Sophira

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by Sophira 6d ago
You can even still get error messages referencing the CONFIG.SYS file, which hasn't been relevant for well over two decades at this point: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1wctbf3/throwback
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by Sophira 8d ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1216/
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by Sophira 8d ago
> I would definitely recommend you take them out! I obviously meant "check them out" here. I was using speech recognition and it clearly misheard what I said. I'd edit, but it's been long enough since I posted that HN
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by Sophira 8d ago
You'd be surprised.
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by Sophira 8d ago
I actually do like to view certificates of working sites, because it can be interesting to see what's listed in the Subject Alternative Names field. It can lead to some interesting observations about what sites are linked.
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by Sophira 9d ago
This has actually been done: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Hello While quines (programs that print their own source code) aren't possible in Hello, there's a version that makes it possible: https://eso
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by Sophira 9d ago
Nah, you're not crazy. I'm also someone who actually reads terms documents, because I find that they're often the only thing that will be truthful about a company's intentions. And keeping it completely disconnected from
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by Sophira 11d ago
I've never actually seen this. Can you link an example?
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by Sophira 11d ago
It's okay, they'll fix it by asking AI to design their training courses for them. That'll fix everything, right?
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by Sophira 12d ago
This is almost certainly the same person, yes: > Additionally, he is a co-host of the All In podcast... The comment you replied to linked to an account on X called theallinpod, so there's a strong link there.
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by Sophira 13d ago
How's the telemetry situation nowadays? I haven't been updating my copy for a while.
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by Sophira 16d ago
For that kind of functionality, I would always recommend Avidemux[0]. It's quite a light package (which I like), and it allows you to do that and some other useful things too. [0] http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
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by Sophira 20d ago
It can be rooted just fine without doing your own build. It's just that if you do, the GrapheneOS community will claim that it is no longer GrapheneOS and that it's separate.
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by Sophira 21d ago
I find it interesting that the first option that you raise is essentially the equivalent of making our own version of the Three Laws of Robotics from Isaac Asimov's stories. [Edited to clarify.]
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by Sophira 21d ago
> A properly engineered sandbox would have prevented the escape. The post covers that: > ...while we had tested and validated this sandbox, the agents were able to chain together previously unknown vulnerabilities (“0-days”) in the pa
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by Sophira 1mo ago
> anyone who can put in an easter egg can put in a zero day. Anyone who can code a game can put in a 0-day too. Should we ban games?
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by Sophira 1mo ago
My theory is that cheat codes disappeared when developers discovered that they could have their effects as microtransactions instead, and then they just never came back because, as you say, SDKs are pretty good about not needing them.
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by Sophira 1mo ago
> Eventually, this arms race ends with a computer vision model that looks at the screen, classifies visual elements as ads, and draws a rectangle over anything that looks like an ad. That isn't enough for me. I don't just want
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by Sophira 2mo ago
I'm guessing this is probably why I've been unable to connect to Codeberg with my very much human-driven browser...
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by Sophira 2mo ago
WhatsApp is not in any way mandatory in the UK. I say this as someone who lived in the UK and does not use and has never installed WhatsApp.
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by Sophira 2mo ago
As far as I'm aware, the monitor does not transmit a URL. Windows is looking at the hardware's vendor and device IDs and using those to look up and download the "drivers" that LG has stated are for that device.
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by Sophira 2mo ago
Can you please share the chat log for this? I would absolutely love to see this.
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by Sophira 2mo ago
DiscMaster[0] is useful for this! It seems to agree with you. There's nothing I could find named imposta.exe or aryala.exe, but I did find installa.exe. [0] https://discmaster.textfiles.com/
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by Sophira 2mo ago
This is a dang shame, honestly. The Google Earth Pro desktop app is a good one and I still use it all the time. Of note: Google Earth on web[0] and mobile are unaffected. According to the announcement, the Google Earth Pro desktop app will
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by Sophira 2mo ago
Can you link the specific post you're referring to? It's not "above" at this point in time.
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by Sophira 2mo ago
How does this compare with the F-Droid version of OsmAnd? [Edit: To answer my own question a little bit, I found a post from September 2025 that compares OsmAnd and Organic Maps (which this project forked from): https://blog.fire
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by Sophira 2mo ago
I don't have any specifics, but based on experience, it feels like software giants like to patent what a lot of people would consider obvious wins (such as interruptible animations) if no other company happens to be doing it, and it fe
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by Sophira 2mo ago
I assumed that issues like "tap eight times for a no-op" not working was because of software patents not allowing the developer to do the obvious thing. Is that not the case?
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by Sophira 2mo ago
I get around this by pairing JavaScript allowlisting with custom CSS and userscripts. I shouldn't have to, though.
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by Sophira 3mo ago
> This would result in an airplane level of whirring while it used maybe a few GB of memory and hard drive storage to boot up Windows 95. In those days, RAM was measured in megabytes, not gigabytes. My first Windows 95 PC had a grand tot

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