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by piaste 4y ago
"Hey, people used to put up with that shit" isn't exactly a winning argument.
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by piaste 4y ago
> Who is tracking that is irrelevant. It is absolutely relevant; it is arguably the most relevant question. It lies at the basis of the entire concept of "threat model" in security. The police wants to track you to investigat
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by piaste 4y ago
This appears to be low-content spam with less information than the Zorin Wikipedia page. And, given the repeated mentions of the paid Pro version, very likely to be an undisclosed paid ad. In Italian we call the latter kind of articles mar
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by piaste 4y ago
> I don't think small sellers have anything to do with child labour. This is a remarkable claim. Why would you think that?
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by piaste 4y ago
Worse. It was written by a low-quality content mill that is one step above spam. The Germany 'ban', for example? A German newspaper asked the Federal Commissioner if it could be blocked, and he answered "In principle, it coul
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by piaste 4y ago
At what point did I say that people would have to figure it out on their own? For the sake of this argument, assume the premises that (a) Meta, a foreign corporation, controlling the private conversation of hundreds of millions of citizens
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by piaste 4y ago
> I know of people whose facebook accounts got blocked and were asked to provide some id since the accounts were opened from two different geographies. Ah, I see. Unrelated to VPNs, but if you want another anecdote: I had my FB account b
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by piaste 4y ago
Why don't you want random traffic to go through the VPN? Mullvad is quite fast.
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by piaste 4y ago
That was unexpected and unannounced. Saying "WhatsApp will go offline from the 1st of next month" would be very different. Especially because WhatsApp _uses phone numbers as identifiers_. Switching to Signal or Telegram, which als
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by piaste 4y ago
No, it's not, it's closer to the opposite. A human says "I want to marry you" when he is modeling the other person and has an expectation of how she will respond, and he likes that expectation. A language model says &quo
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by piaste 4y ago
Should have called it "LLM Runner".
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by piaste 4y ago
> Because stripe takes a massive cut? 2.9% plus 30 cents per transaction, sure, but after that you have actual fiat money that you can use to pay salaries and suppliers. Ethereum isn't free, either. You gas fees, withdrawal fees, an
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by piaste 4y ago
It should be fairly trivial to change the python wrapper script from "just rawdog chatgpt into your shell, yolo" to "here is the command chatgpt has generated, execute it? [y/N]". (Or "[Y/n]" if you&#
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by piaste 4y ago
Password validation is a degenerate case of parsing, where your parsed type does not contain any more information than your unparsed type - both are just opaque strings. (In fact you could use an invalid password just fine: unless you'
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by piaste 4y ago
You could reward the type of monetization that is correlated to high-quality content and penalize the type that is associated with spam. Site offers extra paid content or services, or takes donations? Rank up. Ads? Neutral or rank down base
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by piaste 4y ago
Ah, I thought your previous post meant "we should make the world less awful so that teenagers won't be exposed to that". Apologies. > My point is that we should address that problem, and potentially create/help teens
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by piaste 4y ago
Before even the flawed STARTTLS was a thing, people wanting to have private communication over unencrypted email would simply exchange public keys and use PGP to create encrypted messages. If E2E were not available for any reason whatsover,
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by piaste 4y ago
The companies who bent over backwards to give them all of those benefits are not public services or non-profit altruists. They're ruthless capitalists and if they could get the same value by paying developers $20k with no benefits, the
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by piaste 4y ago
It's not quite envy, it's expectations. It's like being at a dinner party full of people dressed up to the nines while you're just there in a clean but unremarkable shirt and blazer. You can genuinely like everybody at t
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by piaste 4y ago
> Sure phones make these issues more apparent, info flows faster, further. School shootings don't stay local news. Olympics Committee corruption is not burtied in the 20h news. Instagram pushes our esthetics stronger than previous m
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by piaste 4y ago
If you can type touchless, try putting the laptop off to the side, and typing your notes without looking at the screen. The presenter might feel much less ignored if he still has your eye contact.
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by piaste 4y ago
The kind that runs once and then waits geological ages to hit the next iteration. For example: while (command != 'quit') { command = readline() handle(command) }
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by piaste 4y ago
Yeah, it's very awkward. Your best option is to leave a 'hole' case where someone may provide a 'data type' set of functions satisfying an interface, and the library author simply calls them. Effectively you're
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by piaste 4y ago
Telegram is, I believe, generally worse than Signal for privacy. Both have FOSS clients and offer E2E chats (good), although Telegram doesn't make them the default. Both require the use of phone numbers for identification and store som
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by piaste 4y ago
Bitwarden is also available as Flatpak now. In case "the only software I run as an AppImage" means that you would prefer another format.
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by piaste 4y ago
> So does this mean person A could reverse stalk person B (who has their airtagged Macbook on them, for instance). Use the disable function to disable the airtag on person B's Macbook once IOS pops up a potential stalking notificati
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by piaste 4y ago
Moving the port away from 22 changed my fail2ban logs from hundreds of lines a day to one every few weeks at most. While you shouldn't skip on other security measures, there's no real downside to changing your SSH port and getting
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by piaste 4y ago
How much storage do you have? That's typically the biggest expense as you put more stuff on your server (i.e. media, both upload and download).
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by piaste 4y ago
> For those who go, "but I need real power" There's also the flip side, which is "well since I already have real power..." I.e., like many HNers, I own a powerful coding/gaming Linux desktop with plenty of
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by piaste 4y ago
Or, more succinctly, what makes a bank a bank is that it will loan out money deposited by other people. If the money is just sitting there and can't be moved or even counted without the owner's private key, it's not a bank, i

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