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by snackbroken 6mo ago
> Just because a company folds doesn't mean they can violate licensing agreements. It does if that's the law. Every jurisdiction routinely overrules contracts as unenforceable on the basis of some overriding law, so it wouldn&#
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by snackbroken 6mo ago
> Lately, it's been crashing if I hold the Backspace key down for too long. Golden opportunity to re-enact xkcd 1172.
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by snackbroken 6mo ago
"Meet me in the middle" says the unjust man. You take a step forward. He takes a step back. "Meet me in the middle" says the unjust man.
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by snackbroken 6mo ago
> It's clear how insane this culture war against trans people is when you consider this only applies to trans women and not trans men? In most sports, the "mens" division is actually an open division that accepts all parti
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
The EU is perfectly capable of collaborating even when it can't reach full consensus or when it wants to include peripheral states without them becoming full members. See for example the Schengen area, Eurozone, European Economic Area,
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
People who live in authoritarian states like North Korea or California can (and arguably should) ignore the fact that GrapheneOS is illegal where they live and use it anyway.
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
As the complexity of a system increases, the number of single points of failure also tends to increase. Sometimes you can make sure that several subsystems need to fail before the whole system fails. Often, the best you can do is swap one S
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
"Actual malice" is confusingly not about if the defendant was acting maliciously. It is specific legal jargon meaning that the defendant knowingly or with reckless disregard for the truth made the false statements.
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
That wasn't actually what I was implying. Just that if the plaintiff isn't even willing to assert that the statements were false, what are you wasting the court's time for? > He falsely claimed my wife is cheating on m
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
Going on the stand and stating that you "don't know" whether the allegedly defamatory statements you are suing over are true or not is a... bold legal strategy.
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
My general point is that you can have anonymity or you can prevent ID spoofing, but the two are mutually exclusive.
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
Ah, so it does leak your identity through the timing side channel. In other words, your anonymity is only dependent on the govt not coordinating with service providers to de-anonymize users. I assumed the 2fa app just held cryptographic k
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
The automated attack setup I'm envisioning is something like: 18 year old buys a cheapo laptop + phone and connects the two over ADB or some purpose built automation app (think appium). 18 year old puts the phone on a tripod pointed at
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
> He would need to be next to you every time you log in. Or you can just text him a screenshot of the QR code. You could probably even automate this.
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
This particular slope has consistently had people pratfalling over and over again for hundreds of years.
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
If there's no information provided beyond proof-of-age, what's stopping my friend's 18 year old brother from lending his ID to every 14 year old at school? IRL that's negated by the liquor store clerk looking at the kid
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
For video games it is pretty bad, because reading back a page from disk containing "freed" (from the application perspective, but not returned to the OS) junk you don't care about is significantly slower than the OS just hand
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
>Yeah I'm not seeing how this is supposed to work You could verify the ID of an adult who vouches for the child they are a legal guardian of. That way, if it turns out that Brayden(M12) is actually Linda(F45) you know who to send la
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by snackbroken 7mo ago
Beaucoup.
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by snackbroken 8mo ago
> I'd be a lot more fine with it if it was just algorithms designed for addiction (defining that in law is tricky) An alternative to playing whac-a-mole with all the innovative bad behavior companies cook up is to address the incent
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by snackbroken 8mo ago
First, children also have a right to free speech. It is perhaps even more important than for adults, as children are not empowered to do anything but speak. Second, it's turn-key authoritarianism. E.g. "show me the IDs of everyo
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by snackbroken 8mo ago
Doesn't interning usually refer to when you only consider identical copies, as opposed to dictionary compression where you allow for concatenations? E.g. Interning: 1: "foo" 2: "bar" my_string = "foo
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by snackbroken 9mo ago
The diagram looks correct for me when I disable CSS on the page or edit it's font-family to be "monospace". Seems like Geist Mono might just be borked.
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by snackbroken 9mo ago
What's their angle here? Courts have been over the "Is scraping websites that don't want to be scraped OK?" question plenty of times. From > SerpApi deceptively takes content that Google licenses from others (like ima
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by snackbroken 9mo ago
> I don’t believe I’ve ever seen shape utilized in generated ASCII art, and I think that’s because it’s not really obvious how to consider shape when building an ASCII renderer. Acerola worked a bit on this in 2024[1], using edge detecti
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by snackbroken 9mo ago
Because root is not the ultimate authority of what goes on in the phone; the hardware is, and the hardware contains a TPM (Treacherous Platform Module). The TPM has secret cryptographic keys it never shares with anyone, neither root nor an
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by snackbroken 9mo ago
Consider not having your browser configured with prefers-color-scheme: dark.
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by snackbroken 10mo ago
In a newspaper the answer is simple. You linearly scan the leftmost column to the bottom of the page, then the next column, then the next, and so on until you get to the end of the page. At no point do you ever need to keep track of anythin
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by snackbroken 10mo ago
> You scan it all and pick the article you are interested in Okay. What order am I supposed to scan in so I don't lose my place and accidentally skip a block? Scanning column by column gets me cut off partial boxes that I'll ha
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by snackbroken 10mo ago
It looks pretty, but fails at basic usability. After reading the top-left block of text titled "Optimizing Webkit & Safari for Spedometer 3.0", what the fuck am I supposed to read next? Am I meant to go recursively column by c

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