qwery

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by qwery 2y ago
> We need to start shaming the actual [individuals/regular people/employees] Yes, do call out bad practice when you see it. But please don't be hostile to (any/some of) the employees "who build these systems&quot
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by qwery 2y ago
This is what free software is all about (to me). > E.g. I know I don't want to use Edge They know too. The fact that they "ask"[0] you what you want (sometimes) and won't accept your answer is disrespectful, to say
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by qwery 2y ago
> its new PCs Whose new PCs? How they probably intended it: Microsoft-supplied PCs (as the vendor of the operating system and/or hardware) The snarky second meaning: Microsoft literally owns the PCs (a PC running Windows/Copilo
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by qwery 2y ago
I'd say mechanical damage would be, by far, the most likely cause of catastrophic failure. Loss of data will occur when the device is lost or discarded.
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by qwery 2y ago
The post[0] that seems to be this article's source would be a better link. The Tom's article spins it as a pointless storage device and pushes the key feature of it including a built-in serial terminal text editor down under sever
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by qwery 2y ago
As much as one wishes this sort of thing wouldn't happen, it's hardly surprising. Taking a somewhat mercenary view of the practice[0], a multinational business should not be able to circumvent the law (loosely speaking) of a regio
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How much data can we store in a QR code?(stackoverflow.com)
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by qwery 2y ago
Taking this way too seriously[0], quite likely more than the USB drive, given its retail price of €29.95[1]. Note that I've omitted any shipping fees -- that comparison is likely to fall in the USB drive's favour, in any case. [0]
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by qwery 2y ago
What an odd little thing. I'm struggling to follow the chain of events in this summary. It's an interesting stunt, I guess. By 'stunt' I'm referring to the proposal being written in a deliberately provocative manner
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by qwery 2y ago
> it's possible for app developers to provide good defaults like wezterm does. It's also possible for distro's to break those defaults. Absolutely, yes. No disagreement from me. I'm just guessing at why someone might
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by qwery 2y ago
There's no technical reason the font couldn't be shipped in/with the binary. The main reasons this doesn't happen are probably: - this is what a package manager is for - installing the font/s (from the application
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by qwery 2y ago
It's an interesting comparison. I agree that five years is well within the expected period of viability of an operating system. Some points to consider: - any given release of a Linux distro will probably work on hardware released five
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by qwery 2y ago
The common English idiom/concept of "art vs. science" presents an appealing duality at a fundamental level. The modern world is a stark departure from the world of the past. This we know. Fields of art and study naturally fal
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by qwery 2y ago
If you want to read it literally, no. They can't "go back" without deciding to do so, which would be continuing to choose what to do. If you read it as the common English phrase "there's no going back", no. It&
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by qwery 2y ago
> Maybe that's the difference between "coding" and "programming"? I know I'm not alone in using these terms to distinguish between each mode of my own work. There is overlap, but coding is typing, rememberin
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by qwery 2y ago
I think the diffs are evidence for the author's claim that the retyping would be a relatively easy job.
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by qwery 2y ago
Just guessing/reading: it's a metaphor. You could see the recon as the thinking from the article. The enemy and terrain are the code and various risks and effects associated with changing it.
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by qwery 3y ago
Maybe you missed some of the bits in the middle? Like how education is a greater boon to the people who can't afford it and that the cost of it has increased over time.
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by qwery 3y ago
What's your concrete proposal? Restrict the web to material featuring a concrete proposals? Establish concentration camps to re-educate those who would publish material lacking in concrete proposals? (Am I missing the irony or somethin
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by qwery 3y ago
Sorry, I was trying to summarise there because the points get repeated a lot. I'm not saying that all ID checks are easy to bypass, but that: - a lot of people do not want effective ID checks, for a lot of reasons - effective ID checks
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by qwery 3y ago
As many point out every time this comes up, regulating access to social media products by requiring ID checks and age gating will almost certainly not work effectively, will harm the web overall and that's if its not implemented in a h
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by qwery 3y ago
> But these are communications platforms. While technically true, this is a gross misrepresentation. Calling these sites and apps "communications platforms" makes them sound like they're just a mail service or a telephone.
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by qwery 3y ago
No, there's not. There's any number of ways to deal with a hazard. Your two avenues are not even distinct. Both require exerting control. Any scheme can be manipulated by bad actors. Scheming to not scheme is still scheming. You c
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by qwery 3y ago
To be clear, I'm not at all against compensating developers for their work. I am not trying to argue that people do not need to be supported financially, or that you shouldn't donate, or that no one should be able to make a living
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by qwery 3y ago
UBlock Origin has an option to block large media elements [0] by default / per-site. You can configure the threshold. [0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-...
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by qwery 3y ago
If you want all the javascript, don't count the javascript against the quota. If you don't want videos that you're never going to play deliberately, set the video quota to zero.
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by qwery 3y ago
> So when are we going to stop pretending ... I'm not sure that we are. Doesn't everybody know that developing/maintaining free software is largely thankless work, with little to no direct recompense? I don't think mo
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by qwery 3y ago
The development cost -- of the tooling and the games, let alone hardware! -- is too high. Additionally, 3D games aren't products of their host hardware as much as (older) pixel art games are/were.
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by qwery 3y ago
Yes, but its a proof of concept. It demonstrates that this type of attack can work. Whatever the reason is for (the LLM company) blocking the ("harmful") responses, this is a potential/plausible way to circumvent that blockin
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by qwery 3y ago
What does it mean for HN to "support" punycode? That `Apple Vision Pro 2 | xn--80ak6aa92e.com` will appear as `[...] | apple.com`?

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