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961.
by cwillu 1y ago
At no point does ublock force their server to perform work it wouldn't otherwise. “Blocking clients with ad blockers” isn't a thing, there is only “send information plus instructions for the client to block itself”, and “only sen
962.
by cwillu 1y ago
My computer belongs to me and will display the things I tell it to display. If ABP gets in the way of that, then so long ABP.
963.
by cwillu 1y ago
Before the closing party, not the closing ceremony, apparently.
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by cwillu 1y ago
Playboy circa 1980 is pornography, and yet it's not the same pornography as pornhub circa 2020
965.
by cwillu 1y ago
Do you have similar thoughts about iscsi?
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by cwillu 1y ago
The “Appendix: FAQ” section alone is well worth reading.
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by cwillu 1y ago
From the appendix: “DuckDuckGo: in the past, when I've compared DDG to Bing while using an ad blocker, the results have been very similar. I also tried DDG here and, removing the Bing ads, the results aren't as similar as they use
968.
by cwillu 1y ago
It's a pretty exact description: the universe is made of fields, smashing stable excitations of those fields together produces disturbances in other fields (“virtual particles”) that sometimes makes (fleetingly) stable excitations in o
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by cwillu 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE
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by cwillu 1y ago
Now you're just putting words in my mouth; good day.
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by cwillu 1y ago
> Then the official statement and enemy propaganda would be exactly the same! The propaganda effect coming from the selection of content, not its truth or falsity. Exactly. Redistributing information out of context is such a basic techn
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by cwillu 1y ago
You're projecting your views on the comment. You may even be correct, but it's still a projection: that view is not explicit in the text; combined with the specific wording, I feel down-voting rather than engaging was precisely t
973.
by cwillu 1y ago
The surprise is the implication that the crossover between net-negative and net-positive impact happened to be in the last 4 months, in light of the initial release 2 years ago and sufficient public attention for a study to be funded and co
974.
by cwillu 1y ago
IMO that's a mistranslation; “stuffed with everything” would be more accurate.
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by cwillu 1y ago
Having spent a large portion of time answering phones in the pizza business, I can assure you that a great many people in Saskatchewan will order an all-dressed pizza even though we had no such thing on the menu.
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by cwillu 1y ago
There's a significant (though not exactly large) french-speaking population in Saskatchewan. I live a couple blocks from a large french-only school.
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by cwillu 1y ago
There's been more or less no progress on the alignment problem; we don't consistently manage it for corporations, we certainly don't manage it for LLMs, and the prevailing wisdom an elaboration on the theme “why would an AGI
978.
by cwillu 1y ago
If the law is that you can't do this, then those terms will just disappear from licencing agreements. It's not like there's a shortage of textures and sounds in the marketplace.
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by cwillu 1y ago
> BTW, if the fan has a motion sensor you can’t tell it’s off by the fact the blades aren’t turning. There’s probably a telltale LED Or, you know, a switch that is in an off position :p
980.
by cwillu 1y ago
I have never looked at a fan that isn't running and been confused by the switch being set to “on”. The affordance is that it immediately tells me that the switch is on, so the problem is somewhere else. Compared to the typical phone&
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by cwillu 1y ago
Yes, controls are uniquely important.
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by cwillu 1y ago
No, their credibility is, in fact, fine.
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by cwillu 1y ago
The default license is “you're not allowed to copy this”, so the lack of a header still doesn't excuse “I didn't know this was GPL”.
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by cwillu 1y ago
I believe part of the problem is distributions including it in their installers without requiring any of the usual “type the words “I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING”” to proceed” warning gates that are otherwise typical.
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by cwillu 1y ago
Anyone remotely suitable would be active on the lkml.
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by cwillu 1y ago
See the replies made by Josef Bacik and Theodore Ts'o. https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250627144441.GA349175@fedora/#t https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250628015934.GB4253@mit.edu/
987.
by cwillu 1y ago
And the linux kernel project has a long-established process, which includes not routinely landing major features post-merge-window without having a discussion first.
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by cwillu 1y ago
A word being fuzzy does not mean it has no meaning and that it can therefore be used for anything. A word being used in a particular (but fuzzy) way hundreds of years ago does not mean that it can't have a different (and fuzzy) meanin
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by cwillu 1y ago
Can we start marking predominately ai submissions with an [AI] when it's not already obvious from the title?
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by cwillu 1y ago
And more importantly (for them), it's much harder to share a passkey than it is to share a password. “Why GNU su does not support the `wheel‘ group Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. For example, in

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