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by neilv 11mo ago
How did you read that? This is an ongoing situation.
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by neilv 11mo ago
Yes, but we could at least have good discussion prompted by that, until someone flagged the article. I wasted my time typing a constructive comment, while the article was flagged in the interim. Now I'm just going to close HN and not
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by neilv 11mo ago
Dark-mode and light-mode are both so popular as user preference, that apps and sites should make sure at least stock light and dark modes work well, out of the box. Noticeable examples of needing improvement: * Default light and dark theme
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by neilv 11mo ago
Comcast/Xfinity did a major upgrade of my neighborhood a few weeks ago, and now I'm getting similar-sounding intermittent outages multiple times a day... but that's not what infuriated me, and not what they will regret. As a
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Major N.L. Canada healthcare report contains errors likely generated by A.I(theindependent.ca)
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by neilv 11mo ago
Nice that people are recognizing that they don't need DDR5 for most workloads. I have some DDR4 that I'm not currently using, so I just posted it for sale. :)
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by neilv 11mo ago
No they don't. And that's not what the article did here.
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by neilv 11mo ago
> Since almost every web browser in the world now supports JavaScript, turning it off as a measure to protect privacy is like going to the shopping mall wearing a ski mask. I'm going to steal this nice analogy, for when I try to e
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by neilv 11mo ago
They say "privacy" a lot on that blog page, but that very page runs surveillance capitalism trackers from Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others.
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by neilv 11mo ago
I'm thinking second-hand and new-old-stock, with less demand for it.
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by neilv 11mo ago
Some of those old phones are nicely slammable. What's even more bulletproof are vintage street payphones. Nothing keeps a daily standup call on track like a payphone atmosphere of being on the run. ("Quick, what's sprint sta
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by neilv 11mo ago
If we're going to see retailers price-gouging on DDR5, maybe people will be willing to buy slightly older gear with DDR4 (and corresponding motherboard and CPU). Especially for systems for which the workloads are actually bound by GPU
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by neilv 11mo ago
A journalist is stating a corporate PR explanation for a sketchy action as fact. And it's not even a very believable reason, at least not completely, and the journalist certainly isn't verifying it. And it's important.
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by neilv 11mo ago
> > I am preparing an article on the use of your secure personal data phone solution by drug traffickers and other criminals. I think GrapheneOS needs a really good PR expert volunteer, or funding to pay for a non-volunteer. My non-
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by neilv 11mo ago
The article is useful overall, but the following line is such bad journalism that I want to call it out, since we can't afford to have people dumbed-down. > The reason behind this is Google’s push to power new Gmail features with i
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by neilv 11mo ago
I worked briefly on GDS/ARS protocol in modern times (for reservation system on Linux servers that could talk directly to the mainframe network, rather than using a middleware wrapper around your own mainframe) The protocols are heavil
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by neilv 11mo ago
> that once a netsplit disconnected him and a sockpuppet If it was like the IRC networks I knew, this would be very weak evidence. (The analogies I thought of don't do justice to all the reasons. Summarizing the pertinent IRC arc
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by neilv 11mo ago
Interesting. I have had extensions lose their storage when the profile directory path changed, and at the time it seemed to be because of the pathnames within the files.
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by neilv 11mo ago
The coolest use of a gas plasma display I saw in person was at my teenage software engineering internship. We had the coolest engineering workstation computers, Sun and almost everything else, with the huge CRTs... but strangely cooler, in
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by neilv 11mo ago
I would guess not. I see `.mozilla` absolute pathnames within some files in a profile directory (specifically, `extensions.json` and `pkcs11.txt`). (This has bitten me before. I don't know why it was done that way.)
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by neilv 11mo ago
> This assumes that the students are untrustworthy and the faculty/institution are ultimately trusted. True. This proposal requires expecting and requiring the faculty to have integrity. And you really need the college/unive
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by neilv 11mo ago
It would be too perfect if "adversarial" here also referred to a kind of confrontational poetry jam style. In a cyberpunk heist, traditional hackers in hoodies (or duster jackets, katanas, and utilikilts) are only the first wave,
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by neilv 11mo ago
Finding students with integrity is hard now, because the culture is already full of poo. But one starting point is to communicate that you expect and require integrity, explain what that means, and then expect it. Trying to make metrics or
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by neilv 11mo ago
The instructor clearly sets their expectations for attendance (whether it's mandatory, or otherwise), and then just expects everyone to follow that.
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by neilv 11mo ago
The root problem is that a lot of higher education is nurturing a culture of cheaters right now. Your future doctors, scientists, government officials, etc... will have had to compete and gain coveted academic and career opportunities, in
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by neilv 11mo ago
> But if it is someone's project, why should they have to leave if governance doesn't go the way they wish? Many projects start as someone's project, but become bigger than the one person. If they keep it as one person&#
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by neilv 1y ago
Thanks, that looks very useful.
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by neilv 1y ago
> Most of these sites are not even that big. I expect maybe a few thousand visitors per month. Incidentally, if you can make a site "static", so far I'm mostly liking AWS CloudFront loaded from S3. After many years serv
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by neilv 1y ago
> TRL's data suggests that LED and whiter headlamps may be linked to glare and that drivers might find their whiteness harder to cope with. As a long-time walker in the US, anecdotally, I've noticed some especially blinding c
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by neilv 1y ago
> > It's clear that I cannot divulge the source of my knowledge or confirm/deny its existence. [...] My response must steer clear of revealing any information that I should not know, while providing a helpful and apologetic

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