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by switchbak 28d ago
And the Nvidia Shield is also hot garbage in this regard. I suppose my next device is an Apple TV or some kind of home brew Linux box.
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by switchbak 28d ago
I guess you could remove the wifi antenna, or otherwise brick the wifi reception ability (faraday cage, lead block, etc). Or - just boycott LG. I'll never buy any of that corporate espionage nonsense, ever. Also: the US intelligence ag
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by switchbak 28d ago
You have a unique code, don't they already have a log of your coming and goings? But I would absolutely not install an app for that.
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by switchbak 28d ago
I think we could have a little more sophistication than just a binary full|zero access. Hell, a lot of corporate IDS's are better than this (not a high bar).
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by switchbak 1mo ago
Kind of begs the question: how long until they maintain persistent access to servers that they've acquired and now run themselves. Ie: some kind of dumb model running on their own remote instances, whose job is to host the platforms th
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by switchbak 1mo ago
“ Defense is hard so we should expect agents to be able to break out of sandboxes.” I worked at a large networking company a few decades ago. Our “sandbox” was far superior to anything I’ve seen at these companies. What are we even talking
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by switchbak 1mo ago
Can you say more about what kind of model you see this as?
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by switchbak 1mo ago
I've had cars pull out in front of me, giving me less than a second to stop. A rear brake in that scenario would just skid, and I'd be in a world of hurt. For that matter anything but a pair of high-end brakes would have put me in
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by switchbak 1mo ago
If it talks less like a robot, I’d call that a win!
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by switchbak 1mo ago
The sibling reply to this is just such lazy thinking, such a trite cliche. Yes, all members of a generation are bad, end of story. Can we get back to the war between the sexes now?
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by switchbak 1mo ago
Personally, I wouldn't want to ride a bike with only rear brakes - or do you also have a front brake with these?
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by switchbak 1mo ago
Anyone quoting Poe's Law is clearly just a Nazi. ... For those that can't see the sarcasm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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by switchbak 1mo ago
We're always staring at the apocalypse though. It is really worse than during the Cuban missile crisis? Also: you can justify just about anything by inspiring panic. I'm not buying it.
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by switchbak 1mo ago
Hey I grew up super environmental and I have plenty of hippie cred, but this statement gave me shudders "the only real solution is a one world government". Yeesh, yeah a single government, surely nothing could go wrong.
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by switchbak 1mo ago
That’s what I meant by go all super nerd. I don’t want to fight with: my phone, my car, my router, my desktop/laptop, dishwasher, home automation system - just to pull out the surveillance and adware they’ve jammed in there. Life is to
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by switchbak 1mo ago
The Shield sucks too, unless you go super nerd and fix all its problems. They treat your home screen like a billboard, and I have no faith that they're not stealing all my data either.
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by switchbak 1mo ago
“changing data once its running in production is hard, changing the data structure is even harder” 100% agreement on this. There are a class of optimizations that can happen transparently. Those can happen at any time, and are fine to defer
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by switchbak 1mo ago
That's just people though, if you walk around with a scar on your head you'll see lots of knee-jerk immediate reactions. Some people are able to mediate those initial reactions and be kind, others just go with it and treat people
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by switchbak 1mo ago
Wouldn't that be "???"% of autistics are undiagnosed? Because ... they're undiagnosed?
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by switchbak 1mo ago
More than 2 levels and out come my downvotes. Or if it's just knee jerk with zero humour. But I probably violate my own rules ... which is to be expected.
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by switchbak 1mo ago
At this point, I'm starting to wonder if their honesty is even load-bearing at all?
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by switchbak 1mo ago
Top-level troll: that's not a "version" of Elastic Search, it's a fork of ES specifically created due to ES's licence change that made it more difficult for AWS to extract money from it at Elastic's expense. No
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by switchbak 1mo ago
“Simple stuff like having backup Internet” that sounds expensive. Who has room to back up the entire Internet? Personally on the 0.2 days a year I have to worry about it, I just head to the coffee shop. Or you know … take a couple hours off
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by switchbak 1mo ago
I’d love to buy a tiny swappable coprocessor that slots in next to my cpu and can take this stuff on. Swap it out every 8 months as you can benefit from something better. Hell, sign me up for a subscription!
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by switchbak 1mo ago
My analogy is: almost everyone can to go Home Depot and grab all the plumbing supplies they need to do a lot of jobs. And people do - Home Depot does great business. But plumbers are still in very high demand, and charge really high prices
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by switchbak 1mo ago
I think it was an example of a well executed idea taken war too far, like the touchscreens on a Tesla replacing essential physical buttons. Or the obsession with getting rid of buttons on the iPhone (which we’re now thankfully retreating f
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by switchbak 1mo ago
I owned one for a very long time. I know people loved the clicky clack, but that thing was a UX abomination. The only thing it was good for was high speed jogging - not something that you typically do very often on a music player. "App
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by switchbak 1mo ago
Maybe they have standards and preferences. "fine" and "overreacting" seem like your very subjective value judgements.
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by switchbak 1mo ago
I have a nice M2 and a Linux box ... I do enjoy the looks of the Mac, but I never find myself reaching for it. A modern Linux box is just so much more useful, especially when you live in the backend dev / K8S world where Linux is the a
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by switchbak 1mo ago
I suppose it depends what audience will be editing it. XUL used it because that was the fashion at the time, but it wouldn't be something I'd want to hand edit. Qt used its own QWT (now dated) which was a lot easier for a human to

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