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The November report mentioned in the article goes into (disturbing) details: https://senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347/sawg-report-on-admissio...

> To address the large number of underprepared students, the Mathematics Department redesigned Math 2 for Fall 2024 to focus entirely on elementary and middle school Common Core math subjects (grades 1-8)

ouch


That episode is indeed based on this event: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1111175/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv


The cdn-cgi endpoints are documented here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/cdn...


Another fun Zendesk “feature,” that, to my knowledge, has never been fixed is if you CC it on a thread with any other email address that auto-replies, it will get stuck in a loop and ping-pong emails back and forth until the mailbox fills up.




> does there exist a well-defined secure subset of CSS such that we don't have to worry about weird vulnerabilities?

I don’t know the answer, but if it is “no,” would it be feasible to add a few more user settings ala topcolor to achieve a more basic version of this?


The intention is to avoid adding user settings, while still giving people a way to make the UI how they like it.


You’ll still have the ability to install arbitrary drivers and support software obtained directly from the manufacturer, this change only means that Microsoft won’t automatically supply OEM driver files via Windows Update.


Holy moley, my first “real” computer ran 98SE and had BLACK ICE, which behaved exactly the way you described.

I remember I would take the IP addresses of the “attackers” and plug them into a McAfee graphical tracert tool, and it felt like nothing short of something out of GoldenEye.

Thanks for the memories!


Maybe so, but regardless of the facts this would almost certainly not be worth pursuing… In the US, courts are generally prohibited from enforcing foreign libel judgements against US persons if the country in which the judgement was won has looser libel standards than the US.[0]

(IANAL)

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEECH_Act


Yeah no idea if that would apply or not. But Canadian code I was looking at was the criminal code - there might be a difference between civil and criminal libel here.


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