smaudet

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by smaudet 4y ago
Buy two of the same headphone, watch it not work because the software differentiates on the label not the MAC, and never asks you or auto labels the one you connected to... Not a BT problem so much as a bad software pattern. I solve this by
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by smaudet 4y ago
"and once or maybe twice in 5 years of ownership have I manually adjusted vents." I'm going to guess you daily drive mostly and don't pickup many groceries then, and probably don't have a wife/kids. Blasting he
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by smaudet 4y ago
I think this is the majority of the problem(s) with bluetooth, bad defaults. In cars, second issue is no button to switch on/off, instead either the overly complex pairing process or the overly aggressive one. In phones, its non standa
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by smaudet 4y ago
This is exactly why kill switches an user-unlock-able boot-loaders should be the norm, not the exotic edge case. Phones (as they are today) are a massive exercise in insecurity and privacy violation, to the point where they are actually ban
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by smaudet 4y ago
"But not everybody can just ignore systemic injustice and not try to cause change, however small." Its also that, the majority ignoring what "they cannot change" at least directly, is a part of the problem. The majority
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by smaudet 4y ago
I should add I don't use social media, unless email or this forum count, and I'm pretty bitter. It's not the social media platforms, it's the Dickz in power.
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by smaudet 4y ago
:') :') :') ROFL "How did you know it was an imposter Jim??" "He was too fucking nice, most Microsoft robots won't cuss to save themselves or others."
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by smaudet 4y ago
Hacker news used to be a place I turned to for that sort of thing, but yes lately it has become a complete horror show, especially with the advent of AIs I mainly want to imprison the creators, inflict corporeal punishment, etc. (I have fou
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by smaudet 4y ago
"what the ones who are fine are doing differently" * enslaving other peoples - either indirectly through foreign sweatshops or directly by exploiting e.g. a younger generation - see parenting and house price inflation - rents are
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by smaudet 4y ago
Agreed, I am not near the lines I know others are so very close to, and yet so far from achieving any financial goals it feels as if I am stuck and unable to do anything but preserver and hopefully not get (too) unlucky. While I would say I
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by smaudet 4y ago
I would like to identify the malign influence you are pushing - free speech is not incompatible with propaganda machinery or as you put it warfare machinery, the concept that it is all about pushing politics or policies ignores the very rea
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by smaudet 4y ago
I am really not, you are not understanding my core point - you should NOT have a single identifying key.
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by smaudet 4y ago
I disagree > Have multiple of them for redundancy. Yes so when I have 40 such tokens then I must worry about which ones to bring when for which devices, it's a usability nightmare. I contend you should rarely if ever use one, they a
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by smaudet 4y ago
To clarify, throw out as in, device (armed with a key/lock mechanism) becomes unusable (because said key is corrupted lost, lost amid mountain of other keys). I am using password/key here somewhat interchangeably despite common (m
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by smaudet 4y ago
I think the other (IMO completely valid) concern is that you don't know what the Yubikey does, really. The protocols are open source, sure, but how sure are you there aren't back-doors in them? The firmware tends to be closed sour
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by smaudet 4y ago
> We're complaining about a problem that was no different in the heyday of IRC. IRC didn't pretend that you had information stored there, though... Discord hides this fact better by offering semi-permanence and a "search&q
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by smaudet 4y ago
The whole private insurance is a racket, because private companies don't have many incentives to offer reasonable insurance. Public insurance, or community driven, is a different matter. Sure, someone can have a non profit racket, but
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by smaudet 4y ago
Kdevelop is/was good, it became unstable/unusable for a long time though when they upgraded KDE, though. Also, project file formats, e.g. if you have .vsproj or .pro files you can't always just use another IDE.
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by smaudet 4y ago
There is a time and place for both crass language and flowery language. You would get severely penalized for speaking in "high english" in some places, just as you would not (usually) want to cuss out everyone in your boardroom me
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by smaudet 4y ago
> they were actually just hysterical overreactions to removing books from the mandatory public school curriculum "Approved on March 25 by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, HB 1467 gives parents and members of the public increased access to
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by smaudet 4y ago
Sure in the case of long commutes or exploration of different areas there are certain advantaged to autonomous vehicles - however the car is by no means king. Helicopter is even better for getting from random distant location to distant loc
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by smaudet 4y ago
"Tests I find are a bare minimum and are not even sufficient in more cases than people realize. It’s a shame though that even this low bar is too much for some." That's in part because some really bad hipster devs decided the
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by smaudet 4y ago
I'm pretty sure a non-GPT thing could do this in < 1 second.
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by smaudet 4y ago
I don't know, it takes real effort to curate your tabs below 100. Its very, very easy to not close tabs you don't use, these days, and at least one major browser just doesn't bother to load the tab if you haven't touched
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by smaudet 4y ago
"The problem with AGI is that there isn't a way to monitor/detect development or utilization." This is not completely true, although it is definitely much more trivial to "hide" an AI, by e.g. keeping it offlin
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by smaudet 4y ago
Then he should be banned from using the web. Any interaction with an ssl website is an encrypted messaging application. You might not be able to say much, and your data is almost definitely not secure, but it is def encrypted, and sending m
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by smaudet 4y ago
Funny thing is it appears he was watching the superbowl, of all things: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/02/sam-bankman-fried-go...
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by smaudet 4y ago
Honestly not using a VPN is a pretty lenient ban. He could have been banned from using computers, and forced to use a court appointed intermediary for everything...
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by smaudet 4y ago
I agree, I think the people saying it's irrelevant haven't used them in years, they had one of the best set of controls I've seen.
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by smaudet 4y ago
Exactly...I pay $$ for linode as soon as that turns to $$$, count me out.

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