throwaway7356

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by throwaway7356 7d ago
> Start with synchronous function calls instead of JSON. LSP is a function call protocol. So that is already done?
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by throwaway7356 7d ago
If the old emacs approach is so much better, why is emacs switching to using LSP?
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by throwaway7356 7d ago
It has been done. It is no longer done because it is not efficient. Yes, it was not "object storage", but Git can be served from a dumb http server as static files. Now someone figured out that object storage can also serve static
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by throwaway7356 11d ago
Many libraries still have unsafe defaults. They come from the XML-age where security concerns were minor (SQL injection was still new to most!) Using XML in a safe way requires you to study what is wrong with XML first. That is not what man
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by throwaway7356 11d ago
> XML is mature and supported in all languages with code generation its more or less transparent to the dev. No, XML is still not mature. They still need to fix the security issues everyone reimplements every time such as local file disc
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by throwaway7356 11d ago
I think you miss the most important bits: - backdoor deals to discourage alternatives, such as moving headquarters to convince people not to use alternatives, - monopoly abuse, - active sabotage of alternative software by intentionally trig
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by throwaway7356 2mo ago
Nuclear isn't as cheap as you present it. It needs heavy subsidies for insurance and waste disposal. Most nuclear power proposals are just LARPing as "cheap" as they pretend subsidies don't exist. In addition you have to
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by throwaway7356 2mo ago
Yes, because comparing it to larger countries with more economic power like China would make the US politics look even dumber.
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
It'll still connect to IPv6 addresses and bypass any firewalls. Also users might become part (victim?) of a police investigation because of illegal actions that seem to originate from their local residential connection. So still good t
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
> Apps are not infected with NetNut. This is just Google abusing their monopoly position to hurt its competitors. If apps ship with stealth backdoors to sell access to the user's internal residential network, that's malware. I
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
> The fix was prepared statements You don't need prepared statements. The fix is parameter binding: submitting parameters separate from the SQL statement itself, separating code from (user) data. > The analogous mitigation for ag
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
> nor do they provide the brain an interpretation of what they perceive > What it gets from the body is raw physical measurements No, sensory organs like eyes do a lot of processing ("interpreation"). They certainly don&#x27
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
Then one can claim that humans are less intelligent than a goldfish as "none of us have ever seen a human swim as well as a goldfish".
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
> yet with enough developer elbow grease they can do all the same things an LLM can do, with much higher reliability Where can I access such a Lisp expert system? If I cannot because they don't exist: then they cannot do the same th
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
Yes, that condition makes it no longer open source software. It also has the effect of making software adopting such licenses getting removed from open source distributions.
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
The terms of service are between Anthropic and one of their subscribers. So Anthropic can maybe cancel their contract. This doesn't affect what copyright law allows or does not allow. Also I think Anthropic very much suppports gatherin
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
> I think the notion that you could control something (legitimately) smarter than you is a pretty risky proposition. Well, Trump seems to control a lot of people given how afraid they are. Trump is also called not the smartest person out
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
> In practice the only place it shows up is if you are using "ssh -X". That uses the security extension by default. Which is why there is also a "ssh -Y" that disables it for applications that it breaks. Unless your d
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
> But granting full rights to distro-provided programs like vim or xeyes is perfectly sane. You mean run everything distro-provided as root? There are reasons systems don't do that any more. Even distro-provided services are often s
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
Maybe include some election guides for poor, misguided Americans that would hurt themselves by not voting for God President Donald Trump I as well? It's protecting people from themselves, so basically like the safeguards already includ
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
Can't the AI companies spare a small investment in Trump coin to ease the process?
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
> Ok, but what about those shady sites that resell Windows education keys? Yes, they are fine? They might no longer include full first party support by Microsoft for not being "new". Same as buying a used car (also comes with t
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
> China aren't offering a cheaper solution. They are subsidizing an existing one So basically like US companies subsidizing offerings with selling user data, ads for crypto scams, manipulation for elections, making people addicted t
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
> all system calls had to go through libc (or perhaps a big ntdll.dll-like Which makes containers crap on Windows and *BSD as they have to run the currect libc or equivalent. Thus you need to build a different container per OS version wh
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
Yes, many developers give nothing about even basic security. That's why we still have every basic security issue like hardcoded passwords, SQL or other injections, XSRF and so on repeated on an endless loop. Even if they are trivial to
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
> CORS is threat model used for when you can't trust your self. No. But many lack basic understanding of web technologies or facts like that a browser can be used to access more than a single site. This leads to not understanding wh
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by throwaway7356 3mo ago
They use Yandex for e-mail, so probably a Russian group behind this.
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by throwaway7356 4mo ago
Probably Anthropic just needs to commit to handing over some shares to the Trump presidential family after their IPO and this will be solved. This is just cost of doing business in corrupt Soviet vessel states like the USA.
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by throwaway7356 4mo ago
> I don't think in court a whole ban on a product for security reasons would stand. There are lots such products, like weapons-grade radioactive material, weapons outside the toy gun range, various biological material, ... So it see
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by throwaway7356 4mo ago
> Maybe this all means there’s a place on the net for gopher, Gemini protocol, or tilde.town or ssh BBSes? By your question (and Betteridge's law of headlines): no, as they fail at least (2), (4) and (5).

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