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by npteljes 1y ago
All depends on the prayer quota. If one can do "9 000 000 mantras per minute" easily, then maybe what's needed for betterment is a totality of a quintillion prayers in one's life.
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by npteljes 1y ago
It seems like many Valve classics began as mods. Team Fortress and Dota also saw the light first as mods.
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by npteljes 1y ago
Yes, technically it is, but the feeling of it is entirely different. Same thing with cloud services: people upload (or don't care) about a good bunch of stuff, to whatever cloud backend the app is using, but sending each other stuff
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by npteljes 1y ago
I completely agree. If only Windows also had WinKey+C/X/V as shortcuts, it would make so much sense in other Windows software too. Same with ALT+TAB and ALT+F4, CTRL+SPACE etc, these should also be handled by the win key. Then the
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by npteljes 1y ago
Yeah, that is the most sensible choice. OS key to interact with the OS, rest of the keys to interact with the application.
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by npteljes 1y ago
This is now besides the original point, which was that in cryptography's case, "lightweight" would work like "alternative" works for "alternative medicine". However if we shift the focus to marketing, ligh
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by npteljes 1y ago
"Lightweight" here doesn't stop it from proper cryptography. In this case, the qualifier doesn't take away from the original meaning, just focuses it on a subset. Like "public-key cryptography".
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by npteljes 1y ago
Nothing stops us from qualifying "cryptography" with an adjective to refer to a specific part of it, while still referring to full-fledged cryptography. See the Wikipedia article for examples. "Elliptic Curve Cryptography&quo
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by npteljes 1y ago
I get that. Well, not in the linked Facebook case, seeing how much legal attention they have attracted, but in general. And I think that the X server's design is the same. What StarDict did was using an intentional part of the design,
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by npteljes 1y ago
I completely agree. Also, these people have a lot of other assignment, as I imagine. I, for one, have certainly let things slide in the past that ended up biting me, for whatever reason, malice not included.
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by npteljes 1y ago
Absolutely. In my understanding and approach, it would need two smaller modifications: 1. making "scanning" (the clipboard capturing feature opt-in, with a huge notification for the implications 2. disabling the English-Chinese on
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by npteljes 1y ago
Yeah, I agree, it's tricky. And besides, the clipboard leak should be fixed for sure, malice or not. It's strange that it has been known for so long.
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by npteljes 1y ago
Yes, I do feel strongly about attributing malice to someone who I think didn't warrant it. Especially do I think that they are not malicious, because of the fact that they don't admit to their doing as a security hole, but as func
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by npteljes 1y ago
For sure. I hope that due to the noise, they finally clean this up for good.
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by npteljes 1y ago
I think that in today's polarized world, it's very much needed. I think we need to look at each other's fallibilities and failures, and not hate each other for it. But the issue needs to be taken care of, especially since it&
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by npteljes 1y ago
I definitely consider it a security breach. But I do still think it's ignorance. Debian maintainers let it slide since 2009, so for at least 16 years now ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534731 )
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by npteljes 1y ago
>nor do I think that they gain any advantage of it
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by npteljes 1y ago
Data leaking bug reported as early as 2009: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534731 , so it's not looking rosy.
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by npteljes 1y ago
I agree with you, this is not an X11 issue, it's a "why are we letting software like this in the repository" issue. The kind of lax attitude towards security I'd expect from a random AUR package, not in the Debian repo.
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by npteljes 1y ago
Android has its fair share of issues as well. For a recent issue, take a look at the localhost tracking, wherein "Meta devised an ingenious system that bypassed Android’s sandbox protections to identify you while browsing on your mobil
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by npteljes 1y ago
I'm sure if people discovered that a Debian package offering "AI suggestions" would send the clipboard over unencrypted HTTP to two Chinese servers, it would make a similar noise. Actively listening to the clipboard, and imme
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by npteljes 1y ago
Hanlon's razor applies here, I think. It's just ignorance, not malice. I doubt the maintainer has connection, or was pressured by these two random dictionary websites to include this - nor do I think that they gain any advantage o
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by npteljes 1y ago
I think so too. It's cultural difference, and ignorance at most. I doubt the maintainer has control over that two random dictionary websites, or was tasked by them to do this or anything like that. They are just a different person, and
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by npteljes 1y ago
>"first of all, you need to not be yourself" Yes, that seems part of it, as long as all you know is "yourself without social skills". With social skills, and leaving some of that "yourself" behind, you will
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by npteljes 1y ago
I think if someone is already not taken by any of their inner things entirely, then they are already doing this regulation thing. The social skills that are described in the article (and soft skills in general) are just a next step on the s
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by npteljes 1y ago
Type 2 fun maybe.
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by npteljes 1y ago
You can solve this by reapplying attribution elsewhere. Instead of blaming the methods / soft skills / whatever, which can be used for good and bad, blame the people who misuse these tools for personal gain: politicians, salespe
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by npteljes 1y ago
Part of being truly social (and being emotionally mature) is to understand and apply the difference between manipulation and being mindful about behavior and speech. Same as honesty - honesty doesn't need to be brutal honesty. One can
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by npteljes 1y ago
Mea culpa, I glossed over that!
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by npteljes 1y ago
That is not how LLMs work. I don't know either how they work - but what you describe is demonstrated in TFA. It can spell the word correctly every time, and at the same time it can get the letter count wrong.

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