Rygian

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by Rygian 4mo ago
The United States are listed as a secular state (ie. it "is or purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion") Edit: As I research a bit further, I have stumbled upon an interesting counterargument [1] that enumeration
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by Rygian 4mo ago
"What is your religious affiliation" makes absolutely no sense in a census exercise. IMO.
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by Rygian 4mo ago
> I think the industry is optimizing for the wrong thing. Indeed: The industry optimizes for speed, time to market, and features, and applies the ostrich model to everything that doesn't bring short-time revenue (security considerat
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by Rygian 4mo ago
"Excuse me sir, would you mind carrying this extension that goes against your core business of selling ads?" Publish it as a Firefox add-on instead.
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by Rygian 4mo ago
Ads not only need to be relevant to me. They also have to be presented to me only when I am interested in the category of the advertised product or service. Otherwise they're just spam. (Consider the typical "you just bought a new
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by Rygian 5mo ago
How long until a canvas is used to render the full chrome of a web browser (e.g. including the TLS padlock), showing a fake benign URL in the (fake) address bar while having the user interact with a malicious page?
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by Rygian 5mo ago
> we include it in our terms and condition and privacy page, but I don't think users truly grasp how those tools work Since you did collect the metrics, you had direct knowledge of how many users opened the T&C and scrolled down
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by Rygian 5mo ago
All the questions about sneeze are either about open air, or Newton's third law. Did really no one ask what happens if you sneeze while wearing a spacesuit helmet? Does the visor have a windshield wiper on the inside?
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by Rygian 5mo ago
I'm glad we don't have exclusion zones like that one in France either.
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by Rygian 5mo ago
You misread my comment. If someone can deliver the same greater value to society using less electricity than you, they should be rewarded.
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by Rygian 5mo ago
Punitive pricing is a great thing. The less energy you spend to deliver value, the better for everyone.
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by Rygian 5mo ago
As addressed in the article ("Choosing the right target"): > Pick the *highest-level* entry point that contains the bug
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by Rygian 5mo ago
That's not prevention. That's remediation.
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by Rygian 5mo ago
In my case, the site reports "The technique is called browser fingerprinting. It is legal everywhere." It is definitely not legal in Europe, when used to track individual users. The consent pop-ups are not only about cookies.
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Custom Music Boxes, Mechanisms, Movements and Discs(musichouseshop.com)
3 points by Rygian 5mo ago|0 comments
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by Rygian 5mo ago
I'll ask the obvious: wouldn't the aircraft just take to the skies directly, without bothering with the formality of setting their transponder, if they were knowingly escaping an apocalypse scenario?
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by Rygian 5mo ago
Law #0: don't reflowb or otherwise move around the UI element I'm going to click on.
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KDEConnect(userbase.kde.org)
15 points by Rygian 5mo ago|1 comments
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by Rygian 5mo ago
Mickey mouse is in the public domain, at last!
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by Rygian 5mo ago
There is apparently 10000 people every day who learn about it for the first time, according to https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by Rygian 6mo ago
That's not a fix. It's a workaround.
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by Rygian 6mo ago
I wonder how often do privacy policies change, for the average site, to merit investing in a dedicated library that renders them dynamically. Assuming that the default solution is a static page.
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by Rygian 6mo ago
The article does mention a very specific choice of vibration equipment.
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by Rygian 6mo ago
Is there any strong relationship between IQ scores and innate intelligence, as opposed to mental agility gained through education?
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How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think (2003) [pdf](users.speakeasy.net)
2 points by Rygian 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Rygian 6mo ago
The very next entry on the homepage, just below this one: "The danger of military AI isn't killer robots; it's worse human judgement" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632016
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by Rygian 7mo ago
Valid question, which must be put in the context of US-based providers willingly satisfying US out-of-jurisdiction search requests for EU data without even letting the EU know about it. (And when the providers are not willing, they can be f
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by Rygian 7mo ago
Your statement is wrong. The report describes that there was no mechanism to dispatch the reactive power of renewables separately from the active power. In page 452, item numbered 1 states "RES power plants follow fixed power factor&
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by Rygian 7mo ago
Obligatory read: https://how.complexsystems.fail/
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Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout(entsoe.eu)
223 points by Rygian 7mo ago|112 comments

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