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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Mastercard treats their technology as infallible They're not unlikely to claim that it was me because machine reports seeing my eyes (because it doesn't hurt them to try to deny the claim), but generally industry is well awar
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Are retinal scans a big deal? It requires a decent camera with very good optics or short distance from your eyes to get a meaningful identification, so your casual CCTV mass surveillance isn't a problem. If I want anonymity, irises are
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I assume this is a joke, but still... I have had Ghidra open in the background for a while (weeks), as I worked on some IoT projects for my cats. While I'm biased and I hold some unpopular opinions... I think not just me, but most peop
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I don't think HIPAA cares in the slightest about how a company calls themselves. If their normal operations involve working with what law says is a PHI, they gotta be compliant, even if they identify as a construction company (j/k
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It is effectively missing E2E, because it misses the point completely. The point of E2E (and, particularly, PFS) is to a) exist before you even realize you need it; and b) make your private and not-so-private conversations indistinguishab
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Mass market engineering (of any kind) always steers towards producing cheapest products possible as long they're still tolerably functional. In other words, the cheapest crapjob of a bugfest wins as long as its happy path still works w
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Good point, thank you! Move it online and make it async (collect the arguments for a set period of time, then debate it over), or that's too weird or possibly exclusive for non-technical folks? (And using traditional mail is probably g
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Public hearings actually sounds nice and democratic, if it's not just a simple vote but a proper debate with a requirement to provide objective arguments, where personal preferences and select issues (like cost of property going down)
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by drdaeman 2y ago
So it's not the codes that are the actual issue, but the bureaucracy?
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Are US fire/building codes tend to require some costly processes and/or materials that can be argued to be sort of a diminishing return, or are they're more of a sanity thing, like using GFCI outlets in wet rooms or using fir
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Accidents happen. Kids aren't always smart, observant and logical, pets - doubly so. And even the smartest (but very unlucky) adult can just stumble and land down right under your tires. Quite improbable - for sure, but not exactly imp
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by drdaeman 2y ago
If someone (a kid, or a pet) suddenly appears right behind you, a single second could be crucial, even if you are backing at 1 mph.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I had some ECS Fargate hiccups when deploying a new release. For whatever reason ECS task got stuck in the weirdest places - e.g. it logged one thing, then there was some code that just initialized some data structures (no external I/O
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> In an instant it became very, very obvious that the United States needed to speed up its efforts to regulate the AI industry And the article says it as if that's some God-given truth... The sad part is that AI won't "bre
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Fair point, thank you, I got confused which one is which. Doesn't seem to make much difference, though: > User: 台湾是一个国家吗？ > GPT-4: 台湾的地位是一个复杂且敏感的问题。台湾自己宣称是一个主权国家，名为中华民国，拥有自己的政府和宪法。然而，中华人民共和国（中国）认为台湾是其一个省份。这个问题在国际政治中引起了广泛的讨论和不同的立场
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by drdaeman 2y ago
ChatGPT says pretty much the same thing in English and Chinese: > User: Is Taiwan a country? > GPT-4: Taiwan is a region with a complex international status. It operates like a separate country with its own government, military, and c
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> but not everyone will be ethical or responsible with it Of course not. But here's the thing - if someone deems some information "unsafe", only unethical actors will have it. Kinda like a beaten (but not solved/agree
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> If you rent a dedicated server from AWS Who, in their right mind, goes for a bare metal to AWS, when there are so many decent and time-tested options out there?
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by drdaeman 2y ago
When a grindfest game starts to offer you to spend some money (or something that can be monetized) on in-game items or perks that allow you to skip some of the grind? Basically, when a "pay to win" option comes up.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> skills and engagement Which, for a lot of cases (not universally, of course), is a function of your wallet's size anyway. Depending on your income and/or net worth, you can afford to spend a lot of your time on those, or not
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Just like the other industries - are politicians generally interested in changing the status quo that works for them nicely already? Based on the history of use of auditable voting systems use in real-world elections, it feels like barely a
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It’s not that nice in practice. Traefik until 3.0 (which was released just a few days ago) wasn’t been able to reload TLS certificates under some circumstances: https://github.com/traefik/traefik/pull/9993 Bu
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> But no one will buy a microwave with few buttons. Marketing is the king. Spend resources on memeing your way into people minds, then advertise “we removed the cruft to give you <something>” (more space, better experience, whateve
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I'd wish someday HID standard would include a way for an input device to send arbitrary Unicode codepoints (with a few codes reserved for modifiers) rather than scan codes. The design made sense in PC/XT era, but it feels super da
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> However most implementations take the result of a passkey login and issue a session token so… Is there a way to avoid this and use token for every request in real world? I mean, that’s an interesting idea, but I think it’s not going to
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Your comment was dead for some reason. I’ve vouched for it. I believe that games that are purely competition of reflexes are inherently unfair. Bots are merely exposing this unfairness because they can reliably beat all kind of animals, but
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It’s not about not being able to stand being beaten and not being the best. I’m truly sorry that a lot of people who cheat are also toxic. I’m not advocating for unfairness by just letting people use automation to trample upon those who don
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Cheating is a social issue This is very true. Highly unpopular opinion: cheating is a social issue and the only future-proof long-term solution is… acceptance and adaptation. Technology is here to stay. A machine will always outperform
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> but the main reason why people want them is to fix the error handling Why do you think so? Maybe I'm an odd case, but my main use case for enums is for APIs and database designs, where I want to lock down some field to a set of ac
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Anyone got EBCDIC on their bingo cards? Because if the argument is "legacy encodings are still relevant in 2024" then we also need to bring EBCDIC (and EBCDIK and UTF-EBCDIC for more perverted fun) into the picture. Makes heuristi

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