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by wzdd 3y ago
> of course I'd paint a stereotype to make sure it looks Indian Would you? That's pretty boring: Given the vagueness of the prompt, you're actually free to paint anyone, from Kumari Mayawati to Satya Nadella. Not doing &qu
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by wzdd 3y ago
> I kinda cheat a few cents from them per day/month/year You certainly do not. There is a very simple and legally-recognised way to recuperate costs associated with providing a service and that is to charge money for the servic
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by wzdd 3y ago
> It’s not freely available It is made available to the general public without cost. It is freely available.
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by wzdd 3y ago
This is now five years old, and while obviously the premise is more correct than ever (computers don't look much like a PDP-11 architecturally), the conclusion ("imagining a non-C processor") seems less strong. We are seeing
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by wzdd 3y ago
> using their paid service without paying is bad Software engineers on HN or anywhere else certainly do not tend to agree that stripping ads from freely-available content is equivalent to using a paid service without paying.
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by wzdd 3y ago
Not that I disagree, but "I spent 5 years helping Google achieve its market dominance and mindshare, was accused of bullying employees, left quietly a few months later, and am now trashing it in the press as part of the marketing proce
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by wzdd 3y ago
> none of this has anything to do with utilitarianism "Always go for C (or any strategy)" is not in general a utilitarian strategy, so the mugger would not expect Bentham to employ it. Your argument assumes that the characters
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by wzdd 3y ago
It's not that interesting a question and is really just a language issue. Formally, reasoning is about a rational process of deduction through which a conclusion is drawn from a set of information. Informally, reasoning is 'that t
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by wzdd 3y ago
Alternative sane approach: - Forget about long paths unless you really need to care. You need to care if you're accepting a file path from another app, for example. You don't need to care if you're using your own files in you
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by wzdd 3y ago
Not a past character, but one of the screenshots has a dentist appointment at 2:30, which is an old pun.
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by wzdd 3y ago
> would require all of the strings to be six digits long The OP's point (presumably, because it bugged me too) is that the article doesn't make this clear.
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by wzdd 3y ago
A bucket is filling with water at a rate of 3 drops per second. However, the bucket has a hole which is releasing water at a rate of one drop per second. The water level is nonetheless rising. If we plugged the hole, it would rise more rapi
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by wzdd 3y ago
Linux* actually does have a tendency towards more hardline stances, simply because it's not answerable to market forces in quite the same way. For example, say 0.5% of monitors out there have dodgy edid values like this. For a commerc
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by wzdd 3y ago
If there is a case to be made for regulating porn, this article doesn't make it. The "Cambridge University study" at the heart of the article is described as showing that "porn’s effects on the brain are neurochemically
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by wzdd 3y ago
To be honest this response underscores the problem with pages like this. In Python, strings and numbers are objects, and “is” tells you if they are the same object. You wouldn’t compare strings or numbers in C using a pointer comparison, an
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by wzdd 3y ago
It just seems like this allows earlier detection of the possibility of getting cancer, which surely means more opportunity to tell the patient to lose weight. By the time you've got stomach cancer, it's a little late. (Obesity sti
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by wzdd 3y ago
Yeah! I agree Apple is the "pioneer" here..
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Correct, this is what they do. Google requires hardware manufacturers who want to use Play etc to get their stuff signed with their root certificate, which the TPM then verifies. See https://developer.android.com/training&#x
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by wzdd 3y ago
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/... """ Attester-level acceptable browser policy If the community thinks it's important for the attestation to include the platform i
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by wzdd 3y ago
Yes, you are correct that preventing users from making modifications to anything in the chain of trust without being approved by an already-trusted third party, likely the company who certified the device, is by design.
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by wzdd 3y ago
Yes, I look forward to a modified MV3 which addresses the concerns above.
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by wzdd 3y ago
Your metal detector "that seems practically difficult" is exactly the issue: WEI does create a implicit whitelist (I believe the preferred term is allowlist). WEI will attest anything, but if you want it to be useful you have to a
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by wzdd 3y ago
I'm sorry, but the idea that it's about allowing me to attest to the security of my device is not correct. I can make all the attestations I like about the security of my device, but if they're not backed by a confirmation fr
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by wzdd 3y ago
My understanding is that the vendor installs keys in the TPM which can't be retrieved. So no, a virtual TPM wouldn't work, because you don't have the vendor's keys. Or rather, you would be in the same situation as before
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by wzdd 3y ago
I rely mostly on the discussion around the implications for ublock origin when looking at manifest v3, because gorhill seems to be engaging with it in good faith. Browsing the issue about it ( https://github.com/uBlockOrigin&
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by wzdd 3y ago
I don't think this is a good analogy. The WEI proposal is different to anti-virus in many ways. The fundamental ones are: 1) WEI doesn't attest that your device isn't running malware, it attests that your device is running a
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by wzdd 3y ago
DRM is in fact very much about access and is the reason that, for example, if you want to watch HD video from any major streaming service on Linux you need to run a Windows browser in Wine. This workaround only works currently because these
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by wzdd 3y ago
The difference is that currently you can lie. You can identify the fingerprinting techniques being used, and work around them. yt-dlp already does something like this, for example. In Android, there was a lot of support for making your root
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by wzdd 3y ago
I don't understand the essay at all, perhaps because I'm not a domain expert. Edges are clearly a very strong signal in the visual system -- as the article points out, edge detection is one of the first things that happens in the
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by wzdd 3y ago
No there aren’t, as a quick search for the legality of prostitution in Australia would have told you. You may have missed the word “child”, as sex tourism of this kind is unfortunately still a problem.

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