publlus_enigma

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by publlus_enigma 6d ago
No, I was a lowly consumer who still laments the demise of BB10. It was one of the best mobile operating systems I have ever used. Fast, stable, with a refined UI that prioritised efficiency.
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by publlus_enigma 7d ago
This article touches on something I've been ruminating about the past few months - the lack of control users have over their own security posture. Like many people, I use dozens of online applications a day, from banking through to chi
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by publlus_enigma 7d ago
As someone who went through similar challenges with Google making it impossibly hard for BlackBerry to provide an Android runtime on BBOS10, and now running GrapheneOS, I trust Google exactly zero to do the right thing by any open source pr
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by publlus_enigma 9d ago
I actually prefer this workflow, although GPS would be a nice addition.
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by publlus_enigma 9d ago
There are four times in my life I have suffered regrettable data loss incidents. The first was when the telephone pole outside our house was struck directly by lightning. Not only was it the loudest thing I have ever heard, the current surg
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by publlus_enigma 10d ago
I suspect you may be conflating two different things. Archive.org exists to preserve historical snapshots of the public parts of websites, and not to bypass subscriptions or pay walls.
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by publlus_enigma 12d ago
Two things seriously, one in (partial) jest: A copy utility that can efficiently deduplicate as it copies, even when the filesystem structure is different. Whilst there are many utilities that can deduplicate, they often either rely on file
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by publlus_enigma 12d ago
I am stealing this for the name of my first album.
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by publlus_enigma 12d ago
Weird -- usually VW likes to falsify its data, so I am surprised this data was so accurate. Every business likes data collection, until they don't.
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by publlus_enigma 13d ago
Who would have thought that putting a heap of extra hosts on the internet (in the form of massive new data centres), running a heap of extra clients (in the form of agents), running autonomous workloads could cause problems?
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by publlus_enigma 16d ago
I wonder how this works in tandem with the Computational Image Pipeline? From Apple: "Apple Reference Image provides users with an unalterable reference photo, visually confirming what the sensor saw at the moment of capture." The
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by publlus_enigma 17d ago
My read was that "these proofs" was referring to AI generated proofs specifically, not all mathematical proofs.
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by publlus_enigma 17d ago
How many ads for CSAM do your local TV networks broadcast? How many billboards do you drive past featuring CSAM? How about newspapers? If a company can't operate within the law due to the scale it chooses to operate at, then it should
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by publlus_enigma 17d ago
You surely mean his "Business Daddy"?
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by publlus_enigma 19d ago
No. Whilst Apple's hardware is among the best in the world, I simply can't support their direction with respect to increasingly closed hardware.
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by publlus_enigma 19d ago
Closer to < 10 years for hard drives, SD Cards and USB sticks. All of the combine controller electronics with the storage medium itself, which is another point of failure, and one not easily repaired. Their lack of electrical isolation f
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by publlus_enigma 19d ago
I've burned our home movies etc onto Bluray (BDMV) precisely because I think it's the easiest way to preserve these memories in a self a documenting way. What has a greater chance of being watched in the future? A disc labeled &qu
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by publlus_enigma 19d ago
The reason this amazing project exists is the same reason my current Mac will be my last Mac. I wish the team every success.
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by publlus_enigma 20d ago
There is some conjecture that the Blu-ray version of M-Disc are really just MABL discs, which already had significantly longer stability than precious consumer optical formats. What's particularly interesting though is that, as hard dr
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by publlus_enigma 21d ago
This is a cool project; I think it's wonderful that traditional NLP methods are being used, rather than reaching straight for an LLM. One significant advantage of not using a local LLM is the significantly simplified dependency stack.
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by publlus_enigma 21d ago
Normalising running arbitrary code delivered over the internet (in the form of JavaScript and WASM), as a necessary condition for accessing most web pages may not have been one of the best decisions we have made.
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by publlus_enigma 25d ago
The new model has more parallel threads.
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by publlus_enigma 1mo ago
The United States needs to realise it isn't the superpower it once was, nor the superpower it evidently seems to continue to view itself as. Two terms of Trump and mishandled foreign affairs has real consequences.