Sophira

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by Sophira 1y ago
> This is why all of crypto is a fraud... Are you using "crypto" here to mean "cryptocurrency", rather than "cryptography"? Because if so, that's not obvious considering you just mentioned cryptographer
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by Sophira 1y ago
It depends on the metric you use. Yes, AI text could be considered higher quality than traditional SEO, but at the same time, it's also very much not, because it always sounds like it might be authoritative, but you could be reading
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by Sophira 1y ago
I don't run a compositor, and with Qt6, Some programs like VirtualBox just don't respect Qt's scaling factor setting. Setting the font DPI instead results in weird bugs, like the display window getting smaller and smaller. As
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by Sophira 1y ago
Maybe I'm just confused, but why even use an ML model for this? It's all just calc, right?
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by Sophira 1y ago
Many people do, though. I've heard people say proudly that they "only watch the Super Bowl for the ads".
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by Sophira 1y ago
> The primary thing that makes advertisements disagreeable is their irrelevance. Disagreeable to whom, exactly? Personally, I would rather the adverts were irrelevant if it meant I didn't have my every move tracked on the web. The
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by Sophira 1y ago
While I agree in theory, this is never going to happen. There's too much DRM in use for it to work out.
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by Sophira 1y ago
> To see how many passwords are given away for free, the single 1,261.4 MB file in the image above contained over 64,000 credential pairs. ...what else is in there? That's way, way too few for it to make up over a gigabyte of data
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by Sophira 1y ago
You stated in the parent comment that you used GPT4o to generate it, but now you're saying you had a professionally made icon? I don't understand.
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by Sophira 1y ago
The funny thing is, I wasn't even thinking about the em dashes when I made the initial comment. I had been concentrating on the usage of English in general in the article, which to me is a far more obvious sign of AI generation than th
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by Sophira 1y ago
I would argue that em dashes themselves are not the giveaway that people think they are, and I wish they weren't discriminated against like this. I was focusing more on what you called "among other things". The way that the a
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by Sophira 1y ago
Although I agree that JS is being used incredibly irresponsibly, I also think this article is almost certainly AI-generated with minimal editing based on the way it reads, and I wish that wasn't the case because the topic deserves bett
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by Sophira 1y ago
Don't torrents have a checksum hash, though? Or is it one of the broken hashing algorithms like MD5?
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by Sophira 1y ago
Right. The closest thing we have to IPv6 "negotiation" is the Happy Eyeballs algorithm[0], which is literally just "connect to both at the same time and pick the one that connects first". The name serves to legitimise it
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by Sophira 1y ago
> This seems like a truly unreasonable level of political skill for nearly any setting. We're talking about changing every endpoint in the Internet, including those which can no longer be upgraded. I struggle to think of any entity
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by Sophira 1y ago
The silly thing is, it was known before all these permission pop-ups were created that users will simply press "Yes", "OK", "Allow", "Agree", etc., on every dialogue they see simply in order to get ri
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by Sophira 1y ago
> I would prefer to know about a delayed flight before I get to the airport. Generally, the recommendation is that you get to the airport at least two hours before your flight departs. Ideally, you shouldn't be rushing to try to get
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by Sophira 1y ago
I've reverse-engineered a couple of programs before in order to get them to do what I want. Things like setting default options in a program that doesn't let you change the defaults, or getting older Windows programs to function c
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by Sophira 1y ago
This whole comment section must be absolutely hell to look at on that...
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by Sophira 1y ago
A webchat that I used to go to back in the day implemented this too. I used to spend a lot of time there - it was my Internet home for several years. I miss it terribly.
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by Sophira 1y ago
On the topic of blocking host names using the hosts file: > The nslookup command returned valid IP addresses for both sub-domains, rather than the dummy IP addresses I put into the hosts file. Beats me why. DNS logging showed that nslook
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by Sophira 1y ago
I can give an example of this; I found such a vulnerability a few years ago now in an application I use regularly. The target application in this case was trying to validate incoming POST requests by checking that the incoming MIME type was
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by Sophira 1y ago
We need people who can (and do) write in C, assembly, and all these low-level languages. Otherwise, software will just get slower and slower.
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by Sophira 1y ago
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29201473 (which the article itself links to at the end).
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by Sophira 1y ago
It will be ignored in the name of profits.
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by Sophira 1y ago
I grew up with the RISC OS desktop, and it's one of the biggest reasons why I'm so comfortable with the multi-window interface of the GIMP, because it's very reminiscent of how things worked on RISC OS.
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by Sophira 1y ago
The title of the submission is incorrect. The actual article title begins "Why we fall for fake health information" - note the "Why".
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by Sophira 1y ago
There's another problem here that I haven't seen anyone talking about, and that's the futility of trying to distinguish between "good bots" and "bad bots". The idea of Anubis is to stop bots that are meant
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by Sophira 1y ago
My understanding is that stripping .o files means you can't link to them, but maybe I'm wrong on that.
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by Sophira 1y ago
Taking this to its logical extreme, if it ended up getting used enough, then governments could be tempted to enforce its use.

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