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by gary_0 3y ago
The Old Internet was mostly populated by English-speakers who could afford Internet access and had the attention span to work through the process of getting online. The ratio of legit hackers to Septemberites was a lot higher. Corporations
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by gary_0 3y ago
That's not the implicitness I'm talking about. While it sounds like loading old C modules will just re-enable the GIL, the problem is that they will never be updated to not rely on the old Python concurrency model. All that C code
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by gary_0 3y ago
> The changes to the Twitter algorithm bulldozed over a decade’s worth of Chesterton fences in a few months. Keeping the Chesterton fences in an established organization was something Musk was particularly ill-suited for. While some ossi
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by gary_0 3y ago
They're talking about C code that blindly relies on implicit concurrency guarantees that are now conditional. Isn't that enough said?
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by gary_0 3y ago
Does it? Currently, 850 million people worldwide suffer from lack of food. Billions of people scrape by with a standard of living far below what middle-class Westerners enjoy. There are dozens of countries suffering from mass poverty where
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by gary_0 3y ago
I'm pretty much done with the Internet at this point, aside from this site and work stuff like Stackoverflow/Github. I'll come back when it stops sucking.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Nobody ever got fired for buying Red Hat.
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by gary_0 3y ago
We got the GPLv3 to close the TiVo loophole, I wonder if we'll get the GPLv4 to close the Red Hat loophole.
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https://archive.ph/iYBLS
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by gary_0 3y ago
Looks like the HN traffic killed it. Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230628160349/https://mamoniem.... But archive.org is having a hard time with all the images.
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by gary_0 3y ago
> SpaceX is a large business with plenty of people who know better Including the President and COO of SpaceX, Gwynne Shotwell, an extremely qualified aerospace engineer who has run SpaceX for the past 15 years. She's been in the spa
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The main systemd guy, Lennart Poettering, recently left Red Hat to go work for Microsoft. Hmm...
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by gary_0 3y ago
For something that's more of a prepackaged build-your-own-Linux kit, there's also KISS Linux[0]. It's kind of a microdistro with minimal abstraction over the raw guts, and "packages" are just pre-downloaded source c
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by gary_0 3y ago
My point was that easily accessible Web sites (or apps) that enable downloading will get mass DMCA'd regardless of the technicalities. You are correct that P2P networks themselves are generally more resistant to copyright attacks.
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by gary_0 3y ago
That's kind of backwards; Microsoft might have written the New Testament, but it was IBM's playbook originally. IBM was one of the original tech industry supervillains back when Microsoft was still just two college dropouts sellin
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by gary_0 3y ago
Source code download is at the bottom of this page: https://www.dialup.net/wingpt/tls.html
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by gary_0 3y ago
If someone hosts a JavaScript app on their webserver that accesses IPFS using WebRTC or something, won't they still get DMCA-bombed? It's not like these lawyers care where the files are actually hosted, and there are effectively n
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by gary_0 3y ago
A potential coup in one of the world's most populous countries, who are also in the midst of the largest war in Europe since WW2, is not just "politics". That's ridiculous. A major portion of Russia's de facto milit
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by gary_0 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230621222550/https://responsib...
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by gary_0 3y ago
I took that more to mean that most LLMs won't spontaneously produce new insights given a general topic ("a paper about Middlemarch" being the example given). Their default mode is just to barf out somewhat patronizing summari
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by gary_0 3y ago
They meant actually-existing communism, not communism-in-theory. (Not that I favor one definition or another, but different people use words in different ways.)
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by gary_0 3y ago
You don't need to buy a license to test software on Windows: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...
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Do not anthropomorphize the IBM.
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Considering that most of them are Internet-connected now, they can just stop patching the firmware to obsolete them. TV takes 10 minutes to load Netflix because it's part of a botnet? Better buy a new one.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Once upon a time I only manually blocked really annoying ads by blackholing them in my `hosts` file. I wanted to give the ad-supported sites I used a fair shake. I protected my privacy by setting the browser to delete new cookies on exit. B
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by gary_0 3y ago
Twitter was profitable in 2019, but then the VCs force-fed it some more "funding" so that it could "grow". Reddit has suffered the same sick fate. It's not enough to be a Fortune 500 company, you have to shoot for #
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by gary_0 3y ago
AGI is impossible because copyright law causes too much brain damage? When it comes to AI, fear isn't the mind killer, copyright law is.
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by gary_0 3y ago
New CAPTCHA: Simply test whether the user is willing to input copyrighted content.
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