Zendesk finally responded. Well, if you count a shady-looking GitHub account dropping a blog link as a response: https://t.co/ox96xQisEk
They've doubled down, reaffirming their decision not to award a bounty, claiming I broke ethical guidelines by sharing the bug.
a bit extra triggering since i’ve heard so many @CanadianPM and @CanadaFP officials in the last two years declaring support for Ukraine but complaining how little aid funds they have to support Ukrainian voices. but offloading 300k for a russian propaganda film - sure why not
I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.
We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI.
I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.
Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.
That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions!
I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect.
So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :)
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Many are noticing Gemini's crazy race rules (it won't draw white people, basically.)
My site https://t.co/MKlEC93EK4 gives AIs the political compass quiz every day.
Google's Gemini IS pretty consistently the most left wing. See the stars in the bottom left:
The Ukrainians know exactly where the Russian S-300 launchers used today to attack Kharkiv are.
They have Western weapons that have the range/accuracy to destroy them.
But they cannot do so, thanks to restrictions imposed by the US. As a result, 7 more Ukrainians are dead.
The New York Times running a picture of a destroyed apartment block in Belgorod, with the caption "The aftermath of a Ukrainian attack", despite the fact all available evidence points to the building being destroyed on May 12th by a errant Russian glide bomb.
Shoddy.
Imagine the reaction by the internatl. community if Israel did this against Gaza instead of precision bombings
But Putin can do practically whatever he wants & Ukraine is still not allowed to use U.S. weapons against military targets on Russian territory
You won’t see it in the news, but last night alone Russia launched 144 attacks on Ukraine’s Sumy region.
This northern region has suffered 2,000 attacks just in March alone.
Entire settlements are being evacuated bc the intensity of attacks makes these areas uninhabitable.
1/2
China is openly arming Russia for Russian murdering of Ukrainian civilians in Ukraine.
But Europe and America are pretending it is not happening, being so scared of Chinese economic blackmail that we refuse to sanction China hard for assisting Russian war crimes.
We are cowards
Make no mistake, after zero response from the West during Russia's 3 day missile barrage on Ukraine, China now knows a full scale invasion of Taiwan will be no problem.
"Avoiding WW3" by allowing Putin to do whatever he wants has started WW3.
This is all on western weakness.
Ukraine has the full right under UN Charter for self-defense.
Ukraine can shoot every Russian combatant inside Ukrainian territory.
Ukraine, under attack by Russia, can hit any legitimate Russian target anywhere in the world as it is defending itself.
Kill all the terrorists.
BREAKING NEWS
Assad forces and Russia target the center of Idlib city. Russia, a terrorist state, kills civilians everywhere in this world, and I don't know why the world is still silent towards Russia.