VLC is free, lightweight, ubiquitous and it works. It’s also the most recommended media player by like every tech site on the internet. I started using it ages ago and have never given it a second thought. You double click on video files and they play.

It’s a buffer overrun vulnerability in the MKV demux code. Meaning it needs to be running, playing a malicious media file, for the exploit to happen.

According to the VLC bug registration, the bug is not reproducible and does not crash VLC at all. They ask that we reconsider our source of news. 

Any “here is a new security hole” article should be required to list what the attack vector is. Is it a malformed video file that triggers the memory overflow? Some internal web server that VLC runs in the background that you need access to the user’s LAN to be able to attack? (Hint: it’s a malformed video file)

The thing I keep saying about N. Korea and its nuclear weapons program is that it doesn’t have to be “reliable,” or “accurate.”

I’m guessing you’ve never tried to shave your legs while half blind.

Only people that wore gas permeables know the pain of having one slip to the bottom of the eye and get stuck there, or to have something come between the eye and the lenses.

Why wouldn’t I want to be able to see properly, regardless of where the shampoo is? It’s not like getting a parasite in the shower is anywhere near remotely likely.

I knew someone who was a nurse at an eye surgery center and was always careful with her contacts but she still managed to get an infection after wearing costume lenses - I suspect in that case it was mostly that she got cheap lenses, but there are occasional outliers. 99.99% of the time though, I agree, it’s poor hygi…

The last 30 years of massive automation has led to near record low unemployment. Your entire thesis is unsupportable, for every job automation eliminates it creates better new ones.

People were doing fine without Uber and Lyft. They will be fine after Uber and Lyft are finally paying their employees their fair share.

Wow, what an edgy headline.
This website is super cool, huh

The day I realized I’d become a boring adult was the day I went to the grocery store and simultaneously realized:

The day I realized I’d become a boring adult was the day I went to the grocery store and simultaneously realized:

No, the goal is to decrease cost of living. Adding to housing cost is the exact opposite of what they’re trying to accomplish.

no one talented wants to live in Orlando

As a tech worker living in SF and working for a startup in SF I welcome this. The changes happening to this city are unsustainable and board members of startups have zero incentive to contribute to solutions to the problems they’re causing.

Prohibition is such an effective policy, we should apply it to more things. It always works. 

Have they banned shitting on the street?  Maybe tackle that first.  

There are a great many nutritional supplements, medications, and medical devices on the market that predate FDA authority to review or regulate them, and many of which the FDA never had authority to regulate. Obviously San Francisco allowed dispensaries before legalization.   But, even with Marijuana legalized, where…

Yet they will still allow the sale of regular cigarettes because of that sweet sweet tax revenue.