I love the over-the-back-of-the-neck earbuds, specifically the ones from OnePlus that turn off if you use the magnet to turn them off. I don't think they are popular, so I've ordered a few for when they eventually stop getting made.
That definition was made after the sense being used in this article (and this sense has been widely used in cybersecurity in general). Your linked term comes from an acronym written on prison cell doors (Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise) while the meaning of "used only once / unique" has an etymology dating back to Middle English.
“Slut” originally means an untidy woman but if you call someone that, a knowledge of etymology is not going to help. Language doesn’t work based on precedent.
I'm not talking about precedent -- the comment was that it was a poor choice of term, implying that the term in the article came about later.. when the uniqueness sense of the word has been in use since long before that.
Though the slang word looks like it originated in '71 and the cybersecurity use of it only goes back to '78, so perhaps it was a poor choice indeed. Though, with its similarity to the use by dictionary editors and cartographers, it makes sense why they would pick that term.
I only today became aware of the pedophilia reference for it and will have a difficult time unthinking thoughts of revulsion whenever I encounter the security-related term, but what can you do.
> Your linked term comes from an acronym written on prison cell doors (Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise)
These are _always_ backronyms. _Always_. If anyone ever tells you that [random word that's been around for a while] is an acronym, they are _wrong_. (Possible notable exception for 'fubar'; that one's old enough now and probably really is an acronym).
Not a dev, but as a DevOps engineer, I use LLMs for a few types of work:
1. A starting point for a problem I've no experience with - "How do I set up replication on a database". I won't follow it blindly, but it gives me a starting point to search online.
2. Helping me put together proposals and documentation. It's great at setting up an outline for things or rewriting my badly written things.
3. Writing regex
As for impacting jobs specifically, I havn't found any impact, yet. If anything, I've seen companies either put down blanket bans of using AI (for fear of people imputting sensitive data), outright banning the URLs on the VPN, or putting very strict policies in place with how they can be used.
Direnv and Nix are related in the sense that direnv has a `use flake` command that you can put in your .envrc to load the devShell defined in the project's flake.nix file. It's essentially just an automatic entry to the project's Nix-native devShells.
Edit: this is the only thing I use direnv for - I haven't used direnv without touching Nix.
My top menu bar has a toggle to switch layouts, so anyone can use my machine. I can also still type QWERTY, so I can use any other machine. These are non-problems.
"Additional safeguards have been introduced – notably, in the most recent round of amendments, a 'triple-lock' authorization process for surveillance of parliamentarians ..."
Thank god, I'm glad the politicians that passed this law will be protected from it /s
This, and requiring tech companies to consult the government before rolling out security updates, make it seem evident that safety isn't really the motivation.
I'm a cool headed person, but reading that sentence was rage inducing for me.
There's literally no good argument to protect politicians other than corruption.
If politicians are worried these powers could be used to target them then it could be used to target literally anyone, and the concern shouldn't have been that they could be target, but that anyone could be targeted.
Plus, if this bill is only going to stop bad guys then they should have anything to worry about anyway right? I mean isn't this what we are told!? Should we be worried about these powers being abused or not!?
I bet you in 10 years there will be a scandal where the Tories spied on an opposing party MP, or vice versa. Doesn't even need malicious intent because the mere act of doing this carries the stench of malicious incompetence.
I use Firefox and ublock origin. I also have a Youtube premium account. When I change my firefox useragent to windows/chrome my load times go from 5-10 seconds to under 1.
From the manifesto front page[1] they talk about immigration, the NHS and investing in schools and infrastructure. It's all rubbish and undelivered, but the policy is more than just Brexit. You might be thinking of UKIP?
Question: Does a site exist that shows campaign promises and if they were delivered? I'm tired of voting one way and the party doing something else. I'm currently politically homeless and would like to back a party in the UK that actually does what it says.
Looks like they recently made up: "UK Labour Party is pro-Israel again, says chair of its visiting friendship group"
"After antisemitism drove Jews away in Corbyn era, MP Steve McCabe says opposition party has returned to traditional Israel-backing stance, but is concerned about the new coalition"
There are entire Wikipedia articles on the history of Labour's issues with anti-Semitism- I know, because my link to one was posted before your reply was. The issue is much more nuanced than what you or the person you're replying to are implying.
