Hizonner

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by Hizonner 1mo ago
Yes, when a company dumps risks and costs onto its users, that sort of excuse is usually what we hear.
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by Hizonner 1mo ago
> Every closed source software has the potential to centralize and lock you out of it. ... and you can write your own alternative software. But you can't provide your own 2TB GPU to help you (or to run it, if that's what it nee
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by Hizonner 1mo ago
Seems kind of contrary to the point of a navigation device...
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by Hizonner 1mo ago
Counting the cost of creating the company so you can actually deal directly with a NIC? Every. Single. Individual. End. User. Device. Should. Be. Addressable. Given that there are more such devices out there then there are IPv4 addresses to
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by Hizonner 1mo ago
... and NAT was a big part of giving them the market power they now use to enforce that.
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by Hizonner 1mo ago
I'm sorry, but a multi-kilogram (at a guess), five-figure-priced (at a conservative guess) device with kilometer-scale error (per their actual press release) is not a substitute for a GPS. And you probably can't improve on many of
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by Hizonner 1mo ago
... because people (by which I mean software vendors who should have known better) irresponsibly failed to create secure systems for those average users to use. A whole lot of which came to be justified by "it'll be behind a fir
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by Hizonner 1mo ago
> "No one wanting to bother with port forwarding" is largely a matter of shitty UX on the home gateway side and laziness on the side of the operator. Same with UPnP. If you try to use those port forwarding hacks, you force ever
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by Hizonner 1mo ago
I was alive and don't think I've forgotten. What distinguished large from small users was the width of the pipe. Address space charging was never important as a revenue driver. There were some attempts to charge for address spac
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by Hizonner 1mo ago
> IMHO, it's the only way to force the proponent(s) of these proposal(s) to see the folly of their ways (and it's no guarantee that they will). I'm pretty sure they'd see it as a win , at least unless it led to massi
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by Hizonner 1mo ago
> Is characterizing them as cultists also a slur then? In the original sense, probably yes. In the more current sense, no. The original sense was something like "unanswerable libel, especially around group characteristics". The
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by Hizonner 1mo ago
An organization does have to have a clear set of shared plans, toward which it takes a program of coordinated action. That's what an organization is . It's about being organized . A bunch of random individuals who share so
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by Hizonner 1mo ago
> How many screws in an airplane? So you're suggesting that an enterprise that would ever have even considered routinely using any stupid bullshit question along those lines is somehow engaged in a finely-honed and effective process
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by Hizonner 1mo ago
... but you can still fail to notice one, and you can gauge and to some degree control your risk of being fined. In fact, if you sell 10 hobby prototype boards to other hobbyists, you probably have a higher risk of getting hit by a bus on t
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by Hizonner 2mo ago
... and if your boss told you never to tell her things she didn't want to hear, her boss might not be so thrilled about that. Nor might the market. You're aware that the people making these decisions work for the public, right?
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by Hizonner 2mo ago
"Stop liking things I don't like!!"
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by Hizonner 2mo ago
In other words, you have a religious belief that some technology will always come to save you in the nick of time, but you have absolutely no real knowledge about anything.
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by Hizonner 2mo ago
> the technological developments which will lead to the avoidance of their dire predictions. ... and what exactly would those be?
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by Hizonner 2mo ago
Well, that's pretty damned moronic, is what that is.
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by Hizonner 2mo ago
> This isn't a good dichotomy though. Either "Build it from source" or "Wait for a professional 3rd party to package it for you". Somebody has to do the work. Apparently you won't accept it for that to be th
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by Hizonner 2mo ago
Legitimate in what way? It's obviously fucking stupid. Stupid criteria are not "legitimate". You'd do just as well rolling dice, and it would be more legitimate because it wouldn't be pretending to do something it d
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by Hizonner 2mo ago
"Wasted" is a word people use to mean "used for a purpose I personally do not value". Try persuading people to share your values.
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by Hizonner 2mo ago
If I want a memory-safe, garbage-collected language, I have a ton of choices already, and many of them are safer in other ways than either Rust or anything derived from C (richer type systems make programs safer). Not to mention being prett
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by Hizonner 2mo ago
... and it is stupid to try to protect cretins who would do that by screwing everybody else.
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
"Counterproductive" is when you enable feckless idiots to do whatever they want if they say "aw shucks" enough.
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
> I'm 52 now and I've been hearing about how Quantum Computing is going to revolutionise everything in the next two years, since I was in primary school Bullshit, unless you were listening to raving crackpots, and probably not
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
Even acknowledging fault is a poor substitute for not fucking up in the first place.
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
If there were a well-known URL that retrieved all content added to a site after a given date, and a meaningful number of sites implemented it, I bet the biggest scrapers would use it. Except, of course, that then sites would start lying and
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
> foundational American principles (e.g., support for law enforcement and border control) Yeah, Tom Paine used to fucking rhapsodize about border control. They actually wrote that? Jeebus.
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
> > The default system prompt is opinionated (fine) but it has shit opinions (not fine). It took me a while to figure out why my agent kept saying “Use ABSOLUTELY NO COMMENTS” when dispatching subagents. > Okay, so change it? Any L

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