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by pdkl95 7y ago
> I'm not sure that I believe them. You don't have to take their word that people would pay. They already are paying. Millions[1] of people go out of their way[2] to pay creators monthly or per-work. However, a lot of that
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> technology is going to make mass surveillance relatively easy > a la Gestapo In 2013 Tom Scott made an incredibly prescient sketch of our grim surveillance-state future. It absolutely terrifying . https://www.youtube.c
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> ACiD While I never had any talent for drawing (with ANSI or otherwise), I spent most of the time in my high school AP Computer Science class hanging out with Rad Man[1]. We wasted probably half of the school year using the school'
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> The complaints were (and still are) conspiracy theories The people making those complaints are probably not crazy; it might be a good idea to try to understand their actual concerns instead of jumping to this inaccurate (and insulting)
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> take a cue from the biomedical research community and adopt an institutional review board Some sort of "tech IRB" is absolutely needed. Unfortunately, when this idea was brought up after Facebook's infamous "emotion
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> but on many systems there has been a move to having the scrollbars hidden by default Which is terrible for those of us without scroll wheels. The user agent can implement scrollbars in unpredictable ways to accommodate local needs. Rei
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> I fail to see why sending the referer is a privacy concern. From the article: >> The Zeus platform monitors contextual data such as ... what URL they have used to arrive there ... The publisher will then match that data to its ex
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> you will want to know where that typo is ... you will want to know who it I know you want to know those things. Find another way to handle those issues. To be a "good reason", you need to show why your reason is worth
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Why is that odd? "Incognito mode" is a feature to hide your browsing history locally . Usually this meant hiding your porn browsing from your parents/roommate/etc. Hiding anything from the server was (unfortunately) nev
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> what URL they have used to arrive there This is yet another example of why sending the Referrer header is insane . It's a massive privacy breach by design . Anything serious about protecting privacy needs to stop intentionally b
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> Implementing UPnP and NAT punching is trivial It's possible if and only if you have control of the router. Good luck doing that when it's your ISP doing CGNAT. This is already impossible in some areas (e.g. parts of China)
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> whether end users can get at least one public IP. That only gets harder as address space limits[1] squeeze more and more people onto Carrier Grade NAT and similar workarounds. > NAT is actually a security feature. No, it's not.
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Media Literacy and Game News(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 7y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> the dataset contained ... demographic attributes like race ... to predict actual work performance Regardless of the original intent, that's a request to launder a protected class into an opaque "work performance" metri
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> make it increasingly difficult to enforce ethical decisions Nonsense - this is a solved problem. You simply need to remove the ability to make defined classes of bad decisions by binding the company's future decision making capabi
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by pdkl95 7y ago
There isn't a 1-size-fits-all solution to this type of situation. Giving the company a reasonable time[1] to fix it is a good guideline to start with, but determining the best approach to use requires making several judgment calls. Is
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by pdkl95 7y ago
You might be interested in lft's talk[1] - "Poems For Bugs" - about why people are still writing very impressive demos for the C64 and other highly limited platforms. Instead of thinking about programming as functions and ob
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Private browsing mode wasn't (originally) intended to to prevent tracking by websites. It's goal was to keep your browsing history locally private. (i.e. keep your pr0n viewing out of the local browsing history so your friends w
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by pdkl95 7y ago
A good example of a GUI that prepares commands is pgadmin3. Many of it's dialogs accumulate pending changes into a viewable and editable SQL buffer: https://imgur.com/oagJTVA You don't have to use that feature
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> a nuclear bomb creating a tsunami seems quite questionable, Yes, a "trunami bomb" is nonsense. We've done underwater nuclear tests (e.g. operation Hardtack's Wahoo test). Water pressure prevents most of the physical
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by pdkl95 7y ago
It probably depends on if the cleanup is safe to run without its setup. For "rm -f", that's true so the trap probably should be first in that case. If you have to worry about strict dependency ordering, trapping first may not
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> traps to handle events like being terminated mid-way thru and cleaning up to a sanitized state Traps are underused. They solve a lot of error-handling and cleanup problems really easily! Here[1] is a simple example of using a trap to c
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> we already have solar cells over this theoretical limit I need to ask my brother how this new method compares to his work[1] on high efficiency heterojunction solar cells. While this is all really interesting physics, it quickly races
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Launching an Entire Fireworks Display at Once(youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 7y ago|0 comments
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Yes, it could overwrite any program, but (if I recall correctly) it hit OS file most of the time simply because they were always open. It was a very rare bug, because it had to combine both corruption of the VM to allow the write to happe
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by pdkl95 7y ago
One of the ways Windows would corrupt itself was an optimization it used to reduce the size of the VM swap file. On many OS, when a program is loaded into memory the executable code pages of memory are the same as any other memory page: the
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MarIQ – Q-Learning Neural Network for Mario Kart [video](youtube.com)
60 points by pdkl95 7y ago|2 comments
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> if police work becomes effectively impossible It hasn't. That's a lie. Police/etc have far more resources available to them than they've had at any point in history. The trail of digital exhaust we leave behind is
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> shell ... Just not a useful enough set chsh - change login shell DESCRIPTION The chsh command changes the user login shell. If you don't like the features of your shell, use a different shell. > you don&#x27
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> Won't it mean that video games are going to be completely unplayable Even on my x.org desktop without compositing or any other source of extra frame delay, just turning on vsync in-game utterly destroys my ability to play Super He

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