aftbit

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by aftbit 6d ago
>might want to look up "gun show loophole" I've never understood this. There is no "gun show loophole" anymore, if there ever was. Some states have two different standards required things like background checks a
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by aftbit 7d ago
Those people will never be able to use Graphene or any other privacy-preserving smartphone. They'll be stuck with Apple or approved Android. At least that's how it looks today. Or they can get a Garmin watch with contactless payme
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by aftbit 7d ago
Alas I'm from the US so that doesn't help me.
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by aftbit 8d ago
Graphene has been my daily driver for the past year or so. The only thing I miss is the ability to do contactless payments. Otherwise, it's been awesome. I don't run any games nor do I care about any of the AI features. YMMV.
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by aftbit 8d ago
Funnily enough, I feel the exact opposite! The limitations of terminal make them portable while still being more than powerful enough. But then I've used vim as my editor for going on 15 years now so I'm biased.
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by aftbit 8d ago
I'd be interested to hear other strategies in this space. I've done the naive thing of allowing retries everywhere, and gotten into retry storms. When I was next presented with the problem, I tried the other naive thing of only al
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by aftbit 10d ago
A universal health care mandate were both radical and divisive, and the popular nickname for the ACA today is "Obamacare". I happen to think the policy was a good idea, and voting to keep it in play was the best vote of John McCai
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by aftbit 10d ago
I'm shocked that more people don't know about this. It seems insane that the "land of the free" (yeah I know, not really, but that's the pitch anyway) would have such an obviously command-economy policy through the
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by aftbit 10d ago
Whoever had money on hand to buy assets at bargain basement prices for people who didn't. Also - rum runners and smugglers.
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by aftbit 10d ago
I dunno about the politics, but personally I don't think there is a generic "correct" value. The rate describes the state of the world, and the "correct" value is whatever accurately describes the state of the world
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by aftbit 10d ago
This seems like an incredibly unimportant quibble... I would imagine they just used std::endl b/c that's what most random tutorials used in the 2000s and that's how the engineer learned. If you are printing a debug string, yo
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by aftbit 12d ago
They revoked permits for all license plate readers currently placed along the state highway rights of way. They did not ban privately owned Flock Safety cameras (e.g. at a housing development or whatever), nor did they ban police from mount
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by aftbit 12d ago
Proof that the AI alignment problem is hard (perhaps even unsolvable). These labs clearly did not mean to send their agents to hack RubyGems as a side-effect of testing a web scraping agent under restrictive conditions. How can we hope to b
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by aftbit 13d ago
Did they switch to Axon?
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by aftbit 15d ago
The big advantage of OpenRouter IMO is that you don't have to manage keys, URLs, and subscriptions with 10+ providers. You definitely should still pick providers and pin them, at least if you care about repeatable results.
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by aftbit 15d ago
-1 for Pedantic, but +1 for cool links to telescopes
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by aftbit 16d ago
Nonsense. 100% nonsense. To the contrary, acting like only one side is bad and thus only one side can be made fun of is a huge reason we're in this situation. The right took the left's cancel culture and weaponized it to the extre
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by aftbit 17d ago
Nah I don't own that crap :laugh:
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by aftbit 17d ago
I'd assume there would be a popup that says in clear terms "Device XYZ was used to view your location" or whatever, and a button you could click that let you see all linked devices and kick them from your account. IMO cars sh
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by aftbit 17d ago
Remotely controlling or even accessing location info from a car should show a little popup on the infotainment system, if not live, at least when you park or next start the car.
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by aftbit 17d ago
Will V4.1 Flash and V4.1 pro be open-weights?
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by aftbit 17d ago
>In keeping with our commitment to user responsibility, following the official launch of V4.1 Flash and prior to the release of V4.1 Pro, all requests to the Pro model will be routed to V4.1 Flash and billed at Flash's price Please
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by aftbit 17d ago
Well, nowadays, Google location history is stored on-device. Google Maps sends your position to their servers, both for geocoding and to power their traffic estimation. Even when location history was in the cloud, you could turn it off. It
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by aftbit 18d ago
1. So what? 2. This sucks but is basically required to protect against phone theft (though phones could be shipped in an unlock-once state, until you set them up) 3. So what? What company has never been shady?
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by aftbit 18d ago
Every single HN post about anything Meta-adjacent starts with a comment like this. Guys, we get it, the hive mind of HN doesn't like Meta/Facebook/Zuck. Fine. But can we actually comment on the technology and tools rather tha
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by aftbit 18d ago
Not sure - I have never used that flag! I like the idea of managing the profile dir myself, because then I know nothing will leak. For example, HSTS state persists across incognito, allowing fingerprinting. I don't know if --guest hand
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by aftbit 19d ago
I have a handy little script called `chrome-new` which I use whenever I want to browse one of those few sites that struggles with Firefox. It just starts a clean Chromium with a throw-away profile, then deletes it when I close the browser.
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by aftbit 19d ago
If you want legal advice, ask a lawyer and pay for it. If you want to publish a cool hack, publish a cool hack.
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by aftbit 20d ago
What about the trend of summarizing or eliding reasoning from the visible model response, ostensibly to make distillation by competitors harder?
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by aftbit 20d ago
Broadly speaking, you will only rarely find police properly prosecuted for their misdeeds. Usually, the worst that happens is dismissal, if even that. Of course there are outliers - cops who wrongly kill people have been prosecuted from tim

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