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by bradley13 5mo ago
"For most people, they probably just want a full-featured OS." I don't think so. Most people just want to get to their websites or email. They don't care about the OS, and may not even know what an OS is. The problem is
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Credit cards as a while use a security model from...what, the 1970s? Sure, they've patched by adding the 3-digit CVC, but really? A huge industry can't do better than that? Honestly, it's pathetic...
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Exactly this. I want to be able to ask the questions above, but this is nearly impossible in most forums. Question a clickbait "we're all gonna die" prediction, and you are immediately branded as a "denier", and no
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Growing corn for fuel only makes sense due to government subsidies, achieved through lobbying. Otherwise, it is a stupid and wasteful idea.
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by bradley13 6mo ago
This is true, practical quantum computing is always "just a couple of years away". At the same time, moving to more secure encryption really isn't difficult. How many times have algorithms been deprecated over the past 20 or
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Mass agriculture and pesticides.
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Pretty clearly not. It would seem that beta amyloids correlate with Alzheimer's, but do not cause it. The problem us "consensus science". You could get funding to research beta amyloids, but not to research any competing hypo
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by bradley13 6mo ago
"our strongest set of safeguards to date" How much capability is lost, by hobbling models with a zillion protections against idiots? Every prompt gets evaluated, to ensure you are not a hacker, you are not suicidal, you are not a
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Ok, what am I missing? exe.dev says: "$20/month for your VMs One price, no surprises. You get 2 CPUs, 8 GB of RAM, and 25 GB of disk". Fine, their UI is different, but I don't see any real difference from other providers
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Your comment is way off-base. If you publish a paper, the expression is copyrighted, but your algorithm is not protected at all. If you want to protect the algorithm, you need a patent. Then, the person "making billions" needs t
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by bradley13 6mo ago
If you put stuff on the internet, people (and machines) can see it. How do you think human artists learn? By looking at other people's artwork. AI can do exactly the same thing. As for code: All of my code is open source. I don't
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by bradley13 6mo ago
The US forced stuff like this - and much more - on other countries, with FATCA. Just one example: Foreign banks must report all financial activities of Americans to the US. An American official wad asked in an interview if the US would then
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by bradley13 6mo ago
This. It's like the exaggerated safety instructions everywhere: "do not lean ladder on high voltage wires". Only worse: because you can choose to ignore such instructions when they don't apply, but Claude cannot. In the
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Byte was an amazing magazine in it's heyday. FWIW, the German magazine ct from Heise is a good modern replacement.
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Maybe I'm missing the point of this article? Writing a simple compiler is not difficult. It's not something for beginners, but towards the end of a serious CS degree program it is absolutely do-able. Parsing, transforming into som
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by bradley13 6mo ago
If you avoid games that demand kernel-level access, gaming on Linux works just fine. Honestly, I don't trust game producers enough to grant then kernel access. Do you? Really?
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Whenever I look at a web project, it starts with "npm install" and literally dozens of libraries get downloaded. The project authors probably don't even know what libraries their project requires, because many of them are tra
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Camel. Nose. Tent. For the moment, governments claim to want only she verification "for the children". Let's be honest: governments like the UK and Germany (to name two) are prosecuting people for posting unwanted opinions, o
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by bradley13 6mo ago
So they're still getting a million impressions s month, and that's not interesting Anyway, putting something up on Instagram and then also on X - that's pretty low effort, no? Weird decision... Also: 1500 posts per year, so a
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by bradley13 6mo ago
I guess I'm a dabbler - I have too many hobbies, none of which I take very seriously. Brewing, dry stone walls, math puzzles, etc. That said, if you're looking for something meaningful, consider doing something with kids. Technica
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Consider false positives. Then consider that - once this technology is installed - it will be very easy to add other kinds of hashes. Add in the age verification. To make that reliable will require ID. Which can then easily be extended to p
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Very mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, yes, soldiers should uphold high standards. On the other hand, war is horrible, things happen, and nothing is blach-and-white. And on the gripping hand: Years after the fact, with zero evidence,
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Parking in my town can now only be paid via smartphone. Yes, almost everyone has one, but: there are still people who do not.
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by bradley13 6mo ago
It's for the children! BS. It's for control and censorship and data harvesting. Meta alone spend $2 billion lobbying for age-restriction laws, which they tried to hide by pumping it through third parties. We don't know how mu
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by bradley13 6mo ago
With phone numbers, you can move from one carrier to another, while retaining your number. This helps with competition. We need the same for email. Sure, it may not work with the ancillary services, but keeping your email address would solv
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Only half?
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by bradley13 6mo ago
I've played exclusively on Linux for a couple of years now. Sometimes, very rarely, you have to select a specific Proton version for a game. Otherwise, it just works.
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by bradley13 6mo ago
Back in the dark ages of high school, our chess coach specialized in this. We would study openings and strategy. Then he would come up with totally off-the-eall moves. And win, of course, because we had no clue how to respond.
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by bradley13 7mo ago
There is an increasing movement to find European or OSS solutions. GitHub can be replaced by GitLab. Azure by any of a number of European cloud services. Some are more difficult, but Visual Studio can at least be replaced by IntelliJ. I don
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by bradley13 7mo ago
They have been trying to switch to Linux and LibreOffice for years now. The brakes were applied, not so much for technical reasons, but more because the "right" decision makers were wined and dined by Microsoft. The last thing MS

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