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by wiml 7mo ago
It does talk about Starlink
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by wiml 8mo ago
I wouldn't think so. Regulatory capture is a pretty typical activity for a dominant company.
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by wiml 8mo ago
"Regime" is mostly derogatory among the terminally online. It's an accurate description of any government, regulatory system, zone of applicability of a natural law, etc etc.
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by wiml 8mo ago
Lots of ferns where I live, and I've put fiddleheads in a few stirfries for the novelty of it. But some (bracken especially) are somewhat toxic or carcinogenic. Probably fine if you prepare them properly and don't eat them too oft
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by wiml 8mo ago
This exact method was implemented back around the turn of the century by RSAC/ICRA. I think only MSIE ever looked at those tags. But it seems like they met the stated goal of today's age-verification proposals. That's why I
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by wiml 8mo ago
Even better, the site could just tell the browser that there's age-sensitive content and the browser could check it. There are already standards for this! The problem is, it doesn't give a legally-enforced monopoly to any rent see
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by wiml 8mo ago
Don't think he knows about second sourcing, Pip.
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by wiml 8mo ago
You still need to have privileges to become the userid of the user logging in. Openssh does do privsep, but you still need a privileged daemon.
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by wiml 8mo ago
I think you need something like it in order to have a print representation of a cons cell whose cdr is not a cons-or-nil. And it's nice if your print representations are readable.
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by wiml 8mo ago
PPC32/64 of course, and for a long time Darwin still contained remnants of its predecessor's support for SPARC, PA-RISC, and m68k.
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by wiml 8mo ago
That's not "full self driving" by any stretch of the imagination. Where are these goalposts again?
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by wiml 8mo ago
Which cohort is that? In my experience, the left has been against requiring internal passports since day one.
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by wiml 8mo ago
That wouldn't cause the "bullseye" pattern the article describes, would it? I don't think the recent glaciation got as far south at Utah, anyway.
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by wiml 8mo ago
> and will start to resemble systemd That's the point on which people differ. Even if we take as given that rc/svinit/runit/etc is not good enough (and I don't think that's been established), there are lots
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by wiml 8mo ago
Open source, free software, the hacker ethos itself, have all been political from their very inception. And they've always been "liberal", in the broadest sense of that word, spanning libertarianism to neoliberalism to latte
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by wiml 8mo ago
Or cheese or beer?
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by wiml 8mo ago
Squashes are New World, but gourds and melons were grown in the Old World (Wikipedia says brought to Europe during the Roman era).
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by wiml 9mo ago
You don't need to press your palm, you just hover it over the plate for a moment. I think the hardware is just an IR illuminator+camera. It does seem like a technology that should have a useful niche. Unlike fingerprints you don't
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by wiml 9mo ago
That used to be typical in the US as well. I think that when pay-at-the-pump became the norm (using a card), prepayment became expected even when paying with cash inside, at around the same time. I expect there are some gas stations here an
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by wiml 9mo ago
Out of curiosity, why did it fail in that market?
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by wiml 9mo ago
ares623 did say "democratic socialist"
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by wiml 9mo ago
The amount of plastic going into the ocean is increasing rapidly, especially in the last 15 years or so. It is different from (say) 50 years ago. Also you might have noticed that a lot of sea life is scarcer than it used to be.
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by wiml 9mo ago
Presumably it could update its own docs
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by wiml 9mo ago
At a glance, Reticulum assumes more resources on a node and more stable and well behaved links than the others, and places a much higher priority on crypto. I don't know how it fares in real world LoRa deployments.
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by wiml 9mo ago
The LoRa enthusiasts in my area seem to all have moved to Meshcore, largely because of a quirk in Meshtastic's routing algorithm that doesn't handle nodes with widely varying visibility/power/noisefloor well. They report
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by wiml 9mo ago
There are things like Briar, Scuttlebutt, Berty, Serval, probably more I don't know of.
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by wiml 9mo ago
You can run an LLM locally (and distributed compile systems, where the compiler runs in the cloud, are a thing, too) so that doesn't really produce a distinction between the two. Likewise, many optimization techniques involve some rand
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by wiml 9mo ago
I think it hinges on whether "any part of Venezuela" includes intangible "parts" like being able to tell them who to sell oil to, or whether it only refers to land/territory. The second paragraph implies that contr
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by wiml 9mo ago
We've been living in that world since the invention of the compiler ("automatic programming"). Few people write machine code any more. If you think of LLMs as a new variety of compiler, a lot of their shortcomings are easier
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by wiml 9mo ago
And by the same token (ha) for some folks we're looking at their first hype wave. If you're a bit older, you've seen similar things like 4GLs and visual programming languages and blockchain and expert systems. They each left

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