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by bensecure 3y ago
> Eg, <div><span /></div> will render as you expect because the browser will automatically close the span when you close the div. (!) span is a bad example. indeed it will close - but then it will reopen (!) w
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by bensecure 3y ago
Assuming stable diffusion is ten gigabytes, that's 2 bytes per image. 2 bytes would be too small for a short textual description of the image, let alone a scaled copy of the image.
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by bensecure 3y ago
He's saying that this is a well established fact regarding every fad diet. Usually in the sciences, a new method measures itself against a "control", which might be a placebo or non-treatment, but might be another well establ
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by bensecure 3y ago
Is this the same as one subject to a teardown by a popular youtuber? It seems familiar but I might be mistaken.
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by bensecure 3y ago
Either he believed his own shit or he was certain that he was smarter than everyone else.
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by bensecure 3y ago
Sounds like agency work with a visa thrown in. The doctor is ultimately paid by cuba, no?
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by bensecure 3y ago
"thats what legal aid is for" - public defenders are famously underpaid and overworked in most environs. If you rely on them for your defense it will be very poor.
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by bensecure 3y ago
The argument would be that the average user is expected to understand these privacy controls in order to make decisions about their data. If even the CEO of google, who is well positioned to be able to understand them if he chooses, doesn&#
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by bensecure 3y ago
> you're trying to avoid diagnosis, which is a slightly different game and seems harder to fake. Even easier. Just answer ever question with what's "normal". If you're shooting for a particular diagnosis, or even
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by bensecure 3y ago
If the goal of the feature is to affect user behaviour en masse, then it doesn't matter what can be done to disable them, as long as the majority of people don't disable them.
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by bensecure 3y ago
Last year, when GPT-3 was already around, people managed to get it solve some of the earlier problems itself, but not the later problems. This makes sense, because the earlier problems are made deliberately easier, while more difficult prob
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by bensecure 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that this is one of the unsafeties that rust borrows from c, even as it attempts to eliminate all the others. Checking every addition adds a massive slowdown, without giving much useful protection against vulns or corru
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by bensecure 3y ago
If you followed the initial announcement, then you were presumably already hyped. The novel thing about chatgpt has been the mass amount of people who hadn't heard about generative AI in the past glomming onto the technology. Most of t
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by bensecure 3y ago
> It loads (fast). It's painfully slow. Probably depends on your connection and device, but I install libredirect on my phone purely to avoid twitter load times.
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by bensecure 3y ago
If they paid more for it than its worth, than they lost money the instant they bought it. If they sold it to a company that thought it could increase the value of bandcamp by owning it, then they might have gotten more for it than it was wo
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by bensecure 3y ago
Apparently they previously had a clause in their terms allowing you to keep using any previous version of the terms subject to certain restrictions, and also maintained a github repo tracking all changes to their terms. The clause was remov
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by bensecure 3y ago
>This already exists in the form of a gas tax and road use taxes (registration). Neither of these target congestion directly, but road use in general. As a result, they usually fail to do much to slow down driving (since the goal is basi
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by bensecure 3y ago
> California and several regions across planet wouldn't have had to think about clearing the brush or anything else if the oil companies hadn't intentionally and maliciously misled people everywhere about the consequences of bu
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by bensecure 3y ago
> https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_toc.html#SEC5.... > Phrases may be marked up according to idiomatic usage, typographic appearance, or for use as hyperlink anchors. So the original standard c
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by bensecure 3y ago
> It’s nothing like Python’s “with” that lets you define a scope for an object to be destructed early. You can forget to use `with` as well. Destructors in python are called when the reference count hits zero or during a gc pass. These n
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by bensecure 3y ago
> - When you recorded off the radio, you usually had someone talking over the beginning, end, or both (and this was by design, because the radio station knew that if you had a good copy you wouldn't listen to the radio anymore) If s
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by bensecure 3y ago
The thesis of deliberately deleting all these images would be premised on the idea that no one was accessing them anyways, hence they're useless. That merely storing (but seldom accessing) them is very cheap is a sufficient rejoinder t
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by bensecure 3y ago
They added a neat feature recently where they have a popup asking you something stupid, with a button you have to click to hide it. Then, exactly as the page seems loaded enough for you to attempt tapping the button, a new popup appears fro
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by bensecure 3y ago
Either way is a win I think. It becomes effectively legal to distribute digital copies of out of print books, which up to now you had to go find a physical copy of if you wanted to read it.
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by bensecure 3y ago
Naturally. Thus, it doesn't much matter whether code is shipped in the extension package, or downloaded off the internet, since nobody will be checking what it does regardless.
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by bensecure 3y ago
It's a composition of two features, both of which are useful on their own. Removing this "feature" requires removing at least one of those sub-features, in this case eval. We could alternatively allow eval to be used, but ban
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by bensecure 3y ago
Detect if the extension downloads and executes arbitrary code, and ban it if it does. That should be just as easy to detect as detecting that the code does something bad directly. In fact, the way extension policing works is (afaik) complet
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by bensecure 3y ago
non existent domains are the ones that are most likely to be somehow personal to the user, because they weren't trying to enter a domain at all but it got interpreted as one accidentally. Eg a password they meant to type into a passwor
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by bensecure 3y ago
If you open your google account settings, the very first section is labelled "privacy and personalization". If you click on that, the option to disable youtube watch history shows up. In terms of "dark patterns", they do
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by bensecure 3y ago
> (large, blue skin, but white and tasteless on the inside). That's just farmed blueberries. Wild blueberries are smaller, with blue and much more flavourful insides. It's an unfortunate reality with grocery stores that since p

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