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- Comment on Ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick looks to buy TikTok amid shutdown fears - Dexerto 8 months ago:
I feel like this enables the dick putting in process.
- Comment on A 62-Year-Old German Man Got 217 Covid Shots—and Was Totally Fine 8 months ago:
Ah that makes so much more sense.
- Comment on A 62-Year-Old German Man Got 217 Covid Shots—and Was Totally Fine 8 months ago:
for “private reasons.”
That’s such funny phrasing. Why not say like a misguided effort to protect better against covid.
- Comment on OpenAI Suspends ByteDance's Account After It Used GPT To Train Its Own AI Model 10 months ago:
There is actually a whole subsection of AI focused on training one model with the output of another called knowledge distillation.
- Comment on Turning the Right Way: Your Guide to Effective Wheel Alignment 11 months ago:
And, idk how, but I ended up reading the entire thing.
- Comment on New York intends to have electric air taxis by 2025 11 months ago:
Why are tax dollar being spent making it a little faster for rich FiDi people to get to JFK. Take the A train like the rest of us.
There is so much infrastructure NYC could improve:
- Biking Infrastructure
- More subway routes in Brooklyn
- Better ties to PATH and LIRR
- Expanded and more reliable bus infrastructure
And that is just what I can think in the moment.
- Comment on Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS 11 months ago:
I think there is levels of trust.
I am often able to reach of level of trust to believe a company is not straight up lying about the code they are running on their servers.
I am not often able to reach a level of trust to believe a “trust me bro” from a company (especially if that statement is not qualified in a meaningful way).
- Comment on Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS 11 months ago:
Just read through their faq
Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not.
That’s a nope from me.
- Comment on What is your favourite font for code ? 11 months ago:
I think my love of the font is how comfy everything feels. A lot of nice curves 😉.
- Comment on What is your favourite font for code ? 11 months ago:
I like hack. I use it for everything.
- Comment on Techrights: Microsoft CEO Satya Narayana Nadella Has a Very Dark Past as a Refund Scammer 1 year ago:
There are so many easier ways to get at Satya Nadella and Microsoft. Why choose this?
- Comment on Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market 1 year ago:
This looks like it’s from the aifund thing he is a part of, but it seems like they took that part out. I have never worked for of those companies so idk 🤷♂️.
- Comment on Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market 1 year ago:
Imo, Andrew Ng is actually a cool guy. He started coursera and deeplearning.ai to teach ppl about machine/deep learning. Also, he does a lot of stuff at Stanford.
I wouldn’t put him in the corporate shill camp.
- Comment on How we reduced the size of our JavaScript bundles by 33% 1 year ago:
Ya, okay that is understandable.
To be honest I have never tried a wasm reversing challenge. I may need to give it a shot.
- Comment on How we reduced the size of our JavaScript bundles by 33% 1 year ago:
I completely agree.
However, I still would rather have all the websites I visit pass through my browser’s api than be making straight syscalls.
I think it’s not perfect security but a good line of defense.
- Comment on How we reduced the size of our JavaScript bundles by 33% 1 year ago:
Hmm i guess I just haven’t spent enough time trying to parse unminified js.
I still would think though, if the code is simple enough to understand when you unminify the js, equivalent code should be similarly simple to understand if it’s wasm passed through IDA.
- Comment on How we reduced the size of our JavaScript bundles by 33% 1 year ago:
I’d argue that having a sandbox that can run binaries with a limited and customizable feature set is actually a good thing for the web. I think there are more technically competent solutions, but the fact that WASM is available on virtually every machine and os, makes it pretty powerful.
If implemented right WASM might speed up our web apps, keep the browser sandbox that is actually quite nice, and run on pretty much any machine. If they open sourced the code, thst’d be even better.
Between minified js and WASM, I think I’d take WASM (I can’t understand minified js anyway). Between a pure html site and WASM, I think I’d take the pure html site (but I don’t think we will be living in that world anytime soon).
- Comment on How do yall go about meeting new people while still maintaining a decent level of privacy? 1 year ago:
I think this is the most real answer. It kinda is all about tradeoffs.
If creating connections is more valuable to you than using some unsavory social media, then you have your answer.
I also think it is pretty hard to actually reduce identifying informatiom from these apps. Just based on your social network, the piece can be fitted. In addition, your college gives up a ton of your identifying info (gmail, contracted apps…). I’m not sure there are perfect answers.
- Comment on Is it possible to have privacy in a modern car? 1 year ago:
Consumers have almost zero control and options in regard to privacy, other than simply buying an older model.
This line really hit me hard.
- Comment on The end of the Googleverse 1 year ago:
I’m probably from a younger generation, because as long as I have been around google has never felt like a choice for me. Instead, it was always the default or mandated by the organization I am a part of (university, other web services…). It’s kinda a fight to get out of the google grasp.
Hearing you (and I guess the article towards the end) talk about google as not a monstrosity gives me hope that maybe other companies can push through and usurp google’s “defaultness”. It’d also be great if it was not another giant like microsoft giving competition.
I’d love to be able to a make a non-google choice and not feel like an outsider.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 4 replacement 1 year ago:
First off, I think you’re completely right in that laptop batteries are definitely a non-ideal solution. And, I’m really not an expert in this, so take my words with a grain of salt.
You could mitigate a bit of the dangers by doing some of the following (I only did the first):
- Reducing the max charge level to 50% of the capacity.
- Monitor your batteries health to alert for any discrepancies.
- Switch out your batteries every couple of years (which is super easy without downtime on the aformentioned old thinkpads).
If you are an under $100 budget, there seems to be an argument that maybe you are willing to risk a little bit for that extra power reliability.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 4 replacement 1 year ago:
To give a different opinion than all the thin-clients, old laptops can be a good choice too. I am a bit preferrential to really nice old thinkpads.
If you buy them used you can get insane prices (~$40) and also you get all the laptop conveniences of a keyboard, screen, battery (for power failure). Also I think the power/performance ratio is pretty much the same to the thin clients.
- Comment on Recommendations for self-hosting a blog 1 year ago:
I really like hugo. Everything is written in Markdown and its pretty light. Definitely not as heavy as a full CMS. I also think the themes are pretty nice.
To deploy it you can use github pages or some cloud services (the hugo site lists some).
Its also pretty flexible, so its pretty easy to change how you want to deploy it, or change the look.
- Comment on Git repository storage/forge recommendations? 1 year ago:
Are there any feature differences between gitea and forgejo?
I can’t figure out any differences other than the ownership structure.
