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by palata 4mo ago
Is it? All the biggest tech companies, now including LLM companies, are US companies. This effectively means that the US government has access to them and it has been known for a long time now. Is that orders of magnitude better than age ve
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by palata 4mo ago
> Average 4.75 Mbits/sec throughput Isn't that slow for WiFi? I mean it's an interesting learning experience, but isn't that strictly worse than pretty much any WiFi dongle?
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by palata 4mo ago
Not that I am in favour of age verification, but I find it interesting how many people complain about age verification for being "mass surveillance", but just don't give a shit about AI and TooBigTech and surveillance capital
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by palata 4mo ago
> The main problem is providing infrastructure for a government that can over use it in future if move to ultra right/left/authoritarian spectrum If that was considered the real problem, we would be fighting against surveillanc
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by palata 4mo ago
If you're obsessed with privacy, I suggest you look at GrapheneOS instead of /e/OS, though.
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by palata 4mo ago
> If you want to crack down on code sharing, you'd have to start surveilling who is signing up to what. Not at all. If you want to find who shares codes at scale, you just track that person. If someone sells hundreds of thousands of
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by palata 4mo ago
> but then the government will know you've authenticated with pornhub! If you do your cryptography right, the government will not know that you've authenticated with pornhub. That's the whole goddamn point of privacy-prese
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by palata 4mo ago
Let's try it. If it doesn't help the kids, we can remove it I guess. Anything that doesn't accept this limitation becomes dystopian. The only viable age verification system is one that cannot be 100% effective, period.
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by palata 4mo ago
> buy a card with a UUID from anywhere that sells alcohol/tobacco that is valid for some period of time. most people are comfortable with flashing their ID at the clerk. the UUID card is non-identifying. It can be implemented in a p
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by palata 4mo ago
> The major one is that there should be some way to do attestation of devices that are not Google-certified Android or iOS. IMO, just don't do the proof of possession. If I have the token that says I am an adult, I can use it to be
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by palata 4mo ago
> Which part of that is avoiding the distopian control? Your ID is already controlled by your government, and we don't call that dystopian control. With privacy-preserving age verification online, the government doesn't learn w
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by palata 4mo ago
Nope they don't. That's the whole point of privacy-preserving age verification. Technically it is possible. The complaint that people have is that they don't trust that any government will get it right. But it is technically
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by palata 4mo ago
I get the feeling, it is a... "different" language. But I never understood the criticism about the documentation. At least in the last decade, I have always found the CMake documentation pretty good. Everything is documented. Prob
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by palata 4mo ago
> But you also can't discount all of the messes made by silicon OEMs that you are forced to deal with to use their SoCs. Yes, totally! It's a bit sad because we don't usually have the luxury to select the hardware based on
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by palata 4mo ago
Watching USA today instead?
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by palata 4mo ago
> How many nuclear actually killed is unknown because it's not as easy as: something happens, people drown. Did you even bother to read about how we estimate the casualties of nuclear incidents? It really sounds like you didn't
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by palata 4mo ago
My experience is that Yocto is a bit like CMake: people hate the mess they make with it and blame the system, even though they never bothered learning to use it. When someone starts with "why cross-compiling the system if it's b
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by palata 4mo ago
Doesn't Yocto come from Gentoo to some extent?
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by palata 4mo ago
Yeah I wanted to say that. From a user's point of view, it sounds like the AppView is the instance. If you disagree with the moderation, you can move to a different AppView (that may use different relays) but keep your PDS. Whereas wit
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by palata 4mo ago
> I don't care about controlling my PDS if other people can't see my posts. Isn't that similar with Mastodon? Someone on an instance that does not federate with yours will not see your posts, and I guess someone on an inst
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by palata 4mo ago
There is a big difference between completely YOLOing your dependencies and deeply reviewing all their code. It is a gradient, by acknowledging that you ask git to hide the file because you consider it "noise", you say that you are
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by palata 4mo ago
Yet dams have killed more people than nuclear plants.
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by palata 4mo ago
> There's no real technical reason why the Newton was destined to fail Which reinforces the survivor bias, doesn't it? Often the product theories are more "look I succeeded once, so I did it right and you should copy me&qu
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by palata 4mo ago
Sure, but is it fair to call something an unsuccessful product given an arbitrary caveat ? With the caveat of "brushing my teeth", iPads and smartphones are a complete disaster. I don't know the definition of a "success
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by palata 4mo ago
And in terms of sovereignty? Most solar panels come from China, don't they?
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by palata 4mo ago
> Fortunately people usually have enough common sense to see how ridiculous that one is The problem is actually that people don't have enough attention to actually read about it . People are stuck in "I am a smart adult, I don
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by palata 4mo ago
Are you aware that tens of thousands of endangered bats are killed every year just in Germany (by wind turbines)? It is an actual problem for that species. Are you aware that wind turbines have detection systems for bird migrations and stop
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by palata 4mo ago
> If it were actually a problem you should be able to walk under a wind turbine and find a bunch of dead birds/bats. That's not how it works, but thanks for not thinking about it for more than a few seconds. It is documented, y
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by palata 4mo ago
Did you read it? Where do you see mention of "a field of unsuccessful products"? It mentions the iPad, the iPod, Gmail as successful products. It mentions "laptops" (but in the description it actually includes all deskto
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by palata 4mo ago
Are you saying "as a developer, you don't want to see what code you ship as transitive dependencies"? I guess it's the norm in the software industry, but that's slightly irresponsible.

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