droitbutch

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by droitbutch 6y ago
Somehow this comment got me downvoted and obliterated all my karma.
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by droitbutch 6y ago
Times change. This article would have been very useful 20 years ago, but after reading about and playing with GPT-3, I can't help but feel the article is dates itself. Focuses too much about operating at human-pace and fails to recogni
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by droitbutch 6y ago
I'm trying to understand GPT-3. For example, this response to creating a story about AI has me wondering whether the comedy is intentional or not: > GPT-3: "One day, one human is going to school. It's a normal day. But su
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by droitbutch 6y ago
Depends largely on whether they also restrict import of digital products. If they do (which will extremely difficult) then American tech salaries will generally rise. However, because of the difficulty in restricting data and communicatin
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by droitbutch 6y ago
The author quotes Yuval Noah Harari "Sapiens" then argues against him with: > That’s one of the big differences in our times. For me to thrive does not mean you could not thrive. The chances for you to thrive are higher if I th
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by droitbutch 6y ago
Given the topic of proxies plus "scraping" in the domain name, I was expecting more relevant information. For example: 1) techniques to avoid being blacklisted 2) some indication of cost factors. Not just the difference between
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by droitbutch 6y ago
> What "security" practices in use today will we be saying "once upon a time" about years from now? Can an industry not mature? Previous behavior is not an indicator of the future - and anyone worried about it can con
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by droitbutch 6y ago
> I don't have to provide a "proposed solution" to MITM No, my experience says you do. The enterprise needs to prevent data breaches and data exfiltration. If you want them to move away from MITMing, then I believe you wo
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by droitbutch 6y ago
You seem to be conflating enterprise and home/personal networks. They are not the same. > nobody should ever get used to the idea that their network is MITMing their traffic and: > surveillance technologies like this will be abu
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by droitbutch 6y ago
> Does your employer have a right and obligation to see that you're searching for a cancer doctor? Do you have the right to prioritize your personal activities over your employers protection of its' data? Creating blindspots on
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by droitbutch 6y ago
> Such networks are security threats and should be repeatedly broken until they give up. Why the hostility towards entities that have determined their best course of action to protect THEIR networks is by focusing on the network egress
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by droitbutch 6y ago
Scrolling through the comments, many seem to think this was unintentional, mistake, or overzealous AI. However, the author said this has been ongoing for 2years: > "Google's Chrome Extension team has been giving me a complete
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by droitbutch 6y ago
Probably, but browser extension developers need to go where the users are. Google has leverage and knows it.
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by droitbutch 6y ago
An interesting extension but I am a bit surprised - it seems the target users are developers, which generally have the wherewithal to download the repo and install themselves - how does this result in a "noticeable income"? Sorry,
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by droitbutch 7y ago
Concerning is what message this sends to other OSS developers. One goes into F/OSS knowing full well there will be little rewards financially - but facing harassment or attacks on their reputation cannot encourage future projects.
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by droitbutch 7y ago
Without seeing your article and without at least providing some of the supporting reasons why the article arrives at this conclusion - your argument makes no headway into disproving I, Pencil. The pencil today, as are many other products, i
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by droitbutch 7y ago
> but because of various market failures and collusion that happened in practice. No. The pencil is built because of the incentives (read: potential for profits) for each of the people involved. The lighthouse keeper maintains the light
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by droitbutch 7y ago
> "And while the terminal can be hard to learn — it’s not very intuitive — once they pick it up, a lot of people don’t want to learn a new tool and run the risk of making a mistake. ... The terminal is sticky." So TLDR: it&#x27
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by droitbutch 7y ago
I too was reminded of "I, Pencil" but I prefer Read over Smith simply because, in today's world, a pencil is much more relatable than a pin. I still come into contact with a pencil almost daily, but a pin maybe once a year.
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by droitbutch 7y ago
One reason this 'sad state' exists is because content providers (for example websites, apps, etc) need to generate revenue and the most prevalent method is advertising. Micropayments would go a long ways to shifting providers away
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by droitbutch 7y ago
not sure why I'm getting downvoted here for simply pointing out the author defines his definition of Bokeh in the 1st paragraph.
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by droitbutch 7y ago
if it's "your own personal forward proxy" then why would you want or enable the "capability to sell dataset"?
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by droitbutch 7y ago
> You need to crop, color correct, distortion correct, noise correct, exposure correct. Only after that would you ever really want to apply some kind of bokeh filter. Modern phones already do all that - and seemingly in that order. As a
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by droitbutch 7y ago
Your definition conflicts with the author's. 1st paragraph: >as I own this site, I get to define good and bad Bokeh for the purposes here! The other key term is “image.” Bokeh is a property of IMAGES, not a property of LENSES.