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1. 241.▲
   by fph 1y ago

   Maybe because they have to. If you are reusing GPL code, you don't really have a choice.
2. 242.▲
   by fph 1y ago

   I love that your story could be read in two different ways: (1) a recording of RMS appeared on the door entry system screen, or (2) the man himself waltzed out of that door and started singing.
3. 243.▲
   by fph 1y ago

   How do these interact with i18n? Can I load a translated t-string with `_(t"")` from a .po file? Can it include variable names and arbitrary code inside lambdas?
4. 244.▲
   by fph 1y ago

   Myself, I was thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Sherman_(tree) .
5. 245.▲
   by fph 1y ago

   That is weird; from what I understand (not an R expert), set.seed takes an integer, so I assume that number gets truncated / approximated to an integer. That means that all nearby seeds give the same result: for instance changing 79989
6. 246.▲
   by fph 1y ago

   Am I supposed to trust security information coming from a user named strcat? /s Quick, someone named strcat_s or strncat correct them!
7. 247.▲
   by fph 1y ago

   Here it is: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa... with its github backend https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report If you are in Europe, Curve recen
8. 248.▲
   by fph 2y ago

   Isn't this basically what they used, a multimodal AI?
9. 249.▲
   by fph 2y ago

   But why would a manufacturer want to keep the tank sizes equal, in the first place? I see no practical advantage. If anything, having them different would prevent mistakes: customers cannot install a yellow tank in the place of a blue one,
10. 250.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    Would it? My understanding is that most fingerprinting is done by a few large companies, in their own proprietary libraries that are shipped with third-party apps. If you block this method, they will quickly find another one and ship it eve
11. 251.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    So why don't the manufacturers make their printers with a yellow tank bigger than the other colors?
12. 252.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    Looks like we need to change the priorities set by the market. Targeted taxes and subsidies are the way to do it.
13. 253.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    A rationale from the core developer [1]: > I'm sure there are plenty of system APIs providing this information too, and I don't just mean APIs designed to directly provide the information. > It's not useful to prevent d
14. 254.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    They can just sandbox old applications, like they did with DOS ones.
15. 255.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    In their capabilities page, Cellebrite says they can't break into GrapheneOS.
16. 256.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    Technically, all oxygen is from stars. Plants merely recombine chemically already-existing oxygen.
17. 257.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    Technically a measure of power, work/time.
18. 258.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    And didn't Apple also have 20 years time to make their app store better?
19. 259.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    I found many sources on the internet that state that the error in the black spatula paper was discovered by John Schwarcz of McGill University while reviewing a research paper: [1] https://www.expatgo.com/my/2024/1
20. 260.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    https://www.charlespetzold.com/PetzoldTattoo.jpg
21. 261.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    This black spatula case was pretty famous and was all over the internet. Is it possible that the AI is merely detecting something that was already in its training data?
22. 262.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    Browse individual subreddits, in this way you avoid most of 'the algorithm'.
23. 263.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    The arrows in the picture specify the direction of twiddling. And the text says "see illustration".
24. 264.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    Interesting read! But from what I understand from the permissions reported in https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.librewolf-community , the Librewolf flatpak does not have access to the user home folder, which is the ma
25. 265.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    There is a Flatpak, if you wish; as far as I understand it does not run code as root.
26. 266.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    It does not seem to be part of the official Debian repositories; searching for librewolf returns no results: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all... They have their own external repository indexe
27. 267.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    Every appearance of professionalism is gone now that there's a department called DOGE.
28. 268.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    Probably with enough jailbreaking one could even extract API credentials or private keys from Copilot. There must be some in those repositories.
29. 269.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    Is it a reputable project? What credentials does it have?
30. 270.▲
    by fph 2y ago

    There is no way someone smart enough to use Ublock Origin was using Edge in the first place.