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by acka 1y ago
Your idea has a precedent. The Serial Copy Management System (SCMS)[1] is a DRM standard built into digital audio tech like DAT, MiniDisc, DCC, and consumer audio CD recorders. It works by adding just 2 bits — but no encryption or obfuscati
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by acka 1y ago
GNU Emacs doesn't make money, yet it exists. And yes, it contains a web browser. You can launch it using `M-x eww RET`.
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by acka 1y ago
The real lesson here: social media — and yes, that includes LinkedIn — isn’t a substitute for real due diligence. Things like chamber of commerce listings, tax records (for public companies), verified business partners, and tangible results
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by acka 1y ago
> I was a TA for my uni's Web Engineering and Ethics in CS courses and accessibility never even came up in either course. That is genuinely baffling to me. How does a university teach web engineering without even mentioning accessib
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by acka 1y ago
Would you care to explain what you mean by "the bandwidth just isn't there"? VR is more than just mobile devices; all currently available VR headsets can also do PC VR, whether via a wired DisplayPort link or a wired or wirel
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by acka 1y ago
So LLMs are prone to some form of the Mandela effect[1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory
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by acka 1y ago
Exemplary of the new norm of engineering practice in the US: "if all you have is a shotgun, everything looks like a target." In this context, casualties at ground level be damned.
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by acka 1y ago
How about: "As of the time of writing, we don't know of any reports of injuries"?
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by acka 1y ago
If the backend isn't open source then the project isn't "fully open source" as stated in the documentation.
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by acka 1y ago
I feel you... Running NetStumbler as well as some other tools such as Kismet on a laptop using an Orinoco Wi-Fi PCMCIA card with special firmware / drivers which offered 'Monitor Mode', those were the days...
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by acka 1y ago
Important addition: Geizhals for the entire EU [1], not just focused on Germany, Austria, or the UK. [1] https://geizhals.eu/
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by acka 1y ago
While I appreciate your perspective, the widespread adoption of Google Chrome has presented challenges. The implementation of Manifest V3 demonstrates Google's significant influence over extension developers, requiring adherence to inc
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by acka 1y ago
These features are limited to a specific demographic (those who are 18+ and live in the US) and are 'eligible' (whatever that means) though.
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by acka 1y ago
So does COBOL.
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by acka 1y ago
- I open the link in a mobile browser. - A cookie banner fills 95% of the screen. - No accept, deny, customize, or close button in sight, and no, I am not going to switch to desktop mode or adjust my text size to something submicroscopic ju
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by acka 1y ago
A real user-centric OS (like a full-fledged Linux distribution, not something intentionally crippled as badly as Android) would use something like PipeWire[1] for this. It's a project designed entirely around managing multiple multimed
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by acka 1y ago
Just leaving this here, in case things really start going south and people realize they need to stack up on knowledge supplies (note: I am not affiliated with them, I just think that Wikipedia, among other resources, is too valuable to let
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by acka 1y ago
Do you use APIs with n8n? Just curious. If you do, then you might want to factor in the cost of using those as well, including privacy implications. In my limited testing, I found n8n to be heavily focused on cloud API use, from their onboa
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by acka 1y ago
It gets even worse when all three of IntelliSense, AI completion, and the human are all vying for control of the input. This can be very frustrating at times.
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by acka 1y ago
They're both paper tigers. The CLOUD Act and that massive data center in Utah trump* each of them respectively. What happens in the US stays in the US, delete button or not. * Deliberately ambiguous.
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by acka 1y ago
Sounds very similar to the practice of "Embrace, extend, and extinguish".
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by acka 1y ago
The bottom left button can be turned off by going into the taskbar settings (by right-clicking on the taskbar) and disabling taskbar widgets. Too bad if you have widgets that you do want to use.
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by acka 1y ago
It is a sad day in history to see both a RISC-V-related acronym and NDA used in the same sentence. The term oxymoron barely cuts it IMO. I thought that RISC-V used to stand for open hardware and freedom, TIL.
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by acka 1y ago
Humans also have a vestibular system[1] and proprioception[2], which I think are very important in making judgments about safe following distance, car handling, and road conditions, in particular in adverse conditions like strong side winds
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by acka 1y ago
Poland may seem small to USians, but it is not a small country by any stretch of the imagination, either on a global or European scale. It is significantly larger than Austria and only slightly smaller than Germany. For context, Poland is a
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by acka 2y ago
This is why we have system prompts (or prompt libraries if you cannot easily modify the system prompt). They can be used to store common assumptions related to your workflow. In this example, setting the system prompt to something like &quo
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by acka 2y ago
Many commonly used Windows fonts are licensed under proprietary terms, preventing their inclusion with Wine. Winetricks[1] can be used to acquire and install a set of default fonts directly from Microsoft. Furthermore, Windows font fallback
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by acka 2y ago
I don't think this is about expecting AI to successfully fact-check observations, let alone do its own research. I think it is more about using AI to analyze research papers 'as written', focusing on the methodology of experi
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by acka 2y ago
That is why we have development and production environments. The production environment is expected to operate in a potentially hostile space and does not need developer conveniences beyond the ability to generate alerts and produce logs,
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by acka 2y ago
Sure, triangulation of carrier signals could lead to more accurate position estimates, but if the carrier isn't based in the US they are under no obligation to make this data available to US authorities. Apple and Google are based in t

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