kevincox

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by kevincox 8mo ago
I agree that improvement for the Average Joe will be very hard. I also think that taking more attention to teach the younger generation is vitally important. But mostly I don't see an alternative. I don't think we can protect peop
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by kevincox 8mo ago
They were scrolling through fake bait long before generative AI
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by kevincox 8mo ago
I actually think this was a good thing. Manipulating images incredibly convincingly was already possible but the cost was high (many hours of highly skilled work). So many people assumed that most images they were seeing were "authenti
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by kevincox 8mo ago
Yeah, I get you. I think the main misunderstanding from the original comment is that the *user* won't need a Google account, only the *developer* (signer to be technical) will.
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by kevincox 8mo ago
I mostly agree with your points. > > That users won't be able to install what they want > No, sideloading will still work, but it won't work if the APK isn't signed by someone in the Google developer registry. So the
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by kevincox 8mo ago
It actually is a marginal expense. There are two main reasons. For music videos there are different licensing terms for listening vs music videos. So if they don't appease the licenser than their contract will be less favourable. And o
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by kevincox 8mo ago
> if you just paste in a youtube channel URL as the feed, NNW sorts it out and creates a feed for you. While I don't doubt that NNW has great UX, feed auto-discovery is a table stakes feature for any RSS client.
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by kevincox 8mo ago
From reading a little bit of the code it sounds like Roundcube's sanitizer is much closer to a blacklist than a whitelist. Any attempt to sanitize HTML with a blacklist is doomed to failure. Even if you read the current HTML spec (incl
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by kevincox 8mo ago
I am very pro public transit. But there is still a place for cars (ideally mostly taxis). Going to more rural areas or when you need to carry more stuff. I think an ideal society would have both urban transit, inter-city transit and taxis f
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by kevincox 8mo ago
Driving is always a balance between speed and safety. If you want ultimate safety you just sit in the driveway. But obviously that isn't useful. So functionally one of the most important things a self-driving system will decide is &quo
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by kevincox 9mo ago
I would still hope for it to translate most of the code with a couple of asm blocks. But maybe the density of them was too high and some heuristic decided against it?
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by kevincox 9mo ago
Because unless your TTL is exceptionally long you will almost always have a sufficient supply of new users to balance. Basically you almost never need to move old users to a new target for balancing reasons. The natural churn of users over
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by kevincox 9mo ago
Yes. Statistically the most likely time to change a record is shortly after previously changing it. So it is a good idea to use a low TTL when you change it, then after a stability period raise the TTL as you are less likely to change it in
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by kevincox 9mo ago
I would really like to use XHTML. It would make my HTML emitter much simpler (as I don't need special rules for elements that are self-closing, have special closing or escaping rules and whatever else) and more secure. However no brows
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by kevincox 9mo ago
But they didn't really stay single primary. They moved a lot of load off to alternate database systems. So they did effectively shard, but to different databases rather than postgres. Quite possibly they would have been better off stay
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by kevincox 9mo ago
The short-lived requirement seems pretty reasonable for IP certs as IP addresses are often rented and may bounce between users quickly. For example if you buy a VM on a cloud provider, as soon as you release that VM or IP it may be given to
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by kevincox 9mo ago
Yes, the same way is that Fortran is faster than C due to stricter aliasing rules. But in practice C, Rust and Fortran are not really distinguishable on their own in larger projects. In larger projects things like data structures and librar
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by kevincox 9mo ago
This makes it better but not solved. Those tokens do unambiguously separate the prompt and untrusted data but the LLM doesn't really process them differently. It is just reinforced to prefer following from the prompt text. This is quit
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by kevincox 10mo ago
That is a strawman. I never said everyone who uses classes perfectly uses semantic elements. My point is that if you are using <div class=my-element> you don't have to change your .my-element CSS selector or JS selection code to
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by kevincox 10mo ago
That's a good point. That is what I meant by "and config" in my first sentence. IIUC if the keypair was a certificate with a few other fields foreign networks could give you some basic communication with your provider and dec
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by kevincox 10mo ago
The problem with SIMs is that they aren't just credentials and config. They are full applications. Imagine if you needed to run a custom program to connect to every wifi network. It is bonkers. It is absurdly complex and insecure. A &q
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by kevincox 10mo ago
> It's certainly better than calling everything a div. It's not. For semantic purposes <my-element> is the same as <div class=my-element>. So on the surface they are equivalent. But if you are in the habit of using
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by kevincox 10mo ago
When I was younger these type of machines were great for me. I usually used them at home but sometimes in my bedroom (aka office) and sometimes in the living room (group games, playing music, just watching TV with the roommates). I would al
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by kevincox 10mo ago
BoringTun is unmaintained. There are various forks being developed. I work at Obscura VPN and faced with boringtun bugs a few years ago we evaluated a few of the forks and switched our client to be based on top of NepTUN ( https:/&#x2F
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by kevincox 10mo ago
> It's too expensive to prove that a drug works I'm not sure that is necessary a bad reason. You need to factor in a lot of concerns to determine what "too expensive" means. But if you are going to spend billions of d
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by kevincox 10mo ago
If it has a five year start and we've seen almost zero hardware shipping that is a pretty bad sign. IIRC AV1 decoding hardware started shipping within a year of the bitstream being finalized. (Encoding took quite a bit longer but that
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by kevincox 11mo ago
Yes, that was my first reading as well. I thought "((1D Conway's Life) glider) found" but it is "(1D (Conway's Life glider)) found".
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by kevincox 11mo ago
Might not be a bad idea if it is within their rate limit rules but I'd really rather not take a manual action before leaving a system alone for a while and not worry that I managed to force renew every single cert.
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by kevincox 11mo ago
> Acceptable behavior includes renewing certificates at approximately two thirds of the way through the current certificate’s lifetime. So you can start renewing with 30d of lifetime remaining. You probably want to retry once or twice be
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by kevincox 11mo ago
This is unfortunately true. It feels like "1rem" should be the ideal body don't size. But on desktop browsers this is often quite small. Personally I configure my browser's default font size (1rem) to something nice and

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