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by the_biot 5y ago
> The inability to generate IP reputation smaller than a /24 is inherent to the way internet routing works. Nonsense. SMTP is not internet routing, and there is no reason at all why some "reputation" system should be const
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by the_biot 5y ago
I never did understand how this wasn't the scandal of the century in Germany. The logical reaction to this actions should have been to throw out all business he was involved in, IMHO. Schröder's actions were only marginally less
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by the_biot 5y ago
It's true that the UK was always the biggest opponent, but don't kid yourself that the rest of the EU is on board with federalizing. There is no popular mandate for that whatsoever. Just look at what happens whenever some EU treat
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by the_biot 5y ago
Well said. I'd add that the EU has for decades been a convenient scapegoat for member governments to point to, when "forced" by the EU to do things that needed doing but are politically difficult. Think of all the national
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by the_biot 5y ago
> Or what if they're like the exhaust trails of an FTL vehicle/body? Thank you for saying it. I desperately want this to be the case.
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by the_biot 5y ago
Remember that time Yahoo made Flickr ridiculously slow to access from Europe, to the point where it wasn't actually usable? Lasted near 10 years I believe. Hah, good times.
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by the_biot 5y ago
IIRC Google was clear about this even when they launched Gmail: they were doing it so they could read your emails and use that info to add to your ad profile. I couldn't even *believe* at the time why anyone would sign up for that. Sti
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by the_biot 5y ago
It's not an entrepeneurial movement in the slightest. There is no profit motive.
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by the_biot 5y ago
Yup, and anyone with a heartbeat figured that out at some point in the last 20 years. Yet the article also says > Not having GPS or data (or hidden microphones or cameras) also makes your vehicle feel more private, obviously. I can'
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by the_biot 5y ago
Didn't read the article, huh. Not even the bullet summary of the article. Just went straight into outraged commenter mode.
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by the_biot 5y ago
It went a little further than that. IIRC it was specifically higher quality than the human ear could possibly hear. Young's response to this rational, science-based criticism was just pathetic; actual fact-based reasoning had no chance
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by the_biot 5y ago
14 years late, 2000% over budget even while getting a free ride from ESA -- and loudly exclaiming this thing has no redundancy whatsoever: anything at all might brick it. It may be a great telescope, but it's a miserable failure as a p
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by the_biot 5y ago
OP is an SEO company. Wasting human energy is what they do.
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by the_biot 5y ago
In the hope that it'll be worth real money someday, and you'll get rich off of it. That was even in Neal Stephenson's original concept of the metaverse. And it's what explains very nearly all of the money in today's
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by the_biot 5y ago
But is that still the case? I recall reading about this as well, but that was years ago. In the meantime Google throws up a gigantic disclaimer popup every time you want to use any of their services, slowing things down by seconds. (Happens
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by the_biot 5y ago
If you're trying to hide a backdoor in a more subtle way than leaving a telnet port open, disguising it as a bug is not a bad way to go. Much less work than, say, finagling your own magic numbers into a new crypto standard. Anyway, Tel
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by the_biot 5y ago
This is an amazing piece of work, but it's clearly a labor of love: this isn't going to have any real-world use any time soon. Where operating systems are headed is more towards security (process isolation, bulletproof input etc),
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by the_biot 5y ago
He's so done he posted a video on Youtube about it. Like every other post here with "YouTube" in the title, it's just clickbait and drama.
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by the_biot 5y ago
That used to be the argument, same one that shields e.g. ISPs from having to censor their customers. The difference with YouTube (and Facebook, etc) is that they recommend videos, and steering users to controversial/outrageous/e
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by the_biot 5y ago
It's NOT about car drivers vs. cyclists. You've immediately classified me into somebody who couldn't possibly cycle, as clearly I am evil. I disagreed with an anti-car pro-bicycle article after all! This is why I think this s
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by the_biot 5y ago
It's equally frustrating how a certain class of people, i.e. rabid anti-car cyclists, only read publications within their bubble that are equally anti-car, while constantly throwing shade at any country that is not the paradise Netherl
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by the_biot 5y ago
Not to mention injecting themselves into the second-hand battery market, which I suspect is going to be huge.
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by the_biot 5y ago
You take a detail from a sentence and complain about the accuracy of that detail while deliberately missing the actual point. Your place on the spectrum is: internet commenter
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by the_biot 5y ago
Oh, is THAT what's stopping you from building a Smalltalk-based system using something like the circle library for low-level access. Damn, so close!
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by the_biot 5y ago
Good point. That page says the BSP ships with a GCC-produced driver blob, without source. Would be good to hear from the Pine64 folks on whether they've contacted the vendor and demanded source.
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by the_biot 5y ago
I think this is intended for kernel driver developers, not user application developers.
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by the_biot 5y ago
I'm familiar with the Realtek RTL vendor driver codebase. It's a combination of two classics: a Realtek-specific hardware abstraction layer across a large number of their products (which won't fly in the Linux kernel), and ab
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by the_biot 5y ago
I'll second this. I appreciate the CEO's outspokenness on privacy, security etc. And they're just a decent and inexpensive registrar to boot.
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by the_biot 5y ago
I've never seen the term "dataframe" used as it is on this webste, and the commenters here seem to all use it. Judging by the examples it seems to just refer to a "row" from e.g. a CSV or SQL query. So is that all i
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by the_biot 5y ago
If you're a basic techie with little appreciation for the fine arts, watch a film called "Tim's Vermeer". It will make you want to go to this exhibition.

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