graemep

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by graemep 3mo ago
Its not just gay bars in California. My daughter said a pub in the UK scanned her driving license when checking her age. A supermarket chain just announced they are rolling out face recognition cameras. Its profitable and there will be endl
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by graemep 3mo ago
I meant ethnic minorities: "Muslim Americans (estimate: 27%, true: 1%) and Jewish Americans (estimate: 30%, true: 2%). And we find the same sorts of overestimates for racial and ethnic minorities, such as Native Americans (estimate: 2
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by graemep 3mo ago
A lot of people do not carry wallets anymore. A lot of people are not accustomed to thinking about those sorts of lists.
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by graemep 3mo ago
The total of the estimates of minority group percentages is well over 100%!
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by graemep 3mo ago
What about other init systems? The GP said "any alternative." I am not familiar with how complex they are but was under the impression that there are a number much simpler than sysv init?
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by graemep 3mo ago
> You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. An 18th century book would be out of copyright so why would it be illegal to
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by graemep 3mo ago
Is this true? Rare books would very often be out of copyright for a start. What the the actual ruling that says you can scan if you destroy the original? ISBNdb is a database of book information, as you would guess from the name.
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by graemep 3mo ago
I I start a process with nohup and logout I clearly want it to keep running. That is the entire point of nohup. If that process is killed when I logout then that is a regression. I do not understand what this has to do with udaptes.
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by graemep 3mo ago
The problem with systemd is not the init system. Most people who do not like systemd are happy with the init system, but do not want the rest of it.
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by graemep 3mo ago
Which security measures are init systems missing? Are you saying all other init systems are badly documented?
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by graemep 3mo ago
You are framing this as the only choice being between systemd and shell scripts.
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by graemep 3mo ago
This is not a genuine improvement: > One of the features of systemd that is most controversial is the option to kill user processes when the user logs out. That initially killed screen/tmux/nohup processes too. Killing processe
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by graemep 3mo ago
This is why i dislike systemd. Things not working the way I expect means I have to do more work to figure something out.
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by graemep 3mo ago
Its not, which is why it should not be treated as a theory. It is a speculation. On the other hand, a claim that we are the first species on the planet to reach a particular point of development of civilisation (agriculture, cities, various
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by graemep 3mo ago
I think there is no evidence for it, but I think the point of the Silurain hypothesis (which the article does not convey well) is that if there were such civilisations we would not know as its unlikely we would find any evidence.
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by graemep 3mo ago
If whole populations were wiped out and the world was repopulated by a small remnant would that not account for it? Or if an extinct human species had an advanced civilisation?
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by graemep 3mo ago
If people own a book they probably liked it at some point.
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by graemep 3mo ago
The politicians and other people with power to make things worse are those who correspond to Hitler in your analogy. Stallman is more like a random ex-Nazi (he no longer holds those views) so like a huge chunk of the postwar German populati
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by graemep 3mo ago
They are quite expensive for some ranges of storage which you might need for IMAP if you need a lot less than where the HDD pricing starts. On the other hand HDD is fine for a mail server and you can get 400Gb for not much more than some em
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by graemep 3mo ago
So they have modified their policy because they do not understand either copyright law in general or Thaler vs. Perlmutter in particular. I think we will be seeing a lot more of this. There were plenty of examples of developers failing to u
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by graemep 3mo ago
The title is heavily editorialised and misleading. When I see how much progress has been made on Haiku I wonder whether it can be used as a daily driver.
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by graemep 3mo ago
Where I think I can say things are not as bad as they might look is that these mobs are a few hundred people at a time out of a country of 70m. Maybe a few thousand at the most actually violent at some point. As a visible ethnic minority pe
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by graemep 3mo ago
That is a good point. You could not host public domain code there, and there are quite important FOSS projects that are public domain - as well as the the old code you mentioned there is current stuff such as SQLite. > The legal exposure
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by graemep 3mo ago
I may have read your statement as being stronger than you intended. its a reasonably analogy then.
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by graemep 3mo ago
The point is that he did not even try to link his view about sex and age of consent into anything to do with open source. I have not read much of what he said about it, but he recently said that it is absurd that variations in the age of co
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by graemep 3mo ago
The Codeberg blog post does mention those costs, but also a lot of other objections they have to LLMs so not simply away to avoid the loads. https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-... This policy does n
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by graemep 3mo ago
I would not say there is nothing to worry about - I find the riots nasty and definitely worrying. There is definitely greater hostility towards certain groups: asylum seekers and Muslims for a variety of reasons. There are lots of complexit
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by graemep 3mo ago
I think checking your phone unless you are actually expecting an important notification is a symptom of the problem we are discussing here.
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by graemep 3mo ago
I went to his blog to have a look at his racist posts, and that (which is the last post on his site) is more unhinged than his previous posts. A definitely trend of getting worse.
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by graemep 3mo ago
> Doesn't match what I am seeing outside of the Internet. Where are you? It makes a big difference. I am talking primarily about the UK, where I have lived in different areas and know a variety of people in many different places. I

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