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by ziddoap 2y ago
> with some malicious code Obviously not.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> the assumption that everyone will share the writer's understanding of why it's worth reading. There is no "why it's worth reading". They write for enjoyment, and don't care if anyone reads it. "I wr
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Whatever the intent, erasing "transgender" out of the headline referencing the erasure of "transgender" on a monument is some next-level stuff.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Interesting editorializing of the headline, impish9208.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> You also can't convince me 0 out of 1000 google employees are capable of taking on a spam prevention role. Similarly, you can't convince me that laying off 6 people would make any difference (let alone solve) any of the spam
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Presumably they are looking for more than the 2 lines in the image that don't explain anything about why .
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Were those 100 people working in anti-spam/bot detection?
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by ziddoap 2y ago
I was confused on if they meant deadly to drive, or deadly to other people/vehicles that they hit. It appears that the article is about deadly to drive (I suspect that they are also very dangerous to those they hit, but that's jus
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> I guess changing red to red-ish magenta was apparently more important than addressing the widespread issues that have been plaguing YouTube for years. I have a suspicion that the color and design folks are not the same people in charg
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Ars Technica has an article, as well, with some additional context/explanation. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/02/most-energetic-neutr... And an interesting, somewhat related, video from PBS Space
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by ziddoap 2y ago
It is worth noting that your second quote is from a blog posted in May 2020, and the link that kfreds posted is from their follow-up blog post, dated July 2020.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> An old legacy car is definitely not more complicated than designing and manufacturing a cutting edge silicon made for high performance compute. A car is more complicated than a connector, at least. Anyways, the rest of your comment is
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Presumably, the point is that a working car is more complicated & cheaper (in this case) than the graphics card, while the graphics card can't figure out how to make a connector. I read it as a kind of funny comment making a broade
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by ziddoap 2y ago
They didn't say new cars.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
The parent comment asked (very specifically!) for real examples, not C-suite fantasies. They received a reply literally describing the fantasy of a c-suite individual. I thought that was funny. How my one sentence reply pointing out the iro
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Perfect example of a fantasy put forth by an executive.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
According to the wayback machine, it is. https://web.archive.org/web/20230530003202/https://mullvad.n...
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> Google and OpenAI don't send these letters. Right. I'm not saying they do? > I have no idea what argument you're trying to make. I thought my point (not really an argument) was pretty clear, sorry. "Rules for t
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> They were deceptive about why they removed static IPs and port forwarding. What were they deceptive about? Their announcement is straight forward. "Regrettably individuals have frequently used this feature to host undesirable co
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> Sweet32: Birthday attacks on 64-bit block ciphers in TLS and OpenVPN > CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-6329 > [...] short block size makes a block cipher vulnerable to birthday attacks, even if there are no cryptographic attacks agains
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Specifically choosing an encryption algorithm that has been known to be insecure for a decade should be indicative of either extreme carelessness or deceptive and malicious intent. Considering that use of the app store is forced, purportedl
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Obviously DeepSeek chose it by design, but the question is how it got past the app store reviewers.
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by ziddoap 2y ago
This is one small blip in an incredibly long history of companies being able to not care about copyright while individuals must. Workarounds with a VPN are great and all, but they are a band-aid on a systemic problem. (You are not immune ,
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by ziddoap 2y ago
Generally? Very positive. They're a model company for data-minimization. No account names, no passwords, can pay by cash in an envelope, RAM-only infrastructure, thorough and frequent 3rd-party auditing, etc. They provide back, fund pr
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> Starting to think it's not just a coincidence. Is your theory that rust makes people dramatic? Or that dramatic people like rust? What other options are there, if not coincidence?
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> But I prefer looser intellectual property rights anyway so Im ok with it I think more people, potentially anyways, would feel similar to to this if it applied even somewhat equally. Instead, companies can seemingly do whatever they pl
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> try a to make a backdoor political statement. Yikes. Not trying to make any statement other than legality and enforcement are two distinct concepts. I think it's important to consider all 4 combinations. What political statement
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by ziddoap 2y ago
What role do you think the legislative branch of government plays? The judicial branch can rule on the constitutionality of the laws that have been passed and resolve other issues, but it isn't a requirement for the law to come into
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> what someone should do illegal and unenforced generates the same outcomes as legal Illegal + unenforced can generate the same outcome as legal. Or someone can get arrested later when the enforcement begins. There's a big diff
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> it's only illegal if the law gets enforced. It is completely valid to say something is illegal and unenforced. Consider that non-enforcement doesn't suddenly make something legal. Enforcement can start at any time. (Will i

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