bioemerl

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by bioemerl 4y ago
That's not dystopian, that's already happened and is happening
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> Windows is probably the worst offender of the lot. My brand new gaming desktop is currently flagged as not supported by Windows 11 This is an unjust comparison. You can still install windows even on unsupported machines, you just have
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by bioemerl 4y ago
I have an app that makes very valid use of push notifications on the web. This should be celebrated because now you can do more without diving into the shitty apple app store with it's 100 dollar a year fee.
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by bioemerl 4y ago
Pixel phones, the non-carrier branded ones, are fine in this regard because you can install your own updates. The only change we really need there is for things like support for older chipsets, and to end carrier OS locks
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by bioemerl 4y ago
I'm not talking about a mandate for operating system support, I'm talking about a mandate to allow the user to install operating systems if they want to. It's not third party devs fault that the perfectly good hardware and an
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by bioemerl 4y ago
Apple is making you use a new phone by dropping support for it in their OS updates. The fact that this happens at all anywhere at any time at any place for any reason, and can't just install an update yourself should be unacceptable an
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by bioemerl 4y ago
Banks can never give back all deposited money at a moments notice. That's normal. What matters is that assets outpace liabilities and you've got insurance on your deposits. Fed's doing its job. It'll be fine.
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by bioemerl 4y ago
The banks are doing fine right now and there are no real signs of a mass departure into crypto. Sounds to me more like the SVB and FTX failures lit some fire under the regulators asses and they're now starting to crack down on the bad
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by bioemerl 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/1494/
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by bioemerl 4y ago
Man. I get that it's a sad story, but I got a few paragraphs into this and the "heartstrings pulling" the article was doing made me stop reading. It feels like it's trying to make me sad and empathetic, and that makes me
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by bioemerl 4y ago
I am not crazy prone to trust the open source dotnet core. Even if it's open source, it's still Microsoft. I feel like people give open source way too much credit in general when it comes to how it can be abused. There is still
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by bioemerl 4y ago
Every last update is adding just a little bit more intrusion, from the news articles, the required user accounts, the updates without asking any form of permission from the user, and more. The only reason, and I mean the only reason, that I
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by bioemerl 4y ago
And the economy isn't even that bad in general. I don't understand this tendency on the internet just so overly exaggerate how bad the economy is. Unemployment is near record lows right now. We have a bit of wage growth lag in t
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by bioemerl 4y ago
If you want me to not use cloudflare you're going to have to provide a solution to the fact that a DDOS falls on my responsibility. I can't host a website for my home internet without the risk of getting black holed. Can't as
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by bioemerl 4y ago
Underinvestment in water is a really big deal, we need that stuff to live. I don't think privatization is the way to do it though.
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The wan show cannot be stopped
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by bioemerl 4y ago
If this lets me get a split keyboard I will be all over this 16 inch model.
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I am tempted to argue that this has been in the process of happening ever since the first episode of Red versus Blue back in the early (mid or late?) 2000s
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by bioemerl 4y ago
It is absolutely reasonable to expect that freedom of speech involves the preservation of being able to make basic purchases. This "freedom of speech isn't freedom of consequences" line is exactly the sort of attitude people
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by bioemerl 4y ago
Who did you get that notification from?
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by bioemerl 4y ago
I'd be over the moon if they tried to outdo chrome as long as they keep to UI stuff instead of web features. Unfortunately with firefox being so far behind in terms of adoption all features they add in terms of the web content or JavaS
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by bioemerl 4y ago
> What should they be doing? Take that 30 million. Split it into chunks of 10k. Find random unaffiliated contributors to Firefox and give it to them. Promise another 10k for their next substantial contribution.
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Problem is this is not innovation. It's a political statement and a system that will never accomplish anything. Seriously, Read this article again and look at the way they phrase themselves. They don't say they're going to in
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by bioemerl 4y ago
I think you're missing the one big flaw here. How exactly do you have access to closed source code? Did you acquire it illegally? That's illegal. Was it publicly available? That's fine, so long as you aren't producing
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by bioemerl 4y ago
It's really not good enough yet, it's impressive for what it is in our current time. But we're looking at the 1980s computers. They are neat, they are useful, but they can do so much more.
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This feels like it could easily be abused if you can get a model to output code that is "pretty close". You could use it to try and invalidate human written copyright as well.
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The people who accept pull requests and run the infrastructure of the Linux kernel aren't based on China, else I'd reject it as well. > A few months ago there was a comment on HN by some American whose company was rewriting the
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When we are talking about something that can be set up to silently grab code, suddenly delete your projects, if you wait until there is foul play you're waiting too long. It's like waiting for evidence of a gunshot wound.
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If you have evidence of foul play it's already far far too late to do anything. With authoritarian nations and their ability to control and steal your projects, you assume guilty until proven innocent. You should require there be a re
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With a large project unless a large auditor goes into your code and reads it with a fine comb it's not a good idea to have blind trust in it. And Chinese author does mean CCP, assuming they live in China they are almost certainly able

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