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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Ahh, so you're a meta -splitter. https://xkcd.com/2518/
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
I had the same problem and authing on the main page fixed it. If they're going to block unauthed stylesheet requests, surely they could at least make sure that the CF authenticator shows up on every page.
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
It's possible that 'adding Linux support' would take the form of just making the anticheat optional. Maybe playing with the anticheat enabled makes you immune to being reported for cheating (because they can verify down to th
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Yes, but browser sandboxing is an absolute marvel of software design that also cost millions and millions of dollars in developers salaries and CVE bounties to develop. Neither Deno nor yt-dlp have anywhere close to millions of dollars to s
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
But YouTube is the only one that yt-dlp uses Deno for. No other website on yt-dlp's list has put up enough of a fight to merit an external JS runtime; only YouTube. From the September announcement: > The JavaScript runtime requireme
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Couldn't you use a Raspberry Pi or a mini PC for this?
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Is there any significance to the number 348555896224571969? How was this bug discovered and what was the discoverer doing?
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
I think that the idea is that if you get enough users on Linux, it seems foolish from the game studio's perspective not to add Linux support to their anticheat.
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
What non-gaming use cases do you imagine people might use these for? For normal computer use (reading email, watching videos, doing spreadsheets), there are much cheaper and better options available. If somebody wanted a Steam Machine speci
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Laptops have lots of components that the Steam Machine doesn't have. The screen, keyboard, touchpad, cameras, microphones, speakers, battery, et cetera are all fairly small costs, but they add up. Plus using a Linux-based OS instead of
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
That's a fair point. Thanks for the detailed response. I'm curious as to what the scam ads you mention actually are. I use an adblocker most of the time, and most of the adverts that I do see are annoying but fairly innocuous. Fur
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Why is this relevant? To be clear, I'm asking from a place of ignorance. Are you saying that because the video player can have the video decoding happen entirely on the GPU, screen recording software can't pick it up? Couldn'
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Could you elaborate on why? It seems to me that YouTube's implicit contract with the user is "these people paid us to show you this advert", not "we vouch for the integrity and veracity of this advert". I obviously
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
I imagine there would be ways around this. I know from personal experience that Kazam screen recorder on Firefox on Ubuntu can record anything and everything, including YouTube as well as DRM content on Disney+ and Prime Video. I bet that i
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
hello!
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Kind of a sidenote, but I really hate these page transitions. They're way too slow. Especially because the site has a 114-kilobyte 908-rule inline CSS stylesheet. If you're going to make me download this much CSS, at least make su
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
But they're both framework-agnostic. This snippet works with any framework and any build step. <script src="https://unpkg.com/alpinejs@3.x.x/dist/cdn.min.js" defer></script> &lt
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Personally, I'd either just put the content in an ID-ed span and have a script to replace the content. Another, perhaps better, way is to use Alpine.JS which excels at this kind of stuff.
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
How to you expect those laws to be enforced? It's impossible to determine with 100% confidence whether or not an image/video was AI generated. If the AI-generated image of Steve Jobs had been copied a bunch on the web, a reverse i
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
I do think that people will buy more expensive laptops if they are higher quality. People spend multiple thousands of dollars on laptops, especially if they are powerful. I own a Windows Surface. I personally find it very convenient, althou
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
> There is nothing totalitarian about constraining societal harm. Of course not. The problem is that the only way to enforce AI regulations is through totalitarian means. You can easily regulate OpenAI and Gemini and whatnot, but then pe
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
I think the point is that nobody will give companies money unless the product already works. No more "but in a month this'll get a really cool update that'll add all these features". If you can't trust that a compan
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
It's possible that they purchased the movies (although definitely without the proper licensing; buying a DVD allows for personal use, not training a commercial model), or maybe they simply pirated them. It's also possible that m
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
That's not relavent. You can't sue someone for benefitting from your work. You can sue someone for intellectual property theft, which is what OpenAI did.
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
Nobody expects the Linux distribution!
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
I assume the irony is that an article about signal strength, which is closely related to data speed, is loading slowly because the site servers have slow data speed.
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
You've convinced me. I did not consider the human cost of producing training data, I did not consider whether or not LLMs were actually saving effort, and I did not consider the extra effort to verify LLM output. I have nothing more to
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
That sounds delightful. Get a Raspberry Pi or something connected to a power supply capped at 20 watts (approximate electricity consumption of the human brain). It has to be able to run its algorithm in less than the time limit per turn for
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
That's a great point, and I think I was being vague before. To clarify, I was making a broad statement about automation in general. Running an automated loom is more efficient in every way that getting humans to weave cloth by hand. Fo
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by ethmarks 11mo ago
I think we're making similar points, but I kind of phrased it weirdly. I agree that current LLMs are sensitive to phrasing and are highly unpredictable and therefore aren't useful in AI-based backends. The point I'm making is

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