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by foxfluff 5y ago
> As other commenters have pointed out, it makes sense to work with one of the two largest advertising firms when figuring out how to support their advertising needs, while maintaining user privacy. How about not figuring out how to supp
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by foxfluff 5y ago
So you can finally own your modem? I'd consider this a feature. Shame that someone's going to patch it now..
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by foxfluff 5y ago
My (European) perspective is that, just like we need laws to protect privacy online, we do also need laws to institute freedom of speech online. I'm not exactly sure what the right way to go about it is (obviously we shouldn't and
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yes it's simple in dreams and an economic theory stuck in an era where a potato is a potato and it doesn't matter much whose potato you buy. Unfortunately the free market tends to be a race to the bottom, for complicated reasons.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
If you flip the scenario around in your mind.. how would you feel if virtually every site or service you visit scoops up your data and sends it to [China|Russia|...] and hosts all your private data on servers operated by the [Chinese|Russia
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> I don't like Google but seriously this whole GDPR thing is getting out of hand. IMO it's the other way round: data collection and lack of respect for privacy got out of hand and has been like that for a long time now. It&#x
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by foxfluff 5y ago
And reading the data retention policy is not enough if it doesn't explain the extent to which the authorities in their country can wipe butt with said policy. But anyway, I think even that is beside the point. I think the point is tha
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by foxfluff 5y ago
The idea of a "right" is shaky if you can sign it away with a click.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> It doesn't even require management to be unreasonable/intransigent/whatever. It's perfectly rational to write a prototype feature in a quick and hacky way, and then invest time in making it clean and extensible afte
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Yeah I can see why that is controversial. The assumption seems to be that a single developer has agency and is aware of and solely responsible for everything that's going on in the codebase that they may or may not have written. I&#x27
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by foxfluff 5y ago
My last two interviews were just chatting a while. I also showed some code (of a personal project) from my laptop at the other interview. Both companies offered a job.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Arguably democracy is tyranny of the majority against a minority. Sometimes this gets people riled up enough to start an illegal protest, which the authorities try to snuff out. I don't think videos of protest say much about how dem
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by foxfluff 5y ago
The question is then, should we start calling modern Intel CPUs microcontrollers? That's bound to cause even more confusion. If anything, the things people today refer to as microcontrollers have more to do with your legacy microproce
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Ok, right, that really has a legacy smell to it. If you can find the pinout for a modern Intel CPU, it has dedicated pins from DRAM controller to the DDR. It's not on some external "all-purpose" bus. Whatever bus you might
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> The distinction used to be "Whether the bus is exposed externally". Which bus is "the bus"? SoCs and microcontrollers alike expose a bunch of different buses.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
If you want some reading about boot flow, see e.g. https://www.coreboot.org/images/2/23/Apollolake_SoC.pdf https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2019/07/17/gsoc-how-to-run-c...
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Which microprocessor architecture does this? As far as I know, all of them. It's possible that there are historical systems where DRAM configuration is fixed, but I wouldn't know about it. Any modern system requires rather
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by foxfluff 5y ago
It's a pointless distinction by and large. Microcontrollers may or may not have storage for firmware. Requiring an off-chip flash is nothing new. Microcontrollers have SRAM, but so do processors. That's where the firmware runs
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Firefox user here. Right click on image -> Open image in new tab. Then kill the connection and could "Save Image as" just fine. That doesn't work for me.. Firefox just starts a new download for the image and it never
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Seems to be a common theme with all the "big" hosting providers. Especially if they offer cheap services. They have an abuse problem so they set up automation to deal with it and they don't care about collateral damage; you
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I've never found sense of purpose at work. I wish I could but nope. The idea of passion projects is what keeps me going but to be honest, work tends to exhaust me to the point that my own projects make no real progress and I don'
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by foxfluff 5y ago
One possible approach to the free space issue on a laptop could be (encrypted) swap. If the system is configured to allocate swap pages in order and you have appropriate limits in place, the likelihood that you reach 100% swap usage can ap
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by foxfluff 5y ago
archive.is wastes your time on captchas even if you're not using tor
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> I understand you really believe everything you’re saying; unfortunately I can’t help but read it as painfully naive. I'm sharing my experience. I can say that I had very good experience with community moderation for many many ye
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> We did record demos and play them back, but cheaters are intelligent and will do things like change their ID after a game. They use IDs like “iIiiIiliiiiIii1” too, which means getting your report from someone who just takes a screensho
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I've had good experience in games with human moderation and recorded demos that you can play back to catch and report cheaters. After building some reputation and trust in the community, you'd be permitted to join a server with f
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> I'm only partly sarcastic. If you think you're entitled to anything provided as a free service then the problem starts there. Do I miss the days when ISPs provided email as part of your subscription? Then made you pay for any
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Given that it is the within the president's interest to avoid war, come to a diplomatic resolution, and prevent panic, I wouldn't take their denouncement as having any bearing on the evidence.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> First, it is already beginning of February, so those predictions were false - nothing happened so far. Umm, this is exactly what I meant when I said it's impossible to discuss this in good faith. Any evidence can be immediately b
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> All the evidence about "imminent attack" is fed to media by US government without sufficient proofs. Whatever are your sources, try to find more information. I don't feel like one can participate in this discussion in go

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