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by tredre3 2mo ago
I know that you tend to be balls deep in American Exceptionalism, but the truth is that reasonable countries with reasonable health care average 15-30 MRI machines per million inhabitants. America is a wild outlier, and unless you have data
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by tredre3 2mo ago
Why do you limit it to people with children? Why do you assume that the children are beautiful and healthy? > Medicare available for free for households making over $100,000 annually Sure, why not try it? It's still 50% of America g
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by tredre3 2mo ago
Not that it matters, but fclose() doesn't happen in the kernel, so the kernel devs can't do anything about it. All libcs have essentially the same implementation: - is fp NULL or already already closed? return error - call fflush(
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by tredre3 2mo ago
Admitting that there was human review from not one but two maintainers would entirely defeat the purpose of the article, which was to sell you an AI solution to the AI problem and insist that no human in the loop is better. Which, to be fai
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by tredre3 2mo ago
> PHP runs a separate logical process on every request which can't share resources with any other request. PHP allows persistent connections to postgres that will be reused by subsequent requests. But of course the connection isn&#x
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by tredre3 2mo ago
Two comments on the referenced stackexchange [1] claim that very early gmail accounts with and without dots were distinct. But searching the web, and reluctantly asking AI, I can find no reference to this so I believe they are mistaken. Acc
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by tredre3 2mo ago
If RUM is such a good thing, why is it opt-in for paid users? Why push this gracious gift only onto free users?
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by tredre3 2mo ago
They are doing us a favor, there's no denying that. Just like dozen of other providers did them a favor by providing them with the free software pieces they relied on to build their product. Of course it's poor taste to add the &q
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by tredre3 2mo ago
Telemetry can be disabled in Brave. Any kind of history/bookmark syncing is opt-in. You're just spreading FUD unless you have evidence that Brave funnels usage data in secret.
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by tredre3 2mo ago
That's not true, the on/off toggle is per-site in uBlock Origin Lite.
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by tredre3 2mo ago
You have full control of whether or not their button is in your toolbar. If they are hidden for you, it's because you, the user, hid them or enabled the overflow extension menu.
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by tredre3 2mo ago
> A modern consumer GPU can crack "four random English words" in a day. [...] but arguing that that scheme is actually secure is just wrong. Let me do just that! This is a networked service. You send your password (or a hashed
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by tredre3 2mo ago
GoAccess supports more than combined format. I think they even support stubborn servers who output JSON logs only: https://goaccess.io/man#custom-log
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by tredre3 2mo ago
> Without Linux, there's no OpenAI. They use Linux because it's there. If Linux wasn't there, they'd use what's there. There is nothing about Linux that makes it unique enough to be make or break OpenAI. Not on
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by tredre3 2mo ago
Blocking ads is intended to prevent the ad network from tracking you. But: 1. Facebook already knows everything you see and do on facebook 2. Facebook is the ad network and serves its own ads. Therefore blocking ads on facebook won't p
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by tredre3 2mo ago
> Like, what do you mean by woke? If I'm against misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc, is that woke? That's the usual go-to, isn't it? Forcing your opponent to define the word woke to make them look dumb/hateful. If we w
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by tredre3 2mo ago
> I think in this case the data is still being sent to the cloud, hence the API to fetch it. Correct. In every case all the data is sent to the cloud. That is where the data is crunched and transformed in actual metrics. You can do the t
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by tredre3 2mo ago
If you can get away with it, you really should stick to llama-server alone. When they added support the ability to load multiple models + an idle timeout to unload them, it finally did it for me. Adding llama-swap adds a fair amount of comp
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by tredre3 2mo ago
My parents never discouraged my dreams, but they never actively procured anything to make them bloom either. Early in adulthood when I gained access on my own, I resented them for "holding me back". But then, after many more decad
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by tredre3 2mo ago
The author doesn't need to know the difference because the task manager is accurate by default. I can still offer you some reassurance: - The Windows task manager's memory column is the private working set which is the actual memo
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by tredre3 2mo ago
I know nothing of Safecloud, but freenet failed for a very valid reasons: 1. Data retention isn't infinite. If the source disappears from the network, peers will prune it shortly. This is exponentially true in our multimedia-heavy worl
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by tredre3 2mo ago
> Or they might try to be a little too clever with HTTPS upgrades. They're not going to get any cleverer than they are now. In October we'll finally be done with heuristics or central databses of https-first websites used by th
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by tredre3 2mo ago
The genuine answer to your question is no, they are not de-facto blocked, unless the website operator chooses to do so.
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by tredre3 2mo ago
> Plus I'd prefer to use DNS over HTTPS instead of using unencrypted DNS. Running unbound or a pi-hole on your network doesn't preclude that. Your devices talks to the gateway/router/pi-hole on the network, who will t
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by tredre3 2mo ago
Vivaldi is still dropping support for MV2, which means no more uBlock Origin (non-lite). Being able to side-load extensions doesn't matter if the API is gone.
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by tredre3 2mo ago
> Microsoft's current privacy statement also says "Depending on your settings, this browsing history is sent to Microsoft" Edge allows to sync history (as Chrome and Firefox also do). Given that functionality, what else do
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by tredre3 2mo ago
> Unless you have an army of software engineers on par with that of Google The main thing that is affecting adblockers with this MV2/MV3 change is the ability to dynamically block requests themselves rather than have to give a pre-c
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by tredre3 2mo ago
Many registrars operate as brokers for domain sales indeed (i.e. godaddy, namecheap). Then you have tlds operators with their "premium" domains that go for 1000x the regular price. Premium usually being defined as the top 10k engl
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by tredre3 2mo ago
DNS allows any character you want, including underscores. Host names in URLs cannot contain underscores. Therefore any service that create subdomains for user would reject underscores, which is why they're considered de-facto reserved
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by tredre3 2mo ago
> selfhosted gitlab - there was no option to reduce password complexity for my users Gitlab's default requirements aren't that intense, but you can make them more stringent if you want. https://docs.gitlab.com/u

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