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by drdaeman 2y ago
Not to diminish the atrocity of what happened to Aaron, but is this a highly abnormal case of prosecutor overzeal or is it common for people to be charged and held liable for downloading and/or consuming (without distribution) of copyr
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> then the manufacturer of that device is a fraud who is deliberately trying to spite me That's a weird conclusion, even for a sarcastic remark. Is it a fraud - is the marketing deceptive? Possibly, yes, I personally believe it ca
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I agree overall, but I don't think it's a secret to anyone, except, possibly, for people new to iPads, who haven't researched about what it really is. YMMV, but I don't find this situation funny or deserving a sarcastic
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I liked it - particularly the volume and brightness controls, and for convenient hotkey access in apps that I didn't use too often to memorize. But it was extremely badly implemented and then basically abandoned. At the very least, it
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by drdaeman 2y ago
My understanding is that the post is essentially a complaint about deceptive marketing. iPads are marketed as capable of "doing all the things you love", how it's "so versatile it's up to any task" and so on -
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I'm sorry, I must be exceptionally stupid (or haven't seriously worked in this particular problem domain and thus lacking awareness), but I still can't figure out the use cases from this feature list. What sort of thing shoul
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Your comment was downvoted into oblivion, but it's a very valid point. There is a significant number of GNU/Linux users who value the freedoms granted by FLOSS licensing, so I believe Orion not being a FLOSS project is a valid arg
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It would be a lot nicer if it would not just give a binary flag "can/can't run" but what to expect. Ideal scenario (YMMV): add more hardware parameters (like chipset, CPU, actual RAM type/timings - with presets for
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by drdaeman 2y ago
You forgot to define what constitutes “running”. And people have different expectations.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I wonder if it is going to be proprietary-licensed (like their macOS version) or Free Software?
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Fair point. However, I didn’t get that impression at all - in my reading the preceding conversation didn’t seem to suggest anything about uniqueness or make any comparisons. Would you mind quoting the piece that made you think it’s suggeste
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by drdaeman 2y ago
If the discussion is about A, and, let's suppose, some P(A) is true, if P(B) is also true, but discussion never mentions B - what's the point of solely bringing the fact of truthfulness of P(B) into the picture?
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by drdaeman 2y ago
If we don't trust the legislative and see them as malevolent entities with their own agendas unaligned with those of their constituents, then, yes, a checkbox opens a path for further abuse. If we trust the legislative to have a modicu
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I don't think so. This is not a technical problem - modern computers simply have no means to know who's sitting in front of them. And even if someone tries to invent some contraption to do so (idk, IR cameras, voice verification
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Just curious: 1) which country/eID is this? and 2) does it send the date of birth back, or does it perform a zero-knowledge proof that the date of birth is greater or equal than a given value (current date minus age requirement)?
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Well, it was. Intel MacBooks had really crappy thermals, getting awfully hot and throttling at any hint of system load.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
In this modern age, I'm rather interested in the inverse: lawmakers doing proper scientific research, and legislating based on that; attempting to discover the sociological or economical truths rather than chasing slogans and acting on
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Any Wireguard-based solutions are quickly becoming useless in modern hostile networks due to extreme simplicity of protocol detection. You need at least something like Shadowsocks (at minimum), or more likely XRay or VLESS and build the mes
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Definitely not true. You can audit software (it could be not easy, but ultimately doable) and skip the updates until you have capacity to audit those. You can't audit a third-party service, no matter what you do.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
The bit I found confusing is that I don't immediately understand what's more performant in various scenarios, M4 Max or M3 Ultra. The former has higher architecture version but lower amount of compute, the latter is previous arch
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Or their legal team is incompetent. Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Firefox is not a SaaS. More so, it's Free Software so you literally own the program you run on your computer. You, the end user, are granted all the rights (well, except for the Firefox trademark) to do whatever you please with the
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It is documented here: https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/storage/ap... I'm not sure about the current status of this document. Years ago there were subtle nuances that I gad to reverse en
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Sync is nothing but an awfully overengineered blob storage (I have implemented an alternative Accounts+Sync server when 1.5 came out, https://gitlab.com/drdaeman/firesync/ - long abandoned and the code is awful pr
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by drdaeman 2y ago
To best of my awareness, the login page (including JS code) is still served over the Internet, and encryption keys are derived solely from the password. That’s not a good design for something as sensitive as one’s full browser data.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It doesn't do anyone any good to stress over non-existent things. ASI is a sci-fi trope, a pure fantasy in context of present day and time. AGI does not exist either, and AFAIK there's not even any agreement what it possibly means
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by drdaeman 2y ago
The problem with this approach is that LLM gives me unreliable answers. I know this because sometimes I ask things that I used to knew but forgot and needed to refresh my memory - and sometimes the answers were incorrect. So, unfortunately,
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Yep, I haven't tried this particular project but that's my overall experience with similar projects as well. Smaller models that can be ran locally in compute-poor environments really need structured outputs and just prompting the
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Looking at the code ( https://github.com/zilliztech/deep-searcher/blob/master/deep... ), I think it probably may work at least with Ollama without any additional tweaks if you run it with `OPENAI_BASE_URL=
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Surely it's not a well-functioning market, when the client (the medical organization) had accepted and paid for a clearly dysfunctional software that harms their operations. Yet, they somehow survive and continue to function despite it

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