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by roblabla 1y ago
I doubt Mullvad has anywhere near the volume of transaction Valve does. And mullvad has plenty of other payment methods, so only a tiny, tiny fraction of their userbase likely pays in mail-in cash. I don't think Valve could feasibly im
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by roblabla 1y ago
Is there proof the government actually uses this apparatus? I don't think there's any government involvement necessary here - Mastercard has some censorship apparatus (which they claim to be necessary for their brand's reputa
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by roblabla 1y ago
A default linux install is incredibly silent on the network. You might be seeing some mDNS stuff, gnome/firefox may do some requests to detect captive portals, but overall the amount of network traffic is pretty small and manageable. I
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by roblabla 1y ago
There are json5 parsers written in C89 out there. And your embedded systems from the 90s probably doesn't have a JSON parser built in at all either... If you're going to build your own json parser, adding json5 support on top is r
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by roblabla 1y ago
Well clean-room reverse engineering doesn't protect you from patent infringement - only for copyright related issues. I don't think that's a real concern for your project though, as patents only last for 20 years, so most if
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by roblabla 1y ago
Many, many people license under gpl2 only to avoid that tivoization clause. So unless there’s a clear indication on the library’s author wishes wrt tivoization, I don’t think it’s fair to make any ethical assumptions here.
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by roblabla 1y ago
> I would have thought, e.g., that apps distributed only through stores to platforms that require apps to be signed could not contain LGPL components, since you would not be able to modify the LGPL components. (Maybe it would be OK if th
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by roblabla 1y ago
Yeah same, we maintain some eBPF probes spanning 4.11 to latest kernel, and holy hell, it's really bad. The worst offender being some old RedHat kernels with half-baked backports of the eBPF features containing a bunch of weird bugs or
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by roblabla 1y ago
Many, many distributions didn't embed the BTF information until fairly recently. OpenSUSE did it in 15.4, released in 2023. At $WORK, we have many customers running on distros that didn't have embedded BTF - such as RHEL7 (yes, th
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by roblabla 1y ago
Well, the cert can still be compared to what's in the CT Log for this purpose.
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by roblabla 2y ago
> Apple is already in trouble for requiring prompts for 3rd party vendors Well yeah, they're specifically in trouble for requiring prompts *only for 3rd party vendors*. The problem is that Apple treats their own platform differently
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by roblabla 2y ago
Apple has many, many tools to prevent this from being a problem. To name a few: - They can lock the API behind entitlements that must be manually requested and reviewed by Apple - They can lock the API behind a user approval - They can regu
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by roblabla 2y ago
> Surely if a lack of open phone OS and feature access was the problem, we’d see a rich ecosystem of integrations that exist on Android devices that are just impossible to achieve on iOS right? It's entirely possible on Android? Peb
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by roblabla 2y ago
Other people might say it's a great way to self-moderate its network.
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by roblabla 2y ago
The type of product/service matters here. We're talking about a browser here, with the name "User Agent" being popularized by Mozilla,for fuck's sake. I don't use Google or meta services. I do use apple's
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by roblabla 2y ago
> You say that and yet Teams has 320 million people using it Yeah, there are tons of companies who chose Teams as a vendor (because it's bundled with other stuff), and inflict it on their employees. It was still absolutely their cho
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by roblabla 2y ago
Well yes, but not so large that it's completely prohibitive. People have been running the full models on computers going as low as $6000: https://x.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106 Of course this is f
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by roblabla 2y ago
The database file itself is safe for concurrent use, but the internal sqlite3 database structure itself can be unsafe to share across thread, depending on how your sqlite3 library was compiled. See https://www.sqlite.org/thr
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by roblabla 2y ago
The full model can run on setups worth less than $10K. Here's for instance a $6K build[0]. Granted, that's still expensive, but it is within the realm of something a hobbyist could put together. [0]: https://x.com/
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by roblabla 2y ago
You can run the full R1 (671B variant) locally as well so long as you have the hardware for it. `ollama run deepseek-r1:671b` will do that
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by roblabla 2y ago
So far, a general tiktok ban (as opposed to a tiktok ban on things like government phones) has only been in effect in the USA. I highly doubt Europe would play ball at any attempt at banning imports of DeepSeek. Besides, it's kinda too
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by roblabla 2y ago
I mean, you're probably going to need to give the reboot rights to someone. For instance, the people in charge of applying kernel updates. And those people will, at this point, be prone to making a boulette.
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by roblabla 2y ago
Code compilation doesn't really have much to do with it. Python already has a somewhat similar ability - opting into certain language features of python on a file-by-file basis - using __future__[0]. It'd be pretty easy to add som
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by roblabla 2y ago
I mean, those are _completely_ separate issues? People can be mad at Google/Chrome about Manifest V3, whilst also being mad at Mozilla/Firefox for randomly flagging UBOL with bullshit reasons.
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by roblabla 2y ago
Sure, customers are free to blame their vendor. But please, we’re on HN, we aren’t customers, we don’t have beef in this game. So we can do better here, and properly allocate blame, instead of piling on the cs hate for internet clout. And a
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by roblabla 2y ago
How do you mitigate the OS breaking an API below you in an update? Test the updates before they come out? Even if you could, you'd still need to deploy a fix before the OS update hits the customers, and anyone that didn't update w
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by roblabla 2y ago
Of course. But there are also very real cases of people quote-posting someone with an opinion they don't agree with, leveraging their follower-base to start dogpiling. Even without the harassment problems, this is already not a very go
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by roblabla 2y ago
> - If someone replies to this HN comment I just wrote, and I don't like it, and I can delete their comment (because there is an thread ownership concept on BlueSky, and the earliest comment is the owner); You can hide it - which I
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by roblabla 2y ago
They're acknowledging that it has some downsides, that they think they can resolve through other features that they'll develop later. > If you don't want people to be able to reply critically to a post, why not have a priv
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by roblabla 2y ago
kernel-5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4 broke it. It was released in Apr 30, 2024, with RHEL 9.4 (this was the RHEL 9.4 release kernel). According to the comments on https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7068083 , RHEL became aware

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