pipo234

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by pipo234 9mo ago
Oh yeah pitfall on c64. And loderunner on Spectrum, those were the days... And: Impossible Mission
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by pipo234 9mo ago
Pedantic: I think you meant to say open whisper protocol, the end to end protocol which is Whatsapp copied from Signal.
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by pipo234 9mo ago
I don't think his rant is against social networks or instant messaging perse, but about vendor lock in. The way I read it is along the lines of Mike Masnick's protocols not platforms . https://knightcolumbia.org/c
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by pipo234 9mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does - Stafford Beer
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by pipo234 9mo ago
Castle Quest - an impossibly hard game (to modern standards). I spent so many hours only to die and start al over once more. Great fun! My Android phone is way too old and slow to load jvic, unfortunately. Let alone jsbeeb. But works great
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by pipo234 9mo ago
Nice to have this, though I personally find Matt Godbolt's web-based BBC emulator more exciting (and useful) https://bbc.xania.org/
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by pipo234 9mo ago
> I think the problem is that people: > * see the hype; > * try to replicate the hype; > * it fails miserably; > * they throw everything away; I'm sure doing two years of vibecoding is is a considerably more sincere at
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by pipo234 9mo ago
OMG you're right. I cannot unsee..
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by pipo234 9mo ago
> That is not only protests, but also legal gatherings[...] Oops! You (unintentionally?) make it sound like protests are illegal.
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by pipo234 9mo ago
Not sure if GPT played a role, but for one the editor did a poor job. Very sloppy writing indeed
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by pipo234 9mo ago
> I guess the Prius line was a popular “statement car” of the pre-Tesla era, though, like how Brian drives one on Family Guy, or the “Smug Alert” episode of South Park, but it was never that for me. ... So you admit to falling for Toyota
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by pipo234 9mo ago
Risk management is not my day job, but I'm aware of a cottage industry of enterprise services and appliances to map out, prevent and mitigate risks. Pentest are part of those as are keeping up with trends and literature. So on the subj
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by pipo234 9mo ago
That's an interesting take, but it sounds like you're downplaying the actual risks of enterprise users running agents on their desktop(?). What would your say would be a prudent posture an IT manager should take to control risk to
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by pipo234 9mo ago
I think the attribution is a very good point! Essentially LLMs are recontextualizing their training data. So on one hand, one might argue that training is like a human reading books and then inference is like writing something novel, (parti
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by pipo234 9mo ago
There is evidence that coal has worse environmental impact than other fossil fuels. For one, burning gas produces CO2 and water, whereas burning coal results in just CO2 (+ soot and other pollutants). Another is that (open) coal mines have
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by pipo234 10mo ago
I guess it's a bit more subtle. The point that the article makes is about opening up NeXT to other hardware platforms. So while from one perspective, you might argue it lives on inside Apple, you could also argue that's where next
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by pipo234 10mo ago
For starts, wouldn't it be kind of ironic to set up limits and authorization in a context that is about making some content available to the public? I'd say any technical or legal restrictions or possible means to enforce DRM
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by pipo234 10mo ago
Yes, not great indeed. This is why we have av1, ogg, etc. with most of the hard research re-done just to sidestep those pesky patents.
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by pipo234 10mo ago
Yes, that might work. Strictly, HDMI is a registered trademark that might have strings but you could always say something like EIA/CEA-861... compatible instead
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by pipo234 10mo ago
Yes, that. I think you're only allowed to claim support/compliance if you're certified. And that, allegedly, means they run a couple of closed source tests and involves paperwork and NDAs.
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by pipo234 10mo ago
Well, in video land there is patent pools . For example, you pay nominal fee to download specs from iso/ice 14496-12 to learn the details about BMFF and then pay mpeg-la a couple of dollars per device of it uses an AVC / h264 d
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by pipo234 10mo ago
I suppose you could do a clean room reimplantation, but I doubt you could advertise it as HDMI 2.1 compliant without legal repercussions.
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by pipo234 10mo ago
That is how it seems, yes. But Nvidia also has some less than transparent arrangements to support their customers in buying their goodies. Which is not to say they aren't making money, it's more that in hindsight we may discover t
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by pipo234 1y ago
> Yes but one can't just ignore the federal government itself, as if this wasn't an organization True, though (at least in principle) a democratic government is a very special organization because it (again, in principle) exist
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by pipo234 1y ago
That approach may be a viable heuristic but it will only get you so far. It's like flagging an opinion because it doesn't rhyme with the opinions of others. That's not what humans do when they are fact finding, though. It&#x2
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by pipo234 1y ago
But is there really an alternative?
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by pipo234 1y ago
There's probably a well documented backstory on why Oxide choose stm32xx nucleo. I'm guessing VGA signals were not a top priority for hubris
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by pipo234 1y ago
> The worst part is that when I call the bank to see if its legit, they are much less pleasant to deal with than the scammers... +1 This is so true. I just never realized that is why I'm always tempted to not bother doing the ri
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by pipo234 1y ago
My bank recently asked me to "re-identify" due to regulations about fraud and me being a customer for more than five years. Rather than asking me to come into a building in real life, the asked me to: - download yet another app
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by pipo234 1y ago
How about banking apps? In my part of Europe a growing number of banks require installing an app via Google or Apple story. The Android ones are known to use sdks that at full of "telemetry". Cash is no longer an alternative.

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