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by kbenson 1y ago
So, what if it's a bug in a project that has forked a few times with renames? You're possibly inviting people to ignore a CVE that says "chrome" or "webkit" or "blink" in the name, when in reality it
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by kbenson 1y ago
If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend reading The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office” . It's not that it maps to reality perfectly, but it's an interesting lens through which to look at w
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by kbenson 1y ago
With regard to proof of work systems that provide revenue: 1) Making LLM (and other) scrapers pay for the resources they use seems perfectly fine to me. Also, as someone that manages some level of scraping (on the order of low tens of mill
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by kbenson 1y ago
If attackers only made ~$40 fora good amount of work, seems like it would have resolved itself if the scheme was left to run itself to conclusion before people started blocking coinhive in (what sounds like from your description) a knee-je
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by kbenson 1y ago
Yes, I'll admit I was a bit strong in my "anyone would" wording. I'm fairly confident in saying that while some people might opt for delayed payment when pressed and discussed with most if not all would admit to doing so
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by kbenson 1y ago
They have, as much as they will try to convince you they haven't, because they've spend so long trying to shift any blame or negative feelings towards resellers. Here's some supporting information to that point: - Ticketmaste
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by kbenson 1y ago
> The assumption that it's $100 now vs. $100 later just seems unfounded. What if it's $100 now vs. $110 later? The actual situation is that it's $100 now or maybe $110 later or even $90 later, because you don't know w
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by kbenson 1y ago
>> it's obviously preferable to get paid for the entire tour on the day it's announced > it's only obvious to "private equity" type people. No, it's obvious. Anyone that has to choose between getting $
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by kbenson 1y ago
It's much more complicated (and worse) than that. Ticketmaster reserves some seats during sale to be dynamic pricing, which they start higher than normal and then depending on demand and what they see on the secondary market they re-pr
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by kbenson 1y ago
I don't think most here would disagree about the perceptions that each side has. The problem is that is imperfect a lens to reality they are, it sure seems like the one side has embraced much of the fundamentals of QAnon even if most
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by kbenson 1y ago
I'm not sure how to make sense of this in the context of what we're discussing. Access to the web is exactly what's in question, and emulating the internet to a degree you don't actually need to access it to have the in
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by kbenson 1y ago
If it takes a model and database with a large chunk of the internet to compete and win, then that says something, as that's much more expensive and complex than just the model, because models have problems "remembering" corre
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by kbenson 2y ago
Funnily enough, I have indeed have had part of a tooth (an impacted wisdom tooth) come off when eationg something, and was kind of grossed out that my food could contain this small white hard stone-like thing... until later that day I reali
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by kbenson 2y ago
You don't even have to make the argument that Apple is untrustworthy. The stronger argument is that you can't know what Apple will be like in the future, or even if they will still be independent (which seems far fetched since
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by kbenson 2y ago
> Apple used to have privacy as the differentiating and profit-driving factor. > This will immediately get thrown out of the window when it hurts profit This is the important thing I'm always trying to note to people that think i
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by kbenson 2y ago
If it's posted through a publishing platform (not just a commend on one or on a public site), it's very possible they do an automatic conversion of some of the common cases. That could also be filtering down to comment boxes and
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by kbenson 2y ago
Automatic conversions have been happening for a long time. In fact, a few years ago there was some combination of settings on my terminal locale settings and man (well, troff/groff most likely) was converting hyphens in param definiti
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by kbenson 2y ago
I've lived in suburbs where I had a good idea of who lived in each house, talked to some of them semi-regularly, and kids ran around the neighborhood together every day, and I've lived in neighborhoods where everyone stays inside
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by kbenson 2y ago
His articles are very long, but I find the narratives they present to be compelling. This one is a bit different than the prior two, in that it's summarizing them and putting them into context, while also doing a lot of explaining (ma
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by kbenson 2y ago
Ah, yes. If you want to take advantage of piping commands together through the shell as a subcommand of your program, then a way to make params behave more consistently regardless of content is useful.
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by kbenson 2y ago
That requires you quote the param in the sintr to ensure that params are groups as expected. E.g. # cat pvars.sh #!/bin/bash echo "\$1=$1" echo "\$2=$2" echo "\$3=$3" # sh -
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by kbenson 2y ago
Neither of those are equivalent to variable binding, which is what most SQL libraries provide, specifically because they don't actually solve the problem since they're still doing string substitution. Putting a double quotes in $1
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by kbenson 2y ago
OpenSSH is an implementation, SSH is a technology and/or protocol, it doesn't make a lot of sense to compare them that way. Although from later comments RDP seems to have a history in Citrix prior to it's life as RDP, so the
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by kbenson 2y ago
> An early lesson was not to melt it and incorporate fuel on a kitchen stove. That was, indeed, an aspect of the problem I alluded to before. I have made it a few times before, and I was going to use the gas grill outside, but it seemed
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by kbenson 2y ago
> Something in my childhood I presume. LOL, I can empathize quite a bit, as someone that has a nasty burn scar on my hand caused by a glob of melted saltpeter and sugar from an accidental ignition of a concoction I was cooking one fourth
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by kbenson 2y ago
Probably. I created my account almost 13 years ago, but I read for years before creating it. I didn't create a reddit account until 2014, or a twitter account until 2015. I was reading Slashdot in the 90's though, to give you a s
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by kbenson 2y ago
It's definitely used in slot machines as a lucky number. Which came first I'm not sure (but I suspect from a sibling comment in the same thread it's based on perceived commonality and primeness historically and became "l
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by kbenson 2y ago
I think the fact I said they are rightly confused makes that explicit, does it not?
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by kbenson 2y ago
I don't think they were equating the US to North Korea (where is China mentioned?), but saying that since the US can no longer be relies on for protection (instead of the sheriff we're at best the anti-hero that will maybe protect
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by kbenson 2y ago
Yes, it seems like Mozilla has long had a problem of marketing getting in the way of communication. This keeps happening over and over gain. They make changes for marketing reasons, and then people are confused when they make policy chang

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