LocalH

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by LocalH 2mo ago
Clearly you have a vested interest in the status quo of today, instead of understanding why the whole network was created in the first place. Your viewpoint enables billions of dollars of fraud every year, worldwide. Mine doesn't. Emai
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by LocalH 2mo ago
The main fuel is the "need" to have browsers that can execute code, coupled with the ability to transfer money via the internet. JavaScript was a mistake, e-commerce was a mistake, and so is everything else that came after. Let&#x
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by LocalH 2mo ago
Bad actors have been social engineering passwords for years even before a single line of JS was written. Restricting the backend is a way of heavily reducing the attack surface. The expansion of hardware access to browsers is the largest sc
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by LocalH 2mo ago
I think someone should ask Vint Cerf whether he ever intended the web to run executable code, and enforce that answer on the existing web. I bet the world would crumble. Good.
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by LocalH 2mo ago
"Communism" is a weasel word in this context. Nothing about modern AI industry is anywhere close to what makes communism communism. Modern non-local AI is all about the highest values of capitalism.
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by LocalH 2mo ago
JavaScript (and other forms of executing logic within the browser) have made the situation worse, though. To me, there's a big difference between a domain misread and actively malicious code running in the browser context as a design p
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by LocalH 2mo ago
> and you miss a part of the 'square' when you are turning (the arc of the curve is not a straight line) This can heavily be mitigated through technique. If you walk straight and just turn? Yeah, the corner is missed. If you ex
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by LocalH 2mo ago
Web security wasn't hard before we started trying to make the web a platform for full executable software. I never got hacked through the web before JavaScript (never got hacked after either, yet, but it wasn't really possible in
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by LocalH 2mo ago
I know it's "against HN etiquette" to ask about downvotes, but may I ask why I got downvoted? If it's clear that ownership changed from the original hacker to someone else, why should there not be an unban? I'd be f
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by LocalH 2mo ago
Who are you to decide that?
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by LocalH 2mo ago
Turn off your dark mode reader extension
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by LocalH 2mo ago
Unfortunately we also have parents who think that is all absolute bullshit and fail to give their kids access to that medical expertise. We also have parents who believe in "junk science" like "conversion therapy" or &
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by LocalH 2mo ago
If you claim that it's impossible to know if others are conscious, then I posit it is also impossible to know that you are conscious. You might be sure of it, but I'm not. It's not a huge leap, to me, to say "I am
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by LocalH 2mo ago
No. Parents are often the least informed and least capable of making proper medical decisions for their children.
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by LocalH 2mo ago
They should be required to unban a console given a clear proof of purchase from a previous owner
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by LocalH 2mo ago
And just like that, you're part of the problem
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by LocalH 2mo ago
This is why hacking consoles is paramount. These companies don't want you to be able to preserve what you paid for, and hacking enables that. Thank god we figured out the encryption on Rock Band content. Everything there is preserved n
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by LocalH 2mo ago
Commerce should never have been made possible to happen on the internet. The moment it became possible to send and receive money through the internet, the end times began.
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by LocalH 2mo ago
That's arguable. Government officials working with third-parties to undermine Constitutional protections can be seen as (and is, in my opinion) attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance (i.e., the Constitution, which is
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by LocalH 2mo ago
The problem isn't social media, it's mass social media. Oldschool forums are "social media". But they were usually much smaller than the current mass social media where an ad buy can get you in front of millions and
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by LocalH 2mo ago
When is this company going to be shut down and the c-suite imprisoned?
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by LocalH 2mo ago
It wasn't "unauthorized" if it was at the direction of the federal fucking government . Treason for every single person who is doing this in our government and at their direction.
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by LocalH 2mo ago
> a commercial failure Not everything has to have the teeth of capitalism continually biting down harder and harder. Plateaus are ok (and this is nowhere near a plateau)
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by LocalH 2mo ago
Tell me you've never heard a good Type IV recording without saying you've never heard a good Type IV recording.
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by LocalH 2mo ago
inb4 some government tries to ban independent IRC, since it can be used over a VPN and thus can be equally unspyable
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by LocalH 2mo ago
If they want to call piracy theft, then I reserve the right to call advertising theft of my attention
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by LocalH 2mo ago
Apple Maps has gotten significantly better since their early failures. I primarily use it on my iPhone because the voice sounds much more natural than when using Google Maps.
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by LocalH 2mo ago
NAT is good. It's CGNAT that's bad, because that's NAT imposed on subscribers, and not NAT that they control.
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by LocalH 2mo ago
That's not immediately cut and dry. Piracy is virtually required for any sense of proper preservation, because the major way to preserve games is to pirate them while they are still being commercially exploited . If you wait until a g
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by LocalH 2mo ago
This type of AI usage is quite a good tell on personal laziness - whatever we can do to minimize the human fault state, even if that fault state is also baked into generative AI because it was invented by humans . People have been running

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