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by yafbum 3y ago
It's a dumb TLD for sure, but can someone explain what the security problem is? Is there a segment of users who'd be confused enough not to see the difference between a URL and a file name, but smart enough to be able to make that
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by yafbum 3y ago
robots.txt is a successful coordination mechanism between website operators and crawlers. It is not in any way a security mechanism meant to address adversarial situations, as you seem to make it out to be.
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by yafbum 3y ago
Oh yeah crazy effects of the Patriot act indeed... Edit: your post kinda proves the point. You're evidently not afraid of posting stuff online that most people would consider crazy conspiracy BS ("Bill Oxley"?). In an actuall
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by yafbum 3y ago
The protestors summarily killed at Tiananmen are still unjustly dead
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by yafbum 3y ago
The only example you can find is from 40-50 years ago? Around the time that China (while we're at comparing with China) was having its military shoot protesters in Tiananmen square?
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by yafbum 3y ago
What does this have to do with mysterious vanishing? The "media" includes Fox News - and it is, in audience terms, the most mainstream of them. It had absolutely glowing coverage of Trump throughout its presidency and continues he
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by yafbum 3y ago
Well then the power structure in China is much much MUCH narrower at the top (1 person for life)
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by yafbum 3y ago
Any billionaire who thinks of themselves as indispensable to society and has a highly visible public presence. If Musk was behaving towards the CCP half as disrespectfully as he does towards the the US political caste, he'd have been s
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by yafbum 3y ago
We're talking about the Patriot act... Not "everything that ever was wrong with the US"
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by yafbum 3y ago
There are about as many billionaires in China as in the US.
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by yafbum 3y ago
Who has been "vanished"in the US? Jack Ma was essentially on house arrest for over a year after flying a little too close to the sun with his IPO plans. Peng Shuai was on house arrest for denouncing sexual abuse by a CCP member. T
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by yafbum 3y ago
They're apparently named after a couple of popular actual npm packages, lodash and tailwindcss. So I guess it's possible some people will try these out as the "simple" version of lodash, or as the version that is meant
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by yafbum 3y ago
This is an excellent point. I think the memo is making a different kind of case though - it's saying that large multipurpose models don't matter because people already have the ability to get better performance on the problems the
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by yafbum 3y ago
You might as well be done with politics altogether... Politics pulling unsubtly on people's emotional heartstrings to gain leverage ("won't anyone think of the children?") is the kind of systemic hacking technique that s
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by yafbum 3y ago
Still way more work than clicking "mark as spam" and not really having to worry about missing an actual check
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by yafbum 3y ago
Gee, imagine if email had all these forms to get rid of spam...
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by yafbum 3y ago
I'm just talking about the mail with my actual name on it. Credit card offers, promo magazines, catalogs, service coupons, etc
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by yafbum 3y ago
And it's not even limited to online or free. My snail mail is 90% spam even though people have to pay for it to be printed and delivered physically to my door. I wish I had spam filtering for USPS.
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by yafbum 3y ago
"Helpful and productive" is highly context dependent. There are many tasks for which Ocaml is great at, and also many tasks for which there are much better choices available.
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by yafbum 3y ago
Back when I tried it, there seemed to be a few verticals where Ocaml abstractions made Ocaml very productive to work with. Once a colleague and I did a programming race between two languages, to see how long it would take to implement a sma
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by yafbum 3y ago
Law enforcement gonna exploit outrage. Evidently so will encryption fans. Both are politicians, in the sense that matters of state powers are of interest to both; and thus both wield hyperbole: "down with terrorists" vs "down
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by yafbum 3y ago
>>freedom exists only to the extent that there is a government enforcing boundaries on freedom to prevent it from turning into anarchy >No, it doesn't. Which is trivial to prove, considering we have had widely available encryp
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by yafbum 3y ago
For bulk interception, it's true that a certain technical capacity is there that didn't use to be there. But targeted taps and intercepts, though expensive, used to be more straightforward in terms of process. > Prior to the in
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by yafbum 3y ago
False dichotomy. Every restriction on freedom does not have to be reduced to totalitarianist encroachment.
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by yafbum 3y ago
Contrarian opinion ahead. We live in a very unique period of history - a bubble really - in which governments are not able to intercept certain communications or decrypt certain records, even with the full force of the law behind them. Whil
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by yafbum 3y ago
> non-permissive licenses such as GPL mean that you cannot [use the code] without consent. Huh? GPL does have strings attached, but if consent one of them? Seems like a thinly disguised ad
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by yafbum 3y ago
This is an ecosystem problem, not a tech company problem. You see these dark pattern pop-ups on every website, including media sites, mail order, big brands, local shops... The tech companies are thinking about their bottom line, but they&#
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by yafbum 3y ago
Let's not forget another great one: "accept or subscribe", although that one is somehow sanctioned by the EU. Subscription-based freemium services are apparently ok to ask their users to either accept tracking or pay money. M
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by yafbum 3y ago
The ROI of doing it right is negative; that's an assumed cost of most regulations. But it's not negative because it's more complex to build it right - it's negative because monetization is that much lower even for that s
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by yafbum 3y ago
User indifference is not the problem behind dark patterns. Some of these UIs are clearly designed to discourage people who do care, by making non-essential cookie rejection more expensive in terms of user time (one more click, obfuscation,

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