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by Sebb767 2y ago
With cars, you have a license plate that will usually lead you to the owner. Identifying some random person, possibly with a hood, on noisy camera night vision is a lot harder; when you don't have a reasonably small pool of suspects, i
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by Sebb767 2y ago
It does: > I went in expecting SEO traffic to be hit as Google renegotiates legions of canonical URLs; it hasn't, at least thus far. Instead, everything seems to have just bumped fairly healthily. (emphasis is theirs)
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by Sebb767 2y ago
Like all adblockers. But just like the current "AI detection" tools, how much is detected (and what counts as Ad) is up for debate and most users won't bother, especially once the first anti-Adblock-features materialize.
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by Sebb767 2y ago
The point the parent made is not to not make mistakes, but to learn from them. Which they probably did not from all of them, as indicated by the sheer amount of messenger apps on this list, but there's definitely a lot to learn from th
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by Sebb767 2y ago
If entirely new things is what you're looking for, you're not really looking for a recommendation algorithm [1]. What these algorithms try to achieve is finding unknown songs that are in the same genre to what people already like.
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by Sebb767 2y ago
But what's the solution here? Not doing the (possibly) interesting research because it's hard to reproduce? That doesn't sound like a better situation. That being said, yes, this is hard to reproduce for your average Joe, but
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by Sebb767 2y ago
You can also simply use `ssh -X`/`ssh -Y` and use your local X/Xwayland server for the remote app. This way you can start remote GUI apps like local ones from your shell.
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by Sebb767 2y ago
The PR is originally from 2021 and has been merged back then, but there's more recent discussion on it about whether this introduces a vulnerability.
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by Sebb767 2y ago
Actually, by just alluding to the bug without saying it explicitly, you managed to both be pedantic and not avoid the discussion. This is not meant as a personal attack; I just want to point out how it looks on a casual reading :)
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by Sebb767 2y ago
The root comment said to not allow floating devices in pools with children that can't swim, but only clarified the condition in the latter sentence. The first response (mis-)interpreted it as "do not allow floating devices period&
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by Sebb767 2y ago
It's not related to the post at hand, but the way selected text is highlighted on this blog is quite bad - only the font color is changed, not the background. Not only is it pretty unintuitive, it also makes it impossible to see if you
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> It's interesting that modern movies have to make you think you understand something, before they pull the curtain back and reveal there's a twist. Otherwise people will get disengaged and stop watching before the twist occurs
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by Sebb767 2y ago
I've worked in companies with horrendous security, where someone with just a bit of SQL injection experience could have easily carried out the data. Yet, since this was a custom in-house application and your off-the-shelve-scanners did
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> A little rant: as someone who use three virtual keyboards (English, Chinese, Japanese), it is already a pain in ass to switch them since MS does not follow "last used" switching order (like alt+tab). Instead, it just switches
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by Sebb767 2y ago
Are you sure about that? People commit financial crimes with possible jail time all the time. Even putting the CEOs life directly in the line of danger does not work, see OceanGate. I still agree that the punishment for these crimes is too
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> but there is no need to stabilize when you have big nuclear base load Of course there is. What you're stabilizing is varying consumer demand, not the (quite long-term) shutdown of power stations.
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> if the message never achieved a physical form such as printing, does the message exist? The physical bits do exist, though, on the storage medium. Now, of course this does not match our usual image of existing, since the bytes were tec
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by Sebb767 2y ago
But you would also need someone to search for and find that answer in order to actually deliver you payload. Answering random questions has the advantage that the original poster is incentivized to execute your code.
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by Sebb767 2y ago
Except there wasn't any promotion. The only thing close would be Sams tweet, but this was not an official statement and could easily be explained to refer to the concept of voice assistants in general. The fact that SJ was contacted tw
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> Why doesn’t Amber have equivalent issues? Such as depending on a specific version of bash, or specific executables to be installed. Because it's easy (for most cases) to write backwards-compatible or portable shell scripts and, si
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> It's a minor difference though as there would be no way to detect thata single grounding screw had failed and then the failure of the second screw would cause the same problem. Actually, having two grounding screws would have avoi
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> Or Microsoft might also extend support based on public demand, given that Windows 10 still beats Windows 11 in install base. There was a time when this was true of Windows 7 and we all know how that went down.
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> they hired a voice actress for the rights to create the voice, she was paid, and then is basically told by the courts "actually you're unhireable because you sound too much like an already rich and famous person". There
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by Sebb767 2y ago
Probably less than you'd think. Moving things on wheels is a lot easier than (for example) lifting and, compared to cars, it does not need to accelerate fast or deal with highly varying loads.
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> If you don't know why your body is fevering, don't lower the fever. If you don't know why your blood pressure is high, don't lower it. And if you don't know why you have cancer, don't do anything about it?
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> It's horrendous and I seriously don't get what's so difficult in just coding these scripts in a programming language that provides single statically linked binaries (like Golang) and just distribute it with your images -
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> Law enforcement asks signal if they have an account for a phone number, signal saying "yes, here's when they created it". Law enforcement says that the suspect chatted with some username/told people to contact him b
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by Sebb767 2y ago
> Wanna ask the two orphans living at my cousin's where their parents are and who killed them? Applying an emotional argument to shut up discussions against censorship is propaganda 101.
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> You will eventually revise your opinion once you find your chat logs 20 years later in some randomly occuring IRC logs because that one guy was using an IRC bridge. E2EE can not prevent the receivers from sharing the message (they are
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> I really dislike the "hand rolled is bad" meme. Crypto is notoriously easy to get wrong, even if you know a lot about it - and most people do not. Secondly, proving something secure is pretty hard as well. If the crypto isn&#

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