lm411

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by lm411 7d ago
This would have been a few years earlier... And I don't recall doing anything destructive. It was definitely a game but I wasn't trying to cause any damage. No doubt I caused more than a few headaches though, which I do truly reg
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by lm411 8d ago
The Warez scene was an absolute blast. I made some of the best friends of my early teenage years there, both online and online/offline. Unfortunately it came to a sudden end after I got a little too cocky and persistently took and re-
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by lm411 8d ago
I was in a small courier group way back when. FXP was definitely common. We could copy a lot of software in a small amount of time.
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by lm411 4mo ago
"Attempt at a coup"? I assure you if those folks had attempted a coup they most likely would have succeeded. Those folks were there to make a statement and have the best party since before covid.
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by lm411 4mo ago
It is yes - in situations like that, your best bet is to view the SSL cert details. Of course, only if you trust the issuer. ;)
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by lm411 4mo ago
Not really the Pi's fault - really it's AI causing the massive increase in HW prices (notably RAM in this case) that has really destroyed the market for the Pi's. Same thing happening for servers, gaming PC's, cell phone
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by lm411 4mo ago
This is kind of ridiculous. The fields are geographical areas, not political or cultural entities, and most of the pople living within a certain field don't have the slightest idea what or if any field they live in.
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by lm411 4mo ago
Surmountable - "possible to deal with or solve successfully". Does not mean "easy". It means they can be overcome.
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by lm411 4mo ago
Many in the west certainly wouldn't agree with you now, or 100+ years ago. https://xcancel.com/DonBraid/status/1187052993788559360 This is about more than just money though. Politically the west is underrepre
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by lm411 4mo ago
Discussing separation is okay when QC threatens it - hence the clarity act. But when AB wants to do it, they are just a bunch of redneck traitors according to the rest of Canada. (Cue the "AB is nothing", "AB has no culture&
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by lm411 4mo ago
Of these, I really only see "indigenous rights/claims" as a particularly difficult issue. For currency, The Maldives, with a relatively small population and tiny GDP has their own currency. What is the difficulty in currency
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by lm411 4mo ago
Incorrect. If you've ever been through Alberta you'd already know that though. Oil & gas fields, and wells, are distributed over much of Alberta. https://static.aer.ca/prd/documents/catalog/Map9
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by lm411 5mo ago
When the AI scrapers were just getting started, that is basically what I thought - their plan was to scrape / suck up everything they possibly could before people realized what was happening and blocked them. The rate at which they wer
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by lm411 5mo ago
The quality difference between various fans is absolutely huge. I can put in a few Noctua fans and be confident they are going to last 5+ years of running 24x7. Or I can put in 25% cheaper fans and be pretty much guaranteed one or more is
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by lm411 5mo ago
I've experienced similar with some Southeast Asian cultures as well. I'm a patient person, but it can be frustrating to have to endure 10 minutes of verbal diarrhea that eventually results in a "no" or "I don't
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by lm411 5mo ago
> the idea of attending public protests/riots, particularly any directed against the governments that issued me my student visas, sounds like possibly the stupidest move You'd get a real kick out some of the protests in Canada
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by lm411 5mo ago
How does one feel bad for a corporation, especially of this size? Double so for one that quite literally removed "Don't be Evil" as its motto and from its code of conduct. The corporation has no feelings and I don't ima
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by lm411 6mo ago
Please don't twist my words. I've lived in these families and communities on both sides. I clearly said it was anecdotal. I think you missed the whole point of my comment.
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by lm411 6mo ago
Personal anecdote, having lived in a few very poor countries and a few relatively very wealthy ones: 1) In the poor countries, I find people are generally quite happy living their day to day lives but rate their happiness low - because they
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by lm411 6mo ago
Dude had to rewrite traceroute to discover what the first line of the man page description says. > traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. It utilizes the IP protocol's time to
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by lm411 6mo ago
I disagree, obscurity wastes attacker resources and easily fools a lot of simple vulnerability scanners. Obscurity is totally underrated. Attacker resources are limited.
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by lm411 6mo ago
Yep. I just bought a Pi CM5 for my son, for his ClockworkPi uConsole. CAD $200 for the 8GB module. I bought a whole Pi5 16GB not long ago for under CAD $200. I will not be buying any more SBC's at this price point. I wonder if Ras
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by lm411 6mo ago
Yeah the SDK updates... For sure. Another pain in the ass.
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by lm411 6mo ago
The whole Google Play experience is awful. Recent things I've had to do: 1) Re-submit an app after it was rejected and labelled a gambling app (it wasn't even close - a 15 second look by a real human would have seen that. This on
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by lm411 6mo ago
That's not Cloudflare trying to make your life hard. It's the reality of how bad the bots have become.
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by lm411 6mo ago
"Integrity at OpenAI" Basically an oxymoron at this point.
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by lm411 6mo ago
> Also the fucking ignorance assuming it's "static content" and not something needing code running Wild eh. If it's not ai now, it's by default labelled "static content" and "near-zero marginal cos
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by lm411 6mo ago
Absolutely. It's so much easier to know the truth when someone else tells me what it is and what to think about it. How refreshing.
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by lm411 6mo ago
"we protect our first-party products from abuse like bots, scraping, fraud, and other attempts to misuse the platform" The scary part is that you don't even see the irony in writing this. Or, are you just okay "misusing&
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by lm411 6mo ago
That is ridiculous. You imply that "an expensive llm service" is harmed by abuse, but, every other service is not? Because their websites are "static" and "near-zero marginal cost"? You have no clue what you a

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