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It’s a free country, etc. Obviously I have the “right” to comment a warning on the internet. The point of bug bounties isn’t “validation” (as if old-school hackers didn’t want validation!), it’s that companies with responsible disclosure pr
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1y ago
You need to stop targeting companies without established bug bounties that allow penetration testing, or you’re going to go to jail.
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rafram
1y ago
That’s the so-called Arabic chat alphabet, and it’s used across the Arab world. But it isn’t standardized, and everyone writes it differently.
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1y ago
Only if they’re badly implemented. Lots of fully accessible software has modal dialogs.
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1y ago
Does the ADA outlaw modals?
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1y ago
For all those playing at home: this blog post contains 46 em-dashes.
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1y ago
> Atlassian, tho, has nothing for the regular every-day consumer, they make SaaS for business. They do - Trello.
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1y ago
Hard for it not to be better than Chrome, considering that it’s a Chrome fork with a few years of extra engineering thrown at it.
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1y ago
Your ad blocker is probably blocking a modal popup, badly.
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1y ago
Tell that to someone in a two-hour traffic jam on the highway.
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1y ago
> A very simple example are ongoing cases where the identity of a perpetrator has been released by smaller or local agencies but not by larger ones. This is a good policy. It’s much easier for a couple small outlets to be wrong than for
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1y ago
Because contributions from new users are immediately reviewed by legions of volunteer cops who are eager to revert vandalism, and most wannabe vandals don’t have the sense to make a couple legitimate edits before vandalizing.
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1y ago
You can listen to In Our Time on every podcast app from anywhere in the world, just like any other podcast.
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1y ago
$250 million was for a top researcher with more experience than almost anyone else in designing and training massive models. As far as I know, Dia just calls OpenAI’s API. I’m sure their employees know a lot about using AI at this point, bu
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1y ago
How much do you think it costs to hire people?
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1y ago
> that name is plural As is Google Maps, but nobody says “Google Maps are…”
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https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
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I’ll believe it when I see it.
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1y ago
LLM/VLM-based OCR is highly prone to hallucination - the model does not know when it can’t read a text, it can’t estimate its own confidence, and it deals with fuzzy/unclear texts by simply making things up. I would be very nerv
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I’ve noticed this in New York Times articles in the last couple years. Articles are heavily interlinked now - most “keyword” terms will link to a past article on the same topic - but the links rarely leave the Times’ site. The only exceptio
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The thing that prompted the occupation isn't relevant. They physically occupied federal property and prevented federal officers from entering or from performing their duties. Much like in this case!
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The Bundy brothers - the ones who led an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge for 41 days - were charged with that same crime, and they were acquitted: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/27/ore
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Kashmir Hill published a very good front-page story about it in the Times last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai...
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1y ago
That's an unfair characterization. WHATWG doesn't version the spec like W3C did, but it's no less backwards compatible. See their FAQ [1], or just load the 1996 Space Jam site [2] in your modern browser. [1]: https:/&#x
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1y ago
(It’s always been Let Me Google That For You.)
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PyTorch was released nine years ago.
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Because it was a single word ending in -ist, the common English suffix for a prejudice or preference? There was no context indicating that it was the name of a project.
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It’s saying that you can use Bear for your own blog, but you can’t launch a service that hosts other people’s blogs using it.
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You don't need to be a pop star to have an opinion on Beyoncé. (And no, I haven't publicly spoken about American consumer rights, but I have been interviewed in the "newspaper of record" as a representative of an organiz
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