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by grishka 10mo ago
Yeah that's what I meant. I also came across some script with redefinitions of C standard library functions that supposedly also allows you to link against older glibc symbols. I couldn't make it work. Any half-decent SDK should a
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by grishka 10mo ago
What if you want to use a newer or older version of just one package without having to update or downgrade the entire goddamn universe? What if you need to use proprietary software? I've had so much trouble with package managers that I
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by grishka 10mo ago
Yeah and nothing ever lets you pick which versions to link to. You're going to get the latest ones and you better enjoy that. I found it out the hard way recently when I just wanted to do a perfectly normal thing of distributing precom
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by grishka 10mo ago
Isn't it funny how most banking apps do all this borderline malware crap, yet most banks also have online banking that you use through a web browser that they have no technical means of "trusting"?
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by grishka 10mo ago
As a Russian, this is such a bonkers idea to me. I only took a Deutsche Bahn train once so far. It got delayed 20 minutes. When I complained about it on social media, I was told something like "what do you mean, it arrived and took you
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by grishka 10mo ago
For me personally, it's fine to do things like local tone mapping, but object segmentation is where I draw the line. As in, a camera shouldn't know what a sky or a tree or a person is. It shouldn't care about any of that. I
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by grishka 10mo ago
Technically at least one foreign language is required as part of basic school education in Russia. For most people my age and younger it's English. Now the problem is, the quality and methods of this leave a lot to be desired. I myself
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by grishka 10mo ago
Prepositions don't change based on gender but make the word itself change case (обсуждение -> в обсуждении). The pronouns though, those are gender-specific (он/она/оно, этот/эта/это), regardless of whether they
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by grishka 10mo ago
I like to imagine Slavic languages as a sort of scale, where Russian is at one end, Polish and Serbian are at the opposite end, and Ukrainian and Belarusian are somewhere in the middle.
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by grishka 10mo ago
That а/о thing is taught extensively in schools. There are formal rules for everything, but of course I don't remember any. What I do remember is these are called "безударные гласные" (unstressed vowels), and "про
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by grishka 10mo ago
That works, but Russian doesn't have articles. You can, however, mostly get away by assuming that feminine nouns end with -а, -ь, and -я, neutral ones with -о, and all others are masculine.
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by grishka 10mo ago
As a native speaker, one thing I see people struggle with surprisingly often is that a) every noun has a gender, and b) every word grammatically related to a noun must always match its gender, case, and plurality. The second thing is the in
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by grishka 10mo ago
Hm, maybe. I don't remember whether they offer higher quality. If they do, it would make sense to have that check on the server side. It's been a while since I last used Spotify because they deleted my account in 2022 without warn
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by grishka 10mo ago
What do you mean? You can still stream any song with a free account. It's just that there will be ads. Additionally, in mobile apps, there will be ridiculous artificial limitations to make sure your experience is as miserable as it cou
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by grishka 10mo ago
I haven't looked at the code but I would be surprised if the premium account "requirement" is anything more than an if statement that can be commented out.
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by grishka 10mo ago
I feel like many commenters are misunderstanding what this is about. This is about apps that are distributed via Google Play . It's an exception to the long-standing rules that a) all monetary transactions for non-physical items must
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by grishka 10mo ago
I've seen HDMI devices for sale on AliExpress that list their port as "HDMI-compatible" or just "HD" to avoid that certification requirement.
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by grishka 10mo ago
I was downvoted for saying that our cosmological model might be wrong because "dark matter" sounds like a crutch. Now JWST has collected enough evidence that it might, in fact, be wrong.
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by grishka 10mo ago
Russia is definitely not the same. I suspect they are still largely using (pirated) Microsoft products but cloud services hosted abroad are a big no-no.
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by grishka 10mo ago
There's another inscrutable mystery in physics, the nature of consciousness. Time might as well be an artifact of that . I'm surprised this article doesn't mention this possibility. Here's an interesting lecture about i
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by grishka 10mo ago
Doesn't the protection usually work such that it prevents reading the firmware but still allows you to erase and reflash it?
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by grishka 11mo ago
Technically, the act of bypassing censorship by itself is still not even illegal. They did make it recently such that writing about VPNs is grounds for blocking wherever you've written about it. https://www.cnews.ru/new
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by grishka 11mo ago
I don't think they would care as long as you don't do something stupid that would show up on their dashboards. But if you're paranoid, you can use phone numbers from, for example, Armenia or Kazakhstan. There are 8 countries
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by grishka 11mo ago
Of course I also have a VPN that I selectively route traffic through, in just these kinds of situations.
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by grishka 11mo ago
> In the end it'll likely end with whitelists of allowed IP addresses I already had this idea of tunneling traffic through the voice/video calls in the Max messenger app. No one has done it in practice, yet , but I see no reas
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by grishka 11mo ago
Yes, we have to use censorship circumvention tools to make the internet usable. Especially when it's mobile data. About a year ago I got fed up enough that I bought an OpenWRT router and installed Zapret on it. Now, at least while at h
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by grishka 11mo ago
Apple Watch requires an iPhone. There are many people who use a Mac but can't stand iOS.
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by grishka 11mo ago
I call this "touchscreenification"
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by grishka 11mo ago
Oh yeah I added a CLAUDE.md to my project the other day: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen/blob/master/CLAUDE.md Is it a good one?
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by grishka 11mo ago
Do remember that using LLMs is a choice. And unlike, say, social media, by not using any AI at all, you aren't missing out on anything.

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