Sophira

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by Sophira 1y ago
Of course, those build files won't be stripped, meaning that it would be easier to reverse-engineer them - which might not be something the distributor wants.
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by Sophira 1y ago
Local models are a thing, though. You can run DeepSeek on your local computer. Even if ChatGPT, Huggingface, etc. died, we would still have the models and we would still be able to run them.
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by Sophira 1y ago
I think using the term "by" like that at all is going to lead to serious confusion. As we all know, GitHub is not "by" Microsoft (as in, written by them). It's under their control now, and sure, they've made a
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by Sophira 1y ago
I'm not talking about ads, I'm talking about telemetry. It just happens to be that ad blockers can also block other resources as well - but not Reddit's telemetry, for the reasons I explained.
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by Sophira 1y ago
One thing I've noticed is that Reddit is very, very aggressive about how it implements its telemetry. Not only is the endpoint that it uses for collecting events randomized each time you load a page, but it also happens that every even
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by Sophira 2y ago
It does, but I think the person you were responding to was referring to the "This should not require any Internet access to view" part.
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by Sophira 2y ago
These bots are everywhere on Reddit. There's a whole network of them, doing exactly the same sort of thing as this article found.
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by Sophira 2y ago
At first, I thought this was a general Ruby thing, but the install process has you running Rails commands. Does that mean this is web-focused, rather than a UI thing that I can use in native Ruby applications?
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by Sophira 2y ago
May I ask what issues you're having with it? (I haven't switched over yet.)
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by Sophira 2y ago
Given that the original exposé was meant to be a three-part series, I'm almost certain this is not all that Honey does. The remaining parts have never been released. In January, MegaLag tweeted to explain what's been going on:
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by Sophira 2y ago
Not necessarily. As a counterpoint, I have a site (< https://www.automidiflip.com/ >, which I posted to HN on launch 8 years ago[0], which provides a service and does not have (and has never had) any ads whatsoever. (It
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by Sophira 2y ago
According to the site, the funding comes from its "Search as a Service" feature[0], where anybody can pay them in order to have a search service focused on their site (which does not have to be in the public index and thus doesn&#
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by Sophira 2y ago
I genuinely can't tell whether you're being sarcastic or whether you're saying that you appreciated the link to the XKCD. If the former, then I apologise.
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by Sophira 2y ago
I wanted to expand a little on footnote #4, regarding how CD-ROM drives weren't really standardised. At the time, because of the lack of standardisation, there were a lot of different device drivers for different CD-ROM drives, and tho
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by Sophira 2y ago
Obviously, FOIA requests are meant to be completed using the organisation's own records, but is there anything that's stopping them from just replying with copy-pastes of the post text from the Wayback Machine?
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by Sophira 2y ago
> You know, you could also just refuse to send any video segments until the time when the ad is supposed to be over. As I understand it, many ads are skippable after a certain amount of time, so you'd have to allow for that, but tha
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by Sophira 2y ago
I don't have anything of substance to say, but I wanted to mention that I appreciate your subtle xkcd reference[0]! [0] https://xkcd.com/641/
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by Sophira 2y ago
My main use for WHOIS currently is actually not for domain names. I use it for querying IP addresses on whois.arin.net. Does anyone know how this news will impact that particular service, if at all?
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by Sophira 2y ago
This is a fair point. I know that "pool's closed" comes from Habbo Hotel, but only because I've actually heard that information before. I wouldn't know anything about it otherwise. In contrast, I've never heard
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by Sophira 2y ago
Okay. So now the question is, who maintains this database of people who can be contacted using a phone number-less system? And what do you use as the unique identifier?
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by Sophira 2y ago
They said "former politician", though. Also, this is a form of surveillance - I think most people on HN would be against that as well.
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by Sophira 2y ago
Bear in mind that the person you're applying to is also not paid by the population. They said "former politician".
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by Sophira 2y ago
What command line do you use?
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by Sophira 2y ago
> These old websites from the 90s that are still alive carry such a powerful dose of nostalgia. There's a subreddit dedicated to these kinds of sites: https://reddit.com/r/forgottenwebsites/
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by Sophira 2y ago
Oh dear, I didn't realise this. I knew that GitHub Release archives could have different files in them - for example, see the xz backdoor recently - but I didn't realise that npm would use those by default.
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by Sophira 2y ago
> Blindly running code from GitHub can be detrimental And this is exactly why I dislike how most dependency managers nowadays (especially npm) use GitHub directly. I prefer something where somebody other than the dev has reviewed the cod
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by Sophira 2y ago
I think it's interesting how we call this AI, because neural networks have been used for OCR for literally decades at this point. Where does "neural networks" stop and "AI" begin?
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by Sophira 2y ago
Demos should count. The demoscene is almost archetypical in this regard, IMO.
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by Sophira 2y ago
Wouldn't that be five 2s, not 4?
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by Sophira 2y ago
> No-one wants to play against a modded game. Au contraire. There are plenty of people who would like to play against a modded game. They just might not want to play against a game that's modded differently from their own.

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