kemayo

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by kemayo 3y ago
Windows does have some more built-in window tools these days -- it lets you snap windows into various parts of the screen by dragging them up against the edges. You can replicate that on macOS with apps like Rectangle. More-controversial is
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by kemayo 3y ago
"Windows doesn't feel like adware if you run fairly-scary third-party tools on it first" probably isn't the best sell to non-techy people. (Which I figure is who we have to be talking about, since we're responding
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by kemayo 3y ago
They're referring to Bezos' yacht: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/style/bezos-yacht-koru.ht... One can argue to what extent Bezos is still ultimately "the boss" at Amazon given th
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by kemayo 3y ago
It's hardwired on the laptops, but it must be controlled by software on the phones because the dot is within the screen area.
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by kemayo 3y ago
I do think it conveys something important about policing in the USA as a vibe , though I agree it's polarizing. In a similar sort of way to "defund the police" -- very catchy slogan which contains a bunch of nuance that&#x27
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by kemayo 3y ago
I mean, the French Revolution was very-shortly-followed by the Terror, so we can hardly present this as a simple slow decline from a golden age.
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by kemayo 3y ago
Per the article, quarantined sites will only allow "monitored" extensions to run. I presume that this means extensions for which they actually do verify that updates are non-malicious, which probably includes most of the popular e
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by kemayo 3y ago
Because this would block it from hitting some high-value sites before they know there was a malicious update. I would imagine that once they know about it it'd also get added to the blocked-extensions list.
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by kemayo 3y ago
I'm inclined to reserve judgement until we see the user-facing UI for this (which is apparently coming in 116, per other comments). It seems like a reasonable feature, so long as there's sufficiently accessible ways to override it
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by kemayo 3y ago
> If they learn that an extension has been taken over, then they can just block the extension. The goal would be to stop compromised extensions from being able to hit high value targets even before anyone has realized they're compro
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by kemayo 3y ago
I think the idea would be that it's easier to list common targets than to play after-the-fact whack-a-mole with malicious extensions. The former makes it less lucrative to sneak your malicious code into an extension, because you don&#x
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by kemayo 3y ago
I think that's the difference between "monitored" and "unmonitored" extensions, as called out in the article. Monitored extensions are presumably ones where they actually verify the updates, and so they think it&#x2
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by kemayo 3y ago
I believe it's sold through the Mac App Store, because the Firefox extension is an outgrowth of the preexisting Safari extension. https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/StopTheMadness-Firefox.h...
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by kemayo 3y ago
The article is right that we've not seen any communication about Mozilla as to how they intend to use this, so we can only speculate about why they might want the feature. My own speculation is that this is them warding against extensi
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by kemayo 3y ago
You're looking at a misleading data point on two levels. First, note that the 75.5% figure in that table includes Hispanic/Latino people, which not all sources will -- importantly the study I was quoting doesn't include the
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by kemayo 3y ago
Article doesn't, but the study it's based on does. Recruited athletes are less-diverse than the general applicant pool: > For example, recruited athletes, legacies, and dean’s interest list applicants are all over 68% white, ye
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by kemayo 3y ago
User-provided content is provided under a license between the user providing it and the site hosting it -- inherently, because otherwise the site wouldn't be allowed to do anything with it at all. Generally this takes the form of the
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by kemayo 3y ago
I don't see how that could be related to reddit charging for their API.
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by kemayo 3y ago
> I haven't seen anyone propose a rule that could be applied (much less an argument that would justify it as likely) based on copyright law that gets you to “used SD, in violation”. The speculative worst-case outcome for these tools
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by kemayo 3y ago
What I'd assume Valve is worried about is that it only takes one major decision against Stable Diffusion in court to suddenly leave us in a state where "this game used Stable Diffusion" is the proof that's needed. Give
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by kemayo 3y ago
They have a manual review step when you submit a game. Although you're right that they can't catch everything, they can certainly catch obvious things. I'm sure they mostly just don't want to wind up in court with a lawy
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by kemayo 3y ago
I'm quoting the relevant bit from Valve's email in the reddit post, to indicate exactly what they're actually forbidding. Notably: not all AI-generated content, but rather AI-generated content from models that were trained
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> After reviewing, we have identified intellectual property in [Game Name Here] which appears to belongs to one or more third parties. In particular, [Game Name Here] contains art assets generated by artificial intelligence that appears
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by kemayo 3y ago
It has a surprisingly strong effect as schools get more prestigious / exclusive. At schools like Harvard, which have in incredibly low admission rate (something like 5% of qualified applicants get an offer, I think?), legacies get a ma
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by kemayo 3y ago
It is bad when children are abused. Many (most?) people feel this viscerally, regardless of personal experience of parenthood or of abuse. This why the "think of the children" rhetorical gambit works. In general, people like to be
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by kemayo 3y ago
It's worth noting that this is a reinterpretation of Death of the Author. The original essay isn't about this sort of "what is canon?" question at all, it's about the subjective meaning and interpretation of a text.
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I think the concept of canon is very useful, because it's a consistent starting point for discussion. Exactly how strong and binding the canon needs to be can be debated, and varies depending on the situation. The term largely descends
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by kemayo 3y ago
It's a small world sometimes! :D
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The example you give of Ron being King Arthur's descendant is an extremely irrelevant fact, and so I'd be inclined to say "okay, sure, I'll accept that this is true, but so what?" if it was pronounced. It'd be
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by kemayo 3y ago
> I read it almost 10 years ago but remember it getting tiresome after a while, but it does teach a ton about logical thinking. I remember finding it interesting from a pedagogical perspective, because it starts out as a vehicle for &quo

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