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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • An alternative that will avoid the user agent trick is to curl | cat, which just prints the result of the first command to the console. curl >> filename.sh will write it to a script file that you can review and then mark executable and run if you deem it safe, which is safer than doing a curl | cat followed by a curl | bash (because it’s still possible for the 2nd curl to return a different set of commands).

    You can control the user agent with curl and spoof a browser’s user agent for one fetch, then a second fetch using the normal curl user agent and compare the results to detect malicious urls in an automated way.

    A command line analyzer tool would be nice for people who aren’t as familiar with the commands (and to defeat obfuscation) and arguments, though I believe the problem is NP, so it won’t likely ever be completely foolproof. Though maybe it can be if it is run in a sandbox to see what it does instead of just analyzed.




  • That “refusing to continue communication” might have even just been “couldn’t hear or feel vibrations from incoming calls”. It’s also possible he thought they weren’t being helpful and decided it was a waste of time to rely on them (all depends on how that initial call went, though the fact that they say he didn’t ask for help but he says he did could suggest a communication breakdown or tone mismatch).

    It did sound like he was unprepared for how to handle such an emergency if they didn’t even use the warming gear they had. But the question is at what point does unpreparedness become criminal and did he really have extra responsibility for her safety even if he thought they were equally experienced, or that she was at least experienced enough to handle her own safety? Unless the defense is lying completely, it sounds like the prosecution isn’t approaching this in good faith and might be seeking revenge instead of justice.


  • What a fucking whiny loser. Gets caught cheating and starts crying about how curling is based on trust probably because he exploited that trust to get to the olympics in the first place.

    Send him home. Even if it costs the team any medals they have a chance at, better to shut that shit down hard than stand by it to get medals that will be tainted by the whole thing anyways.

    Glad I already dgaf about curling or the olympics, otherwise I’d be concerned that remarks like that might make people think that curling should just be a casual backyard sport that doesn’t belong in the Olympics if “trusting your opponents” is more important than “following the rules”.

    What a dumb fucker. Hope he doesn’t have a lot of other trash like him to rally around his worthless take.


  • They might have set up the user agreement for it. Stackexchange did and their whole business model was about catching businesses where some worker copy/pasted code from a stackexchange answer and getting a settlement out of it.

    I agree with you in principle (hell, I’d even take it further and think only trademarks should be protected, other than maybe a short period for copyright and patent protection, like a few years), but the legal system might disagree.

    Edit: I’d also make trademarks non-transferrable and apply to individuals rather than corporations, so they can go back to representing quality rather than business decisions. Especially when some new entity that never had any relation to the original trademark user just throws some money at them or their estate to buy the trust associated with the trademark.