Berniek

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by Berniek 1y ago
This is going to be easily overturned. The ad blockers use the dns service and that is not part of what copyright protects. Modifying the results of dns requests is not protected by the copyright law itself. The argument could be made that
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by Berniek 3y ago
Philosophically, the "thundering herd problem" actually CAUSES congestion. There are 2 ways to handle it. 1 Stop the thundering herd.(make all the clients do something different). That may make things worse. Congestion in networks
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by Berniek 3y ago
Well one other aspect of this research springs to mind. Most "bug zapper" design are wrong. It should consist of a light source and a single grid perpendicular to the light source rather than surrounding the light source. The ligh
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by Berniek 3y ago
>Insects use the moon as a celestial compass cue to navigate, and mistakenly use artificial light sources instead I think that was one of the theories being investigated by this research. The paper demonstrates that it is the actual ligh
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by Berniek 3y ago
Firstly, the conflict in the GAZA strip is war. Pure and simple. Realistically this war is being fought politically in the worlds media. The fight is for public opinion. So the orders of the IJC are about war. The hair splitters may want
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by Berniek 3y ago
Buy a home "cryovac" machine like food saver. Prepare cooked meals such as pasta sauce, stews, curry etc in meal size portions. Cryovac and put in the freezer. To use them put, still in their sealed bags in hot water and bring to
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ASL HN: Is HN partly adding (inadvertantly) to the enshitification of the web?
5 points by Berniek 3y ago|5 comments
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by Berniek 3y ago
Trust Crisis for AI? What after we see the board/CEO of one company fired/changed apparently for allegations of lies or manipulation that nobody is clear on? If Dropbox derives data from user data by scanning said data, then that
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by Berniek 3y ago
Who is driving the company (companies)? Certainly not the board, when it can be ousted on the whim of one person. Might as well just get rid of the board (all boards in this organization) as any decision made can be overthrown by a bit of p
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by Berniek 3y ago
Battery Technology is a bit of a handy distraction. The only solution is to move the "Duck Curve" to later in the day. So use batteries? well yes if you use them at the household WITHOUT solar. If you have solar + batteries you ju
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by Berniek 3y ago
absolutely correct, but Firefox takes notice of ideas. They can be influenced by what is proposed as fixes or contributions. "Everyone knows" that Firefox may break some websites, just ask google. Has anyone ever come across th
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by Berniek 3y ago
Sort of... But Firefox is open source, so anyone can contribute. Mozilla accepted money from google to "just make google the default search engine". But they also accept contributions in programming (its open source after all) fr
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by Berniek 3y ago
I know the post above was long, but I must mention the contents come from personal experience. One thing I found, sadly, was that people I love and trust including family often become greedy and grasping when there is inheritance at stake.
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by Berniek 3y ago
Power of attorney- no real help, you are dead. Depending on your country.... When you die your estate "owns" everything and only your estate can operate it. But any property in joint names AUTOMATICALLY becomes the property of the
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by Berniek 3y ago
I am more a lurker than a poster... What I have noticed is wander. Comments start to wander off topic and "evolve" into comments on some consensus comment rather than the subject of the actual comment. Having said that it is so ha
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by Berniek 3y ago
Is this a concerted effort to kill browsers in favor of proprietary apps? With proprietary apps the owners have all the power over privacy, advertising search results...basically everything. Where have we heard "we have to do better&qu
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by Berniek 3y ago
Depends what you define as progress. On a purely philosophical view point the answer is most certainly no. From a speed/operational/deployment perspective probably yes. How and what you consider and measure progress is the problem
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by Berniek 3y ago
Been there done that and reversed. Manual labor (of any sort) can be very fulfilling, particularly if you enjoy it. You can do manual labor that you love, its easy. But when you look around and see the little old men still doing the same a
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by Berniek 3y ago
And when you add a new account you have to do that for all the folders individually. That doesn't apply to a folders sub folder either. There is a method to copy all settings to a folder and its sub folders but that does not include s
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by Berniek 3y ago
Well it looks like Betterbird war is having an affect on Thunderbird itself. While not the same logo, it has a similar "feel" to the Betterbird logo. Now if Thunderbird will finally make it possible to NOT have threading as the de
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by Berniek 3y ago
The last line in the argument reads: assuming that Stephen wasn't playing games with me, GPT-4 not only gave the best possible answer to my query, it even knew somehow that I was referring to the Wolfram language. Given the earlier int
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by Berniek 3y ago
Perhaps its because of the history and culture of self determination. Dog eat dog if you prefer. No one else was going to help you, you need to help yourself. Individuals must have a job or earn money. sink or swim. Hard lessons embedded in
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by Berniek 3y ago
Get at least 1 more email address and keep it only for services you pay for. The biggest problem with subscribing is the on selling of email addresses. Get a proton paid mail account and your own domain. Setup a "catchall" address
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by Berniek 3y ago
Fully agree. I like the concept, but the concept itself produces multiple instances of any particular subject. You have to wade through a plethora of almost the same instances and then read the moderation policy on each to find out is this
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by Berniek 3y ago
Perhaps, perhaps not. Is this a way for Google to add new sites to their search data and advertising infrastructure? When you go to the link "Chrome and Other Browsers"(from the website above), it takes you to a page which blatant
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by Berniek 3y ago
I suspect Iphones actually cater to the way people have recently been educated. As I grew up my schooling taught me as a first principle that to learn something you had to understand it. Now my children/grandchildren are quite happy to
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by Berniek 3y ago
Well, 6.3V is an interesting value. The European standard voltage AC is 220V, many countries use 240V (or 230V) So we want 5V to power our whatever. Regulators need some overhead usually .6~1.2V so we need 6.2V as a minimum. BUT THAT IS DC.
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by Berniek 3y ago
Sorry a bit late replying-been away. It is not the competition that is bad, it that anything produced by them cannot be tweaked and so become "circular" sources. There will be no way to test for "truth", at least on an i
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by Berniek 3y ago
The references in the comments suggest ChatGPT as providing this effect. But that is (or should be) unlikely, the "training" or moderation (tweaking?) should actually solve this problem. It should be relatively easy to separate it
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by Berniek 4y ago
Hang on a bit. If this website should have a "look and feel" like other websites then what is the point of W3C? The stated aim as I read it is to make the web more consistent. But we need diversity, that is where progress comes fr

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