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josephcsible
28,560karma·8,511submissions·May 26, 2020
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> I only use my windows machine because I can swap out parts stuff and is more hackable but macos is so much more beautifully designed. That's definitely a good reason to use a PC instead of a…
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This is newly possible with Pandoc 3.9, the first release to officially support WASM.
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I don't think it's fair to blame an investor who's not the founder and has no executive/managerial control of a company for what that company does. Do you have a retirement account…
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> So it's cool if one person gets deplatformed, as long as it's not a pattern? Odd choice if you ask me. No, it's not cool even if it's just one person. The point is that you …
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> neobanks have a history of banning clients arbitrarily without recourse. Not just neobanks, sadly. Even old-fashioned banks like Chase do so with alarming regularity.
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I wish more countries had an equivalent to https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/12/2025-15... that would make what's being described here illegal…
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> If this is the case you can install stop lights and traffic sensing at roundabout ingress points But those options are a lot more expensive and need a lot more maintenance than just a regular rou…
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> Right but it's not like a 4 way stop is going to perform better. A 4 way stop does perform better than a roundabout given highly disparate traffic volumes, because roundabouts suffer from …
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With email in particular, it's not like chocolate. If you self-host email, or use any other cloud host besides Microsoft or Google, then Microsoft and Google will randomly fail to deliver emails …
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"We need null!" No we don't. Look at Rust.
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> Why should the government set the “right” margin? For monopolies, that is the least bad option. What would be way better, though, is mandating an end to that monopoly by allowing all users to ins…
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> Everybody will slowly move to "web only" as 30% would kill their ability to compete with anybody else. This is why Apple makes PWAs so miserable in Safari and disallows other browsers u…
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This seems like the kind of technology that could make the problem described in https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html a lot worse. Do you have any plans for making…
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No, it's not "all applications of cryptography". It's only remote attestation.
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"cryptographically verifiable integrity" is a euphemism for tivoization/Treacherous Computing. See, e.g., https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html …
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Remember https://what-if.xkcd.com/96/ from 12 years ago, when "the world's most highly-paid lawyer—on an hourly basis—is probably former Solicitor General Ted Olson, wh…
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> There is no evidence this is happening in any widespread fashion. Isn't the point of this data so that they can uncover exactly that? It'd be silly to say you're not allowed to loo…
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> If it was a year old I'd agree. If it were advertised at the time as a 1-year rental/subscription then it wouldn't be a rug pull. But the fact that it was advertised as a permanent…
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> William Tyndale was put to death for translating the Bible into English That's not what he was put to death for. See https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/…
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> I don't understand the rugpull comments. The article says "the purchase made in 2019 is not recognized anymore". The seller unilaterally taking back something you previously bought…
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One of these things is true: 1. Training AI on copyrighted works is fair use, so it's allowed no matter what the license says. 2. Training AI on copyrighted works is not fair use, so since pretty…
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But couldn't you also just set aside a bit of the EEPROM your factory reset skips, and accomplish the same thing?
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> FWIW, people here illegally are already not eligible for Medicaid, [0] so it's hard to see why ICE having access to a roster of Medicaid enrollees would help them with their stated mission o…
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With one extra caveat. From `man 7 tcp`: "As currently implemented, there is a 200 millisecond ceiling on the time for which output is corked by TCP_CORK. If this ceiling is reached, then queued …
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What advantage do you see from using eFuses and not some other way to store the password?
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There are not. The entire premise of eFuses are that after you buy something, the manufacturer can still make changes that you can't ever undo.