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by lxgr 2mo ago
A stopped clock is also right twice a day.
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by lxgr 2mo ago
Assuming you're not using the proposed streaming option, I suppose you could always send a webhook for that fact alone? In other words, an empty notification, with semantics of "something has probably changed, better poll the SCRO
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by lxgr 2mo ago
I find it pretty annoying that iCloud Private Relay does not work together with VPNs. I mainly use VPNs to access bank sites (or other sites that are annoying enough to use IP country as a proxy for traffic being evil/legitimate) when
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by lxgr 2mo ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroelectric_RAM , which has been used in a few quite popular systems as well (e.g. the PS2 memory card supposedly uses it for some high-rewrite-count operations).
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by lxgr 2mo ago
And the firmware remaps them, as far as I know. That's very different from a firmware exposing a bad sector list to the host, which is the case for some flash systems, I believe.
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by lxgr 2mo ago
Not nearly all flash systems (including NAND based ones) use a dedicated controller. I believe e.g. iOS devices have for a long time still handled bad block handling in software, while macOS has always handled it in hardware.
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by lxgr 3mo ago
Arguably, missing IP literal domain support is pretty far down the list of things creating today's actual mail delivery walled garden.
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by lxgr 3mo ago
Agreed, bugs in the terminal emulator are probably more concerning. The attack surface of those is much larger (there are some pretty wild ANSI escape sequences, and terminal emulators are often granted pretty wide disk access permissions o
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by lxgr 3mo ago
> I've wondered what in the training process causes the model to develop this peculiar style of writing I think this might just be inherent to the currently deployed LLM architecture. If the training process works at all, any model
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by lxgr 3mo ago
Seems like OpenAI is claiming things, not their product/model. Can we please fix the title?
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by lxgr 3mo ago
> [...] integration with Mozilla VPN or your own proxy [...] This one is one of my favorite things about Firefox containers. I love being able to only route a given streaming or banking site through my home network when traveling without
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by lxgr 3mo ago
For going back to cash, I mean.
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by lxgr 3mo ago
Only for unauthorized payments, i.e. for transactions you did not consent to. This does not cover products/services not received at an online merchant, for example, just like how you can’t retroactively cancel a check. Cards do allow c
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by lxgr 3mo ago
> This is not allowed in west as credit cards require same price as cash transactions Network rules disallowing customer surcharges have actually become prohibited by law in quite a few places.
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by lxgr 3mo ago
Do you have any examples?
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by lxgr 4mo ago
If you call FIOS the "bare minimum", what is an acceptable connection to you? In my experience, it's one of the best ISPs I've ever had. Installation alone was phenomenal. This is probably largely downstream of NYC allow
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Are you arguing that a country as large and wealthy as the US can only solve one problem at a time or that fast, affordable Internet access is somehow a luxury problem?
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Smaller territory is an often-repeated claim for why any particular infrastructure strategy doesn't transfer to the US, but that makes no sense to me as most numbers can just be scaled up and still make sense. Density is probably close
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by lxgr 4mo ago
What exactly is the point of the LLM-generated infographics in this article? I don't have a problem with LLM-generated content in principle, but the bare minimum an author has to do is to check them for trivial errors such as duplicate
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by lxgr 4mo ago
The software running on the smartcard? You write that yourself, and hopefully your security processes are good. The nice thing about smartcards is that the trusted computing base is massively smaller than that of a regular operating system.
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Smartcards have attestation too.
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by lxgr 4mo ago
I think Iridium SBD, which is what a lot of IoT applications are based on, already worked with the old constellation, which is actually quite impressive given that it doesn't seem easy to retrofit that onto an in-space switched network
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Not offshore though, as they only have domestic spectrum.
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by lxgr 4mo ago
There's a relatively simple and much more open and secure solution to this: Make physical EU ID cards the attestation source, and require users to tap them against their phone for critical operations (high-value signatures, login on a
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Kind of: Phones will probably need some Iridium-specific RF hardware (unless their existing baseband and amplifiers happen to cover the band it uses), but the baseband and signaling stack won’t be proprietary anymore if I understand it corr
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Definitely, and I think GP raises a valid point: Without beamforming, there’s no point in having more than one station covering the same area, whether terrestrial tower or satellite-based spot beam. And while 4G and beyond use some mild dev
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by lxgr 4mo ago
> 1. Iridium uses frequencies fairly close to GPS (~1.6GHz). 2. Iridium uses cylindrically-polarized transmissions (like GPS), which enable compact omnidirectional helical antennas Which part of my argument is this an objection to? Are y
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Yes, for more than one satellite covering the same area on the ground with a spotbeam on the same frequency at the same time to make sense, you inherently need steering/beamforming. That's why Iridium has the constellation planned
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by lxgr 4mo ago
Yep, it's one of only two satellite communications systems certified for both GMDSS/SOLAS and aviation operation and safety (ATC) use cases, and the only global one at that (the other one being Inmarsat/Viasat, which does not
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by lxgr 4mo ago
> How much market is there for people that just want low speed connectivity from the middle of nowhere? Militaries generally find this capability pretty relevant, among others, and they have deep pockets. They were the ones to bail out I

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