RiverCrochet

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by RiverCrochet 5d ago
Why not? Something that can do facial recognition + location tracking + keep and instantly transmit related digital records to a third party should be considered an invasion of privacy even if in public.
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by RiverCrochet 5d ago
> You're using rhetoric to try and change the subject -- you're making a jump from "good value" to "lack of quality", and painting them with the same brush. Correct, I am. I apologize if I gave the impressio
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by RiverCrochet 6d ago
You're free to ignore signals of cheapness if you want, as well as not care about quality. If you want generic restuarant food I guess you can go to McDonalds instead of a burger place; it's all the same value to you I guess.
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by RiverCrochet 6d ago
"AI = low effort" is becoming a heuristic regardless of the assertion's absolute accuracy. It's probably not going to die soon as long as it keeps appearing in scammy or low-margin business places. AI-generated visuals a
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by RiverCrochet 7d ago
AI generated visuals are becoming a signal of A) low-effort, B) and/or unwillingness or inability to spend resources to genuinely present your product or brand. Both of these communicate that I will probably not get a good value for my
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by RiverCrochet 11d ago
So you're OK with your bank website being invisible until people visit in person to get the certificates?
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by RiverCrochet 14d ago
You shouldn't be really scared until all devices follow the pattern of the iPhone (and maybe new flagship Android phones too, I'm not in that camp). New iPhones are expensive, more than $1000. Yet most people who get them finance
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by RiverCrochet 15d ago
was this before mmap(2)?
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by RiverCrochet 19d ago
If DRAM gets the ability to modify itself (computations), it doesn't eliminate the cache layer between the CPU and DRAM. For the CPU to see updated DRAM values it has to bring in the DRAM to cache. Now, if that's a large amount of
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by RiverCrochet 19d ago
L take. RAM is too slow for self-modifying code to be anywhere but F tier. This isn't 6502 land.
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by RiverCrochet 19d ago
Basically, the NX bit prevents CPU behavior (speculative fetches) that had a hand in Spectre-type vulnerabilities. That's surprising because that's not its purpose. This is for ARM CPUs.
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by RiverCrochet 24d ago
I recall joystick PEEKs being fine as long as you used port 2. Port 1 was muxed with the keyboard port and would type characters (2's and left arrows from what I remember).
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by RiverCrochet 25d ago
Without copyright, artist B could perform artist A's original work without penalty. If artist B is better at astroturfing social media than A (maybe because they pay a firm to do it) , then B makes money and A does not.
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by RiverCrochet 25d ago
It's fine. IPv4 addresses might get too expensive at some point, encouraging their deprecation. Or it's entirely possible having the option of IPv6 prevents IPv4 addresses from getting prohibitvely costly. Either way, IPv6 has its
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by RiverCrochet 25d ago
Me. If I develop an OS and release it for free public use, I've provided a public good.
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by RiverCrochet 28d ago
Firefox displays .json files decently if you ever need something in a pinch.
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by RiverCrochet 28d ago
ASCII was created in the 1960s. That's around the time when the industry wasn't really sure if all files were just going to be a stream of bytes that were completely up to programs to interpret, or if it was the OS's responsi
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by RiverCrochet 1mo ago
Do you have a data cap? The cable provider near me charges you $10 for every 50GB over 1.25TB monthly. A while ago they offered an "unlimited" plan without that cap at a higher monthly rate. I've never heard of a fiber connec
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by RiverCrochet 1mo ago
Get off the short bus twin. CPU backdoors do no good unless there is cooperation with network driver code or the CPU itself has full operating system with a full network stack. Intel's ME comes really close to that, but I don't th
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by RiverCrochet 1mo ago
- If you can buy sugar on SNAP you can just make Kool-Aid, with 2 or 3 cups of sugar per gallon instead of one if that's your taste. Or you can get the powdered tea or lemonade and make super sweet tea/lemonade. Maybe it's sl
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by RiverCrochet 1mo ago
> If you got a call tomorrow that your child had taken his or her life because bullies had posted abusive content about them online This doesn't happen without clear signs beforehand or if you don't interact with your child at
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by RiverCrochet 1mo ago
Any publicly accessible protocol, such as Ethernet (wired and wireless) can only do so much to prevent DoS/DDoS on a given open multiple access medium. You can certainly bake in fairness, congestion control, etc. in the protocol level,
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by RiverCrochet 1mo ago
Reticulum uses attached LoRa devices, via USB for example if I'm not mistaken. It doesn't directly run on the LoRa devices. PC not really required. 512MB of RAM and enough Linux to get Python will run Reticulum, on Raspberry Pi&#x
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by RiverCrochet 1mo ago
> What part of these services have been designed to be inherently addictive do you have a hard time understanding? None whatsoever. Parents that allow/enable their children to access such things when they are clearly in adults-only
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by RiverCrochet 1mo ago
Here's a better fix: If a parent continuously allows their child to go to a known unsafe place, they are negligent and should no longer be a parent. The exception is if the operator of said unsafe place specifically enticed children. I
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by RiverCrochet 1mo ago
The price of food/groceries has doubled over the last few years. The price of new cars is also much higher than it has been. All money I used to allocate to eating out in restuarants now goes to groceries. My next car purchase will be
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by RiverCrochet 2mo ago
Most activity on Facebook is via phone. I bet Facebook would prefer to get rid of the website entirely; the age of adding Facebook like buttons and comment sections to websites is long past. I can't think of anything that works on the
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by RiverCrochet 2mo ago
I report the fraud to my card company. The card company reverses the charges and purses action against the fraudster if possible. The card company then tells me that because contracts made over the phone are null and void, using the credit
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by RiverCrochet 2mo ago
vi should be a kernel-level system call, tunable with sysctls. For agentic management.
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by RiverCrochet 2mo ago
From the "Apple II (original)" Wikipedia article: "The original retail price of the computer with 4 KiB of RAM was US$1,298 (equivalent to $6,900 in 2025)[21] and with the maximum 48 KiB of RAM, it was US$2,638 (equivalent to

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