Tanoc

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by Tanoc 6d ago
The issue with just "Flash a badge" is that it can easily be exploited in several ways. Municipal police badges don't have digital identifiers on them in the U.S. A high enough resolution resin 3D printer could have you a clo
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by Tanoc 7d ago
All classrooms had a clock in them at the school that was hooked up to the PA system so it was easy to time it. Once a week, usually Fridays barring any holidays or school events during her class, she would run the first fifteen minutes of
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by Tanoc 7d ago
Actually General Motors still holds the Oldsmobile trademark and renewed it in April of last year. They don't have to sell cars to keep it, as they still sell parts related to the vehicles alongside merchandise that carries the brand&#
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by Tanoc 10d ago
There was a rule a fourth grade teacher of mine had that she used in her English class to try and get some of the less literate kids up to par. That rule was embodied by the name she gave it, "Thirty minutes thirty pages." She gav
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by Tanoc 10d ago
Early Nintendo games were sort of like Osamu Tezuka works. There were "actors" that all had the same appearance and sometimes names used across multiple works that filled the role they needed. Of the first five Zelda games only Th
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by Tanoc 10d ago
Chess is inherently a leisure activity. The incentive for playing chess is just to be better at chess. But things like woodworking, typesetting, and welding, while all possible to do recreationally, are not leisure activities. They are effo
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by Tanoc 11d ago
There's a few I could recount from before this current onslaught, but the delineator is that those incidents of corruption were a once a year sort of thing. If you want examples there's the PATRIOT Act in 2001, No Child Left Behin
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by Tanoc 11d ago
Hydrogenated soybean oil specifically, it seems. Which stems from stupid pseudoscience from about twelve years ago that conflated phytoestrogens that nearly all tubers, nightshades, and legumes have with E2 estradiol estrogen in mammals. It
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by Tanoc 14d ago
Not just the cost of ownership, but the cost of disposal. Removing parts becomes much harder if you have to look through a lot more pieces to determine how they connect to everything else and what still relies on them. Programmers sometimes
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by Tanoc 17d ago
A recumbent bicycle perhaps? Often has pedals ahead of the front wheel, where you lay down in a hammock or moulded seat?
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by Tanoc 17d ago
One thing that is distasteful but effective is excessive use of profanity, broken aphorisms, and shattered English. LLMs hate cursing because of their guardrails, and since they don't actually understand language they can never truly p
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by Tanoc 19d ago
There's also the benefit of following the strategy the Democrats as a larger party have followed since at least George W. Bush. Let someone stupider or bolder break a system that's hampering you, and then just never fix it because
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by Tanoc 19d ago
ALT+TAB, TAB, ↓, ↓, ↓, CTRL+HOME. For a lot of people this is a recognizable pattern. Switch window, select element, scroll down, then snap back to the very top. The keyboard commands above should do the same thing no matter if it's yo
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by Tanoc 19d ago
I've been trying to figure out for years how to keep specific bits of Javascript like that from triggering. But so many modern webpages are procedurally generated messes born from frameworks that I can't reliably track down a way
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by Tanoc 25d ago
Spite for others can overpower any self interest. If the person has been shaped by past experiences to rely on spiteful actions as a coping mechanism they will struggle to do anything else. The reward centers in their brain respond more to
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by Tanoc 25d ago
I feel like you're hitting at the real reason why so much of this happens. Not necessarily the piracy, but centralized control of the data and data flow. Even if it's slow as hell to send off that data to proprietary company serve
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by Tanoc 26d ago
There are plenty of exceptions police can get to bypass warrant requirements. Think for example of stingers and other cell spoofing systems or the license plate readers they have on the front of their cruisers. Even if they do have to get a
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by Tanoc 29d ago
We built maybe two of the older less dense ones every year in most states, and that was driven by SaaS and cloud storage. The expected rate these AI datacenters would be built at if we just let these people go unopposed would be one every s
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by Tanoc 29d ago
A parallel to what you're describing would be the Hyatt Regency collapse. Meticulously designed, yet one small change under the surface lead to one of the worst engineering disasters of that century. I don't want to think of what
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by Tanoc 29d ago
There are several Chinese fabs that they could contract out production to. In fact that's exactly what Apple tried to do, before the U.S. government went full protectionist and added the two memory manufacturers to the banned imports l
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by Tanoc 1mo ago
It appears like they're trying to make an industry that works outside of conventional bounds. Just like with private military contractors. Not quite privateers like in the 1630s.
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by Tanoc 1mo ago
Interconnectivity managers and smarthome managers are about it. People don't want something that can alter things unbidden and unrestricted. But them being able to automatically set up, for example, your phone's Bluetooth connect
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by Tanoc 1mo ago
From having worked with farmers, the actual logistics of running a farm are very complex. Farming's no longer an easy job because the demand for productivity means you have to harness a whole stable of technologies and understand to so
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by Tanoc 2mo ago
I would argue that a lot of our crap can't be produced anymore because of automated moderation and the DMCA. Remixes of old videogame songs, animutations, fan lore websites, these all get targeted constantly, and it's disenfranchi
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by Tanoc 2mo ago
Funnily enough most of those only work if the Javascript from an external resource is allowed to load. NoScript, no problem. Of course then you have to deal with NoScript, but it has so many other uses you'll be sorting your whitelist
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by Tanoc 2mo ago
I've been wearing the same pair of shoes for (Vans Camacho) twelve years now because I cannot find any that actually fit my feet. Vans made these shoes that I purchased over and over again for ten years, but discontinued them in 2016.
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by Tanoc 2mo ago
A lot of people don't know anything about any of this. They don't even understand what the difference between something like SYNC or Android Auto is. And the manufacturers subdue as much information about these things as possible.
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by Tanoc 2mo ago
It was the article author's choice to include that language without wider context. People say things that can undermine their own position all the time, and it's those that present those statements that influence whether that happ
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by Tanoc 2mo ago
In regards to your first link, the quote "'It’s concerning – and sends the message that [GrapheneOS] is criminal by default,' said Christophe Boutry, a cybersecurity and surveillance expert." really is leading language.
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by Tanoc 2mo ago
The phrase I constantly recite to people at this point is "Mass surveillance is not mass enforcement and the two are separate words and concepts for a reason." People don't seem to get it until there's an effort to point

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