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by spragl 8mo ago
Another fun fact: German registration plates use a font for which it is difficult to change one digit to another, for example by adding a bit of tape. The font is called FE-Schrift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schr
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by spragl 9mo ago
Manuals are fairly easy to find, but in my experience they are dumbed-down. They mostly contain simple Ikea-like instructions and a lot of legalese CMA warnings. That is not a dig at Ikea. Their instructions are great for assembling flatpac
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by spragl 9mo ago
You are absolutely right!
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by spragl 9mo ago
https://spredehagl.com/
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by spragl 9mo ago
Its different for different children. Some of them understand more than you think, most of them dont. I think that reading the classics can be beneficial to the first type. But some of the classics can be very bleak. Its not fair to the chi
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by spragl 10mo ago
Yes, wellknown solutions have a strong grip on you. In this case it is unfortunate. I know that the preparations for eIDAS 2.0 (the European thing) did contain many good parts. Taking inspiration from SSI. So at that point their specificati
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by spragl 10mo ago
The push for age verification must be about something else. There are good solutions to this, but they are ignored. Its always about some complex setup leaking information all over the place. It must be either ignorance or indeed about surv
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by spragl 10mo ago
I agree. But I also think there is an overlap between programming and writing. If you are a good programmer, you have some abilities that can help you explain a subject or argue some point. Especially when it is about something non-trivial.
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by spragl 10mo ago
>> "Europe" is, unlike the US, not a single entity > >It really needs to be, though, that's kind of the crux of it. > >Federate or die off, it's time to get rid of old tribal thinking. We're all Eu
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by spragl 11mo ago
That sent me looking it up. It seems that NetBSD, as the only one, has a rump kernel, but it also looks like work on it stagnated around 10 years ago. That could be because the guy doing a thesis on them, moved on. There is quite some bitro
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by spragl 11mo ago
6. It is good training for your communication skills. But write it yourself, dont let LLMs do it. Otherwise forget the sixth reason.
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by spragl 11mo ago
The sheer number of civilizations, that it is normally believed there is in the Milky Way, pretty much guarantees that some of them, some of the time, do exactly this. For whatever alien reasons they might have. The Milky Way should be driz
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by spragl 11mo ago
To be able to tell if the data is IP, financial etc, so that they can protect it, they have to use AI. See, how that works?
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by spragl 11mo ago
Yes, also Windows 10. You need to use way too much time to turn it off and limit it, as much as can be done. Every time you run an update, settings might have reverted, so you need to check for that.
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by spragl 11mo ago
I am leaving Windows now because of this, the Windows 11 push, and the cloud enforcement. I have been far too patient with Microsoft, I should have made the jump years ago. This is the last straw. The trend for the last many years has been
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by spragl 11mo ago
Indeed. Why did grass shears loose out to lawnmowers? The question is misguided, they are two different categories. The interesting question is why Forth lost out to BASIC on the home computers. There were a few that were Forth based, and t
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by spragl 11mo ago
From the comments, it looks like eating stinging nettles is quite common throughout Europe. It is definitely well-known in Denmark, and used in a number of recipes. You can buy dried and chopped stinging nettles, but they are best when you
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by spragl 11mo ago
DDG is okay. Startpage is quite good. I make a virtue of regularly shifting between search engines (not Google). Sometimes they are not so good, some times very good. On average Im sure my search experience is better than using Google.
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by spragl 11mo ago
This is how I see LLMs as well. The main problem with the article is that it is meandering around in ill-conceived concepts, like thinking, smart, intelligence, understanding... Even AI. What they mean to the author is not what they mean to
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by spragl 1y ago
Yeah, that must have been wishful thinking. FTP is such a clunky protocol, it is peculiar it has had such staying power.
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by spragl 1y ago
Then you really should be angry at Apple and Google, not the hardware. The preparations for eIDAS 2.0 (the EU thing) has been heavily inspired by SSI. If they keep up the good work, and implement it properly, security and privacy will be to
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by spragl 1y ago
I see your point. Its the very unbalanced power balance between consumers and providers, and the dishonest tactics of the latter. It ought to be addressed politically (its idealistic, I know). Until then use free software and multiple devic
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by spragl 1y ago
> There is also a real potential for abusing TPMs or cryptographic co-processors to enforce remote attestation. Remote attestation can be misused, yes. But why writing it as TPM is the problem? In cases where remote attestation is used f
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by spragl 1y ago
This is a clear case of "you get what you measure". Measuring speed is so easy, everybody can do it, and do it all the time. No wonder that providers optimize for speed. But it also works the other way around. We have developed a
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by spragl 1y ago
I think the article is a bit out of focus, but its premise reminded me about the discussions that we students had at the university many years ago. It was a popular view that the universe is a big all-encompassing computer, and everyhting h
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by spragl 1y ago
You are defintely not risk averse. Try to look back 30 years and see how much popularity has changed since then.
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by spragl 1y ago
It is a cool product, but I have the clumsiness of the average home cook. So my old style knifes are plenty sharp for me. I would not be comfortable using this. But if there were a version with the slipperiness he shows, just having standar
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by spragl 1y ago
Or you could just print the business cards themselves with your 3D-printer.
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by spragl 1y ago
Same. But disable JavaScript and you can see it.
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by spragl 1y ago
That is just equivalent to North pointing up. Many commenters have explained why that is the most prevalent. I mean, except that you could of course have the subterranean view of the World, with North point up, East to the left, and West to

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