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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
Wayland was created in 2008. Mir was created in 2013. Bazaar and Git were created around the exact same time. Unity was abandoned after a failed attempt to circumvent Gnome 3. I was actually involved with the development of Compiz and they
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
I stopped listening to what Canonical says. They often get involved in things and disturb the ecosystem then abandon stuff or dig a "not invented here" hole. Unity, Bazaar, Mir, Upstart, Snap, etc. All of them had existing well es
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
I don't think they are interested in those nuances. I think they just want to get free PR for a widget they are making.
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
Source available, meaning we just want to use open source as a marketing gimmick and don't do anything too interesting with it that could affect our bottom line. These projects get shared on HN sometimes and it doesn't fit with th
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
Can an NDA be used as justification for a DMCA? Has it happened before?
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
HN just being curmudgeonly. Nothing you can do about it except disengage with the site. All social media is bound to have the same results.
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
When you are logged in to the Google Play Developer console there is an area to do the verification and once you get to a stage that breaks down (as explained) it just has a support form, which then happens via email.
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
Pay me and I'll post the email thread with verified headers. My contact info is in my profile. Otherwise consider that you're fucking wrong and have little understanding of how communication with Google works? Also go through my h
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
I had a strange and similar interaction with Google recently. I was asked to do the Android developer verification, but then I missed a deadline at some point. Support said that I would need to create a new Google account for all of this. I
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HWMonitor and CPU-Z downloads compromised [video](youtube.com)
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I think a lot of people are really interested in what an LLM or something that can pass the Turing test "thinks" or generates as output. Obviously it's for entertainment, but there are many channels where content creators pos
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
I think utility is a big component of that. I think there's a reason we're discussing these types of things instead of just cat pictures and memes.
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
Desktop Linux has been a little bit of a fragmented landscape over time, but I think that what keeps most organizations using Microsoft is that they have someone on staff dedicated to resolving all of these problems for all their users. Mos
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
Microsoft has been disrespecting their user base for a very long time now. This is not news. Stop giving them your money.
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Raising a bunch of money to recreate the wheel.
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
A dog writing sounds like an interesting story.
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Because an attacker will do that the same thing and without sharing that knowledge good actors are in the dark. It's the same reason we share known security problems, since there will be bad actors that discover the same bugs and use t
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
Those are good arguments to be made regardless of who wrote them. I'm all for actual arguments against the work instead of hand waving it away as AI and being too lazy to say what is wrong with the work. Can the same argument be made a
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
If a truly amazing thing was released tomorrow that had massive utility you wouldn't care how long it took to create and would just use it. I get the attention economy is messed up right now, but using it as a justification for being c
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
Often the commentor wants to take a shortcut and just say it's AI written and hand wave it away. A comment should argue the merit of the work not attack the source or medium.
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I read a lot of comments on HN that say something is not hard, yet don't provide a POC of their own or link to research they have knowledge of. I also read a lot of comments on HN that start by attacking the source of the information,
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
I have a 4TB hard drive that contains thousands of movies and tens of thousands of TV episodes. It feeds into a Jellyfin server.
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Attacking the source of the message instead of the merits. Ad-HomineLLM
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
I cancelled my X subscription this month, despite them trying to offer me a lower price. The platform is a mixture of bots and people fighting over how many followers they are getting. I tried to find interesting groups actually making thin
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
I did a chargeback against OpenAI for something similar and I showed my credit card company the logs with the support bot, as it was my only point of contact for the company.
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I think people are getting stuck on the concept of the word doxing here. In anonymous online hacking circles, the idea that you're exposing anyone's OPSEC at all is considered basically doxing. People do it regularly, but it'
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by ddtaylor 6mo ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656418 Its still like this. Sadly mobile is the only place I get a "real" subscriptions page, probably because I'm using ReVanced.
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I think you're missing the concept here that laws change as a packet travels from one switch to another, not to mention what happens after they go under the ocean. Are you prepared to be held accountable for breaking the laws of repres
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Thanks this looks interesting.
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Wait a second... By the view you're espousing right now, doesn't that make this conversation "illegal"? Why aren't we filing DMCA takedowns to HN because the list of the naughty sites is at the top of the page for

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