akersten

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by akersten 10mo ago
> since when is speech I don't like speech?!
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by akersten 10mo ago
To suggest this protects children at all is the real joke.
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by akersten 10mo ago
> The European Commission said it would examine whether the firm used data from websites to provide this service - and if it failed to offer "appropriate compensation" to publishers. While the EU wastes their time with things l
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by akersten 10mo ago
GitHub is also limiting the new PR review page to only show 40 comments from reviewers. Who knows which 40. If you want to see more, they have a banner that tells you to switch back to the legacy view. No idea if they'll just silently
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by akersten 10mo ago
Bag of words is actually the perfect metaphor. The data structure is a bag. The output is a word. The selection strategy is opaquely undefined. > Gen AI tricks laypeople into treating its token inferences as "thinking" because
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by akersten 10mo ago
This is all solved by developers properly setting the X-Frame-Options header but I bet instead we'll delete half the SVG spec from the browser in some futile chase of security
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SmartTube Compromised(aftvnews.com)
165 points by akersten 10mo ago|148 comments
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by akersten 10mo ago
Most of the responses are just cut off midway through a sentence. I'm glad I could never figure out how to pay Google money for this product since it seems so half-baked. Shocked that they're up nearly 70% YTD with results like th
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SmartTube App Publishing Key Exposed(patreon.com)
1 points by akersten 11mo ago|0 comments
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by akersten 11mo ago
It's not about saving a few bucks on a door. It's about discouraging you and your friends from sharing a single room. Hotel sees the money they're leaving on the table and will trade you for it for the low price of watching y
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by akersten 11mo ago
I'm sure that trillion-dollar analytics empire is worth something even without my eyeballs consuming some shitty pre-roll.
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by akersten 11mo ago
> the payment for the video either way. "the payment for the video" as if it's a given that my ad impression is required for me to watch some video that they made available to me on their website for free. Morally, YouTub
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by akersten 11mo ago
Hooking up the Internet to my filesystem is scary. What security measures are in place to ensure a compromise of your infrastructure doesn't compromise mine?
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by akersten 11mo ago
Some days it feels like I'm the only hacker left who doesn't want government mandated watermarking in creative tools. Were politicians 20 years ago as overreative they'd have demanded Photoshop leave a trace on anything it
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by akersten 11mo ago
Lest we forget another item missing from the list: they want to be paid when you link to them! [0] https://ccianet.org/advocacy/link-taxes/
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by akersten 11mo ago
Are you aware of what the D in DRL stands for? Your vision may be good enough to see ahead of you by candlelight, but other drivers are not going to expect a nearly invisible car approaching at night. Turn on your headlights.
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by akersten 11mo ago
That is a separate opinion, but with respect to the question at hand, the utilitarian value of being able to ask a computer "what are the lyrics to x" and having it produce them outweighs whatever small ideological sanctity the mu
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by akersten 11mo ago
No one can convince me a $229 sock to hold your phone is comprehensible to the average person, nerd brain be damned
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by akersten 11mo ago
Oi, you got a loisense to read those words and then repeat them back to me when asked?
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Ground stop at JFK due to staffing(fly.faa.gov)
203 points by akersten 11mo ago|281 comments
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by akersten 1y ago
back in my day when we wanted to prove a picture was "real" (and not Photoshopped), we just posted the .NEF file
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by akersten 1y ago
This is #1 on HN for a while now and I suspect it's because many of us are nervous about it happening to us (or have already had our own homelab domains flagged!). So is there someone from Google around who can send this along to the r
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by akersten 1y ago
It's interesting because there's a significant chance one wastes more time tinkering around with custom scripts than saving in the long run. See https://xkcd.com/1205/ For example. The "saves 5 seconds t
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Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold explodes during JerryRigEverything's durability test(dexerto.com)
105 points by akersten 1y ago|25 comments
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by akersten 1y ago
Some kind of companion app that runs on my phone and streams the latest data (photos, location history, texts, etc ) back to the timeline would probably be more tractable for live updates. But that is probably a wildly different scope than
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by akersten 1y ago
This is an amazing idea but do I have to run Google takeout every time I want to update the data[0]? Unfortunately that's such a a cumbersome process that I don't think I'd use this. But if my timeline could update in near re
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by akersten 1y ago
No support for uBlock Origin and other tools that make the web sane
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by akersten 1y ago
This is a friend to friend protocol, so you have the power, and should exercise it, to remove negative influences from your social graph.
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The coming war on general computation (2011) [video](youtube.com)
4 points by akersten 1y ago|1 comments
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by akersten 1y ago
How does the government mandating the way an operating system works seem reasonable?

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