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by smittywerben 2y ago
Captain, we're sinking.
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by smittywerben 2y ago
Title edited out the apostrophe from the headline, plus a few small differences shown in brackets. TikTok[’s] parent launched a [web] scraper [that’s] gobbling up [the] world’s [online] data 25x[-times] faster than OpenAI
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by smittywerben 2y ago
I could agree that this fine is bureaucratic Big Compliance enforcing its made-up standards. At the same time, it's hard for me to feel bad for Facebook. If someone's violating internal auditing procedures, those same procedures w
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by smittywerben 2y ago
I don't know about you but if tens of millions of passwords stored in plaintext are accessible to 80k people they're as good as useless now. You're thinking too much like "hacker selling data security" and not enoug
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by smittywerben 2y ago
Why does the news call it copyright infringement in the headline when the article says "trademark or copyright infringement" and it's a trademark issue?
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by smittywerben 2y ago
I remember how happy our Golden Retriever was after digging up his Kong toy buried in the dirt in the backyard from eons ago. He liked hiding bones out there, and he had several Kong toys laying around the house and yard, but this dirty ear
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by smittywerben 2y ago
I find your speculation about Microsoft's intent to be vapid and unnecessary. Those who are easy to work with and well-liked are allowed to do more. It's that simple. This dynamic is common in workplaces.
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by smittywerben 2y ago
I used to ignore all of this color stuff until I made a custom health potion asset (Note: not an artist). It looked surprisingly good. I sent it to my friend on Discord and immediately noticed a change: it converted my beautiful Blood Red i
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by smittywerben 2y ago
SimCity 2013, a trainwreck of a game, switched to an agent-based simulation to compete with Cities Skylines. It ran horribly, inheriting all of CS’s performance issues and gaining none of SC4’s benefits. It also added network features (DRM)
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by smittywerben 2y ago
First: Now that old posts are being updated and duplicates locked, I no longer am able to filter out old posts. Am I expected to check every CSS post in 2012 for some golden answer that unfucks my 2024 grid box layout or can I just check th
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by smittywerben 2y ago
Alright, go out to the back near the dumpster. Ask for Tony. Tell him you need a Peloton. If he asks "Which model?", say "Preactivated". You didn't hear this from me.
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by smittywerben 2y ago
Sir, I appreciate your insight. I'm currently installing Gentoo on my smart toaster.
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by smittywerben 2y ago
Sir, I appreciate your perspective. But let's be real here: I just drag the DXVK d3d9.dll for Linux into my Windows game folder. Suddenly, my DirectX 9 games are in the Vulkan future. Exclusive fullscreen taking 30 seconds to alt-tab?
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by smittywerben 2y ago
Microsoft, still trembling from CrowdStrike's 8-million-system massacre, now claims their antitrust ruling is unfair for letting users install CrowdStrike to begin with. The eternal "POSIX for Windows" vs "Windows Subsys
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by smittywerben 2y ago
I'm not affirming the consequent here. I'm saying don't dismiss the gamepad claim outright. As I said, it's not normal for a sub traveling miles under water to have electronics sourced from Walmart's toy section. Th
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by smittywerben 2y ago
The switch from the Dualshock to the Logitech, as a system designed by students, demonstrates negligence that led to the catastrophe. Had the system not been designed by students, it would not use a wireless game controller. You could argue
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by smittywerben 2y ago
They allege that this system was designed by students or recent graduates from Washington University who have no real experience. I don't think it's the student's fault. Showing Rush tossing the controller while saying "
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by smittywerben 2y ago
> superficial things like the gamepad, that did not cause or contribute to the fault In the prior dive, a passenger hit the sub into a rock. How does that not contribute?
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by smittywerben 2y ago
Didn't the Chromium team repeatedly close the JPEG XL feature request without comment, and the beta support was removed by devs who work for WEBP? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36213330 (2024) [2] https:&#x
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by smittywerben 2y ago
I'm on board with Japan doing it.
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by smittywerben 2y ago
Microsoft: Here are cool windows for Windows. Microsoft: Oh, yeah, to use it, you'll need to deploy it with the Microsoft Store.
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by smittywerben 2y ago
It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive but perhaps with the current options for mobile devices on the market, they are. To this day, I still miss the Blackberry keyboard. And while I'm on this triggering topic, I also miss QNX,
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by smittywerben 2y ago
While the advancement to carbon fiber in running shoes is similar, the exploitation in swimming was far more extreme. This was an unintended side effect of the suit when shifting from skimpy Teflon Speedos ("Fast Skin") to full-bo
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by smittywerben 2y ago
It appears to be an arms race between physics based models vs machine learning models.
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by smittywerben 2y ago
Huh, wow, I never thought about how our licenses are encoded. I agree that it is disproportionate relative to the other records. Perhaps it's making the same mistake as SSNs in that people use public or easily generated information to
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by smittywerben 2y ago
California was among the first to include driver's license numbers among personal information. The earliest I can find for my state is 2019. I'd not be surprised if some double standards continue to exist where the DMV itself is s
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by smittywerben 2y ago
I could be wrong here but I want to say that a driver's license ID number would even be protected under the pre biometric data privacy laws.
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by smittywerben 2y ago
> nor the fear of scratching a favorite game up and potentially ruining it forever What's funny is that I can't remember when I scratched a CD enough for it to have any noticeable effect. Even the ones my neanderthal friends ha
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by smittywerben 3y ago
Arr, I hear ye be seeking the fabled "PDF-Utopia"? Here's Cloud Storage for hoisting ye cursed relic: PDF-Dumpsterfire.
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by smittywerben 3y ago
Wait, you're telling me their malware-infested downloader isn't a reliable source for news, either?

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