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by dns_snek 1y ago
I regret to inform you that the latest leaked Cellebrite support matrix [1] (from summer 2024) showed that all iOS devices on then-current iOS versions could be forcibly unlocked by law enforcement in AFU state (After First Unlock, followin
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by dns_snek 1y ago
You're talking about the US case I believe. Alternative app stores were born out of the EU Digital Markets Act which Apple has been brazenly violating since day 1. The purpose of the DMA is to eliminate gatekeepers' stranglehold o
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by dns_snek 1y ago
I used to vape and I had the worst time quitting nicotine. I tapered down to around 25% of my usual daily intake over the period of about 3 months before I decided to quit for good. Even then, for about 3 weeks I felt incredibly tired all t
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by dns_snek 1y ago
This logic implies that money spent on advertising isn't eventually recouped from you. Given that businesses don't engage in charity, there must be an invisible hand of the market reaching into your pocket and taking $5 when you a
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by dns_snek 1y ago
That's a non-sequitur if I've ever seen one. Paying for a service which costs money != Paying a subscription to digitally unlock a physical feature in a product that you already paid for.
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by dns_snek 1y ago
I know a couple of people whose mental faculties took a sharp nosedive after they started relying on LLMs too much. They might be outliers but just a few years ago I considered them to be really sharp and these days they often struggle with
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by dns_snek 1y ago
I wouldn't necessarily recommend nicotine. It works and alleviates ADHD symptoms at first which is great but that also makes it really addictive. I can't comprehend the level of discipline I would need to use nicotine without beco
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Yes, though it might take more than one to find someone who's actually qualified and up to date on evidence-based treatment of ADHD. There are some really ignorant physicians out there who are still peddling misinformation that's
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by dns_snek 1y ago
There are non-stimulant medications for ADHD but I think their effectiveness is more variable, they work well for some people and not at all for others. Strattera, guanfacine, and wellbutrin come to mind. Outside of medication there's
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Definitely make sure to check since it's easy to test and easy to treat, but remember that it could be both. What blows is that some doctors can become really dismissive of the idea that you might have something like ADHD if your chart
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by dns_snek 1y ago
To a certain extent I think it depends your level of activity. If I'm sedentary and I eat a big dinner I usually won't feel hungry at least until 3pm the next day and sometimes it can be full 24h before I really feel hunger kick i
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> let innocent people get scammed because you want to be able to run whatever on your phone. As always it comes down to insulting and emotionally guilt tripping people to screw them out of their freedoms and of course there's never
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Okay great, seeing how every reasonable warning and technical restriction is completely pointless and how people will do everything they're told if they're naive enough and the person on the other end is convincing enough, we can
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> Would it be okay if people started “resisting” illegal immigrants in the same way? Attacking the powerless underclass isn't political resistance, that's just plain old xenophobic violence and tyranny. > We don’t do vigilan
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by dns_snek 1y ago
HN is burying my comments (thanks!) but here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45073287
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Slightly tweaked, a leaderboard of em dash containing comments after ChatGPT release, limited to users who used them in fewer than 1% of comments before ChatGPT release, and who posted at least 200 comments before and after ChatGPT release.
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by dns_snek 1y ago
I think they meant after the release of ChatGPT. If someone never used them before and now uses them all the time it might indicate that they're using ChatGPT... or it might just mean that they learned how to use them after widespread
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by dns_snek 1y ago
This is why we can't have nice things. People contribute to communal efforts such as free software but inevitably some assholes come around to exploit everyone's good will and their contributions for their own gain. That's no
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Not sure where you're getting that from. Firstly Apple App Store is a VLOP, not Apple as a whole. Apple shouldn't even be in the loop as a digital service to third party app stores but even if they are, it's not covered by
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> Maybe 1 hour of work. On my own it would have taken me close to a working day to figure it all out. 1. Find out how to access metadata about the node running my code (assumption: some kind of an environment variable) [1-10 minutes depe
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Not in the slightest! The only thing I'm against is hypocrisy. LLM enthusiasts are staunch defenders of the argument that use of everyone's ideas and labour in LLM training isn't just fair use, but a moral imperative in order
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by dns_snek 1y ago
If you talk to a human they're free to discuss your ideas with someone else. Why should LLMs be any different? The likelihood of these models reproducing your ideas word for word is essentially zero anyway. More to the point, respectin
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by dns_snek 1y ago
It doesn't sound like they're accessing your photos without the app being granted permission to do so in iOS. It sounds like they're abusing that permission (if granted) for nefarious purposes that users didn't agree to.
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Because we're not even close to that happening. However I've observed a sort of cognitive decline in a few formerly experienced and extremely knowledgeable developers whom I used to respect. They happen to be the most vocal supp
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Indeed it may save you in case the malware is being particularly lazy but I think it may do more harm than good by giving people a false sense of security and it can also break packages that use post-install scrips for legitimate reasons. F
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> Now you are moving the goalpost I would beg to disagree: "The DSM is a bunch of nonsense. As long as [...], it’s worthless." > DSM when not providing the underlying physical processes is worthless. And when does the D
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> Authors decided to pay to these journals and play by their rules in return for something, that have value for them. I respect their choice. Have you ever spoken to anyone who works in academia? Because almost everyone will tell you t
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> pirating someone else work. Are you aware that you're not paying the authors, but paying the journal, who usually don't pay the authors anything and even demand payment FROM the author to publish their article in the first
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Whenever I read this well-meaning advice I have to ask: Do you actually read hundreds of thousands of lines of code (or more) that NPM installed? Because the workflow for 99.99% of developers is something resembling: 1. git clone 2. npm ins
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Nobody is saying that. They can (and do) consider it theirs but their parents ultimately have the final say about how they're allowed to use it. Stronger protections would simply bar OEMs from imposing restrictions over how we're

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