basilgohar

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by basilgohar 7mo ago
This has always been the hacker spirit. Make things designed to do one thing do another thing. If it's against the hardware maker's intentions or just completely outside their expectation, even better!
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by basilgohar 8mo ago
You're right. It wasn't under occupation, it was worse. It was an open-air prison and concentration camp. https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/06/14/gaza-israels-open-air-pr... https://thei
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by basilgohar 8mo ago
That's because it's not a war. It's a genocide. An occupied people have the right to resist their occupation. Occupiers do not have the right to prolong their occupation of said peoples. Israel is on the wrong side in all cas
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by basilgohar 8mo ago
Don't make things up. Palestinians cannot settle their own land. The Israelis are the only ones settling, i.e., colonizing.
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by basilgohar 8mo ago
Europe is extremely important to Israel. Their legitimacy stems from seeing themselves as European. Their loss of support from Europe is very bad in the long term. Yes, US is supporting them to. They are losing from both sides, though. They
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by basilgohar 8mo ago
Israel is an oppressive, genocidal, apartheid illegally occupying force. You can't compare the two sides. Palestinians have been under this assault by Israel and Zionists in general for nearly a century. Defending anything Israel does
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by basilgohar 8mo ago
Maybe we'll get cheap HBM DIMMs in a year or two due to this oversupply. We gotta think positive!
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by basilgohar 8mo ago
I'd say the past few months have also been disastrous. I don't think there's been one lasting good thing with Trump at the helm.
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by basilgohar 8mo ago
It's not funny. It's a dag-gone jobs program. ICE, TSA, and more throw away billions to effect little but a heavy burden on the population. These organizations, FBI and other law enforcement included, invent crises and problems so
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by basilgohar 8mo ago
I'm glad you explained what it actually is. I clicked just out of curiosity that it must be something different than what it sounded like, being in Hacker News. I'm glad I found out it was related to old Silicon Graphics hardware.
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by basilgohar 8mo ago
I am greatly saddened at this news. Ralph, or rillian as I mainly knew him through the Xiph-related IRC channels, was a stalwart "nice guy", always a kind word, a moderating beacon of gentle support and help, and just someone whos
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by basilgohar 8mo ago
Can you share any examples of these one-shot prompts? I've not gotten to the point where I can get those kind of results yet.
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by basilgohar 9mo ago
All media, newspapers, and social media networks do this. I'm not sure why you're raising this specifically in response to the fact I was stating TikTok was uniquely able to bring awareness to the issue of the genocide in Palestin
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by basilgohar 9mo ago
The elephant in the room of all of this is that TikTok was the social media platform that allowed for the genocide taking place in Palestine by Israel to reach audiences directly. All other major social media platforms (Facebook, Instagra
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by basilgohar 9mo ago
I feel like one of the things that's not said enough, and which I think is conflating the effectiveness of AI in the eyes of actual software engineers, is that, for the most part, most code produced IS lousy. The craft of programming h
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by basilgohar 9mo ago
I agree and disagree with parts of what you said. AI may have caused a distinct trajectory of the problem, but the old system was already broken and collapsing. If the building falls over or collapses in place doesn't change that the b
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by basilgohar 9mo ago
The US starts more wars until its eventual complete collapse. See The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire. We're operating out of a playbook for imperial destruction word for word.
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by basilgohar 9mo ago
You're talking about the best of what's available but that is rarely what builders use and retrofitting your already constructed house to use these could end up costing you 1/3 or more of your home's original value. All
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by basilgohar 10mo ago
I think all the criticism of what F-Droid is doing here (or perceived as doing) reflects more on the ones criticising than the ones being criticised. How many things went upside down and all the "right" things were done (corporate
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by basilgohar 10mo ago
I like this. The only information leaking is whether the memory range was previously used. I suppose you may want to control for that. I'd be surprised if OpenBSD didn't provide a flag to just freed memory to the same value as nev
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by basilgohar 10mo ago
I think the 100 or so miles I can generally drive in my car while it still has gas is different from my car just stopping suddenly because of a power outage.
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by basilgohar 10mo ago
I really, really can't get behind this sentiment. Having a reliable, accurate time keeping mechanism doesn't seem like an outlandish issue to want to maintain. Timekeeping has been an important mechanism for humans for as long as
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by basilgohar 10mo ago
Paid from lower income countries or Israel's section 8200.
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by basilgohar 10mo ago
I appreciate the alarm. However, I don't know if we should feel China having this is less safe than an America, European, or other country. I think we have seen that whatever alleged rights to privacy and data protection we have are be
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by basilgohar 10mo ago
I think, if given the conscious choice, people would choose to not have ads as they are now. The point is, that choice is not given, and most people don't know how to eliminate them from their lives, or that they even have a choice A l
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by basilgohar 10mo ago
It's a big deal even if it's been happening for a while. It should not be something we shrug our shoulders to and move on. These are stepping stones to a greater police state.
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by basilgohar 10mo ago
I'm really confused why this comment is downvoted to me. It's a pretty salient observation in my opinion. If it's because it's obvious to others, I think it bears repetition because it's an important distinction to
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by basilgohar 10mo ago
How do you think this tech was developed in the first place? It's probably trained and used in the surveillance bid for a decade before it comes to consumers, and this probably isn't the SoA stuff that governments have access to,
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by basilgohar 10mo ago
I'm only commenting because I absolutely love this thread. It's an insight into something I think most of us are quite (I'm going to say it...) blind to in our normal experiences with daily life, and I find immense value in r
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by basilgohar 10mo ago
I admire and respect this stance. I have been very AI-hesitant and while I'm using it more and more, I have spaces that I want to definitely keep human-only, as this is my preference. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one lik

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