zzo38computer

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by zzo38computer 6d ago
If the interface is documented and can also be used without AI, and you can write your own software instead if wanted, then that will be more helpful, I think. (Someone who does want to use it with the AI can still do so, without forcing ev
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by zzo38computer 6d ago
You shouldn't need LLM and AI to do such things. Even if such things might be useful to some people, I might want to use the API without LLM/AI and just to read the API documentation and then to make my own, and some other people
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by zzo38computer 9d ago
> namely both "private" and "public" key are the same thing; the labeling "public" vs. "private" reflects your arbitrary choice of which of one you give away, and which one you keep for yourself. I
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by zzo38computer 9d ago
In some programming languages with RPN you can avoid this problem, because it makes sense to put it in the stack as the initial value, and then you can as easily have multiple initial values; and then the callback function can read that fro
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by zzo38computer 12d ago
Something that bothers me (even though I do not drive a car and do not intend to, but sometimes am a passenger) is windows that require electric controls to operate and cannot be operated manually.
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by zzo38computer 12d ago
It doesn't load for me, but I have read the other comments. There is the problem of TLS and X.509 being used with centralized authorities like this, even though it is not inherent to TLS nor to X.509 (although they were designed to be
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by zzo38computer 12d ago
I think it would be a good idea. TLS and X.509 would work better that way. Actually, both sides should have a certificate (the bank might issue a certificate to the customer). It won't do for all circumstances (as some other comments m
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by zzo38computer 12d ago
One possible alternative might be to add the ability for user configuration to substitute one certificate for another one (both will need the same public key and subject name, but the substitute will not be self-signed (since you do not hav
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by zzo38computer 12d ago
I also don't like the idea of putting cameras all over my house and having ad companies surveil my intimate space, and I also don't like to add further things that require electrical power, and/or that make noise, etc. This i
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by zzo38computer 12d ago
If you disable JavaScripts then you will get a non-interactive version (with a note that says you can enable JavaScripts for the interactive version), so you might try that.
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by zzo38computer 13d ago
I mostly agree, although if the manufacturer has a catalog of software (which they have managed to check for quality, classification, etc) that you can optionally use for installing software (which others can also choose to do, e.g. in th
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by zzo38computer 17d ago
(If the message is not displayed, try appending ".json"; in my experience, this works on some Mastodon servers (and some others too) but not others, and works on this one. However, I will repeat it here because it is short enough.
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by zzo38computer 17d ago
Neither authentication nor authorization is solved very well in general, although in some specific cases they are partially solved. For working on a single computer, I think capability-based security with proxy capabilities is helpful for b
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by zzo38computer 18d ago
I think that the fines should be the amount per crime that is being fined, plus the total amount of all revenue from whatever the fines are related to (including indirect, but only counted once).
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by zzo38computer 18d ago
Most TV sets should not normally need microphones, and if they have that in some models (as long as there are models without), then there should be a hardware switch to disable them. However, "continuously sweep home networks, map seco
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by zzo38computer 19d ago
> I have gone and ticked the “stop hiding file extensions” since they were introduced in ~98 (or was it Windows 95?) I think Windows 95, although even selecting that option still hides some file name extensions (such as ".lnk")
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by zzo38computer 20d ago
People have managed (and sometimes do manage) to do without golf courses and refrigerators and dishwashers and cars (and roads for cars) etc, and should learn to be able to manage to do without such things, for multiple reasons.
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by zzo38computer 23d ago
> for UTF-16 you've already got UTF-8 and given that even Microsoft have abandoned BMP strings I doubt any attempt to reintroduce it will get much traction This is not reintroducing anything; the BMP type is already there, although
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by zzo38computer 23d ago
I might have misremembered then, or maybe it was someone else.
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by zzo38computer 23d ago
I do not use the ASN.1 schema format, and have not written a specification for how the new ASN.1X features would be used in the ASN.1 schema format, although someone who is interested to do so might be able to help to write such a thing. (A
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by zzo38computer 23d ago
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Marilyn vos Savant had said that it is acceptable to use a calculator when learing arithmetic (I do not remember the reason given) but that clocks should not be used to learn time. (I might be mista
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by zzo38computer 24d ago
In my opinion, JSON is not the best format and has some problems. Lack of comments is one of the reasons, as they mention in there. Another is the lack of trailing commas (optional trailing commas would be useful for manually written files)
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by zzo38computer 24d ago
That is not quite true, because you have to define "numbers" and "strings" more specifically; JSON uses Unicode strings, and how numbers work depends on the implementation (but are generally finite 64-bit IEEE floating p
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by zzo38computer 24d ago
I do not (and never had) a smart phone, either. I have been at one restaurant that had a QR code to view the menu, although they did provide a iPad to any customer who needed it. (At the time, I was with someone else who had their own iPad.
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by zzo38computer 24d ago
Line Mode Browser has some features that have not been found anywhere else. (In some cases, old version of Firefox can be hacked to support a few of them, such as that URLs entered by the user are treated as relative to the current document
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by zzo38computer 25d ago
I think not quite, although many planets have the names of the gods. They called them planets due to their motion, so it is still called that. The use of the same word in different contexts can have different usages and different (but somet
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by zzo38computer 27d ago
The "system" function (and also "popen" function) are helpful, although they should be used carefully. You should only use it where the entire input (rather than merely a part of it) comes from a trusted source from the
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by zzo38computer 1mo ago
> It is a bad design trade-off to send a bunch of header fields on every request just to tell the server all of the possible variations of preference held by the user, particularly when there is a very small chance that any of those dime
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by zzo38computer 1mo ago
The web page does not load for me (I cannot reach the server), but the idea to serve Markdown according to the Accept header is possible, although it might be better to do that by changing the file name and adding a header (or a <meta&gt
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by zzo38computer 1mo ago
If the feature can sometimes be useful (including this situation, which some other comments mentioned; but also for other things such as hiding actual secure data), then perhaps it should be made as a setting which can be changed in the set

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