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by john01dav 7mo ago
> Why would a player knowingly choose to play on matchmaking that is advertising no anti-cheat? My understanding of the proposal is that it advertises no invasive anticheat (meaning mostly rootkit/kernel anticheat). So, the value pr
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by john01dav 7mo ago
I don't think that it's that simple. I'm advocating for regulations to consider the burden on small businesses and aggressively minimize it. Another example than the GDPR example that I previously gave is beneficial owner reg
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by john01dav 7mo ago
There is a lot of merit to this view, but there is also a major problem: rules like this make it substantially harder to start a new business due to increasing overhead and complexity, which is bad for everyone long term. Such comparatively
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by john01dav 7mo ago
Such miscommunication (varying levels of taking it literally) is also common with autistic and allistic people speaking with each other
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by john01dav 7mo ago
This matters when you're hiding from the website. It doesn't matter if you're just trying to hide such things from the public.
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by john01dav 7mo ago
> even a really cool library that makes Rust do this. The first library that comes to mind when I think of this is `serde` with `#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]`, but that gives persistence-format output as you describe is preferable t
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by john01dav 7mo ago
What, exactly, is sandboxed Google play prevented from accessing? Can I feed it a fake location or disable location access? Is it prevented from running in the background 24/7? Can I force it and just it through a VPN? Or is it just bl
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by john01dav 8mo ago
Once this or something like it becomes widespread, won't sophisticated attackers simply test their attacks against this? So, for example, if it checks for `rm` invocations, just implemented the functionally of `rm` in the malware, or i
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by john01dav 8mo ago
In response to the seeing like a bank article, one thing which can make this a lot better is to use asynchronous ticketing or messaging systems instead of phone trees. At my bank, I can just send a message in the app, even when it's cl
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by john01dav 8mo ago
Apple has an even bigger loyalty problem. For them and Microsoft it's arguably good, but it's bad for users, even the loyal ones. It might even be bad for Apple and Microsoft long term.
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by john01dav 8mo ago
> I think the disturbing reality is these countries are wanting to control social media to control the population politically The current alternative is that unaccountable private interests control this, so some regulation in this regard
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by john01dav 8mo ago
Reddit is plenty addictive in my experience, and I've heard the same from other people ranging from high school teachers to tradespeople.
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by john01dav 8mo ago
I'm no EM expert, but is it possible to have a transparent Faraday cage material that lets a capacitive touch screen register touches and be seen without any leak of radiation/data? As I understand it a big conductive finger cross
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by john01dav 9mo ago
If you want stable, responsive, and old, use Debian, possibly with XFCE. Then, you have patches for security issues too.
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by john01dav 9mo ago
In my experience LLMs offer two advantages over private thinking: 1) They have access to a vast array of extremely well indexed knowledge and can tell me about things that I'd never have found before. 2) They are able to respond instan
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by john01dav 9mo ago
I have a credit card with them for cash back on utilities, and their customer service is awful . For example it takes a lenghty phone call to do anything, in contrast to my primary bank where I can just leave a written message in a minute
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by john01dav 9mo ago
https://pcpartpicker.com/products/internal-hard-drive/#sort=... It has Amazon as well as many other stores, and several other filtering options. It supports hard drives, SSDs, and other computer parts (everything
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by john01dav 9mo ago
I don't know how much impact this has in practice, but you do not need to scan the entirety of the ipv6 address space because you can just look at the IPs that are registered to known ISPs/ASs.
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by john01dav 9mo ago
I thought that Anubis solely is proof of work, so I'm very curious as to what's going on here.
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by john01dav 9mo ago
> combined with studies showing there is zero safe threshold without brain damage markers in the blood? Are you saying that there's zero safe threshold of choking, or for viewing porn? (To be clear, choking someone without consent i
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by john01dav 9mo ago
If you change rules to make the PE business model unprofitable, since it's in many ways toxic to society, you can result in them then needing to sell, for much less than they'd like most likely, or adapt and become less toxic.
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by john01dav 9mo ago
Perhaps you need a tech person to partner with experienced bank people to create a new bank that isn't shit
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by john01dav 9mo ago
It wasn't the case until iirc a few years ago. My guess is that you're on an old version of the software that didn't yet do this.
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by john01dav 9mo ago
What counts as "Wall Street" here. Is it any investment property? After some threshold of owning many homes? If so, how many? 10? 10,000? Something else? Is it net worth? Maximum number of beneficial owners? You must title them in
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by john01dav 9mo ago
Roku, when built-in to a TV, refuses to work as a dumb tv until you give it Internet access and sign in
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by john01dav 9mo ago
Rust has more features than just the borrow checker. For example, it has a a more featured type system than C or C++, which a good developer can use to detect some logic mistakes at compile time. This doesn't eliminate bugs, but it can
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by john01dav 9mo ago
A guess: existing charging infrastructure is too slow/low power to charge this fast enough to be useful over currently standard batteries for car sized batteries
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by john01dav 9mo ago
> New techniques are often behind proprietary gates, with shallow papers and slides that only give a hint of how things may work. I've been able to implement techniques based on such things without too much trouble. Also, Unreal is
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by john01dav 9mo ago
I think that the person to whom you replied is speaking of outdoor installations, while you are speaking of controlled (maybe datacenter) installations. I have outdoor fiber running aerially between buildings on my property, in a region wit
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by john01dav 9mo ago
> I feel there has to be something between "I heard about a thing 7th-hand" and "I actively watch political discourse / read scientific papers", but I'm no longer sure The News, as we currently know it, is i

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