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by dwedge 1mo ago
Can you elaborate on the OSINT suggestion? Do you mean on the people you engage with?
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by dwedge 1mo ago
> If only we explain it properly, maybe the bots will understand! I'm going to be thinking about this perfect summary of my frustration of the last 20 years all day
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by dwedge 1mo ago
> I used to argue with people on the internet, after about six replies, you realize that you’re speaking to someone incapable of thought He realises the current woe of things but doesn't realise he's been arguing with bot farms
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by dwedge 1mo ago
I meant Żabka and Delikatesy use that loophole to stay open, so thousands of shops are still open
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by dwedge 1mo ago
Unless you can also send packages there
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by dwedge 1mo ago
Why do you need to hammer that nail in every moment of downtime? If someone close to me pulled out a hammer to hammer in nails 5 hours a day with no visible beneficial result I would be worried that this person is pretending not to have an
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by dwedge 1mo ago
Considering how many compromises and problems third party libraries have caused recently, I would say the comparison is apt - if you don't know what you're shipping one day it might explode on you
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by dwedge 1mo ago
I'm burnt out reading "What actually fixes things"
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by dwedge 1mo ago
Their OCR did worse at reading a 40 page PDF of printed text than tesseract for me, I just paid $2 for useless output
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by dwedge 1mo ago
The same mistral that has a patent for "code implemented tool calls" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243397#49243588 and said "Companies selling artificial intelligence models in Europe should pay a &qu
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by dwedge 1mo ago
> Very few features on purpose Not a criticism just an interesting sign of the times that this is ambiguous and before vibe coding it would have been obvious from the context which you mean (deliberately minimal) but now it could just as
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by dwedge 1mo ago
This is both the blessing and the curse of terminal based interfaces (I don't like to say TUI anymore since it makes me think of bubbletea style programs now). The curse being that there is way too much initial learning of how to use i
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by dwedge 1mo ago
The official download page for WhatsApp provides the apk. Other apps are problematic https://www.whatsapp.com/download
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by dwedge 1mo ago
The comments here specifically about WhatsApp are weird because WhatsApp download page links to the app store but also provides an APK right there
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by dwedge 1mo ago
WhatsApp has started hiding otps sent to linked devices
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by dwedge 1mo ago
Saying it takes no effort is a low effort way to stop people reporting issues to you for free. They are getting paid to promote the site, so it's in their interest to not bother investigating.
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by dwedge 1mo ago
> If you want a malware report to be taken seriously, in general, you should expect to roll up your sleeves and be able to provide an analysis of concrete malicious behaviour. I reported them all the Cloudflare and Cloudflare took them d
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by dwedge 1mo ago
Like all social media, your feed depends partly on who you follow and partly on behavioural cues their algorithms can determine about you (such as who you interact with, sites you visit). It may be skewed one way or another more than other
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by dwedge 1mo ago
This is only tenuously related but every single Mac app I see advertised on X by verified accounts is malware. I reported one last week to them, they said it's not malware. I appealed it and said the install link is copy and paste obfu
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by dwedge 1mo ago
Sure, but you don't work for the BBC. It's acceptable that it does a better job than you, it isn't acceptable that it did a better job than a journalist on the BBC payroll
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by dwedge 1mo ago
It's sad to see over the past six months or so how even the BBC is resorting more and more to sensationalism and LLM-style writing
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by dwedge 1mo ago
You don't generally have to pay a bureaucracy tax to each of the member states to do business there. At some point we might as well just bring back tariffs and do away with the overhead of the EU
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by dwedge 1mo ago
Most people are under the impression that those triangulating trucks can't detect anything and they're just an obvious looking enforcement truck used as a scare tactic, is that not the case?
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by dwedge 2mo ago
This is an interesting concept but I think the dumbphone aspect will make people expect something different. It seems like it's more a static digital minimalism setup that you cannot easily undo. I saw someone doing similar by setting
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by dwedge 2mo ago
Do you mean the ones running KaiOS? I'm not sure I'd count those as dumbphones they're only dumb because they have limited apps due to popularity (WhatsApp was there but left) and they often have the nokia style design (some
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by dwedge 2mo ago
The British government cleared a large chunk of 5 years of the NHS (hospital) waiting list by, in part, just removing people from it if they'd been waiting too long. The headlines feel similar
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by dwedge 2mo ago
This problem doesn't go away with postgres. It's totally anecdotal but this is one thing that I've noticed different in mysql shops and postgres shops - with mysql there is usually at least one person on staff who knows MySQL
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by dwedge 2mo ago
It happens in every profile. Only one has the play store and is rarely used, doesn't run in the background
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by dwedge 2mo ago
9. I left it with 70% battery for 5 hours and came home and it was red hot and dead. In a city with no reception issues.
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by dwedge 2mo ago
A member of the NSA also provided the ECDSA P-256 curve seeds but totally can't remember why

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