gradientsrneat

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by gradientsrneat 3mo ago
Rossman made a good point recently that the physical vs digital argument is mostly a distraction and DRM is the real issue that needs to be focused on. That said, there are specific legal benefits to physical media such as the principle of
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by gradientsrneat 3mo ago
EFF has, on multiple occasions, specifically defended Kiwifarms, a site which unabashedly exists to turn people into hate-celebrities, with some members having kept "kill counts" of harrassed targets who committed suicide. The sit
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by gradientsrneat 3mo ago
I too do not understand the downvotes. Unlike what Cory Doctorow implies, Facebook is not a Soviet Dictatorship. There is no Berlin wall. If you don't like it, you can just leave.
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by gradientsrneat 3mo ago
Misleading. Scanning is related to a setting called "Sensitive Content Warnings" and it's disabled by default on most devices.
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by gradientsrneat 3mo ago
Professional mathematicians and computer scientists use AI as well. Maybe that's not very reassuring from the standpoint of skills regression in modern adult work culture, but at least it demonstrates that skills and tool usage aren&#x
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by gradientsrneat 3mo ago
Some smartphones have a feature that detects if you're taking a picture of a menu/letter/etc and will automatically crop and unskew it for you.
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by gradientsrneat 3mo ago
Misogyny in government is a bellwether for authoritarianism. If a man doesn't respect women, you can bet they won't respect men or minorities either, although they may be less inclined to admit such in public.
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by gradientsrneat 3mo ago
According to the poster, this is happening in Facebook's HQ, i.e. in Menlo Park, California, United States.
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by gradientsrneat 4mo ago
Reminds me of a billboard I saw where Apple was touting the alleged privacy of the iPhone with a guy wearing clothes nearly the same color as his skin. I know iPhone isn't really private, and I'd rather not have a phone that isn&#
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by gradientsrneat 4mo ago
That last quote is when I stopped reading the article. The opening with the premonition of personal computing moving to the cloud, followed by the heavy use of the word "consumer", made it clear that the author has a cynical view
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by gradientsrneat 4mo ago
> Trump in December said he would withhold federal broadband funding from states whose laws to regulate AI are judged by his administration to be holding back American dominance in the technology. Specifically, this is funding for BEAD
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by gradientsrneat 4mo ago
YMMV based on the role, but some healthcare roles are highly stressful plus you're exposed to all sorts of infectious diseases. A more charitable interpretation is that these new new role openings are in response to high turnover.
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by gradientsrneat 4mo ago
This is not the first time a Notepad++ release has supported human rights causes in China. For example, here is "Notepad++ Stand with Hong Kong Edition": https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v789-stand-with-hong
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by gradientsrneat 4mo ago
Food for thought: hundreds of thousands of Americans have top secret clearance. These deaths could be within statistical expectations for both countries. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyw9rpdl4po
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by gradientsrneat 4mo ago
RSS is truly in its own little universe. I recently became aware of RSS stylesheets. Apparently there is a specification for that called XSLT which is distinct from CSS in both form and function. However, there are plans by Google/Mozi
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by gradientsrneat 4mo ago
Related: Microsoft-owned GitHub recently switched to token-based billing: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilo... Claude tokens are priced by GitHub at a disproportionately premium price co
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by gradientsrneat 4mo ago
Surface laptops have always been overpriced, even before the RAM shortage.
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by gradientsrneat 4mo ago
Hard to say without more info but most at-home COVID tests have a very high false negative rate due to the virus mutating and generally how the test is designed.
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by gradientsrneat 5mo ago
FWIW it's feasible to make a "clone" of Notepad++ using the Scintilla library that Notepad++ is based on, but don't violate trademarks of course. That said, it's the details that make Notepad++ good.
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by gradientsrneat 5mo ago
Current Usgov says they won't enforce COPPA, so I don't buy the idea that they care about privacy. Having the product call out to a fickle third-party service that could shut down at any time is a problem that could distress both
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by gradientsrneat 6mo ago
Maybe if the LLM CEOs stopped spreading doomer narratives to sell their products, these people would chill out.
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by gradientsrneat 6mo ago
Sad that the Wikipedia page links to some specific commercial service rather than the actual programming language runtime (which appears to be AGPL-licensed).
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by gradientsrneat 6mo ago
I've opted in/not opted out to several class actions, and without saying the exact number, I'll say it was a lot more than that. Tech companies wouldn't be putting binding arbitration clauses/class action waivers&#x
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by gradientsrneat 6mo ago
busybox does a similar trick where it executes a different program based on the program's name. But it uses symlinks for the different names, so it doesn't use significantly more space by doing this.
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by gradientsrneat 6mo ago
There was a comment in this thread criticizing Kiwi Farms, but it was quickly removed. I'm not here to repeat their eloquent criticism, only add my own thoughts. > anonymous speech Kiwi Farms users are not anonymous. They are, at be
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by gradientsrneat 6mo ago
Setting aside the obvious fact that it's morally wrong to harrass people, something tells me these harrassers never do the same to developers working on closed source software for companies, having the net effect of harming the FOSS mo
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by gradientsrneat 6mo ago
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805 The archive.today domains have also poisoned DNS lookups from some privacy-preserving DNS providers, and in rare cases have been caught tampering the archive data. Make
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by gradientsrneat 6mo ago
As other commenters have alluded to, due to the timing, this is likely in response to the "Microslop" nickname catching on. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47216047 Microsoft's PR team is in damage contr
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by gradientsrneat 6mo ago
Could this technique be used to reverse-engineer end-of-life Nvidia GPUs to improve Noveau on them?
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by gradientsrneat 6mo ago
Nintendo's brand means nothing.

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