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by mihaic 2y ago
The hacker example is the one I think of by default, since I think I've only seen it done ok in Mr. Robot. I'd love to see a hacker get a job at a software company, grind away for months only to leave a backdoor with a buffer over
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by mihaic 2y ago
Ironically, I think having a Twitter clone be called Open-X might fly legally, since that's generic enough, but pretty much any other instance where the trademarked name is very specific, like Open-Google or Open-Facebook would be sure
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by mihaic 2y ago
> You are not convincing. The article is. So who is winning here? “Simplistic narrative” vs “believe it because mihaic says so”? Yeah, and I was just expressing my opinion on disliking that simple narratives are winning. If you were hone
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by mihaic 2y ago
> Every model is wrong, some are useful. Yes, and I'm saying this one isn't useful, it's worse than no model at all. I can still be correct in pointing out that something is bad even if I don't have something better.
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by mihaic 2y ago
> You need analogies for people who are less technically savvy, like most legislators. You don't need to have a PhD in computer science to understand what data is and what can be done by aggregating and reselling it. You just need s
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by mihaic 2y ago
I hate it that simplistic naratives have won in public discourse, and we're stuck with overuse of analogies. Data is not like anything. It's its own thing that shouldn't be sold or abused like it is right now, and nobody will
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by mihaic 2y ago
Why? If you host everything on the same domain there's no possibility of a typo. And, developers could maliciously make a typo that can get past code review, don't you take that into account? In a lot of situations the system can
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by mihaic 2y ago
Sure, but why risk a developer making a typo, saying integrty="sha384-whatever", and that attribute simply being ignored in the html?
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by mihaic 2y ago
I had this conversation countless times with developers: are you really ok if someone hijacks the CDN for the code you're including? They almost always seem to be fine with it, simply because everyone else is doing it like this. At the
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by mihaic 2y ago
I agree with the principle of overreach being wrong. I'm just asking why you'd think it would be an overreach in this case, when the entire world basically has 3 real choices for OS: Windows, MacOS and Linux, and a lot of the busi
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by mihaic 2y ago
> I think having a law to require MS to allow offline set-up by all users would be an overreach Why? Do you think it would lead to a better or worse world?
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by mihaic 2y ago
Yeah, it seems almost insulting that the author expects countless people to spend time reading their posts, while they haven't spent a lot of time to edit and streamline it, all with the excuse: "these are just my ramblings".
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by mihaic 2y ago
Genuinely curious who upvoted this and why. The title is clickbait, the writing is long and rambling and it seems to me like the author doesn't have a profound understand of the concepts either, all just to recommend Qdrant as a vector
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by mihaic 2y ago
Rest in peace Allan. As much as his action were admirable, the most shocking thing about that story was how the politicians rallied to protect him after his demotion, forcing his company to keep and actually promote him. That's why I g
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by mihaic 2y ago
Yes, and the solution in my view is to put an end to the sale of data from millions of users. In the anarcho-capitalist mindset the only solutions are technological, but we also have governments (even if they have gotten useless regarding t
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by mihaic 2y ago
And are users more responsible with their data? I'm not saying to trust companies, I'm merely saying that it's a harder challenge to put the burden on users doing everything correctly than on the products being built with mor
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by mihaic 2y ago
After losing my phone and not having a way to recover a lot of data, I've come to the realization that I don't want end to end encryption. I just want a responsible entity to store all my data in a secure way, and they'd only
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by mihaic 2y ago
All the recent attempts to monetize SQLite seem wrong to me, since its very core is about how to handle data without any third parties, embeded in your app and mostly on local storage. Any cloud offering feels to me like offering a custom S
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by mihaic 2y ago
Sure, that's being predicted for about 10 years now. I think it's far more than one generation away simply because you'd need a decoder everywhere, and that takes a boatload of standardization. JpegXL failed to gain traction
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by mihaic 2y ago
I'm surprised the paper doesn't entertain the notion that some things look cool, artists copy one another, and trends simply start like that naturally. I mean, it's not like Corinthian style columns have a hidden meaning. The
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by mihaic 2y ago
Not sure about Berlin. As a European, I'd be pretty sure the capital if the world in 1980 was New York for instance.
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by mihaic 2y ago
While there really is a trend to overly dumb down things, I'd just like to speculate that the "message no longer exists" part is simply these when someone adapted the reasonable error for a delete message, and forgot to actua
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by mihaic 2y ago
This sounds like it might be a game-changer, to save us from all this modernism. Almost everyone I know agrees that classical style building are more beautiful to look at, but all that beautiful stone doesn't let in too much light. Now
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by mihaic 2y ago
Your position seems a bit ideological. Ultimate freedom doesn't exist, since pretty much all societies agree that they want to stop people from murdering one another for instance. Any legal system always has to balance individual liber
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by mihaic 2y ago
I live in Romania, and Strand is one of the places I revisit absolutely every single time I'm in NY.
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by mihaic 2y ago
Both of these are built on top of git, an open source project, so Gitlab is not a riff on Github. Perplexica on the other hand seems like a direct reference to Perplexity, not on the concept of being perplexed by something.
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by mihaic 2y ago
All the articles I've read about AI improving education make the same assumption: AI will help students learn that same things as we teach them now easier. If AI will be so revolutionary to me that first mean a complete overhaul of wha
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by mihaic 2y ago
I find it very ironic that Americans seem to understand better as a culture that they need to diversity their investment portfolio, but at the same time seem to ignore that concept in their personal life more than almost any European. It se
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by mihaic 2y ago
> you can look at the code and double check Can you honestly say that when a few months ago someone was trying to put a security hole in OpenSSH by making changes that looked harmless to an archiving tool (the xz backdoor)? Your response
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by mihaic 2y ago
Given how basic their lifestyle was, I'd say you hit marginal returns at tens of individuals. Like I said in another comment, a stronger reason would be required for people to want this scale, and I can only see warfare/peacekeepi

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