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by TheDong 9mo ago
I think there is one more possible framing for this. Recently xAI has been in the news for Groq's revenge-porn-like "undress them" feature, which seems pretty legally questionable. Musk has also been in the news for his own E
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by TheDong 9mo ago
I'm not talking about the copy protection, but the software being protected. Surely if the work being protected isn't copyrighted, there's nothing to circumvent in terms of the DMCA?
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by TheDong 9mo ago
"much better isolation than containers" If you've got an exploit for docker / linux containers, please share it with the class. What I'm saying is that in practice, containers and VMs have both been quite secure. Al
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by TheDong 9mo ago
I think it's more nuanced than that. For a long-running program, like a network service or whatever, yes absolutely runtime assertions are a poor substitute. For an impure program, where which branches of code are hit or aren't hi
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by TheDong 9mo ago
Once it hits 70 years from the lifetime of the author (so probably another 80 or 90 years from now) and is in public domain, that might change things since there will no longer be copyright being protected. In terms of copyright terms, this
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by TheDong 9mo ago
It depends on what you're trying to prevent. If your fear is exfiltration of your browser sessions and your computer joining a botnet, or accidental deletion of your data, then a sandbox helps. If your fear is the llm exfiltrating code
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by TheDong 9mo ago
What does "less muscle-mass" mean in terms of mortality statistics? We already know women live longer than men on average, and also have less muscle-mass than men on average, so clearly it's not having too much of an impact o
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by TheDong 9mo ago
And if I access Patreon via Chrome on Windows, and use Chrome on Windows to consume the artist's content, clearly I prefer the Chrome and Windows experience, so Microsoft and Google should be getting their 30% cut, right? ... and of co
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by TheDong 9mo ago
Presumably you also would agree that it's fair if Chrome, Windows, and Lenovo all charged me 30% each for using Patreon via Chrome+Windows on a thinkpad, right? They're doing about as much to facilitate my use of Patreon as Apple
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by TheDong 9mo ago
You're saying "musicians" aren't "artists", and "open source contributors" aren't artists _or_ writers? Artists covers both of the groups you said.
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by TheDong 9mo ago
Do you read Chinese, Hindi, and Vietnamese to read about thefts in those countries? Latin-based-language countries also have more relations to the english world (mostly through Britain historically conquering most of them), and so as an Eng
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by TheDong 9mo ago
There are things like this. The things I know of and can think of off the top of my head are: 1. appimage https://appimage.org/ 2. nix-bundle https://github.com/nix-community/nix-bundle 3. guix via gui
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by TheDong 9mo ago
Not necessarily. Reviewing an issue report is already enough time. Reviewing a patch is even more developer time. The problem they had before was a financial incentive to sending reports, leading to crap reports that wasted time to review.
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by TheDong 9mo ago
I've read their reports before. When there's not enough information to reproduce, they do a good job of asking for more information first, and I've never seen a reasonable good-faith report elicit anything overt. If you faile
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by TheDong 9mo ago
> The core is open source, though. macOS' particular choice for its graphical user land is proprietary as well I ran into a kernel panic specific to my macbook's hardware. How do I compile a new kernel with some extra debug pri
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by TheDong 9mo ago
The only reason that these company mark ads at all are due to consumer protection laws about undisclosed sponsored content. If stronger consumer protection laws are "totalitarian dictatorship methods", then no, there is no path. I
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by TheDong 9mo ago
The big difference here is that if you buy short-dated out-of-the-money options and make it big, the SEC comes knocking on your door and reads your text messages to find out what you knew and when. It's both easy to track down stock tr
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by TheDong 9mo ago
I do with anyone I can. Unfortunately some people I want to chat with (i.e. family) are too scared to install any third-party apps from the app store because each time they tried, they clicked on an app store ad and get garbage instead.
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by TheDong 9mo ago
By "degrade the experience" I mean: 1. Unable to remove members, or change member's phone-numbers without recreating the entire chat and losing continuity / bothering everyone with noise about these changes. 2. Green bub
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by TheDong 9mo ago
iMessage and RCS have some very different affordances, and apple keeps it that way to keep people walled into the system. Most notably, a single non-iMessage member in a group chat will degrade the experience for everyone significantly. It&
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by TheDong 9mo ago
> inescapable. It's rumored that they'll add ads to maps If you move to the EU you can change the default navigation app on iOS and never see apple maps. A plan to display ads would explain why they region locked that setting.
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by TheDong 9mo ago
Just use a tool that supports the AccurateRip database or similar, and check your checksums, right? Like, ripping seems easy to me, you rip with something that supports a checksum database, and if it comes out with a correct checksum then i
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by TheDong 9mo ago
> To throw a consistent amount of compute at each move, the simple thing to do is give the engine consistent amounts of time per move. The simple thing to do is give it a limit on the total number of states it can explore in its search.
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by TheDong 9mo ago
> specifically referring to running Asahi Linux. Asahi linux would have been "a company that's extremely hostile to this effort." They instead said "a company that's extremely hostile to this _kind of_ effort&quo
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by TheDong 9mo ago
> Nothing IRL really resizes A few things sorta do. If you want to increase the size of saran wrap or aluminum foil, you grab the edge and pull. Same for increasing the size of toilet paper before tearing it off. When you want to stretch
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by TheDong 9mo ago
> Apple is miles ahead of Android when it comes to phones and tablets, most in the Android ecosystem is e-waste four or five years in I have a very old android tablet (Nexus 7, 2013). I can install Linux on it and it works just fine. I c
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by TheDong 9mo ago
> people who aren't programmers > No good e-mail app, no good office apps, no good calendar app, no good invoicing app ... People who aren't programmers use Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Stripe Invoicing, etc for thos
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by TheDong 9mo ago
The phrase was "apple is hostile to this kind of effort". "This kind of effort" is, I suppose, running non-official software on Apple hardware in general. iOS and the third-party app store court battles makes it clear to
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by TheDong 9mo ago
Individual developers at apple may be weakly supportive (at best), but apple as a corporation has tended in the opposite direction, of locking down macOS and iOS more and more. Sure, some developer may have added things like raw image mode,
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by TheDong 9mo ago
I'm someone else, but I also feel like macOS is rubbish. On linux, if I get a kernel panic, I can dig into the kernel, add debug logs, understand what's going on, and potentially fix it. If I want to swap to a scrolling window man

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