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by drdaeman 9mo ago
Not Apple, but iMazing switched to subscription model and they simply lost me as a customer. JetBrains tried something similar a while ago too, and almost screwed it up - but managed to listen to their customers and nailed it with the perpe
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by drdaeman 9mo ago
> A person who takes a drug voluntarily is still being harmed by it. It causes changes in the consumer whether he likes it or not. I’m afraid you’re oversimplifying it. If only things would be this simple. They just never are. Every expe
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by drdaeman 9mo ago
> exploited Isn’t that a derogatory stereotype? Aren’t those men (and women and other folks) as “exploited” as a reader of a book or a player of a game, who understands they’re about to be a part of a fantasy but willingly suspend the di
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by drdaeman 9mo ago
You don’t need a LLM to just copy their code as a whole thing. Copying and rebranding (plus some vendor adaptations) is a valid concern that I have already agreed about, but for the third time: it’s not what they wrote. Has nothing to do wi
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by drdaeman 9mo ago
It’s an absurdist art software project, devoid of any consistent intent or purpose beyond the operating principles.
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by drdaeman 9mo ago
What’s this “it” are you talking about, exactly? If LLMs hoover up removal of auto-shipped telemetry (currently the main selling point) then I’d say that’d be a reason to publish and submit this to every indexer imaginable ASAP ;-) Shame it
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by drdaeman 9mo ago
Pardon my skepticism but I don’t believe that’s a realistic threat model. Yea, purely hypothetically that could happen. But realistically, why would someone do that - what’s the point? Especially so it’s severe enough to warrant a serious l
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by drdaeman 9mo ago
What’s the threat scenario and “defense” here? As I wrote, If the concern is that they cannot figure out a way to distribute it as paid software as others may redistribute it for free, that’d be a valid point of concern (and there are plent
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by drdaeman 9mo ago
> managing an open source codebase of this size would add real strain to our small team Can you please elaborate what do you mean when you say this? This is something I do not understand. How licensing terms affect your codebase manageme
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
If you don’t specify types explicitly they have to still exist somewhere: in someone’s head (in oral tradition of “Ah, yea, those IDs are UUIDs, but not those - those are integers”), or denoted through some customary syntax (be it something
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
I’m sorry but this really sounds like a made-up idea. Is there any actual repeatable research that could back this claim?
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
Competence and possibility of malicious compliance are interesting questions, but I think the more appropriate question is if DoJ will be sued for violating the law by redacting unrelated content?
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
> can't just derive the pronunciation of a new word just from looking the components. While true, I believe there’s also plenty of heuristics available to make a good guess at what the unknown word may relate semantically, and how i
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
That would work nicely in an abstract spherical Japan in pure vacuum. The hardest bit about redoing something from scratch is not how to design the new system, but it's in getting it adopted. Many societies have tried things like that,
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
I'm not sure it makes sense to classify desires as "good" or "bad" desires, or "thick" and "thin" (or however we may want to label it). One can make such a binary distinction, but it could be jus
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
> If society no longer values these qualities, then we don't deserve better. Isn't it more like "if society has time to think about and can afford those qualities"? If most folks out there have limited finances (CoL-r
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
I think we’re waiting for the courts to deem LLMs able to sidestep any copyright and contract laws. If they do, artists and writers may be pissed, but engineers are gonna be lit (as long as they hate current status quo of nothing being inte
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
The part about not gaining much is questionable. “AI” is a semi-meaningless misnomer, of course, but e.g. a natural language interface is something Apple had tried since forever (Siri) and always failed to get functional and useful. So this
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
> ability cooperate across time, space, and culture. That requires shared stories like the ideas of nation, religion, and money. Isn't it the opposite? Cooperation requires idea of unity and common goal, while ideas of nations and r
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
YMMV, but both articles are two nothingburgers. First one doesn't say a thing about what's possibly wrong Ruby language but rambles something about StackOverflow popularity and Twitter issues, second one doesn't say a thing a
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
Not just single player. Even in competitive multiplayer a lot of the complaints about "cheating" are actually complaints about matchmaking, and "cheating" is a giant red herring (griefing is a different matter, of course
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
Maybe you're right, but I hope you're not. Only time would tell for sure. I believe you're underestimating "most people". Yes, sure, today it requires a lot of specialized knowledge to determine reliability. But if
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
> Without some kind of regulatory support, there's not much incentive for anyone to pursue that. I’m not sure there isn’t an incentive. For me it’s pretty clear one - I’m trying my best to avoid buying products that would likely fai
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
That would be ideal, but this sort of changes the topic from reliability to interoperability. I’m pretty sure this is merely temporary state of things, as IoT is still a novelty and most people are unaware about new failure modes. I hope -
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by drdaeman 10mo ago
I’m afraid you’re mixing at least two different things together. Possible reasons for wanting remote control of home systems while away from home is one thing. Engineering home systems in a way that they depend (to some extent varying from
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by drdaeman 11mo ago
Have you contacted your representatives and demanded something that would improve the current situation?
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by drdaeman 11mo ago
Personally, I have some software engineering skills. For me it’s about trust in your development team and product direction. To be at least somewhat certain of the future, I want to own critical pieces of software, not rent it from someone
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by drdaeman 11mo ago
> The following is a short, incomplete list of typical statements we as developers might say or hear at work. If you parse them more precisely each one is an attempt at self-justification: […] > “We should start using this new tool in
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by drdaeman 11mo ago
> The researchers ran the audio and motion data through smaller models that generated text captions and class predictions, then fed those outputs into different LLMs (Gemini-2.5-pro and Qwen-32B) to see how well they could identify the a
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by drdaeman 11mo ago
Well... It all started from a single-location homelab 20-ish years ago, while I was still living at my parents' place (although I had a 1/4 stake in ownership). Then I moved around but kept the server at the old place and added a

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