Hizonner

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by Hizonner 3mo ago
Why would anybody trust criminals to pay them over time?
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
Patriotism is soft nationalism, and any of either is too much.
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
Somehow nobody ever bothers to mention to the kids that it's not required. How many schools still do it, though? Honestly you could tell me it was almost universal or very rare, and I'd have to believe you either way. Of course, C
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
Actually it frequently can, since a modern monitor is often on USB and in a position to impersonate a keyboard and/or mouse. I wouldn't put it past most of these companies.
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
Superior workaround: 1. Reset machine 2. Tap the BIOS setup key (often DEL) during the time before it boots. 3. Insert intallation media for a decent OS 4. ...
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
... and once you take more than the tiniest step beyond the defaults, the difficulty of configuring all that complex optionality exceeds the difficulty of coding your own, and coding the integrations you actually need. And you still get sc
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
This ignores the fact that the bread is poisoned.
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
The line at my workplace was "It's a Unix system... WE'RE SCREWED!"
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
Not a bad idea, except that *WEB PAGES SHOULD HAVE NEITHER ANY ACCESS TO NOR ANY CONTROL OVER THE HISTORY, PERIOD, AND SOMEBODY NEEDS TO BEAT THE MORONS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS "WEB PLATFORM" BULLSHIT SENSELESS*. It's good that
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
Few people can do actually do that effectively.
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
Anybody in business who uses the word "partner" in its current sense plots at heart to add the "toxic".
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
I am absolutely baffled at the idea that LLMs mean you need less automated verification of correctness.
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
Nobody has tried to limit knowledge of chemistry or physics unless it was directly about doing something illegal, to the point of basically being a detailed recipe. Usually not even then. And when they have tried they've had basicall
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
Hey, that scorpion stung me!
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
Can you substantiate your certainty with anything other than the public statements of people whose job is to lie about things like that?
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
> every country on Earth spies on the rest, It's entirely possible an EU country did this; they're only vaguely guessing Belarus or whoever. In most countries, it's a big deal if the spies are caught spying on the dome
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
How is it that any NSO employee is still able to travel outside Israel without getting arrested? Seems like they're involved in criminal conspiracies in like half the countries in the world.
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
> Why would Craigslist stop Flock-related posts from going through? The only answer I can think of is something along the lines of a National Security Letter. That's because you lack imagination. 99 percent chance they are blocking
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
But actual protocols are so last century . You might have to think ahead for fifteen minutes because the design has to be staaaa-a-ble. It's haa-a-ard! And you can't sell out to somebody who'll change it and have an exit
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
There are a few online bullying rings. A few people get struck by lightning. ... and information isn't really the question. Not that there's actually any good definition for "social media".
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
> Or you have a child who is questioning their sexual orientation or identity and is targeted by an online bullying ring. It is far more common for that child to be targeted by parents , and maybe by people they know in person, especi
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
"Landmark" review by an advocacy group. Not a good review, either.
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by Hizonner 3mo ago
Um, the nginx binary would have to be in the hands of hundreds of thousands of server operators. And the set of server operators is rich in the kind of person who would attack it. Not to mention the huge number of leaks you'd get. May
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
I'm a bit confused. In my world, "I own it" means it's running on hardware physically in my control, by default physically in my possession, and nobody can turn off my account...
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
I don't think such regulation should be restricted to AI. "Google-style B2C blanket bans" routinely ruin people's livelihoods in other ways, including, of course, when Google does it. There are way too many companies now
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
I use OpenRouter all the time on an account for which I never supplied a phone number, email address, or anything of the kind. Maybe that was because I used an Ethereum wallet to authenticate, and paid in cryptocurrency (well, if USDC coun
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
> Not sure where this icy, thunderstorm-prone city where it's either walk or drive with nothing in between is, but it's certainly pretty far outside my experience. Montreal. I think there've been three thunderstorms in the
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
There's this weird "bicyclist viewpoint" where the only acknowledged possible purpose of leaving your house appears to be to get your body to a different point within a relatively small area. Personally, if I go anywhere at a
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
Actually not as much point now. The reason to regulate in maybe 2000 or so was that staying with IPv4 led to NAT. NAT led to it being impossible for users to receive incoming connections. Inability to receive incoming connections led to (a)
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by Hizonner 4mo ago
Right. Which is why this is not a choice businesses should be allowed to make.

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