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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Good riddance to bad spyware.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-powered hate speech detection will moderate voice chat in Call of Duty⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That is so evil. I love it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best file format for configuration file?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
For tech support scammers, they’re awfully bad with a computer. Ctrl+A then Ctrl+X, ya noobs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Is that not true of all build systems?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is this "Jenkins" and what now has broken him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Why in the world are people still staying at an Airbnb?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.