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> which enables IPv6 and bricks their end and has to get escalated.

So do they have to order new routers every time you do this? Hopefully after you have destroyed all of their routers, they will eventually buy new ones that are actually compatible with IPv6 so just keep doing it. /s


I assume its just crashed and they have to reset it.

But it requires an engineer visit to talk to their NOC so I can be without internet for a couple of days.

Sucks.


So they aren't bricked then?


What is a "desktop website"?


Desktop, as opposed to mobile. (on mobile the site looks pretty similar to most others). On desktop it feels like a pdf, but extremely light weight (in a very nice way; loads quickly, scrolls perfectly [unlike pdfs], and isn't cluttered). Just a crisp experience.


Ah I understand now. Thanks.


And if in the next 25 years you figure out how to use a search engine, you might find out! :p


Maybe one day I’ll have a reason to!


Agreed. I thought this was going to be about infiltrating charities to see how corrupt they were or something.

But granted your typical charity has no idea of what the jargon is in the security (or even broader technical) field, and so "red teaming" is a vague enough phrase that could mean anything.


Tangent, but I don't understand this argument at all:

> The same issue plagues domesticated cats, they don’t need to hunt for food since they have an abundance at home so instead without risk of starvation they are free to hunt all birds in the territory for fun.

Please could you help me understand.

- If they don't _need_ to hunt for food, the frequency of hunting birds should go down (even if they still do it for fun sometimes)

- If they don't need to take risks to get food, why would they then take those same risks now for the purpose of entertainment? (That cancels out any meaning of there no longer being any risk in killing birds, so why mention it at all?)

My understanding is that you are implying that cats not having to kill birds out of necessity leading to them now being able to do it for fun is a bad thing. Is that correct? And if so, I don't follow that logic because of my above two points.


The points you raise would make sense if cats were purely logical, unfortunately they're not and a lot of what makes a cat work is instinct.

- Instinctively, cats will hunt.

- Lack of care about food source will make cats outlast prey who have to leave safe areas to find food.

- Lack of care about food availability can (and has been proven to) cause cats to hunt more often, not less- as the "cost" of going for a hunt is basically zero; there's no consequences for failure and even success is met with satisfaction but no "cost".

Anyway,there's better info on this subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_predation_on_wildlife


Thanks, your second point makes a lot of sense to me, and helped me to understand your point.

The Wikipedia article was also a good read.


I'm curious, are you a solo dev, or do you work on a team where multiple people are working on different features at the same time?


Mostly solo dev. I only use branches when working with some colleagues who are "branchists". It's not that I don't understand branches, but they always look unnecessarily cumbersome to me. The worst offenders are "feature branches"... I want my tests to try the program with/without the new feature and compare the results. Thus any feature is better implemented in the master branch, and activated using a flag. No need for a branch. If your feature is hidden in another branch, how can you test it? Does your test suite run git commands?


Do you push your code to a repository where you have some CI set up? Or is it just local? If it's the latter and you just run tests on the command line then yea maybe you don't need branches. On the other hand I find branches can be useful if I have a larger refactor going on and I'm not too sure what it's going to look like in the end. Then I can keep it on a branch and compare it to "last known stable commit," and if something else comes up that needs to be fixed right away I can put my larger refactor on hold and fix it, and come back to the larger refactor.


How many God AI's have expressed their hate for this design? /s


No, it's just boring and uninspiring.


There's literally a link right on TFA to the Arch Wiki on how to do exactly that. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/COSMIC


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