creatonez

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by creatonez 5mo ago
In this case, no insiders broke the embargo. It was reverse engineered from the patch by an unrelated third party and a proof of concept immediately came out of it. At that point, it's kinda fair game.
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by creatonez 5mo ago
Cloudflare seems to be on a streak, boasting about new capabilities that are only useful for mass spam. When can we start blocking them for deliberately harboring spam?
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by creatonez 5mo ago
Delaware is quite literally a tax haven set up to assist in evading as many local laws as possible. Do we just excuse it because it's a US state and speaks English?
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by creatonez 5mo ago
If the only shell(s) for a business are in a completely different jurisdiction with no connection whatsoever to any of the humans involved in operating the organization... yes. It's an outrageous way to escape the force of the law that
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by creatonez 5mo ago
For-profit companies jurisdiction shopping without any physical presence is so clearly sketchy that it's wild anyone could see it otherwise. I can't imagine a normal person not being shocked in disbelief when they first learn ab
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by creatonez 5mo ago
It is indeed already normal for rich people to do things that are sketchy as hell. Maybe let's make it not normal?
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by creatonez 5mo ago
Browser agents / vision agents are a menace and ISPs should outright ban subscribers who run them on the public internet.
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by creatonez 5mo ago
Having posted rules on a forum/mailing list/bug tracker is only done to cause trouble? Really? Codes of conduct exist because the alternatives are either arbitrary punishment for arbitrary infractions, or complete spamfest anarchy
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by creatonez 5mo ago
Flock is engaged in pedophilic snooping and is actively helping a terrorist militia commit racial pogroms. Crime has gone way up, Flock are the criminals.
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by creatonez 6mo ago
> "Hairdryer sometimes get pointed at the weather sensor" and "Government sometimes fudges jobs/CPI data" are more or less the same thing. Build it into your model. Is this comment satire? Bet on things being int
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by creatonez 6mo ago
Agent-produced emails are by definition spam. Everyone should be reacting to this news by immediately blocking your service.
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by creatonez 6mo ago
AI agents should be nowhere near email, full stop. Who comes up with this shit? Why would Cloudflare ruin their email deliverability by allowing this?
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by creatonez 6mo ago
This is probably not the real reason, but I find it interesting that France had Minitel (^1) before and later had to switch to the Internet, and then later became the fastest country to complete the IPv6 transition. So perhaps they had an
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by creatonez 6mo ago
I couldn't be more relieved that RIAA is a four letter agency
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by creatonez 6mo ago
I mostly agree with the article. > You don’t get points for being clever Not sure about this framing, this can easily lead to the wrong conclusions. There is an arms race, yes, and defenders are going to need to spend a lot of GPU hours
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by creatonez 6mo ago
Correct, the file must be flushed to disk! I'm so used to libraries handling it that I forgot to mention that. I believe syncing the parent directory is only needed for durability and not atomicity, but if you're using this method
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by creatonez 6mo ago
All public torrents are monitored by the movie studios, that has nothing to do with how The Pirate Bay is run. Users can just hop jurisdictions with a VPN and use these public torrents without ever getting any complaint letters.
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by creatonez 6mo ago
> mostly widely available on YouTube already anyways Problem is, when music disappears due to licensing nonsense, it generally disappears from all streaming services at the same time. Most music goes through only a few gigantic distribut
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by creatonez 6mo ago
For the simple case, it isn't necessarily that fragile. Write the entire database to a temp file, then after flushing, move the temp file to overwrite the old file. All Unix filesystems will ensure the move operation is atomic. Lots of
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by creatonez 6mo ago
This is some truly exceptionally clownish attention seeking nonsense. The rationale here is complete nonsense, they just wanted to put "because AI" after announcing their completely self-serving decision. If AI cyber offense is su
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by creatonez 6mo ago
> the "advanced flow" for power users is delivered through Google Play Services, not the Android OS. That's the whole game. What is the source for this claim? I can believe it, but I haven't seen where the claim actua
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by creatonez 6mo ago
Then you lose the benefit of having the current URL actually linking to the resource you are currently viewing. If the app is not properly making use of URL modification and the history API, getting back to where you were requires navigatin
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by creatonez 6mo ago
Hetzner Storage Box is not even remotely a similar product to B2, considering the only reliability offered is the disks being in RAID. There is no geo-redundancy at all. The number of simultaneous connections is also quite limited, though t
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by creatonez 6mo ago
Hi-DPI displays have convinced web designers it's okay to use ludicrously thin fonts with barely any contrast.
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by creatonez 6mo ago
Nice genocide denial you got there. The Gaza Genocide is a verified fact. It has been recognized by a United Nations special committee and a commission of inquiry, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Amnesty International, D
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by creatonez 6mo ago
Part of it is just because the ocean is difficult to photograph. The parts of coastline that do have ocean surface imagery have crazy artifacting from the sun reflection, and the color is inconsistent from constantly changing sediment and a
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by creatonez 6mo ago
Yes, he had to distance himself from it because his audience turned out to be significantly more horrible than him and it was getting on his nerves. But he still holds significant sympathy towards race science views.
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by creatonez 6mo ago
Public satellite imagery is heavily censored these days.
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by creatonez 6mo ago
This is a worthless AI slop summary of this article (^1), posted to a random forum to drive traffic. ^1: https://www.psypost.org/intelligent-people-are-better-judges...
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by creatonez 6mo ago
> Require open codecs everywhere. Which ones, though? Dropping patented codecs from software sounds great, but it may just make the industry angry about the ones that seem open but are likely to have patent risks.

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