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by drdaeman 2y ago
The quote is truly the quintessence of Dostoevsky's works. A classic orthodox christian hodgepodge base, served with heaviest spicing of obligatory suffering of all kinds - both physical and mental, all perversely portrayed as a virtue
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I hope that your reaction is because the headline is way more sensational (to the extent of probably being incorrect) than the actual paper's abstract ( https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408721121 ) Here
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Wrong How? I fail to understand why if a browser, configured to not persist anything by default (without a consent) would persist anything. Save for a bug, of course.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Scummy companies won't magically disappear or stop scummy practices. We can and should blame them, but it's pretty much obvious that the legislation (despite good intents!) resulted in a de-facto shitshow that failed to recognize
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by drdaeman 2y ago
For some reason it's not visible in DevTools' "Storage" tab (Firefox 131.0.2). I strongly suspect it's negligence rather than malice, though.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I'm sorry? I did, and I just skimmed over it again, and I still don't see where it says anything along the lines of "even when searching for the contents". The only relevant piece I see in the article is this (emphasis m
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by drdaeman 2y ago
They already do this with cookies, local storage, IndexDB and WebSQL. OPFS is not changing anything - I'm pretty sure it'll be visible in Developer Tools just like other data storages. The issue is that browser vendors are making
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by drdaeman 2y ago
In other words: 1) there is no solution in the article; 2) it's basically an ad for a product that doesn't even exist.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> You seem to have missed the part where they were fleeing the bolsheviks I have not. A lot of people fled from oppressive governments (myself included), but those people intentionally picked a deliberately self-harming way. And kept to
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> such as census Uh... There are plenty of people who seem to think census results are rigged in one way or another. E.g. I think I've seen that the infamous Heritage Foundation (I know, I know) has some beef with The Census bureau
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Of course, but the thing about that test ("do you trust Coca Cola or Reuters") doesn't seem make distinction between this. Even if it asked "why", it would still put a considerate reader and a conspiracy believer in
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Such agency will have hard time building trust (especially given it's a government agency - modern governments aren't particularly good at building trust), and it could lose it all over a single honest mistake, or (as we're t
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> The idea is to consider the motivations and vested interests Uh, but the speculation about motivations is the basis of a lot of conspiracy theories.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
My first thought was rather that they missed modern medicine, balanced diet and even basic kitchen utensils. Not some entertainment. And I'm not even sure they truly wanted to live that way. I'm no psychologist, but it reads like
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Of course, I understand the appreciation for an open standard, especially one less messy than SAML. :-) And I can see valid use cases for OIDC when it's all first-party, all in the same system. Maybe if it would use different language,
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Anecdote: almost every time I hear some US company isn't doing well, I'm seeing a bunch of coupons on my credit cards for various discounts with that company. Bed Bath & Beyond, 23andMe, etc etc.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
For me personally, it's primarily philosophical - I don't want to be defined by someone else, only confirmed that it's, indeed, me. However, there are practical consequences. There are plenty of stories how people got their G
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Identity provisioning is an abomination that shouldn't have been invented. I used to be a fan back in mid-'00s, self-hosting an OpenID server, without realizing how the whole concept is so fundamentally flawed. Identity is an inna
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It also lacks scene consistency. E.g. in the France level I walked into the cathedral (arrow on the building visible at the starting location) and got really confused as the exit was nowhere to be seen (I turned 180° and it wasn't ther
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> The goal of any corporation is to maximize profit, period. Yea, but that's not some strictly inherent property of capitalism, and I thought stakeholder vs shareholder is still an open issue?
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Joke conspiracy theory: it's all a conspiracy of mass media to paint AI as bad as they can, so when it becomes more energy-efficient it won't be able to disrupt their deceptive practices by de-hyping the headlines replacing them w
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It's not really capitalism, but its late stage cancerous form, where businesses grow too big (too close to monopolies) and go unchecked, so the markets start to fail because the competition is killed. I could be wrong, but I think prop
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Even knowing what it is, and having a Car Thing somewhere in a box in a closet, I still don't have any idea what this DeskThing thing is. Some Chromium shell with yet-another-appstore that can somehow show (or maybe control) Spotify, D
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I love how the term "endianness" was picked straight from Gulliver's Travels. It's a very good fit - old wise computer wizards must've known how it's gonna be.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Casual users do care about app behaving wrong, though. If you can't copy or paste things, or if the navigation is backwards, or if the calendar looks weird etc etc - it all causes some minor frustrations, when things don't behave
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I don’t think it’s a technical problem. Hosting or accessing a site on distributed networks is no more complicated than running or hosting a VPN (e.g. https://novayagazeta.eu/vpnovaya ), and organizations host them just fine
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by drdaeman 2y ago
This requires web-of-trust/friend-to-friend or similar system, and despite numerous attempts none of such things had ever succeeded so far.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Ha, looks like I missed a 2023 drama when the original Freenet was renamed to Hyphanet, and Locutus became Freenet ( https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html ; https://freenet.org/faq/#ho
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Anything is hard, if the plank is low enough. Basic language transformations with regular grammar (like escaping a string for use in a HTML document) are, IMHO, not particularly hard. The hardest part is to actually recognize what is the la
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by drdaeman 2y ago
As I get it, inputs aren’t an issue, failure to correctly escape outputs to match the target format is.

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