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by poikroequ 2y ago
I once tried hosting a web server at home by exposing ports 80 and 443 to the Internet. Hours later I reviewed the logs, thousands of attempts to hack into my lil Linux server. It spooked me to say the least, so I switched to using cloudfla
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Sadly probably won't happen. There was likely some clause in their previous ToS which allowed them to make this change. Standard business practice.
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Maybe, but with a gun pointed at his head. Or maybe there's just an open window nearby.
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That sounds about right. I don't know much about video encoding either, but there is software which can losslessly splice videos on key frames. It's also possible to join multiple segments together, as long as all the segments hav
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I'm not commenting on whether or not it's GDPR compliant. They're the ones who keep making that claim. Even if it were true, I'm saying that may not be good enough. Users clearly aren't happy and their stubborn resp
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by poikroequ 2y ago
> Mastercard has a partnership with Mercedes-Benz that allows the automaker’s customers to use a fingerprint sensor in their car to make digital payments... Of course it's really all about increasing profits under the guise of secur
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by poikroequ 2y ago
The response from the devs is quite sad. They keep parroting over and over that it's GDPR compliant, as if that's all that matters. A tool widely used for automated testing is sending telemetry data to a third party over the inter
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I feel the same way, but it goes way beyond ads. It seems like there are far too many people out there that actively work to make the world a shittier place. Sure, it makes the corporation more money, but has an overall negative effect on s
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Paper is linked at end of article. https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01637
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In the paper, it seems they really stretch the definition of "zero day" to mean †not part of the GPT-4 training data*. In another words, these were exploits that GPT-4 was not trained on.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
IIRC I saw the Car Thing on sale for as cheap as $25? Actually decent specs for the price. There's so many little things you can do with this hardware. The people claiming it's ewaste just have no imagination.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Unlike advertising in other places, where you're often getting something for free, sadly that's not the case in retail media. Consumers gain nothing from it. It doesn't make products any cheaper, actually makes products more
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I personally care very much about my privacy, but people are people, and most people only care about what directly and immediately affects them. That's the problem with privacy concerns, the negative effects aresubtle and gradual. It&#
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I kind of knew this already, I think many of us did, the idea that for kids growing up today, invasive technology is just normal for them. It's great to see the idea being formalized like this though.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
There are clear benefits to building web apps vs native apps. You only have to write a single web app and it runs virtually everywhere. Also, there is a huge pool of talent that corporations can tap into, people who know web development. It
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I've seen first hand just how little the average person cares about privacy. The type of people who believe they have nothing to hide. My friends and family don't understand why I don't post everything to social media. No I&
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by poikroequ 2y ago
In other news, the sky is blue.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
It really is disgusting that they'll block workarounds like this. Do they REALLY need to force this on the less than 1% of users who might use such workarounds? You can use a program called Rufus to create a bootable flash drive from a
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Maybe I understand it wrong, but if time is not an illusion, does that mean the past still exists? Hypothetically, if we could reverse the flow of time, would that mean we could travel into the past? I ask this because I have a bit of a par
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I agree with you. I like to flip the question and ask the opposite, what would make life meaningless? When you ponder that question, you come to realize it's a very personal and subjective thing. For some people, religion weighs very h
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by poikroequ 2y ago
No doubt the human brain is incredibly adaptive, and there are seemingly countless examples of this. Even for people with severe brain damage, who lose some portion of their brain, are able to adapt. Different parts of the brain can be adap
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by poikroequ 2y ago
> Today, Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals. Authoritarian goals for me, not for thee!
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by poikroequ 2y ago
Anecdotal but I've found it much easier to start DRY and then later duplicate code that diverges a little bit from the original. What is hard is working with a large code base with lots of duplicate code. When you need to change one t
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I still practice DRY, but I try to not overdo it with unnecessary abstractions. More recently I've been practicing SPOT (Single Point of Truth). I interpret this in two ways. One, every piece of data should have a location that reigns
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by poikroequ 2y ago
It doesn't take a genius to figure out declining birthrates are a good thing, but it does take someone who is not delusional and grossly out of touch. Cultures come and go, we don't need to preserve all of them forever. We live in
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I hope they can break the stranglehold they have on the venues as well, open up the market to other ticket sellers, kill the exclusivity deals between Ticketmaster and the venues.
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by poikroequ 2y ago
This looks very promising! I've been wanting something like this for years, a nicer shell scripting language which compiles to Bash so I can run it almost everywhere. I don't think Amber is not quite there yet, missing some prett
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by poikroequ 2y ago
I wonder if IBE could be useful for the cloud. If you have thousands of microservices, could IBE remove the need for key exchange for all of these microservices to communicate securely? One microservice could send a message to another micro
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by poikroequ 2y ago
The article completely overlooked one of the greatest benefits of a copy-on-write file system, which is snapshots. APFS is able to create snapshots of entire volumes near instantaneously, and is used by Time Machine for performing backups.