david_draco

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by david_draco 3y ago
His formal background is in theoretical physics not astronomy, although he has been at Harvard's astronomy department for decades now.
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by david_draco 3y ago
Bugzilla 3.0 in 2007 was a significant improvement in usability.
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by david_draco 3y ago
Maybe an "Acid test" for Unicode would help? These pages seem to go into that direction: https://www.kermitproject.org/utf8.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160306060703/http:/&#x2
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by david_draco 3y ago
Perhaps a good way forward is to come up with a positive incentives, like already exists with the various badges for CI success, test coverage, documentation, valid HTML5, etc. There could be a service that verifies that PGP key can be fetc
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by david_draco 3y ago
You are mistaken to think Stallman is primarily a software person. He is a leader of a social movement, with social goals (freedom from the shackles of proprietary software) achieved by strategic investment in software development and legal
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by david_draco 4y ago
"No one is going to ban Google Analytics" -- no need to explicitly ban individual products, the rules are written down in GDPR
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by david_draco 4y ago
I use OpenGPG for signing and writing emails, they are plaintext encrypted. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-how... https://www.linuxbabe.com/security/encrypt-emails-gp
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by david_draco 4y ago
Enigmail functionality is now built-in, it's quite nice!
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by david_draco 4y ago
Unfortunately the web keeps changing. Firefox is trying hard to remain relevant and needs to be flexible with their code-base. So Thunderbird does not live in a stable world.
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by david_draco 4y ago
"The Cause of Depression" assumes there is a single cause, which may not be the case.
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by david_draco 4y ago
> the idea that you'd leverage open protocols but try to police them like a walled garden feels backwards. Just because it is technically possible, does not mean it is socially a good idea. Members and server owners should decide wh
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by david_draco 4y ago
Would it be possible to use GPT model infrastructure to compute the likelihood that a given text was created by that GPT model?
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by david_draco 4y ago
This is pretty nice: https://www.modernwiki.app/
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by david_draco 4y ago
Maybe machine learning techniques for translating text could produce unstripped binaries based on stripped binaries, given a large training set?
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Google mandatory validation process on all PyPI packages – phishing attempt(twitter.com)
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by david_draco 4y ago
Did this with Gentoo for a decade, even across two computer changes. boot into a rescue disk, set up grub, then for each partition do ssh oldcomputer "gzip</dev/sda5"|zcat>/dev/sda5, then resize the fs.
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by david_draco 4y ago
I see two previews, one next to the file name, and a large one on the right when clicking on a image file name. So: 25 years, now with preview images in file picker :)
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by david_draco 4y ago
If in distribution discussions Linux is name for the operating system and shell, downplaying the role of GNU, then it is also fair game to say here: Linux does not have a stable ABI because glibc changed.
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by david_draco 4y ago
Someone should sign up for all the mailing lists with a email address used nowhere else and track the cross-mailings. Maybe a bubble babble hash of the company name as the email prefix, and a big mailer like gmail or protonmail as the serve
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by david_draco 4y ago
"profile view challenge" coming in 3, 2, 1 ...
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by david_draco 4y ago
Usually you have a landing page, and then you enter stuff there, and finally you get output. That gives you about 1 minute before returning first results. If the user is faster, you can show something like cloudflare does when you visit thr
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by david_draco 4y ago
The suggestions posted here (give a quote, say no, say you are not interested) are part of a larger, useful guideline: Respond by specifying clearly what would be required for this feature to land in your code. This can be money, this can b
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by david_draco 4y ago
Have a "CAPTCHA" that gives the IP reputation for some time (cookie+IP=key), but instead of a CAPTCHA make the web page / browser solve and submit a BOINC task from a randomly picked science project. No user interaction neede
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by david_draco 4y ago
Is the "right answer" a classification based on US English with background knowledge of US cultural background, or is the goal to build a global sentiment data set? You and OP ("the indians labelers don't know how to do
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by david_draco 4y ago
Therefore, one could easily generate lightning with equal destructive power? Why is it not used yet in war (airplane to ground) or for entertainment (airplane to airplane)?
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by david_draco 4y ago
Have a look at notmuch
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by david_draco 4y ago
The most convincing arguments for not having a blog, however, cannot be found in a blog post.
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by david_draco 4y ago
I also wondered why the author set it up to echo the existing comments, instead of for example building a bot that asks people for evidence supporting their claims, or tells people they appreciate them, or whatever else one could possibly t
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by david_draco 4y ago
You could argue that bots are expected by the hosters and people there, and they are happy to be experimented with (ok, not sure what's the evidence for that argument), that's one thing, but another is releasing the model freely a
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by david_draco 4y ago
The world is a better place by creating and running a vile bot. Start a social experiment with users without their consent. Lets empower others by making it as easy as possible to auto-generate vile content. It's okay to pollute the &#

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