akersten

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by akersten 5d ago
> When the unit doesn’t work correctly, the anger and RMA requests are directed back at the Raspberry Pi foundation. They don't need the resellers help for that! I've already been burned twice thinking "I'll use a ras
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by akersten 8d ago
Their sample prompt takes me back a year or two: > Find unused code in our web app. Exclude generated files and test fixtures, and check for indirect references before recommending a removal. If I "/goal remove unused code&quot
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by akersten 9d ago
Good point of precision, I read their site too quickly. I don't think my argument materially changes with that number instead however. There were over 40,000 students enrolled in my university alone. Generously assuming they only turn
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by akersten 9d ago
> I would have guessed that reliably identifying LLM generated text was not possible It depends what you mean by "reliably." If you mean, "we should be comfortable relying on this kind of tool at scale to identify and puni
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by akersten 10d ago
> maybe it’s better than nothing? While that is not quite my bar of confidence when implementing wide-reaching technologies that have numerous unexplored knock-on effects, I guess the calculus must have been different on Infinite Loop re
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by akersten 10d ago
The fundamental issue isn't technical. It's that people will see the "certified real" tag and just take the image for face value of whatever narrative someone wants to convey. They'll see the "Real Photo, Verif
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by akersten 13d ago
Why are you subjecting yourself to that instead of downloading Firefox + uBlock origin? See the headline of this article for Exhibit (I've actually run out of letters in the alphabet) why adblocking is a moral imperative.
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by akersten 14d ago
We must ensure the gravy train keeps rolling until we IPO. > Crack down on unauthorized distillation / prevent weight theft Actually hilarious to put that in writing, given the genesis of this entire business model.
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by akersten 16d ago
Eh, I hope Apple continues to provide this and it forces the needed discussion about how two-party consent requirements are nonsensical. Why should it be illegal for me to remember exactly a conversation that I participated in, instead of o
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by akersten 18d ago
> They were coordinating with OpenAI regarding a publishing timeline, but could not come to an agreement, Skimming the PDFs it seems much more dramatic than that? It sounds like at least one of them is concerned OpenAI "solved"
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by akersten 22d ago
There are only two types of scanned ID documents, those that are known to be compromised and those that are not
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by akersten 23d ago
> So we take a web browser and trim it down to only ever show a single <textarea> element you say? I was saying if the goal is "text editor," the web platform is the wrong foundation entirely
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by akersten 23d ago
Ok, co.uk was perhaps a bad example, because it's owned by the same registry as the TLD, but perhaps there are other 2nd level TLDs where that is not the case. My point is both that it's hard to tell, and more broadly why would an
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by akersten 23d ago
I know about the public suffix list - I was wondering about the wildcard specifically. In the very issue you linked to, as of 2025, it seems this was still unresolved...: > We have no plans to modify the .name entries at this point in ti
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by akersten 23d ago
It kind of seems like an insane TLD structure to begin with, right? I always thought .co.uk was bad (you're just pinning yourself to whoever owns the .co. part, but at least browsers have some suffix list where you can't, I don&#x
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by akersten 23d ago
What the author describes here is hard because it's "simple." What's simple because it's "hard" is replacing parts 2 & 3 with a network appliance like TrueNAS running a zfs pool that syncs to backblaze
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by akersten 24d ago
Yes, who would have guessed that the <textarea> element, designed specifically for this use case and built into browsers for 3 decades, would be the most performant and behaviorally consistent way to implement editable text. I'm
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by akersten 24d ago
> Can someone explain what coordinated pacing is? My charitable read is a legal cartel that allows the small club to switch to Marathon instead of Sprint mode, and drip feed us frontier models at inflated prices, while preventing open so
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Important Security Update for Plex Media Server v1.43.2 and Earlier(forums.plex.tv)
2 points by akersten 24d ago|0 comments
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by akersten 25d ago
> Also, a watermark doesn’t stop your tool from working for you. It just stops you from passing of its work as yours. I think we fundamentally disagree on what "working for me" means, but I remain steadfast in saying we should
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by akersten 25d ago
> generated text being watermarked is universally good. If it worked perfectly, maybe you could make this argument in a vacuum. It does not work perfectly. (It cannot. It is by definition a heuristic). That means there will be false p
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by akersten 25d ago
> Clearly we can't do nothing, Why is that so clear? I can think of hundreds of real daily problems I'd rather my legislators be focused on than deciding how old my kids have to be before they're allowed on some website. I
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by akersten 25d ago
No, sometimes doing something really is worse than doing nothing.
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by akersten 25d ago
I wish the author got more into the weeds of anitcheat and how it evolved over time. Jagex was banning bots based on mouse movement heuristics in like 2005. 20 years later and there's some JS framework on the front page here heralding
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by akersten 27d ago
The brazen crime of asking for a resource and receiving it. You have the power, and should exercise it, to rate limit bad actors
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by akersten 29d ago
> People interpret business as hostility because they cannot conceive of the idea that they themselves should pay for a service. If that's what the business really believed, they'd put up a paywall instead of literally giving a
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by akersten 1mo ago
It's just drivel from the Economist, it's not surprising that it makes all these errors. Their real goal is to shape the narrative and get people through their turnstyle. They really don't care about finer minutae like correc
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by akersten 1mo ago
Well, all one has to do is look at the bigger picture of how rooted devices are being shuffled into 3rd rate/totally blocked experiences and the overall direction of things starts to take very clear shape. At over a decade old, still p
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by akersten 1mo ago
A desperate attempt to establish their version of regulatory capture and not have to pay licensing fees to the other guy
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by akersten 1mo ago
> I think there is a good argument for being able to distinguish AI generated image and video... Neat but that's not what's being built here. What's being built is "we can trace back this content to who made it"

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