their NPMJS account.

• The attacker published a malicious version of the Ledger Connect Kit (affecting versions 1.1.5, 1.1.6, and 1.1.7). The malicious code used a rogue WalletConnect project to reroute funds to a hacker wallet.

• Ledger's technology and security teams were alerted and a fix was deployed within 40 minutes of Ledger becoming aware. The malicious file was live for around 5 hours, however we believe the window where funds were drained was limited to a period of less than two hours.

• The genuine and verified Ledger Connect Kit version 1.1.8 is now propagating and is safe to use.

• For builders who are developing and interacting with the Ledger Connect Kit code: connect-kit development team on the NPM project are now read-only and can't directly push the NPM package for safety reasons.

• We have internally rotated the secrets to publish on Ledger's GitHub.

• Ledger, along with Walletconnect and our partners, have reported the bad actor's wallet address. The address is now visible on chainalysis

• Tether_to has frozen the bad actor's USDT.

• We are actively talking with customers whose funds might have been affected, and working proactively to help those individuals at this time.

• We are filing a complaint and working with law enforcement on the investigation to find the attacker.

• We're studying the exploit in order to avoid further attacks. We believe the attacker's address where the funds were drained is here: 0x658729879fca881d9526480b82ae00efc54b5c2d

https://twitter.com/Ledger/status/1735326240658100414

There is a certain kind of programmer who wants to implement stuff as programs running other programs on whatever specific operating system, passing output of one to the next program that may or may not be installed or at the location or version you expect.

People need to…

— Jonathan Blow (@Jonathan_Blow) December 8, 2023

Seriously just expose a function no need for your gay-butt shell scripting language. Unrelated, but oil-shell guy is strag (See the re-write it in rust incident).

Imagine a tech conference having no CFP, as they reach out to speakers directly. They successfully attract some of the most heavy hitter men speakers in tech, and 3 women speakers.

Now imagine my surprise that 2 of those women are FAKE profiles.

They do not exist.

Nada.

— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) November 24, 2023

It's not often (read: ever) that I get to post about drama from my country, but this one is hot off the press and I think you guys might find interesting.

Full info is in the nitter thread, but here's a quick rundown:

QRD

Eduards Sizovs is some bloke that organizes and runs several international tech conferences, of those the two that are important to this are DevTernity and JDkon, though there are others

Apparently the organizers of these events do not accept applications from potential speakers, but instead reach out to people they are interested in, thus creating this more of a closed group of speakers.

Well, now as it turns out, there are fake speakers that are signed and advertised at these conferences (and have been in the past). In reality, they are merely fake online personas created by Eduards, and have never actually appeared at any of his events. Currently 4 such personas have been identified, all of them being women.

Here's Alina Prokhoda, a speaker at the upcoming DevTernity conference with prior experience at WhatsApp and Microsoft MVP who has been identified as a non-existent person who has never worked for those companies:

And here's Anna Boyko, with the same issues

Besides these there's also Julia Kirsina who worked as Uber's software Architect in Estonia, despite Uber not even having such division in that country, and there's also Natalie Standler who (didn't) work at coinbase.

Eduards has pushed back against the notion of him creating fake speakers by saying that a single fake was added by accident, but was quickly proven wrong when it was shown that these 4 fine ladies have been signed up to his conferences on 5 different occasions in total, and yet have given 0 speeches, without anyone ever seeing them in person.

This caused the organizer to go into full damage control mode as other, actually real speakers started pulling out of the conference after being informed of the controversy

But how could this happen? Surely someone would've noticed that these people don't exist?

Well, as it turns out, while the people themselves are fake, they have a very real online presence- we're talking several different social media accounts with over 100k followers, actively posting motivational quotes about girls who code, all while hiding behind what are likely AI-generated pictures of women. In short, Eduards has been quite successfully running several catfish accounts pretending to be women

Even Kiwifarms' LFJ gave her opinion on the matter, which is a complete moment which just shows that fricking everything and everyone is connected

So now for the big question: why would he do it?

Well, the guy who broke this story speculates that the reason behind why every fake persona is a woman is that Eduards, the organizer, has been trying to up his DEI compliance to attract bigger fish to his conferences by making them seem more inclusive than they really are, and probably to get some gibs/shoutouts from the organizations that promote such nonsense in the first place. Oh, and of course to milk attendees who pay... up to 800$ to attend? WTF people?

Well, now he's been caught and his entire life's work will likely go down the drain. Sucks to suck

So what's your opinion? Is the dude based for duping r-slurs, or is he an r-slur himself for thinking no one would find out?

Based - 253 votes

R-slur - 51 votes

I would like to apologize if this is a bit clumsily written because I'm a bit out of my comfort zone here trying to write about shit I have no understanding of off twitter, but I wanted to do it quickly so none of you strags manage to snitch it first