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by dspillett 5d ago
Copypasting my reply to someone who made almost exactly the same point in a sibling comment earlier: Which has nothing to do with the stalking of the adtech industry, unless you are suggesting that the EU might sell access to the keys to th
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by dspillett 5d ago
Malicious compliance (or as it more usually is malicious noncompliance that has not been sufficiently punished so the slimy buggers feel free to continue) is something you should blame the stalkers of adtech for, more than the EU. The legis
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by dspillett 5d ago
Which has nothing to do with the stalking of the adtech industry, unless you are suggesting that the EU might sell access to the keys to the likes of OpenAI? [though you are not wrong that encryption backdoors are a backwards step on indivi
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by dspillett 5d ago
And you sir, appear to have taken my view rather personally. There is nothing wrong with American English, but it is American English: English as commonly spoken in America. Just as Australian English is Australian English, and so forth. I
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by dspillett 5d ago
That is exactly what I referred to: the personal “a”. Used when referring to a person.
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by dspillett 6d ago
> the toothache As a native of England, “he had the toothache” sounds odd to too. I would say “he had a toothache” or just “he had toothache”. Though we aren't entirely consistent: “he had flu”, “he had the flu”, are both fine. “h
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by dspillett 6d ago
The other way around, Spanish uses the definite article where English would not: • Tengo los ojos azules -> I have blue eyes (not I have the blue eyes) • Juego el tenis -> I play tennis (not I play the tennis) Though as with the indef
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by dspillett 6d ago
>> the hollow attention they crave > It’s their job, their source of income You seemed to be reacting to my low opinion of the practices of attention dredgers, as if I'm bad for holding that opinion and a should respect al
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by dspillett 6d ago
Peers Morgan's source of income, and hence his job, is being rage bait in (vaguely) human form. A pound shop Alex Jones. It's being his job doesn't mean I have to respect it, or him. See also: loan sharks, living statues, inf
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by dspillett 7d ago
I'm saying that it at best drives a temporary increase in engagement, then you look even more like everyone else than you did before because everyone is doing the same thing with the same AIs. And while that engagement counts in the im
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by dspillett 7d ago
> trounce human thumbnails (often nearly doubling the click-through rate according to A/B testing) That stat sounds more than dubious. Do you have a reference for it that isn't published by someone with a vested interest in p
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by dspillett 7d ago
A lot of any real gain will be due to novelty, and that will wane once you've been doing it a short time (or once other people in your field are doing it so you all go back to looking the same). I suspect a lot of the gain isn't e
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by dspillett 7d ago
> Account recovery works the same with passkeys as with passwords … get a link sent you via email Making the email account, an often attacked resource that is always online, a single point of failure. I don't mind relatively unimp
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by dspillett 7d ago
I think it is simpler than that: they ask irritatingly often, and I'm often looking quickly to see if I can get something on next-day delivery, so the two factors coincide.
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by dspillett 8d ago
> The biggest problem, though, is how users are pushed into it without any warning or knowledge of what they're signing up for. My irritation is that I know what it is, and I've said no thanks many times, but I'm still a
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by dspillett 8d ago
> … users of one of … Google …? If that's the case, you don't need to as the key is automagically saved by your OS' platform and synced with your new device. This absolutely does not encourage confidence in me. We all kn
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by dspillett 9d ago
A lot of the hype has, certainly the hype that propped up the companies the thread starter was referring to.
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by dspillett 9d ago
> but ran companies that were just casinos and actually could have simpler operations without the crypto parts But during the big buzz, the crypto parts were what got those companies any exposure at all.
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by dspillett 9d ago
Sometimes not touching something that works is the best way to keep it working!
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by dspillett 9d ago
It only kicks in in the presence of a trailing / - perhaps this is rare where the function is commonly used.
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by dspillett 9d ago
Free software is Free (and free software is free, libre software is libre, …, where the free/Free/libre/OS/… distinctions are relevant). That does not guarantee continued maintenance for decades, and to expect such is th
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by dspillett 9d ago
It doesn't say that depending on it was a bad idea, but that depending on it going forward is a bad idea, and they've gone the extra mile and made an announcement including information about what better alternatives are not av
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by dspillett 9d ago
Even with AI, the result needs to be reviewed both to make sure it is actually correct in what it intends to do and that it does not have knock-on effects anywhere else. Given the description of the bug I'd think that spinning up the
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by dspillett 9d ago
Maybe I'm in a generous mood, but I would credit the writer with making a joke about the content of the film they had just mentioned and subsequently show a screen cap of work the subtitles for a line about RISC being a significant fut
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by dspillett 10d ago
That is not a small “minimum”. There are places in the certificate format that a new flag can go, but then all browsers and apps that perform https requests need to be altered to display this in a manner that is: • consistent • not overly s
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by dspillett 11d ago
> someone coded an entire OS with Claude Code I, as someone who would rather leave the industry than become a manager of either people or autonomous agents, or worse just a meat-based relay, am truly obsolete. Do you want fries with th
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by dspillett 11d ago
It is more secure (though not end-to-end secure, of course) from the PoV of most threat models because the monitoring most are most concerned about is at their side of the connection (“local infra (often wireless) -> through ISP ->
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by dspillett 11d ago
I assume they are referring to looking up the first guess to use in their local DB - all new connections get that even those for which the previous simple default would be optimal. If that lookup is hitting storage or going over their local
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by dspillett 11d ago
Differences in farming practices and hunting rules between countries can have a surprisingly stark effect on the movement patterns of birds, either directly or by affecting their food sources or predators. https://www.bbc.co.uk&#
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by dspillett 12d ago
Can they not just do what they expected sites to do when their search results started including key extracts from sites, significantly reducing click-throughs to news pages and such? [couldn't resist the snark, I don't exactly fee

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