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dmitrygr

13,816karma·4,955submissions·March 28, 2012
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I make things and I break things for fun.

me@dmitry.gr

https://dmitry.gr/ long ago: http://palmpowerups.com/

Places we might have crossed paths: VMWare, Google, Apple

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>This systemd change is absurdly overdiscussed. It's a field for a number, no verification, no enforcement for anything. > And no, I do not accept the slippery slope fallacy. aka: $OBVIOUSL…
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AV1 might not be as patent-free as we had hoped: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/av1s-open-royalty-fr... …
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Many parts of this are clearly autogenerated, but that in no way diminishes the sickening impressiveness of it!
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I again point out that ALL copyleft licenses are built on copyright, so my example is perfectly valid - one way or another it is copyright infringement, https://sfconservancy.org/blog&…
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All copyleft licenses are built on top of copyright law. That is their one and only enforcement strategy, by design. So we are in fact talking about the very same thing. Here, read: https://…
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> haven't really seen updates in categories/apps for at least 6 months It is going through GDPR review, then permitting, and then a few other country-specific reviews. Check back in 6-11 …
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> should be pretty much indistinguishable from native Windows PRO: less telemetry CON: less battery life
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ReactOS is a labour of love and it is heartwarming to see it progress. For more than a decade I lived with the dream of switching to it fulltime from Windows on my personal hardware. Alas, it was not …
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I encourage you to try selling copies of some Disney movies and Nintendo game rips on your website, representing them as your own work, and when they notice, to offer to "just delete them".
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You do not get to “just” retroactively fix copyright infringement (which is what this was). Try it with Disney sometimes.
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The scrubbing of old posts says much
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I have never attempted to take credit for someone's work, nor ever put serious effort into hiding someone's contribution. LLMs are purpose-designed for that.
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Reference implementation that someone else — a human, wrote? Hm… so one way or another, some humans’ labour is laundered…
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> Terafab, Tenstorrent, SMIC and Cerebras Systems are a few more TSMC competitors. Huh? Tenstorrent is a fabless Si company designing cores and does not complete with TSMC. Cerebras is a fabless jo…
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sneaking weapons into some countries is harder than into others, making things that fly long distances gets exponentially harder as distance goes up linearly.
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>> How exactly do drones project power globally? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spiderweb "The next country over" != Worldwide…
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Now do it without those pre-written tests. Spec only. Else, the writers of those tests deserve a LOT of credit.
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We've had brainless clones for a while already. Governments are full of them. Are we sure we need more?
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Makes sense, with Iran offline, the world needs oil from elsewhere, which means Russia. Countries will start to run out of oil soon. eg: https://www.reddit.com/r/EconomyCharts…
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> The article does not claim the app requests the location. It claims it can do it with a single JS call. so can ... any other code anywhere on a mobile device? That is how API work...
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No apple product REQUIRES an iCloud account. I have an iphone without one and a mac without one
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Detecting properly-written malicious code is undecidable. No amount of snake oil fixes that
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Yes. news.ycomhinator.com
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Users do not care why the perf they get is what they get. What good is AVX2048 if nobody uses it?
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arrest == arrest You are most welcome to google "UK arrest for criticizing" and find articles you consider less biased. There are so many to choose from
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Which i acknowledged with "This may not be a good idea,"
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Indeed anti-Xi posts are unsafe in China, and safe in UK. Equally , anti-UK posts are safe in China and not so in the UK... (eg https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house&#x…
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