Sophira

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by Sophira 11mo ago
Those still only work for text. What I'm trying to say is that it's possible Stallman was considering that "screenshot" means "dumping a graphics buffer to disk". In the case of text mode without the framebuffe
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by Sophira 11mo ago
He was using text mode at the time in 2002. The term has something of a technical meaning that he was likely referencing. To be precise: 1. He was using a virtual console (ie. what you get when you press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and similar if using X),
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by Sophira 11mo ago
This, exactly. I had heard before that Lisp had something called "macros", but I didn't know exactly what they were or how they differed from C macros. This blog post kind of explains that, but not in a way that couldn&#x27
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by Sophira 11mo ago
Just because most advertising is abusive doesn't mean that all of it is. The popups that Steam shows when you open it are definitely still advertising, as are the recommendations for other games and things like that. Ironically, this i
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by Sophira 11mo ago
I feel like many other companies would have bought out the technology and then applied for patents to stop anybody else from developing similar things. This is what you get when you go completely the opposite direction, and it's wonder
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by Sophira 11mo ago
People were probably already tricked into learning assembly when they played Human Resource Machine. A lot of people think it's a "teaching programming" game, and it sorta is, but it's actually teaching assembly langua
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by Sophira 11mo ago
At least in some circles, the real meaning of "end-to-end encryption" was being addressed. For example, in the field of credit card processing, here's an article from 2009 which talks about how people back then were misusing
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by Sophira 11mo ago
Unfortunately, blindly installing dependencies at compile-time is something that many projects will do by default nowadays. It's not just "more amateur developers" who are at risk here. I've even seen "setup scripts
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by Sophira 11mo ago
I understood what you were saying. I was continuing on from your point that the different SDK versions only support a limited range of devices, by noting that by updating the SDK, the range of devices that your app will work on will be, at
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by Sophira 11mo ago
It's also worth noting that app stores tend to have a range of SDK versions that they will accept for new uploads. (For iOS apps on the Apple App Store, the minimum is currently the SDK for iOS 18[0], and in April 2026, that will chang
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by Sophira 11mo ago
Unfortunately, it appears to have been vandalised. Pretty much every post on the front page now is one with the same title of "{N-word} {gay slur}". [Edit: Looks like it's been fixed.]
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by Sophira 11mo ago
Did you have to supply your personal details to anybody in order to get that free number?
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by Sophira 11mo ago
Phone numbers were never supposed to be secret. Nor were social security numbers.
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Chicken Caesars: they're messing with your Bluesky feed(thedabbler.patatas.ca)
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by Sophira 11mo ago
Where can I find more information about this? I had never heard that they use two computers like that before.
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by Sophira 11mo ago
To be clear, it's not LLMs creating the captions. Whisper[0], one of the best of its kind currently, is a speech recognition model, not a large language model. It's trained on audio , not text, and it can run on your mobile pho
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by Sophira 11mo ago
About 10 years ago, I got an email from Microsoft of all people(!) which to any reasonably security-trained person would look entirely like a phishing email:[0] 1. It said "Dear User" instead of a name/username; 2. It talked
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by Sophira 11mo ago
> They broke down their attacks into small, seemingly innocent tasks that Claude would execute without being provided the full context of their malicious purpose. This part, at least, sounds like what humans have been doing that to other
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by Sophira 11mo ago
One thing worth noting, these checks and restrictions only apply if you're using the original F-Droid repository. Many times I've seen the IzzyOnDroid repository recommended, but that repo explicitly gives you the APKs from the or
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by Sophira 1y ago
Their hypothetical does have weight, though. Damn near every desktop/laptop computer does have "a hidden little core running a hidden little OS" nowadays, after all.[0] Obviously this particular one isn't in non-Intel
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by Sophira 1y ago
Be careful - this may be a case where they say they're going to do one thing (collect data from US citizens), but walk that part of it back after people protest - while those very same people overlook the fact that they're still g
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by Sophira 1y ago
...I mean "yt-dlp", of course. Phone autocorrected >_<
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by Sophira 1y ago
Yes, lots. To name an example, yt-dip uses it on all platforms, including Windows, which means that any video downloader front-end that uses it also uses FFmpeg.
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by Sophira 1y ago
Yep, services like AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy and so on, would absolutely be separate. As it was, each of these services basically had to allow access to the greater Internet.
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by Sophira 1y ago
Why do you feel this was generated by AI?
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by Sophira 1y ago
> given how cloning a remote repo only gives you a partial copy of the remote history You may be thinking of the optional -depth switch, which allows you to create shallow clones that don't have the full history. If you don't i
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by Sophira 1y ago
I completely agree with you - I think that automatic downloading of dependencies when building is a bad idea. However, for the sake of devil's advocacy, I do also want to point out that the first thing a lot of people used to do after
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by Sophira 1y ago
The article itself is a nice look at the state of editors and IDEs compared to those of yesteryear... but the site itself restyles my scroll bar to be thinner and less usable, which kind of spoils the experience. I hate it when sites do thi
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by Sophira 1y ago
Secure Boot is not something that should be part of a consumer computer at all, in my opinion. Enterprises might have some use for it, but for a consumer who wants to be able to do anything they want with their computer, it doesn't mak
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by Sophira 1y ago
I don't believe there's any mode you can use that would make it truly end-to-end encryption. I may be incorrect, but I don't recall seeing anything like that.

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