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- Comment on Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy 8 months ago:
Good riddance to bad spyware.
- Comment on AI-powered hate speech detection will moderate voice chat in Call of Duty 8 months ago:
We’re going to need to coin a new term, along the lines of “Scunthorpe problem”, for the clusterf*** of mistakes this thing is going to make.
- Comment on [VERGE] IBM promised to back off facial recognition — then it signed a $69.8 million contract to provide it 8 months ago:
Can’t say I’m surprised. This is the same company that helped the Nazis keep track of the Jews they were exterminating.
- Comment on [HN] Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800M of land to build utopian city 8 months ago:
Note that their idea of utopia is everyone else’s idea of dystopia.
- Comment on Most motorists want noise cameras installed to clamp down on loud cars 8 months ago:
I think if that was proposed in the USA, people’s heads might actually explode.
We already have traffic cameras everywhere, and I don’t see anyone’s head exploding.
- Comment on Would you agree? 8 months ago:
Yeah, that’s the problem. We don’t have the requisite technology to build a Star Trek utopia. If only we did…
- Comment on Would you agree? 8 months ago:
If you have an NVIDIA video card, I would start with buying AMD or Intel instead. Attempting to use NVIDIA with Linux will result in misery.
- Comment on My ISP has taken total control of my network 8 months ago:
Since they’ve disabled pretty much everything except the password, I imagine they’ve disabled bridge mode as well…
- Comment on Scammers vs Impossible Password Game 8 months ago:
That is so evil. I love it.
- Comment on What is the best file format for configuration file? 8 months ago:
Please do not use YAML. It’s a syntactic minefield. It also doesn’t allow tab indentation, which is supremely irritating.
- Comment on I just deleted my reddit account, and it's long overdue. 8 months ago:
I just abandoned my Reddit account. Now it serves as a tombstone for what Reddit once was, for all to see. It had activity almost every day for a decade, and then it just suddenly stops, with one last post saying that in light of the API disaster, I’ve moved to Lemmy and Mastodon. I think that’s a more powerful message.
- Comment on Scammers vs Impossible Password Game 8 months ago:
For tech support scammers, they’re awfully bad with a computer. Ctrl+A then Ctrl+X, ya noobs.
- Comment on 9 months ago:
Inner Space. Unlikely to work very well on a non-Windows platform because of its unique game mechanic: the icons of other programs installed on the computer are the items you’re trying to collect in this game. You’d need a Windows environment populated with other apps for it to use, or write a program that gathers the icons of the apps on your real environment and generates stub executables for the game to find.
The GPU-specific versions of MechWarrior 2. That game originally used a software renderer, but many versions of it were made for specific GPUs (this was before Direct3D and OpenGL were available), and some of them looked quite good. Some of them can be played on modern hardware because there is a shim for the GPU they were designed for (most notably the 3Dfx version), but the others cannot be played any more.
- Comment on Who is this "Jenkins" and what now has broken him? 9 months ago:
Is that not true of all build systems?
- Comment on Who is this "Jenkins" and what now has broken him? 9 months ago:
Cargo fetches dependencies, runs a variety of build tasks, can build a typical Rust project with little or no build scripting, and is configured with a straightforward TOML file. It’s not at all like a hand-written shell script. It’s also much more pleasant to use than any other build system I’ve seen, including shell scripts.
- Comment on Who is this "Jenkins" and what now has broken him? 9 months ago:
If you want to take Cargo away from me, you’ll have to pry it from my cold, dead claws. 🦀
- Comment on Is charging electric car at holiday house "theft"? 9 months ago:
Why in the world are people still staying at an Airbnb?
- Comment on Order 9 months ago:
It’s less secure to compress and encrypt at all, unless the compresstext is static (e.g. a pre-made image, video, or program). See BREACH.
- Comment on Police drag autistic girl out of house ‘because she said officer looked like her lesbian grandmother’ 9 months ago:
Sounds to me like it’s the police who are homophobic, taking “lesbian” as an insult.
- Comment on OpenAI finally admitted they're crawling the web to profit off of GPT. Block it from your sites using robots.txt. 9 months ago:
They’re copying your content, mashing it up with other content, and showing it to their customers, without ever sending their customers to your website. As a result, you don’t get paid and you don’t even get exposure.
- Comment on OpenAI finally admitted they're crawling the web to profit off of GPT. Block it from your sites using robots.txt. 9 months ago:
If you think robots.txt is going to stop them, I’ve got a great deal for you on some ocean-front property in Colorado.
- Comment on meanwhile electron 9 months ago:
That’s how polkit used to work. It was changed, presumably because the old system was excessively complex and inflexible. Arbitrary code is the correct solution when the set of potentially needed behaviors is unbounded, which in this case it is.
Another example of this is CSS. The vast majority of its features today—shadow effects, filter effects, animations, layout modes, even text colors—could have been implemented with WebAssembly and shaders. Instead, all of this stuff is implemented by the browser, and as a result, there are only three browser engines, two of them are on life support, and there is zero hope of meaningful competition among browsers ever arising again.
Let’s not overcomplicate polkit, please. It’s more than enough of an attack surface already.
- Comment on meanwhile electron 9 months ago:
Out of curiosity, which language would you prefer Polkit policies be written in?
- Comment on How insecure are Android phones once they stop getting security updates? 9 months ago:
It has already bitten you in the ass. You just don’t realize it yet.
- Comment on How insecure are Android phones once they stop getting security updates? 9 months ago:
The phone belongs to some overseas crime ring and they’re letting you borrow it.
- Comment on Safety vests and helmets make cyclists look ‘less human’ to other road users 9 months ago:
Person wearing a helmet and vest: not human
Car: definitely human
…Wait, what?
- Comment on Eating less meat ‘like taking 8 million cars off the road’ 9 months ago:
You continue to insist on blaming the systematic impoverishment and exploitation of the working class upon members of that same class, instead of the actual perpetrators. I am forced to assume that this is intentional, and that you are trying to sow division and infighting among the working class.
If my assessment of your intentions is correct, shame on you. If not, you should think long and hard about what you did to create that impression, and what you can do differently in the future.
Either way, this will be the last time I speak to you.
- Comment on Eating less meat ‘like taking 8 million cars off the road’ 9 months ago:
Decadent lifestyle? Is that some kind of joke? Who the hell is leading a decadent lifestyle in this economy? I’m lucky to even have a roof over my head, and the streets are crawling with homeless people who were only slightly less lucky!
Direct your complaints to the rich people who actually have the power to solve the problem.
- Comment on Eating less meat ‘like taking 8 million cars off the road’ 9 months ago:
I’ll go ahead and repeat myself, since you seem to have glossed over a crucial part of my previous comment:
everyone is too broke to afford locally-made products even if they did exist.
- Comment on Eating less meat ‘like taking 8 million cars off the road’ 9 months ago:
“Rampant consumerism” isn’t the problem. Lack of meaningful alternatives is the problem. Everything is made overseas, and everyone is too broke to afford locally-made products even if they did exist.