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by tga_d 3y ago
I can't speak to the German translation, but the point the English version is making is you don't install Snowflake, you install software that uses Snowflake (most typically, Tor Browser). It's presumably trying to clarify th
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by tga_d 3y ago
I mean, modulo edge cases, lead is a lot scarier than CO2; it's only because of the ridiculously obscene quantities of CO2 being produced that it's a more immanent threat. There's obviously not enough information yet to weigh
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by tga_d 3y ago
Arbitrary local reads from unprivileged apps is a "pretty plain threat" in terms of recent developments in security as a result of improvements to what we can secure. In a typical desktop OS, it's just the norm, but for mobil
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by tga_d 3y ago
Again, not defending the Android ecosystem, but what is the threat model here? Poking through those, they all seem only locally exploitable by malicious apps, which yeah not great, and under just the right circumstances maybe chainable from
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by tga_d 3y ago
I'm not going to argue that "use LineageOS" is viable advice for most users (it's not), but what do you mean "The blobs that run the most important things are frozen in time"? I suppose they're "the m
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by tga_d 3y ago
It seems like you're trying to apply an analogy, but I can't make out what it is. What, specifically, will happen if the EU mandates device support that is like cookie pop up banners? (As an aside, GDPR did a lot of privacy-relate
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by tga_d 3y ago
I know, but the entire point of CoW is you don't need shared memory, as long as the fork happens after the memory was written it'll just act like an entirely independent copy transparently to the application, with the OS duplicati
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by tga_d 3y ago
I guess when GP said "heavy ... C extensions" I was thinking code pages from libraries and structures managed by C, yes python objects will require additional consideration.
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by tga_d 3y ago
I have no experience with Windows, but at least on Linux, if the forking is handled intelligently (namely, late enough that identical assets don't need to be re-written), duplicated memory should be handled by Copy on Write.
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by tga_d 3y ago
"Safety-critical systems now usually rely on software" is a distinct and largely independent statement from "software is now usually safety-critical". The former is true, the latter is not. (This is actually a pretty cle
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by tga_d 3y ago
>If you really need a collision resistant hash you need to use a cryptographic hash function, but outside of cryptographic applications that is rarely the requirement. There are reasons to use (strongly) collision resistant hashes outsid
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by tga_d 3y ago
The article says this: > Kahn says that, although there will undoubtedly be positive uses of AI to support researchers writing papers, it will still be necessary to distinguish between legitimate papers written with AI and those that hav
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by tga_d 3y ago
How do you see this as scapegoating? The headline specifically says "intensifies", the article very clearly positions AI-fabricated data as an extension of existing problems, and I don't see anything in the article downplayin
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by tga_d 3y ago
Yeah, as annoying as the CAPTCHAs are, at least Cloudflare is aware of and acknowledges the problem, and is actively working on solutions like Privacy Pass. Much more than can be said for many other services that block Tor.
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by tga_d 3y ago
I'll second this (over a decade of low to moderate activity). I've seen contention of course, discussions do occasionally get heated, but territorialism doesn't appear anywhere near as frequently as I've seen in similar
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by tga_d 3y ago
Nobody is claiming there currently exists some inherent legal right to have general purpose hardware, they're complaining that they're being sold something intentionally designed to not behave the way a consumer would want. It&#x2
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by tga_d 3y ago
There's nowhere outside of Alaska in the US that sees consistent temps below -22. Any place that gets that cold will only see it for a few nights at most, and could use resistive heating or portable gas to cover those brief windows.
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by tga_d 3y ago
... I am saying they are clearly making a comparative statement, not an absolute one. Again, how else am I supposed to read that sentence? I feel like I'm going crazy here, this isn't some nuanced point, it's literally what t
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by tga_d 3y ago
I never said they claimed it was right, just that it was more acceptable. Again, I don't see how one could interpret it otherwise?
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by tga_d 3y ago
How else would you interpret "I see them using some VPNs and using Tor, but that makes sense, because that's super close to the type of traffic that these filters were designed to block"? They seem to be implying that Tor is
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by tga_d 3y ago
I'm curious why you seem to think that Tor is more legitimate to block than those behind CGNAT. There's been plenty of research showing on a per-connection basis, Tor is no more prone to malicious activity than connections from ra
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Proposed California law would require bidirectional charging capability for EVs(chargedevs.com)
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by tga_d 3y ago
Maybe I wasn't clear enough with my criticism: You are unambiguously making a value judgement that the feelings of people who get offended by comments like "Y'all colonized the poorest parts of the city and gave the poorest f
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by tga_d 4y ago
I can't help but wonder why it's prudent to sweep in for a comment like that, but not any of the comments that have been associating homelessness with murder rates on an article apparently about a dispute between two tech workers.
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by tga_d 4y ago
You're only looking at the first chart, scroll down if you want those other crimes included (you can even filter only on them). It's still level.
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by tga_d 4y ago
Okay, I did the google search you mentioned. It says you're wrong: "Overall Prosecution Rate in SF Remains Largely the Same Under Boudin" - NBC Here's the raw data from the DA's office: https://www.sfdist
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by tga_d 4y ago
By almost any metric, including murder rate, SF is still one of the safest large cities in the country. https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/violent-crime-san-...
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by tga_d 4y ago
Depends on the definition of "generation" being used. One definition of generation is "about 30 years", i.e., the amount of time it takes to go from infancy to raising a child. See definition 6 (as of time of writing):
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by tga_d 4y ago
The headline is literally true in a certain, non-colloquial usage of the term "most likely". It's is also true to claim that Covid-19 was more likely not because of a lab leak. That's what "low confidence" me
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by tga_d 4y ago
I have to just say, as interesting as the videos are, The Thought Emporium has some... I guess questionable ethics. They've been repeatedly critiqued for overuse of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in their experiments, and they dismiss i

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