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by shakna 3mo ago
This would also leave intact cookies, local/session storage, indexeddb, caches. All of which abusers do actually check, when controlling their victims.
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by shakna 3mo ago
You mention someone else's Python version. Did you note that the prototype in the video was... Python? All the smells you pointed out, just look like a Python dev approaching bash without fully understanding it.
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by shakna 3mo ago
> I wonder if the script itself was written by an LLM before obfuscation? From the prototype shown here [0], and the way they talk about their process, I sincerely doubt it. Especially as they mention trying to make it hard for AI to han
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by shakna 4mo ago
Whilst the US has a carveout saying it has to be commercial, Australia, Quebec, and others, do not.
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by shakna 4mo ago
You do, in fact, have rights over your 'likeness'. In most jurisdictions. [0] In the US, that would fall under Prosser's Four Torts, "appropriation of name and likeness". The law, currently, doesn't care if you
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by shakna 4mo ago
Most enterprises require a 12 digit code, to meet a specific security standard. Bruteforcing that, with hardware access restricted by TPM, would take a very, very long time.
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by shakna 4mo ago
RFK's reliance on terrain theory, disproved continually since some five hundred years ago, does much to assist in citations - it is common to cite bad science as evidence where we need to improve public comprehension.
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by shakna 4mo ago
Our current research shows that people don't click. But they do scroll. So... Yes. Infinite scrolling makes it harder to break the feedback loop, and harder to control self-interruption. It also increases the overall dopamine experienc
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by shakna 4mo ago
Unfortunately, that only takes care of one of the vulnerabilities that comes with basic auth. As basic auth sends the header for every single request, it is also vulnerable to CSRF attacks.
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by shakna 4mo ago
HTTP basic auth is not secure.
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by shakna 4mo ago
That is exactly what X was designed to do. And part of why X is considered insecure today.
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by shakna 4mo ago
Decayed without breaking down, is my point. There was a failure. Which means failure is a possibility and not something to just dismiss.
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by shakna 4mo ago
If they always got the decay correct, we wouldn't have confirmed debris impact on the ground. It would be destroyed long before it reached. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/after-fiery-displa...
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by shakna 4mo ago
HN specifically does not. You have to click "more", leading to most people not moving beyond two or three pages, rather than infinite scrolling.
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by shakna 4mo ago
Wouldn't it be better to curtail social media's addictive design choices, and improve things for everyone, rather than force the audience to carry the weight of responsibility?
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by shakna 4mo ago
The output devices (/dev/stdXXX) being sockets-only constantly trip people up.
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by shakna 4mo ago
> Second, in the proleptic Gregorian calendar with astronomical year numbering (which is the calendar that we use on 28times), Non-Julian calendar.
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by shakna 4mo ago
Shakespeare was written for the masses. Hence being full of dick jokes. Similar story for Chaucer, and so many others. I don't think good writing, things we appreciate so much it lasts generations, has much to do with signalling educat
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by shakna 4mo ago
"As platforms and operating systems proliferated in the early 1980s, the company found it difficult to port the assembly language-based dBase to target systems. This led to a rewrite of the platform in the C programming language, using
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by shakna 4mo ago
Considering how amazing Copilot in Excel is [0], I think most people might be on par. [0] https://images3.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED148/68ef40142d4...
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by shakna 4mo ago
They might not have been sued, but ReactOS was certainly threatened. There was a large audit to ensure nothing was infringing. [0] [0] https://reactos.org/wiki/Audit
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by shakna 4mo ago
I used to be paid to go in and fix messes of code, created by juniors who were forced to build things they didn't understand. Now I get to fix things created by managers who enjoyed building things they still don't understand.
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by shakna 4mo ago
I don't think Valve funded Proton and Linux development by accident.
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by shakna 4mo ago
The presentation from the time might be worth watching, if this reads too much like hype PR. [0] [0] https://youtu.be/t4wqREXVEAc
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by shakna 4mo ago
You can already buy books today. Doing so for training is currently considered fair use. Anthropic simply considered that cost prohibitive and chose piracy instead.
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by shakna 4mo ago
As long as it is destructive, and the digital copy is access-restricted to equal the licenses or physical copies destroyed, then it falls under fair use.
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by shakna 4mo ago
I think Apple may have burned a lot of developer bridges with Metal, deprecating OpenGL, and ignoring Vulkan.
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by shakna 4mo ago
When we solved this problem for email... We just dumped everything similar to untrusted into the rubbish bin. Important things can vanish too, and that's an acceptable price.
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by shakna 4mo ago
And my point, is the current administration is closer to Caligula and Nero, than they are to Varus. You see this as nothing more than another blip in a long history. I see unstable and dangerous individuals getting standing ovations for fai
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by shakna 4mo ago
Most of the funding for the campaign came via Saudi Arabian citizens [0], and they have absolutely benefited from the change in political power in the Middle East. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20060311045338/htt

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