gmueckl

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by gmueckl 2mo ago
UNIX didn't really solve this scenario. Yes, you can limit what local files a user has access to. But with web applications and cloud services being so ubiquitous, the local boundaries are pretty much meaningless. Forcing an agent thro
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Also, terminal access is extremely powerful on its own. Why should an agent even get access to that? I see it as a potential violation of least privileges.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
It depends entirely on the purpose of the forgery. Some grocery stores do ID checks by looking at the front of the ID. Others just run the ID across a scanner and the employees are so rushed they don't read it or check the picture. Sim
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
The explanation is easy: Canada is not on the European continent. The EU can only extend full membership to countries on the continent, so Canada needs a special arrangement. And because there's a whole ocean serving as a reason for th
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Regulation is already addressing that. I encourage you to read up on the Cyber Resilience Act.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Apple has to allownpost-manufacruring exchanges of camera due ton right of repair legislation. This requires them to publish pairing tools that are to be used during the repair process to update all the cryptographic vérification chains in
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Opus 5 has this habit and it makes any kinds of revisions of plain text almost useless. I can restrain it a little by adding instructions to just describe the current state, but we all know how dumb LLMs are at following these kinds of inst
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Not all parts of Win32 were designed equally well. File IO, process management and most of the threading primitivs have aged really well. Thread management hasn't. The GUI parts are a sometimes hacky mess because behavioral changes cr
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
There is no meaningful decline of Windows on corporate desktops.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Here's a grim shower thought: how bad does it have to get before one can justify going to war with governments that are willfully ignoring climate change and endangering all of humankind as a result?
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Human wake word recognition isn't infallible, either. How often in your life did you respond because you thought somebody called your name and it wasn't actually the case?
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
They did that, but I think the 10 day deadline is quite heavy-handed. Also, would it be too difficult to offer a review and critique of a revised design (draft) to make sure that the matter can be resolved without further escalation?
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
This is a tough one. The main culprit here is that trademwark law forces the trademark owner into an active defense posture to avoid losing the trademwark. This is very different from patents or copyright. So, in a way, IKEA was forced to w
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
What's wrong with stating my opinion when it's relevant to the topic? I feel like you are somehow irritated by what I said. Are you personally invested in this discussion somehow? You have a point in calling me out on jujutsu. I h
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
The combination jujutsu/piper is proprietary. As I understand it, sapling as released is also not the entire internal system used at Meta. Git was an improvement over SVN in some aspects, but a monumental regression in others. There ar
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
It's great to see some moves to break up this great calcification around git. Gut greatest contribution to version control was stagnation. The space was evolving with great fresh ideas before git became a quasi-religion among the early
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Isn't that just a form of Dunning-Kruger effect related to the parts that person is bad in? It looks good because they don't have the depth of knowledge/expertise to see the deficiencies.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Replce "best" with "most fit for purpose" and you're right. The future won't be a one size fits all kind of deal because hardware availability constraints will eventually punish oversized models even more. I th
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
I was talking about the burden on small companies. You are looking at different scales already. Also, I'd take fire safety over GDPR if I had a choice. That is much easier to get a handle on.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Some examples: - CFCs are completely banned (Montreal Protocol) - drag-reducing swimsuits - some Persistant Organic Pollutants were completely banned (Stockholm convention) It can be done.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
I know all of that. Still, I can't make the overall numbers for Germany work out in a way that gets to a customer base of any scale for plumbers.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
No plumber I know is able to deal with more than a thousand different clients in eight years. This is so absolutely unrealistic it's laughable.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
It's rare that a simple format description can give so many hints about the evolution (or lack thereof) of this system: - The MP3 file encoding a stereo signal with one being audio-rate encoded digital data makes this just the latest l
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Thousands of customers? Your numbers are out of touch with reality.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
You assume that the business is about developing software and will have a public facing API. That's a very narrow perspective. The vast majority of businesses aren't this. Even a plumber who types up offers and invoices on a compu
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Some of my personal data has leaked. Some of it has to be public because of some laws. Fire safety is less onerous and less complex.
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
Well, wait until you are at the receiving end. It can get nasty pretty quickly. What does each one of your systems store exactly? Do they allow configuration of reasonable data retention policies for PII? What do your systems log? How do yo
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
The regulation doesn't mean batteries have to be made swappable with just bare hands. Common tools and some simple, easily undoable gluing is still acceptable. It gets a battery replacement from a process that risks breaking glass part
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
There is a subtlety here: on the one hand there are decisions that someone decides on and tries to enforce. On the other, there is collective behavior and what it does and doesn't tolerate - societal norms. The later forms in various w
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by gmueckl 2mo ago
You got it backwards. Society is simple the collective that forms transitively from you, your connections, theirs and so on. You are pointing at a tree and missing that it's standing in the forest.

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