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by mzajc 11mo ago
How do they perform age checks?
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by mzajc 11mo ago
For people who might be interested in experiencing this: https://smarthome.steviep.xyz/
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by mzajc 11mo ago
Brendan Eich then went on to develop a browser (a set of Chromium patches, rather) with cryptocurrencies, NFTs, LLM integrations, and all other trend-chasing junk. I'm not sure Firefox would be any better with him in the team - it&#x27
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by mzajc 11mo ago
I love this kind of tongue-in-cheek steganography. In a similar vein: Vermont Inmates Hide Image Of Pig On Police Decals ( https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/02/03/146358114... )
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by mzajc 11mo ago
> We now continue to work as before, getting social media engagement for us and our clients, applying to YC 2026 and other VCs. Why would YC fund a clickfarm? Besides that, there's something frustrating about these people setting up
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by mzajc 11mo ago
It is incompatible with all widely adopted definitions of Free software. If you restrict who can use your software, how, or for what purpose, it's fundamentally unfree. The term that doesn't make any claims about whether a piece o
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by mzajc 11mo ago
I get the impression that this is a temporary measure to ease the transition, not a statement about the privacy guarantees of M365.
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by mzajc 11mo ago
But this isn't a simple explanation, it's just... wrong? Could you share where else it's referred to as such.
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by mzajc 11mo ago
> The kill switch is implemented in the firewall and routing table, not in software. As far as I know, both of these are in the kernel (not hardware). It's odd that so much of the README is dedicated to describing this relatively si
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by mzajc 11mo ago
function estimate_method_targets(func_name::Symbol, types::Tuple) # Conservative estimate # In a real implementation, we'd query the method table return 2 # Assume multiple possibilities end Hilarious. Was
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by mzajc 11mo ago
Relevant discussion: https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/4110 Looks like a slop report that somehow made its way into the CVE database.
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by mzajc 11mo ago
The latest Plasma version still includes the X session. This post concerns the upcoming version, which takes away your choice of using the X session.
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by mzajc 11mo ago
People here might be interested in Invidious[0], a FOSS web frontend for YouTube. By default it shows 4 videos per row, but that can be trivially adjusted with CSS. It's a little light on features, but otherwise very customizable. [0]:
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by mzajc 11mo ago
I don't want an internet designed by businessmen and advertisers, yet here we are.
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by mzajc 11mo ago
I like the idea, but their ratings seem.. dubious at best. For example: Hyperrogue, which hit the frontpage a few times and which I can confidently say does not feature any dark patterns, is rated just 1.19 [0] on a 5 (best) to -5 (worst) s
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by mzajc 11mo ago
Of the universe, perhaps, but humans certainly are a limiting factor here. Assuming we get this technology someday, why would one buy your software when the mere description of its functionality allows one to recreate it effortlessly?
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by mzajc 11mo ago
> They [archive.today] replied within a few hours. The response was straightforward: the illegal content would be removed (and we verified that it was), and they had never received any previous notifications about those URLs. I think it&
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by mzajc 11mo ago
> why do apps even have permission to intercept all notifications?? Just fix that! I fear "fixing" it would mean removing the feature entirely, which breaks many workflows. Primarily this is used for accessibility (and is contr
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by mzajc 11mo ago
It seems the maintainers are very eager to lock issues and threads on GitHub that receive any pushback to this decision. Where is this coming from? I thought Homebrew was pro-user software, which requiring Apple's approval to run softw
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by mzajc 11mo ago
> Companies own you - they pay a subscription (your salary) to rent you. They rent my work , not me, and if I am paid for project or contract work, they get to keep what I made after they've stopped paying me.
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by mzajc 11mo ago
> (Wikipedia has the additional problem that, by default, the version cited is the ever-changing "latest" version, not a fixed and identified version.) Only citing means copying the URL directly. If you use Wikipedia's &qu
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by mzajc 11mo ago
> So much infrastructure is built by people having a less than good time. If the "work only as means to an end" line of thinking continues, us programmers will be there in no time.
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by mzajc 11mo ago
Does Quad9 run a resolver with DNSSEC but without "malware" blocking? So far I've had multiple instances (twice for a torrent tracker, once for gist.github.com) where they blocked a non-malware domain for a short while, whi
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by mzajc 11mo ago
> I just don't think this is the sinister power move they are claiming. It's not that deep. If mass scale identity theft to push your propaganda isn't crossing the line, I don't know what is.
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> The primary one is that the notion of a “UK based IP” is nonsense. Geolocation databases work by figuring out where people log in from and only after doing a lot of pattern recognition do those addresses get associated with that locati
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by mzajc 11mo ago
Nice dodge.
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What happens if you block network for the tab once it's finished loading? Does it delete the page if payments aren't going through anymore?
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by mzajc 11mo ago
Are you referring to consts? Besides those, I can't really think of a counterexample.
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by mzajc 11mo ago
Where did you check this? While neither are listed on WP:RSP, I know many cites are changed into web.archive.org links once they go down.
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by mzajc 11mo ago
Not from bribes and/or moving faster than the regulators. Altman's projects, on the other hand...

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