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by dwedge 5d ago
A PDP-11 serving adverts for an AI-written site in 2026 was not on my bingo card. Imagine being brought back from the dead for that.
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by dwedge 5d ago
The email contains the full subscriber agreement (which is also the link in the email). The full text for that section: All Service Plans may include: (i) promotional content, (ii) sponsorships, and (iii) advertisements before/after pl
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by dwedge 5d ago
> Happy to be correct, though. Not normally one to point out a typo but this one made me smile
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by dwedge 5d ago
> No, RPis are very inexpensive computers. This hasn't been true for 5 or 6 years and there is very little reason to buy one over a second hand 1L PC these days. They are expensive and notorious for screwing SD cards. To put it into
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by dwedge 5d ago
Use BBC from abroad and you see scam ads and the "which bar would you move to save the king" crap. They're not morally above this, only legally within the UK
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by dwedge 5d ago
It could be my bias
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by dwedge 5d ago
It's interesting that I've seen this argument 4 times on hacker news, all in the past 2 weeks and never before. Really is quite a small bubble
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by dwedge 5d ago
I'll be clear that no I didn't - I read the announcement when Disney+ emailed it to me with no further context, plus adding this disclaimer was the reason for the email. So I disagree that this is our fault.
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by dwedge 5d ago
Once again, you're asking the wrong person
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by dwedge 5d ago
> Now, finally, I have an idea. It's gonna take 5000 words to get there, though, so if you don't have that kind of time, skip to the part about registries. This article is full of LLMisms, which is to be expected but maybe it w
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by dwedge 5d ago
You asserted that it was never going to happen first
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by dwedge 6d ago
> I think that it has much more to do with the decline of superstition from roughly the second half of the 18th century on -- courts began to view the old law as an irrational relic, and it gradually fell out of legal fashion. From the c
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by dwedge 8d ago
I did that and now constantly check hacker news
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by dwedge 8d ago
I kind of like the idea of this being a reflash to install apps, if that's how it works it makes it more intentional. Though you can probably just install Aurora Store or F-Droid and install from there. Some apps don't work (you&#
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by dwedge 8d ago
Are you sure it was the proxy and not JavaScript in your browser? I've seen similar behaviour from one particular website where using it in a certain way causes it to process a lot of data slowly and block the main thread. This somehow
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by dwedge 9d ago
Never even noticed that was missing and it's probably why nobody else uses it. I took it from https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/xyepiu/cherry_a... and https://cherry.haishan.me
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by dwedge 9d ago
It feels like I'm the only person using this but I'd like to throw another potential bookmark manager integration into the ring, cherry https://github.com/haishanh/cherry
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by dwedge 9d ago
It only proves your point because it wasn't successful in the end, but I really enjoyed the experience on app.net (a paid version of Twitter) while it still existed. Personally I think they lost it where a lot of these alternative plat
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by dwedge 9d ago
I'd never heard of GNU Taler but the FAQ left me even more confused. > Can I send money to my friends with Taler? Taler supports push and pull payments between wallets (also known as peer-to-peer payments). While the payment appears
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by dwedge 10d ago
> She was up during the night pumping for her three-month-old baby and was scrolling through the comments and DMs, horrified. "At 4 a.m., I was holding my pump on my lap and replying to this person, 'I'm so sorry. I didn&#
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by dwedge 10d ago
This comment thread is one example and not out of recent character
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by dwedge 10d ago
They have twice (that I'm aware of) tried rebranding as an advertising company. They are funded by Google (though not _necessarily_ influenced by them). There was an article in LWN by them about (in part) how they can't get enough
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by dwedge 10d ago
These are two companies that seem to be slipping in ethics recently. I'd prefer this over a chrome and openai offering, but I no longer trust these two to necessarily do the right thing regarding privacy
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by dwedge 11d ago
If there is anything that was a crime (and it totally depends on jurisdiction), it was verifying the key. They used it to see what it could access, and by using it they had unauthorised access to a system
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by dwedge 11d ago
Not just blind in one eye, people with squints can often only see out of one eye (either, just not both)
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by dwedge 11d ago
This might be a stupid question, but presumably this (and similar devices) won't cater to people without 3D vision?
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by dwedge 12d ago
One of my apps uses base64 filenames just to avoid any issue with shell (the filename comes from POST and could be anything). Not the usecase of base84 but one that I couldn't use base84 for.
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by dwedge 12d ago
Mostly consistency in knowing that Foo will become foo. This is a problem when it comes to (for example) supporting devs on Windows working on a codebase with prod on Linux. The database dbCustomer would be renamed dbcustomer on Windows. Th
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by dwedge 12d ago
> Privacy NoticeWe and our 179 partners store and access personal data. Fair to say the verge don't really care about data being collected and sold they just want the clicks
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by dwedge 13d ago
It seems pretty easy to throw in an earliest time to trigger it

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