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by bigiain 3mo ago
> Small differences in gain are ABX able much more readily than differences in noise at the 16 vs 24 bit level. This was common knowledge at least as far back as the mid 80s, when every hifi shop and salesguy knew to ensure the bit of ge
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Did the subheading "AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem." and the first line of body text "LibrePods allows you to use AirPods features that are exclusive to Apple devices." not provide the required context? Or
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by bigiain 3mo ago
I think I'd "behead" subthreads at posts by blocked users, so their posts and any replies under them get hidden for me. I'm happy enough to lose followup discussion and/or arguments against anything a user who I&#x2
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Yeah. And that's sad. Recently, for the first time in over 15 years here, I've wished often for a "block user" function, so I can gradually weed those zero-effort zero-contributing users out. (If I didn't read HN ac
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Still a useful project for those of us with a foot in both the iOS and Android camps. (And who use Linux as well as macOS)
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by bigiain 3mo ago
:sigh: There's very little point having a discussion about something where other people can't even be bothered to properly read the link that was submitted - and even more frustrating when that link was literally a README file.
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Whether you believe that copyright _should_ exist is quite different from whether it _actually_ exists and whether there are consequences due to the existence of copyright. All "open source" licenses rely on copyright. If copyrigh
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Surely it won't be long before every hyper scalar and even medium sized hosting companies ip address ranges will end up in the block lists for every "questionable" website that is feeling the "chilling effects" from
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by bigiain 3mo ago
> It's deeply relaxing to pull the (Internet) plug (I do, literally, physically remove one ethernet cable from a switch right underneath my monitor and I've then got several machines happily communicating only on the LAN: no mo
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Perhaps consider putting it in public domain instead of using an "open source" license? There's a decent legal ethical argument that LLM output isn't copyrightable, and for me a "one shot vibe code" definitely
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by bigiain 3mo ago
From outside the US, there has been so much "extraordinary" stuff happening in US politics recently that it's almost expected now.
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Have we all forgotten PGP already? (Not an API, but certainly not a "physical good")
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by bigiain 3mo ago
You can generate "pronounceable" passwords in some tools. 1PW just generated this for me: mimp-rort-jan-mon-kain-sqin Not as much entropy as 24 random letters/digit/punctuations/capitalisation. But (for me at least)
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by bigiain 3mo ago
> Important TOTPs can go to Yubikeys. Once you have a Yubikey (preferably two, so you have a backup if you damage/lose one) - you may as well make _that_ your primary MFA method, and only use TOTP for services you can't enrol y
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by bigiain 3mo ago
That sounds a lot like a rationalization desperately grasping at "surely it's not as insane as it sounds, what it _must_ mean is ... " I would want to read and perhaps get legal advice before relying on that interpretation -
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Thanks! (And thanks to the others responding here too.)
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Memories of Apple force pushing a U2 album to everyone's iPod (or maybe iPhone) back in the day.
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by bigiain 3mo ago
I have two questions, if anyone has any advice. 1) What's a reasonable Pixel phone to buy to try out GrapheneOS? Is a 128GB Pixel 7 "good enough" or will I get a significantly better experience with a newer phone and/or
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Now I'm imagining a plumber who fixes a drain, then stands up a "fix drain as a service" website where people can put their credit cards in and their drain gets fixed remotely at effectively zero marginal cost to the plumber.
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Arguably the same is true for some software engineers. One minute they're a good friend that you respect, next thing you know they're building killbots or AI non consensual porn generators or surveillance platforms that are illega
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by bigiain 3mo ago
I think there's a very different perspective on this between people old enough to have written assembly for 8 bit cpus like 6502 or Z80 often with well under 64kb of total system memory - compared to people who grew up in the age where
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Isn't Dropbox the canonical HN example of a "stupid and obvious idea" that anybody could build for themselves and would never pay for? Now with a 6bil market cap is seems. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by bigiain 3mo ago
It's not even like unbounded exponential growth is a new or "startup" thing either. PGs story is just the grains of rice on the chessboard legend. (or depending on the culture telling the story, perhaps wheat on a chessboard,
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by bigiain 3mo ago
I wonder if this is a research project about mitigating the risk of not being able to procure compute hardware if the AI industry soaks up all available hardware manufacturing capacity and raw materials? I wonder if someone's trying to
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by bigiain 3mo ago
Baseband, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth seem like things that should not work in this context (either as a cluster in a data center, or for an old device I want to repurpose in my home lab). Is there anything that typically _requires_ vendor blobs
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by bigiain 3mo ago
You don't need a blockchain for that. You just need some reliable-enough way to publish hash(image) with a timestamp - some way that it's infeasible enough as to be considered impossible for thepublisher to change the hash or the
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by bigiain 4mo ago
So I assume Amazon will have all their warehouse workers forced to wear these, and collect all the captured water to feed into AI datacenter cooling systems?
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by bigiain 4mo ago
Now I'm wondering how hard it'd be to zipbomb their context window? (And _now_ I'm wondering how hard it'd be to forkbomb their agentic workflow?)
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by bigiain 4mo ago
Didn't he say he moved to Mountain View? Surely California employment law applies, not any EU laws?
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by bigiain 4mo ago
Some (well, at least one) of us are old enough to have owned one of these: http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/uk-shirt.html A t-shirt with a Perl script that implemented RSA encryption strong enough to be technically ille

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