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by acka 29d ago
I remember that in Dutch product catalogs, IKEA often used the name Gammelgaard (referring to Niels Gammelgaard, a Danish product designer). In Dutch, "gammel" means "rickety. "
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by acka 1mo ago
While you probably have the audacity to check the commands and code that your favorite LLM generates to complete this task, i'm pretty much certain that at some point in time, due to this pervasive mindset of "just let an AI agent
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by acka 1mo ago
Perhaps it is time to implement the lessons learned from Perl's taint checking[1], but this time for AI agent harnesses instead[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_checking [2] https://arxiv.org
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by acka 2mo ago
Your framing assumes that because the hammer is there, its manufacturing cost vanishes. In reality, someone had to pay that cost, and a holistic view has to decide whether building and maintaining that entire tool chain is actually cheaper
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by acka 3mo ago
Fact is that I can actually read TFA, while your link is paywalled.
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by acka 3mo ago
This isn’t a random Nazi analogy, it’s a cautionary tale about how stepwise exclusions plus bystander apathy work. The whole point is to think about it before it’s too late.
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by acka 3mo ago
Studying how a processor running an operating system actually behaves by peeking right through the privilege barrier is the ultimate wall hack. Who needs noclip when we have Fractal?
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by acka 4mo ago
Sorry, but when it comes to chipsets, they're not even close. The DGX Spark uses a GB10 with 128 GB unified LPDDR5X memory, while the DGX Station has a GB300 with 496 GB LPDDR5X (CPU) + 252 GB HBM3e (GPU) memory. It's like Little
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by acka 4mo ago
It's free, but not unlimited. Besides rate limits, new sign-ups get 1000 credits (requests), and once those are gone, they're gone for good. Only business accounts might get a couple of free refills.
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by acka 4mo ago
One shot: Taking a shot, just once. Zero shot: Knowing you had a shot but choosing not to. Minus one shot: Not even realizing there was a shot.
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by acka 6mo ago
Not everyone owns one of the limited range of devices that Linux Terminal is available for. For example, no Snapdragon chips currently in use support the "non-protected" virtual machines required by the Android Virtualization Fram
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by acka 6mo ago
Two words: proprietary installers. If an installer expects to be able to overwrite a file and fails to do so, it might crash, leaving the user with a borked installation. Of course you can blame the installer, but resolution of the problem
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by acka 6mo ago
An originally macOS-only product, too. Also, the documentation on Github, linked to by the ad, shows only Mac keyboard shortcuts for operating Raycast.
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by acka 8mo ago
Moon implies there is a planet the moon is orbiting. So unless the planet and its moon are too close to the sun the long term result could also be: solar system.
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by acka 8mo ago
Reading comprehension, my friend. The article you linked to is about the dropped plan to require ID for permission to work in the UK. The parent commenter is referring to age verification for accessing adult content using "highly effec
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by acka 8mo ago
In the Netherlands they used to broadcast software as part of the Hobbyscoop radio show. It was generic BASIC code that could run on a variety of home computers, requiring a small loader program for conversion. The project was named BASICOD
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by acka 8mo ago
Netflix has been checking accounts against public IP addresses and local networks for ages, at least in The Netherlands. if I use my Dad's account, I get flagged as being "not on the same home network" immediately. I think th
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by acka 9mo ago
Developers, developers, developers, developers[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fcSviC7cRM
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by acka 9mo ago
> Why would it plunge instead of re-focusing on things that are intrinsically important? Because a lot of the economy is focused on creating and maintaining a surplus[1]: make people buy things that they don't really need, make them
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by acka 9mo ago
> Years on, our primary data source is literally holding dozens of subscriptions to every commercial provider we can find, and enumerating the exit node IP addresses they use. Assuming your VPN identification service operates commerciall
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by acka 10mo ago
The stylus and cartridge needed to play the record were included on each spacecraft. The instructions to assemble the record player were included on a protective aluminum cover.
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by acka 10mo ago
This title is misleading. As explained in the comments, there are still non-free binary blobs in the firmware. Please reserve phrasing like "100% X" for things that are indeed "0% Not(X)."
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by acka 10mo ago
Dongle-based license management or DRM isn't the same as product tying; each dongle just validates the license for the use of a piece of software. But forcing customers to only use ink cartridges from a specific brand, deliberately rej
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by acka 10mo ago
I believe it would be redundant to explicitly grant freedom of speech to an organization such as a union, as its individual members inherently possess this right.
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by acka 10mo ago
Corporations can be held criminally liable, but they can't go to prison. And while lots of countries have gotten rid of the death penalty, a corporation can actually be "executed" by getting dissolved. I think these are some
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by acka 11mo ago
Note that you need to be on a paid Google Workspace plan before pointing your DNS MX records at Gmail as provider, or else your emails will either be rejected at best or simply vanish into thin air in the worst case.
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by acka 11mo ago
The Aphantasia Network has several interesting studies and a self-assessment test[2] that you can take. [1] https://aphantasia.com [2] https://aphantasia.com/study/vviq
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by acka 11mo ago
Maybe it's time to revive something like the uzbl[1] project, or start something similar. [1] https://www.uzbl.org/
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by acka 11mo ago
My apologies: yes, I edited my comment to try and clarify that I did not mean executable binaries, but rather binary data, such as the test files in the case of XZ.
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by acka 11mo ago
I believe the XZ compromise partly stemmed from including binary files in what should have remained a source-only project. From what I remember, well-run projects such as those of the GNU project have always required that all binaries—wheth

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