mehlmao

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by mehlmao 4y ago
What license is applied to code generated by Second? Will Second accept liability if its bot generates code violating the GPL or other licenses? How about for damages arising from vulnerable or insecure code?
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by mehlmao 4y ago
If Medicare Advantage is good for its customers, they shouldn't need to trick people into signing up.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Yeah, the SEC arranged a settlement so they wouldn't spend a decade in court.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
There are no valuable emails from 'legit marketing people', especially so if they're using AI-generated messages to hit you with a firehose.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Thank you! SteamDB has been super helpful for me. I like to be able to pull posters and banner art for games, and it's also super helpful for untangling bundles of Rocksmith DLC.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Off the top of my head, birth control. Hobby Lobby et al have tried to get a religious exemption to avoid having birth control covered by their employees' health insurance.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Libby and similar services are designed to bleed libraries dry. Libraries are prohibited from buying a normal / retail eBook license, and have to buy a special library license. These licenses are more expensive and expire after they ar
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by mehlmao 4y ago
To clarify: so much of the show's runtime feels like filler. Every episode has 1-2 scenes of characters arguing which are completely inconsequential to the plot. Every once in a while a character will suggest an interesting idea for ho
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by mehlmao 4y ago
I loved the book and struggled watching the show. You could tell which scenes were written by William Gibson, and which ones were written by the Westworld people. Around episode 3 or 4 the plot completely diverges from the book, and almost
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by mehlmao 4y ago
A VP threatening an open-source developer with deportation and torture: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/audacitys-new-owner-...
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by mehlmao 4y ago
I stopped using Audacity and swore to never use a MuseScore product again after their developers threatened a GitHub contributor who made a crawler with deportation and torture. > "Upon further investigation, it became clear that We
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Then I'm sure you'd be happy to opt in to targeted advertising, and everyone else can stay safe.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
I understand the feeling but I'm not sure Microsoft would actually fix anything. Microsoft hasn't fixed any of the problems that Bethesda had pre-acquisition. Nothing has improved for employees; the only difference is that their g
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Go ahead and downvote me; sorry my existence ruins your immersion.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
I donate $5 at Publix. Publix's income (and tax responsibility) increases by $5. They donate my (and everybody else's) $5. Their income (and tax responsibility) decreases by $5 to the original level.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
The article describes several projects that failed, including ones such as Maryland where permits and environmental review were completed and Boring did not perform the work.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
I'm sure if Facebook cured cancer that would get them favorable coverage. Right now their products decrease quality of life, not increase it.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
AMD is Taiwan; they design chips but those are manufactured by TSMC. Intel is Israel.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Firefox does offer an HTTPS only-mode, which tries to upgrade HTTP to HTTPS and warns you before connecting if it's not enabled. Settings > Privacy & Security > HTTPS-Only Mode As far as I know, there are still no practical a
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by mehlmao 4y ago
I've used ChompSMS ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.p1.chompsm... ) for the past 10 years or so, side-by-side with Signal. I prefer keeping secure messaging and insecure messaging separate.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
A few years ago I got really into the daily challenges in Windows 10 solitaire. It had leaderboards and of course, advertisements. I generally browse with an ad blocker so I was shocked by what I saw inside the unfiltered Windows app. About
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by mehlmao 4y ago
On the subject of piracy / DRM, I always think back to Lar's Doucet's piece Piracy and the Four Currencies: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/piracy-and-the-four-c... Lars argues that when people ma
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by mehlmao 4y ago
After Robinhood's data breach, I get tons of cryptocurrency-related phishing emails sent to "robinhood@mydomain.com". I've had a few other vendors sell / lose my email, such as an escape room in another city.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
My understanding is that the developers get a cut of the money that's laundered through tornado.cash
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Then you can opt in to sharing data so ads can target you more effectively.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
>At what point did Google agree to become the world's free email provider Maybe they shouldn't have offered email for free to the world if they didn't want to be the world's free email provider.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Because Google is taking away their ability to play the game they paid for. Stadia sells copies of games ($60 a pop), and offers subscriptions for additional money for higher video quality and access to a smaller library of games. The peopl
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Publishers and developers wouldn't sign onto that because they don't want a resale market. How would you convince them to support that?
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Thanks, I googled for a minute trying to find that quote but couldn't remember it exactly.
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by mehlmao 4y ago
Whatever happened to the "negative latency" feature they promised? For context, they claimed that Google AI would be able to learn how you play games, predict what you'll do, simulate ahead and then send those frames to your

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