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by crote 8mo ago
I read it the exact opposite way: you are forbidden from using facial and ID scans solely for age verification (as the OS-provided signal shall be the primary indicator of age), but if you already need to obtain the user's age for ot
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by crote 8mo ago
GHA in general just isn't designed to be secure. Instead of providing solid CI/CD primitives they have normalized letting CI run arbitrary unvetted 3rd-party code - and by nature of it being CD giving it privileged access keys.
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by crote 8mo ago
No, the real problem is that people keep giving LLMs the ability to take nontrivial actions without explicit human verification - despite bulletproof input sanitization not having been invented yet! Until we do so, every single form of
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by crote 8mo ago
Is there a well-maintained alternative to SSL Labs you can recommend?
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by crote 8mo ago
You can't build a community if you ban everything except soulless corporate dronespeak. Nobody would ever be interested in joining it without getting paid for it. That's a business meeting, not a community.
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by crote 8mo ago
An even more important question is: why does Microsoft care so much about a handful of people using that term that they are willing to risk getting Streisanded over it? Nobody cares about banning the few idiots who do nothing but spam &qu
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by crote 8mo ago
See, that requires the code to be written by an actual human being, who has agency and a sense of pride and ownership about their work. Maybe there are still some teams deep inside the bowels of Microsoft that management has forgotten abou
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by crote 8mo ago
"Generating slop is totally fine because we'll eventually develop anti-slop filters" isn't exactly the most convincing argument, you know. Besides, your link between the "chaos of the early printing press" and
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by crote 8mo ago
> it’s wrong that this won’t get better. AI is advancing rapidly. Even assuming this is true for the high-end productivity models (like Claude Code), how does this change anything about the main argument? The AI integrations which are ge
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by crote 8mo ago
It is enabled by smartphone reviewers excluding it from thickness measurements. I bet camera bumps would be a lot less prominent if they were clearly represented.
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by crote 8mo ago
Everything hinges on app support. Smartphone apps have unfortunately become a hard requirement for basic day-to-day activities. Most companies offer them only for iOS and Android. If your smartphone can't run the vast majority of app
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by crote 8mo ago
> So shouldn't the EU build a Visa/Mastercard competitor instead of a new currency. We had one. Europay International was the "E" in the "EMV" smart payment card standard, and they used to dominate the Europ
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by crote 8mo ago
Starlink is primarily trying to act like a "bent pipe", with the downlink being physically close to the end user terminal in order to reduce both latency and bandwidth requirements. This means having to place your downlink termina
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by crote 8mo ago
Not if you do the space-to-space transfer with lasers. There's no air to get in the way, after all.
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by crote 8mo ago
In other words: a return of the Keyhole spy satellite's film drop pods!
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by crote 8mo ago
There's also just an upper limit to the kind of risk you can reasonably defend against. An out-of-control wildfire levels the entire city? The Big One hits the Bay Area? The entire city is flooded for a few months because the levees br
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by crote 8mo ago
> will there be a demand (all be small) for nuclear bunker esque datacenters Those already exist. See for example Bahnhof's "Pionen - White Mountain" data center in Stockholm, or Cyberfort's "The Bunker" a b
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by crote 8mo ago
Businesses aren't the ones who are paying for that subsidy, so from a business perspective the fact that you are using a subsidy is irrelevant. From a society perspective, the fact that switching to electric trucks saves a business $16
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by crote 8mo ago
Users are able to "downvote" a "skip", and a skip which isn't undone is considered an "upvote".
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by crote 8mo ago
Should a randomly-shuffled deck of cards be considered art? After all, the card shuffling machine created something which statistically has never existed before. Every shuffled deck should belong in a museum, right? On the other hand, promp
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by crote 8mo ago
Crucially, chest is also thriving as a spectator sport - and what's drawing the views is not the high-level matches: people are far more interested in more fast-paced and casual content, where the personality of the streamer can sh
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by crote 8mo ago
... which is in fact in both the OED and MW dictionaries.
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by crote 8mo ago
Sure, until their "smart filters" start considering GCP-hosted websites as pre-verified and small self-hosted websites as malicious. You know, like they have been doing with email? Chrome is big enough that a website owner can&#x2
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by crote 8mo ago
Step 1: Get everyone to use your free internet filter Step 2: Alter filters to mark newly-registered domains and low-traffic websites as "potentially harmful". Step 3: Charge a lot of money for "business verification" -
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by crote 8mo ago
And that's in turn because product managers keep calling everything "AI" and shoving the bad kind in every feature they possibly can.
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by crote 8mo ago
> A quick Google suggests that a regular 120v US outlet might charge EVs at a rate somewhere in the range of 3 to 5 miles per hour. So a dozen or so hours sitting, plugged in at home every day, is enough to cover most folks' every-d
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by crote 8mo ago
Correct, but burying trees today isn't going to turn them into coal. The big difference is that when the current coal layers were formed, bacteria to decompose trees hadn't evolved yet . There was a huge gap between trees formi
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by crote 8mo ago
If we do simple extrapolation, a cellphone-sized battery will reach the 80kWh needed to power a car in as little as 180 years. Expecting a 5% / year growth rate sustained for 30 years is very optimistic. It is far more likely that we
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by crote 8mo ago
The entire point of the European Union is to eliminate all of that friction. Most of the rules and regulations have been pushed to the EU level, just like the USA pushed most of its rules and regulations to the federal level. A car only nee
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by crote 8mo ago
Reality already caught up with synthetic fuel for buses. Shenzhen electrified its entire 16,000-vehicle bus fleet in 2017 - that's almost a decade ago. Since then virtually all of China has transitioned to electric, and other countri

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