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by cbsmith 2y ago
> You referencing what people "want" is directly refuted by the idea that they should be able to choose whatever their preferences are. > > And your opinion on other people's choices doesn't really matter here.
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> Most people these days don't have a word processor or, indeed, "any number of other tools". It's all "in the cloud", usually Google Docs or Office 365 Browser Edition(tm). Read that again. ;-) > Most pe
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by cbsmith 2y ago
That's a fine point. If you can't vote for each individual position in the government, then really you don't have the same influence you have over a multinational conglomerate's insurance division.
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There absolutely can be a problem despite choice existing. I'm not saying otherwise. I'm saying the choice exists. The choices we make are the problem.
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> You are dealing with government. Its not a business like Instagram or a grocer like Costco. If IG crashes consistently or if Costco has long lines at chekout, you take your business elsewhere. In a democracy, when the government fails,
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> You still have to procure web hosting somewhere, and that hosting provider might choose to refuse your money and kick you off. Who says you need to procure a web hosting provider? But yes, if you connect your computer up to other compu
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You say that like that choice doesn't exist.
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The personalized aspect wasn't emphasized at all in the ruling. It was the curation. I don't think TikTok would have avoided liability by simply sharing the video with everyone.
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The rise of social media was largely predicated on the curation it provided. People, and particularly advertisers, wanted a curated environment. That was the key differentiator to the wild west of the world wide web. The idea that curatio
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"...you're saying MTProto isn't binary?"
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> From what I’ve read on LWN, contention on the page table lock (mmap_sem / mmap_lock) has been a real and perennial issue for Linux, especially on servers with huge numbers of CPUs; but it’s a far smaller effect than what this post
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> There's literally zero drawback for service provider to provide secret access to the raw data that they hold to law enforcement. That's not true. For one things, it is expensive. For another, there's a chance people will
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Gun manufacturers have repeatedly been charged with crimes (some are currently in court). I'd argue that messaging platforms have, historically, been less likely to be charged with crimes. The second amendment gives weapon makers some
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> I'm appalled that you would argue in good faith that a tool for communicating in secret can be reasonably described as a service used to commit a crime. The usual metaphor is child pornography, but let's pick something less o
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Aiding and abetting. It's a crime.
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> I would describe it more as a limitation of mmap than a liability. Except it's a limitation that shows up even if you never make an mmap call. It's just a reality of living with virtual memory (and arguably, with preemptive b
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Wait... you're saying if the protocol is binary, that's different somehow? Either way, you're saying the MTProto is binary? How do you mean that?
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It's both. Privacy and sovereignty are big issues in Europe, specifically because of the jurisdiction issues. The fact that it provides some protection for European businesses means they'll lean into it all the more. That said, I
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Crosstalk is absolutely common for a number of operations, but that crosstalk is NOT the same as blocking until the page is loaded into RAM. That operation is blocking on IO.
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Page faults block the thread, not the process, because the thread is trying to access memory that isn't available to it. Other threads run just fine so long as they too don't trigger page faults. The article specifically mentions
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> That's not for some fundamental reason - it's possible to get great threaded performance - just the current reality. I would argue it is for a fundamental reason. Cooperative multitasking in user-space requires far less overh
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by cbsmith 2y ago
I'm surprised this is seen as a liability of mmap rather than a cooperative scheduler that isn't using native kernel threads. This is the deal you make with the devil when you use cooperative scheduling without involving the kerne
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Large open source projects are regularly subjected to security audits. I think the reality is that closed source software is vulnerable to the same attack, the only difference is fewer eyes to see it and more likely a profit motive will kee
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Yes, it is mentioned in the article, and it specifically says: "We can see a modern, obvious parallel between the Air Force Heavy Press Program and Tesla, which has created a similar revolution in car manufacturing by using large alumi
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by cbsmith 2y ago
...and now the modern equivalent is the Giga Press: https://cleantechnica.com/2024/03/09/teslas-giga-press-has-l...
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You're not wrong.
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Which is dumb.
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I don't think you can really tie that to the brand. Because it's wrapped on different OEMs, I find it varies from OEM to OEM.
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There might also be a thing about being millions behind on rent...
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Well, better than Doesn't Matter Cast.

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