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by Chabsff 2y ago
It's worth pointing out that what you are fondly remembering from a consumer standpoint was an absolute nightmare from the publishers', and not just for pure greed, though that definitely plays a role. Game consoles were (and stil
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by Chabsff 2y ago
I'm not sure that's a very fair comparison, as this algorithm does point-wise streaming compression/decompression. I could see myself using something like this in a FPGA context or within a tight acquisition inner loop for ex
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by Chabsff 2y ago
Not having to make that kind of decision in the first place is inherently valuable in of itself, which I believe is what's being showcased here.
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by Chabsff 2y ago
It's not, in fact, the only way. The alternatives are time and/or money. Not having access to the resources needed to accomplish something is not a license to resort to socially unacceptable means. Now, there's an argument to
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by Chabsff 2y ago
That's already (one of) the main property that the algorithm is exploiting: That f64 is an horribly overkill representation for the data since it was generated using a microsecond clock, leading to a lot of trailing zeros. So yeah, dro
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by Chabsff 2y ago
Fraudulently pretending to be a trusted authority (trusted enough to click a download link clears the bar) is sufficient to get flagged as Social Engineering, under the deceptive content category, by Safe Browsing. See https://de
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by Chabsff 3y ago
You probably know this already, but for anyone else curious about going down that road: For this type of use, it's definitely worth it to constrain yourself to FPGAs with dedicated high-bandwidth transceivers. A "basic" 1080p
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by Chabsff 3y ago
According to them: https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/7996881-what-is-yo... The very first part of the answer to "How do you approach GDPR" is: > "We approach data privacy and security hol
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by Chabsff 3y ago
Rust's safety mechanisms don't exist just to prevent bugs from escalating into security issues, they exist to prevent the whole class of bugs related to reference handling from being present in the first place. That's suppose
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by Chabsff 3y ago
> languages that do not currently have this ability That seems to be a very common position, and one that's super weird to me. C and particularly C++ absolutely have that ability with library support if you know what you are doing
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by Chabsff 3y ago
If Stability was a nonprofit, sure. Otherwise, lol.
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by Chabsff 3y ago
This is not a particularly egregious example, but it's kind of spectacular how everything crypto adjacent revels in technobabble. The detractors of the ecosystem (myself included, to be honest) will be quick to point out that obfuscati
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by Chabsff 3y ago
Wikipedia is one of the few initiatives where not being satisfied with 99% accessibility is absolutely warranted. If your goal is to dethrone it, you have to bite that bullet.
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by Chabsff 3y ago
Pedantically, outdated Chrome extensions make for a poor attack vector in the first place because the majority of users get automatic updates, including being disabled/removed by Google themselves if the dev is gone and a problem is fo
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by Chabsff 3y ago
I don't think anyone (at least not me) is claiming that auto-updates are very good . However, I will argue 'till the cows come home that they are better than the alternative in many cases. Installing software in the first place i
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by Chabsff 3y ago
Yep. That being said, I really like VS Code's approach of having auto-updates enabled by default, but making a switch to turn off the feature available for nerds like us who care. That's the model to follow in my book.
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by Chabsff 3y ago
Unfortunately, it's been established for a long time now that users cannot be trusted to perform updates by themselves, no matter how naggy you get about it, even for the most critical of security fixes. Automatic updates, again unfort
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by Chabsff 3y ago
It's obviously far from ideal. I was just pointing out that "welp, proprietary drivers it is" is not the only way forward.
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by Chabsff 3y ago
DisplayPort to HDMI converters trivially solve that. Let the TV consume HDMI all it wants while still "just" outputting DP from the computer.
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by Chabsff 3y ago
From an industrial point of view, the entire point of AI (as opposed to "traditional" algorithms) is to transfer more agency from humans to machine than is feasible with current techniques. Trust and safety are currently the two m
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by Chabsff 3y ago
I mean that an organization would be a lot better than what you are doing now. Alternatively, a "central" repo linking to the others would also work. Right now, the site says that the link leads to the project, but instead, it lin
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by Chabsff 3y ago
Quick bit of feedback: Having the project's GitHub link point to your personal profile comes across as rather gauche. If you want to refer to a collection of repositories, using a GitHub organization, even if you are the only member, p
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by Chabsff 3y ago
Exactly. There are a plethora of browsers out there, and no one can be expected to test against all of them. As long as we go for a "government conforming to industry" mentality, then the cutoff has to be somewhere, and if Firefox
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by Chabsff 3y ago
Sort of agreed as of today, but this is not something that we just have to accept, especially considering the government doesn't really have a need to make use of the full suite of tools provided by the various existing standards. Ther
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by Chabsff 3y ago
Somehow, I don't think a single person enjoying the browser justifies 6 Million dollars a year in executive overhead alone. That's what what success means in this context: Something that makes that expense worthwhile.
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by Chabsff 3y ago
Sure, but the government HAS to make that determination in a data-driven way. It cannot be based on anything subjective, for what should be obvious reasons. On top of that, said lack of knowledge is a stated goal of all privacy-focused brow
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by Chabsff 3y ago
Per the article, this is irrelevant. The case being made is that the figure seen by the government falling under 2%, which it is getting close to, will trigger a chain-reaction of consequences that will dramatically hurt Firefox, and it&#x2
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by Chabsff 3y ago
You are correct in principle, but the code in the original post definitely exhibits strict aliasing violations. Not only that, it didn't need to.
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by Chabsff 3y ago
The distinction, and this is an important one, is that cookies have a hard cap of 4Kb of data per domain, making them nigh-useless for that purpose. All they are good for is recognizing a given user server-side across multiple page loads an
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by Chabsff 3y ago
I think you might be confusing cookies and local storage.

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