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by lxgr 2mo ago
No, but I'm not sure how that would be their responsibility. Banks don't set interest rates, nor monetary policy.
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by lxgr 2mo ago
Oh, it just returned for me today as well. I'm pretty sure it was gone for the past few weeks though!
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by lxgr 2mo ago
This is awesome, thank you!
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by lxgr 2mo ago
Fortunately, not all governments have completely normalized warrantless wiretaps yet. I think requiring a court order and retroactive notification of suspects whose privacy has been invaded is a good model. I'd rather have my money wor
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by lxgr 2mo ago
Not quite. I'd like to have lxgr@example.com hosted at xmpp.foo.com today, but if foo.com shuts down unexpectedly one day, I'd like to be able to redirect it to xmpp.bar.com. I might lose my chat history and maybe my contact list
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by lxgr 2mo ago
All of that can be solved or worked around. The much bigger problem is that it's a bit "too anonymous" to ever be tolerated even in most democracies, for better or worse. I think the only thing that stands a chance is somethi
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by lxgr 2mo ago
> How would you anonymously pay for a VPN or donate to whistleblowers or get cash from an ATM without having to identify yourself? "Anonymously paying for VPN" seems a bit ironic given that almost all VPN users then immediately
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by lxgr 2mo ago
I was under the impression you were referring to the Podcasting 2.0 <-> Lightning monetization history. (Podcasting 2.0 includes a few Lightning-related extensions as far as I understand.) My point stands also if you weren't: Pod
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by lxgr 2mo ago
Isn't the five hour limit effectively gone, at least on ChatGPT Plus? I haven't seen it in a while now.
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by lxgr 2mo ago
If you really think that crypto people invented podcast chapters and transcripts, you might want to do a reality check. These have been around in podcatchers for a long time, see e.g. [1] for chapter markers. Apple lagging behind on podcast
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by lxgr 2mo ago
> XMPP support isn't common in claw-type agents so I've had to patch it in. I found this pretty baffling/sad. Why do these agent harnesses have messaging plug-ins for the most obscure messaging platforms but not XMPP? It s
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by lxgr 2mo ago
But now imagine that the regulating body of your favorite hobby sport is deeply corrupt and fundamentally profit driven, so while playing with your friends is still fun, just thinking about ever competing at the regional level makes you shi
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by lxgr 2mo ago
> Someone came-up with a metaphor I like to illustrate it: the banquet and the barbecue¹. That's a nice way of putting it and it definitely resonates with my experience. But why wouldn't it be possible to have these two in the
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by lxgr 2mo ago
> notifications is a solved problem. Eh, last time I tried I still got leftover notifications for messages I had long read and even replied to on a different client hanging around on my other devices. (To be fair, Matrix does the same th
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by lxgr 2mo ago
As I understand it, Matrix is a much better conceptual fit for the IRC/Slack-like use case where users expect substantial messaging history to persist across new devices and often even for members newly joining a channel. XMPP started
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by lxgr 2mo ago
I'd be very surprised if that were the case, unless they have severely devalued how much "100% usage" is worth – which, as I understand, they could at any point, given that they don't publicly specify how many tokens (or
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by lxgr 2mo ago
> I really want to support Anthropic because of their commitments to effective altruism If you're really committed to the ideas of EA, shouldn't you dispassionately select whatever model works best for you, then make as much mo
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by lxgr 2mo ago
It's a shame that ENUM didn't really go anywhere, but I suppose ultimately many stakeholders consider the phone network being administratively separate from the Internet a feature, not a bug, even though it's now largely an o
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by lxgr 2mo ago
My guess is that this is actually what happened here: Some carrier or VoIP software leaking its DNS queries to the public internet because the service is using is only set up to respond for e.g. NANP (+1) number ranges and the rest is falli
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by lxgr 2mo ago
Then it’s most likely Chrome using local network access for WebRTC or Chrome without granting that access to websites without any explicit interaction with camera permissions or cast features.
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by lxgr 2mo ago
Any chance it was a macOS prompt? Chrome needs local network permissions for WebRTC, Cast etc. even without any website accessing your local network.
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by lxgr 2mo ago
This issue is about audio output. Audio and video input are both behind per-site permissions.
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by lxgr 2mo ago
Ugh... Seems like we need an audio API web permission, or maybe do something like browser already do for some of the other APIs and actually require API users to actually play something or display a warning/play an annoying chime other
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by lxgr 2mo ago
I feel like there are two levels of fingerprinting here, and a lot of the confusion is downstream of not properly distinguishing them: There's the kind that tries to find out what browser vendor, OS, and sometimes hardware you use, and
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by lxgr 2mo ago
> Why not just use that other vendor's model for everything? Effectively all models can do style transfer reasonably well at this point, but not so much for "actual reasoning". If the combination of two works better for yo
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by lxgr 2mo ago
As I mentioned, I suspect that this is an active choice, as just displaying the icon whenever a media context exists seems much easier than inspecting the audio stream for non-zero volume media. I can only assume that there are legitimate r
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by lxgr 2mo ago
Not if the local reseller simply calls itself a marketplace and logistics company and the local regulator lets them get away with it. Amazon, in my experience, does arbitrate disputes about returns and defects, but the important point is th
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by lxgr 2mo ago
I was just about to highlight this particular HN quirk. I suppose a lot of people here only ever comment (or submit URLs without any text of their own) and aren't familiar with it.
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by lxgr 2mo ago
I've had these issues on and off as early as 10 years ago when I got my first multipoint headphones.
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by lxgr 2mo ago
I wish such shenanigans would simply trigger the little speaker icon most browser display on tabs these days. Given that they don't (at least in my experience), I'm assuming "playing silent audio" is a sufficiently commo

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