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by lucb1e 1y ago
Helping elderly with scams: Yes, today, with Google Chrome. They got tricked into allowing desktop notifications and they look super legit on Microsoft Windows, styled like antivirus notifications and everything, covering the browser UI to
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by lucb1e 1y ago
They're happy in their walled garden, until they don't and discover there is a wall they now can't overcome and learn whose hardware it really is I do think it is in everyone's interest to be able to run software of your
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by lucb1e 1y ago
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> the files would be stored in cache which would be cleared if its needed elsewhere. Right, but then it also loses the benefit so afaict the intention is for it to be there when you start the game
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by lucb1e 1y ago
In case anyone else is wondering, it's this guy: "Since 2017, Loeb has argued that alien space craft may be in the Solar System [like] ʻOumuamua" What I don't understand on his Wikipedia page is this bit in the second se
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by lucb1e 1y ago
the stated solution is to "load the file contents into RAM at system bootup" Wait, so you want games on your hard drive because SSD space is too expensive (~55€/TB), so then you permanently occupy some RAM instead (at ~6500€&
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Did you ever use a sitemap as a human? I've only ever seen it recommended for SEO, and search engines are perfectly capable of parsing sitemap.xml without needing it turned into some transformed format, or at least so was my understand
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Huh! I'm learning a lot here today. Trying to find more info, indeed the top answer on stackoverflow on the "XSLT equivalent for JSON" is XSLT itself: https://stackoverflow.com/a/49011455/ . Hard to
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Would be a real shame if the world had a harder time engaging with that site (but I take your point that there exists at least government in the world that uses it)
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Ah right, so that wouldn't be affected by this change because it happens all server-side if I understand it correctly?
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Huh? I mainly see official government documents as annoying PDFs. Thankfully someone had the bright idea to turn the national law's text into a proper webpage and not use an image-like format for that. (I think regional governments als
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by lucb1e 1y ago
How do we feel about this concern in general? Not just specific to XSLTs > my main concern is for the “long tail” of the web—there's lots of vital information only available on random university/personal websites last updated b
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by lucb1e 1y ago
We pentest lots of corporate applications so if this was widespreadly deployed in the last ~8 years that I've been doing the job full time, I don't know how I would have missed it (like, never even saw a talk about it, never saw a
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by lucb1e 1y ago
So is metaverse, at least depending on the definition. Second Life is mentioned as an example of one on Wikipedia and that died pretty quickly because it was more of a mechanism instead of a destination in itself. The general concept of han
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by lucb1e 1y ago
I thought XML was that big hype, not XSLT. That I somehow never saw mentioned that you can do actual webpages and other useful stuff with it is probably why I never understood why people thought XML was so useful ^^' I thought it was j
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Right, that sounds like a blind spot of mine as well. We test nearly only commercial products (or open source projects large enough to get commercial backing), and in private time, of course I'd come across big websites sooner than acr
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by lucb1e 1y ago
I understand that there are more possible uses for the tool, but RSS is the only one I saw someone mention. Are there more examples? It may be that I don't notice when I use it, if the page just translates itself into XHTML and I would
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by lucb1e 1y ago
I had no idea what XSLT even was until today. Reading the submission, the thread linked by u/troupo below, and Wikipedia, I find that it's apparently used in RSS parsing by browsers, because RSS is XML and then XSLT is "origi
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by lucb1e 1y ago
If you and I would support the works we think are good, why wouldn't others? I keep noticing that people constantly expect worse morals from others than how they claim they are themselves It's easy to add a "me too" onto
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by lucb1e 1y ago
This was being downvoted, but there is actually research showing a link between code age and security bugs: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s... "Code matures and gets safer with ti
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by lucb1e 1y ago
He? I know some Gemmas and it's distinctly a female name; is Gemma a boy's name where you're from?
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by lucb1e 1y ago
>> the losing party in cancellation proceedings must bear fees and costs incurred by the other party. What order of magnitude are those, if you are at liberty to say?
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Then I can't explain why it's producing the results that it does. If you have more information to share, I'm happy to update my knowledge... Doing a web search on the topic just comes up with marketing materials. Even Wikiped
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> a lot of people in a lot of places have no other choice. Not everyone lives in a developed European country Then let's start with the people from developed European countries who can afford this and built it out from there. &quo
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Nobody said to not apply the same elsewhere...
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by lucb1e 1y ago
Wow. I lived in Finland for a few months and this does not match my experience with them at all. In case it's relevant, my cultural background is Dutch... maybe you would say the same about us, since we also don't do the fake smil
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by lucb1e 1y ago
LLMs cannot tell fact from fiction. What's commonly called hallucinations stems from it not being able to reason, the way that humans appear to be able to do, no matter that some models are called "reasoning" now. It's a
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by lucb1e 1y ago
It's kinda good they use such old systems, as the vast majority of pollution occurs during manufacturing of devices since we usually use them only a handful of years. Iirc the break-even point was somewhere around 25 years, as in, upgr
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by lucb1e 1y ago
> Are google looking into rolling back the requirement? (this last one sounds unlikely) That's apparently what they did last time. From the ticket: "Back in 2021 developers complained that AAPT2 from Gradle Plugin 4.1.0 was thr
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by lucb1e 1y ago
A developer on the ticket writes: "Our machines run older server grade CPUs, that indeed do not support the newer SSE4_1 and SSSE3"

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