mook

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by mook 10d ago
The two could make sense if they decided a normal user is a bot, and it's the humans that are not normal. Given their push for AI, that could even be a consistent view… not great for us meat bags, of course.
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by mook 14d ago
(2016), -s -w + UPX. I got confused by the mention of 1.6, since its somewhere around 1.27 these days; the article turned out to be a decade old.
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by mook 16d ago
Oh, its good at doing desktop applications these days? Which GUI libraries are good these days? Some native win32 binding? Are there good equivalents for Qt? I'm interested in getting back to native application development; the job is
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by mook 20d ago
> In fact I believe they could've simplified it further by getting rid of station codes. Which passenger needs to know Dhoby Ghaut is NE6/CC1/NE24? I believe they're usually for people who can't read the language
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by mook 23d ago
Also, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, more scrapers. They're trying to keep things accessible without JavaScript, which mostly rules out the typical proof of work solutions like Anubis (which they're definitely aware of, as
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by mook 28d ago
Up to Win2k, I don't recall new releases of Windows leading to people lamenting the UI changes; I do remember people not liking the initial look of XP, though. Maybe it's just because complaints got more visible after the Internet
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by mook 1mo ago
Yeah, I've been working around that for now by uninstalling notepad. Which actually uninstalls the store app, which in turn exposes the actual notepad executable that ships with Windows. Really confusing, and will probably break in som
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by mook 1mo ago
Interesting, I don't really have downtime with my OpenWRT setup. Probably because I don't really touch the setup once it's there, other than occasionally doing the firmware updates.
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by mook 1mo ago
Well, I looked it up and the game shipped in the early 2000s, and listed Pentium 266 as minimum requirements (Pentium 500 recommended). I don't recall the 386 era and the DVD era overlapping that much…
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by mook 1mo ago
I think a better take is: > Do you use personal / behavioral data / usage to shape the user experience and recommendations? You do not get covered by Section 230. If they get to exercise editorial powers, then it doesn't m
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by mook 1mo ago
Well, they seem to have started shipping parts of that; recently I noticed https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... was installed for me.
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by mook 1mo ago
Presumably MCTR was MicroCenter as well.
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by mook 1mo ago
Meh, in the early days of DVDs I recall a game that came with uncompressed 48kHz audio. Compress it to mp3 (which the game naively accepted if you had the correct Windows filters) and it fits in a CD.
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by mook 1mo ago
I remember somebody trying to hook into the Apple Find My network (that is, do things with AirTags). They did that by… being a Mail.app plug-in or something to get the correct entitlements? That certainly sounds like the wrong permissions.
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by mook 1mo ago
Hmm, shouldn't the diff start at the tag? That is, it seems like it should be https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/compare/version-3.51.2...an... Which says they made two commits to make instrumentation work
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by mook 2mo ago
I agree; in practice, probably only the public error types, though. If it can return fmt.Errorf("…%w…") I probably only need the type of the wrapped error, not whatever type the implementation uses.
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by mook 2mo ago
I was under the impression that SHAKEN / STIR was supposed to do that by authenticating the phone numbers displayed against the telco that made the call. But as the other comment says, your telco earns money from scam calls and they do
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by mook 2mo ago
Isn't prompt injection basically social engineering for LLMs already anyway?
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by mook 2mo ago
Hmm, I don't know the area well; why would 2FA have been relevant here? From the (unverified) story, the account was administratively handed over via support; there was no indication from any party that the account was hacked. So 2FA p
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by mook 2mo ago
Interesting. At a smaller company I worked at, the CEO was a sales role, as far as I could tell.
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by mook 2mo ago
At scale, testing software is appreciably more expensive than using hardware. That's why at most people test a tiny slice of it, and ships out broken software in the hopes of fixing it later. Testing hardware is expensive because nobod
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by mook 2mo ago
That's why we have Android Auto: move the updates to a thing that already has frequent Internet connection, and if the update goes wrong it's clearly the fault of this other company, plus the car itself still works fine. Jeep alre
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by mook 2mo ago
Nice, [3] reminded me of OpenGrok † the old Sun project that was basically LXR on steroids. † https://oracle.github.io/opengrok/
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by mook 2mo ago
I keep getting things like "denial of service when the SCSS or whatever parse is given malicious input”. Great, that's part of the build chain, all of its inputs are stuff we control. Why do we care.
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by mook 2mo ago
But updates to broken packages are still allowed: if a new version is pushed within the three days, it does not reset the cool-down. You just get a pull request to update to a known-bad version instead.
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by mook 2mo ago
I don't see how you can tell it's AI, instead of just your co-workers having no respect for language. See: management-speak using "double-click".
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by mook 3mo ago
I think it's implied to be refusing to unpublish at the request of the author; unpublishing due to outside forces is probably inevitable. If some unsupportable content got introduced in a new version (e.g. xz), at least the historical
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by mook 3mo ago
For some reason, that holds an appxbundle per the article. I'd suspect they needed to run some pre- or post-install code (maybe to check for their hardware?).
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by mook 3mo ago
I use KeepassXC, but I have no need to share passwords with other people. In a corporate situation that would probably not work as well.
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by mook 3mo ago
Don't forget the insurance, plus the hospital has costs that must be paid for too. A surgery with _just_ the surgeon and no support staff isn't one I'd want to be in. (Not in the medical field at all)

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