Hackbraten

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by Hackbraten 2mo ago
> When Mary had a little lamb, she was twice as old as Ann was when Ann was as old as Mary now claims to be. How old is the sheep? —James Barton Adams. I love this response so much.
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by Hackbraten 2mo ago
> a package may be published as […] held for manual review Manual review by whom?
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by Hackbraten 2mo ago
Sounds like confirmation bias to me.
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
Good point for parsing. However, the example is about serialization. What mapping ambiguity do you see there?
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
> Seize the means of computation Feels like they blatantly ripped that off the title of a Cory Doctorow book [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internet_Con
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
I think that ship has sailed [0]. If Microsoft hasn’t managed to build a meaningful search index after 17 years of sinking billions in it, there’s a good chance that no one ever will. [0]: https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
Many jurisdictions aren’t built around case law, and judges tend to focus on their own personal interpretation of written legislation instead of focusing on precedents. It can therefore take many more years until legal consensus forms on a
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
The terms in question don't even mention quality issues. The argument is about the unclear copyright status of generated code. Also malware risk.
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
What happens after a couple of players have obtained marketshare and the market has consolidated? I think there are diminishing returns to be had.
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
How is that sustainable? Are security researchers going to be doing free labor for you indefinitely for exposure?
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
> For a big enough production run, you'd likely ship an HSM to the factory I figure that the factory is exactly the adversary in the whole threat model? So why give them the keys to the castle so they can moonlight their own genuine
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
How is fulfillment not a nightmare?
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
This is the correct answer. `ic(foo(123))` can be written as `print(f'{foo(123)=}')` without depending on yet another third-party library which is not pulling its weight.
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
It’s still bogus and not a real file format. Just MP4 files renamed into MP5.
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
That loophole has become very difficult: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/waste-and-recycling/...
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
> The seam is who’s on top. Of course there was going to be a seam somewhere. Albeit not the kind of seam I expected.
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
I wonder when they're finally going to one-up each other with the 18650 model number itself? Make it 18660, 19650 or 18650000! Anecdote: back in 2004, a friend brought home a cheap digital audio player from her vacation to China. IIRC,
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
> An easy happiness formula is: > [list of eight things that may be extremely difficult for people with depression] .
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
> LPT: Please have a codeword or phrase that you use with your loved ones They keep refusing ideas like these on the grounds of them being “not stupid” and “able to see through such attempts immediately, 100% of the time” and “do you thi
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
> Nuclear is contained Except when it de-contains itself.
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
If $CONDITION, then please don’t use this software might be construed as a legal restriction.
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
> I looked at Datadome and HUMAN, but they would be hundreds of thousands a year at our traffic scale, and I suspect may also have false positives. I can confirm. DataDome has been making my life a living hell. It thinks my phone is a bo
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
> Most notable is his "Report on an Unidentified Space Station" which is quite haunting. See also last month's thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501012
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
Linux-based smartphones exist. Are they going to be e-waste?
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
> There are so many beautiful parks. No. I don't want to go anywhere anymore. All the sidewalks are full of SUVs, blatantly blocking my way even though it's prohibited. Police is looking the other way. City council doesn't
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
Software that implements residential proxy networks is always covert and never consensual. It doesn't matter if page 42 of the Terms and Condition "clearly states it." This does not constitute informed consent.
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
Why just subscriptions? I use OpenRouter because I prefer flexibility, which means I pay per-million-token prices.
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
QWERTY is just one national layout among many. It’s not the “standard” by any meaningful metric. Why not let people use whatever layout they like?
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
In which they put a bold faced text overlay across the thumbnail and make sure to include at least one algospeak self-censorship asterisk („sh*t“). Bonus points if the word wasn’t even a curse word.
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by Hackbraten 3mo ago
I will not buy a car.

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