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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> So.. it's run everything sandboxed by default the recommendation for regular users? Yeah, that is probably the best solution. Most mobile OSes do that by default now anyways. Desktop Linux has Flatpaks and Snaps. Windows has UWP a
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Yeah, un-sandboxed programs can access all your user files. That's why there has been such a large push for sandboxing tech like Flatpak. (In general though, you really shouldn't be running programs you don't trust in anyth
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Definitely Node (or Electron, which is basically Node with a browser bolted on).
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C++ Multi-Dimensional Analog Literals(eelis.net)
2 points by TheBrokenRail 4y ago|1 comments
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Not a perfect solution, but Michigan created a bipartisan commission to redraw districts in 2020. (Well Michigan didn't create it, voters did in a proposal during the 2018 election.) https://www.michigan.gov/micrc
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Well, there is the Darling project. https://github.com/darlinghq/darling
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> by default the reader can't tell what's it about without clicking. Most chat apps like Discord will automatically include an embed generated from a URL's metadata when present in a message.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
I see what you mean! I guess it depends on when Google updates to glibc v2.36, presumably they then would just include the DT_RELR version dependency on their binaries rather than unnecessarily patching glibc. Who knows how long that will t
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
From my understanding, neither. It's the same code (presumably) but Chrome OS's version was compiled with metadata that said it was running on Chrome OS and Linux's version was compiled with metadata that said it was running
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Maybe it's because my system has wine-devel, but running Chrome or Firefox under Wine has always been really buggy for me.
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Xfinity Stream on Linux: A Tale of Widevine, ChromeOS, and a patched Glibc(thebrokenrail.com)
144 points by TheBrokenRail 4y ago|71 comments
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
I'd argue that's less the AI being biased, than the AI's human-imposed restrictions being biased. Once you get around those (and it is not difficult to), you can get it to write an essay on pretty much anything, from any view
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
This. 100% this. We live in the 21st century and have proper APIs to detect features now, we should not be relying on parsing this user-agent string which is 90% legacy-garbage anyways. I mean, sites blocking compatible browsers is such a c
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> Mastodon starts off by explaining how federates instances work and then gives you a list of popular ones to choose from. This is kind of terrible. Now instead of just putting in your emails you have to make an impactful choice that won
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
I'm not saying that AI should have rights. I'm saying it's silly to call it "theft" when an AI does it, but "learning" and "inspiration" when a human does the same thing.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> The thing to remember is AI literally copies the originals. While it mashes them together in a way that makes the lines hard to see that is in fact what it is doing. As another commenter already pointed out, this is literally not possi
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> Humans as a race have created art from literally nothing. No, they didn't? Humans don't have any magic creative juices that allow them to come up with ideas out of thin air, that's silly. Ideas are created from our brain
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> AI art is about putting together the work that artists have done in a way that isn't technically theft (well it might be the law is very slow about reacting to this thing and you can't go after someone for copyright violation
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
So what's the difference between ARM and Apple Silicon? It's a little odd seeing it treated as its own unique architecture (for instance with people specifically porting software or writing guides about Apple Silicon rather than A
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Yeah, Google thinks I'm 31 years older than I actually am.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
When we get into situations like this, you do have to question if the law requiring it is just plain silly.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
I feel like I'm missing something, what did the medical system actually do wrong? I feel like I'm missing an intermediary paragraph talking about high fees or uncompassionate doctors or something similar.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
To me, that just sounds like an pretty good argument to improve feature detection. Freezing user-agents and improving feature-detection aren't mutually-exclusive.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> The Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) allows you to use, and share various scripts. The scripts are written in Lua. Stuff like this is why I can't take people who argue against systemd because of the Unix philosophy seriously. The idea
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Can we please just freeze the user-agent string all browsers use? (I'd prefer if we could remove it, but we all know that isn't ever happening due to all the old websites.) It's silly that it's almost 2023 and web browse
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
I thought this was interesting regarding the conversation whether AI was stealing when it's trained on copyrighted code/art, despite humans also learning from (or being inspired by) copyrighted code/art. Also I now see I made
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Is Are we kidding ourselves that anything is original? [video](aeon.co)
1 points by TheBrokenRail 4y ago|2 comments
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
This is the issue with companies forcing 2FA on people. I don't see why it's so controversial that people should be able to make their own security decisions on their own accounts. Yes, I know 2FA is more secure, but sometimes, I
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Humans Need Not Apply (2014)(youtube.com)
3 points by TheBrokenRail 4y ago|0 comments
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
This all seems really cool, but right now I'm just dreading when some site inevitably start forcing you to use it out of some misplaced desire to protect the user from themselves. It's my account, it should be my choice whether to

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