akersten

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by akersten 3d ago
Why are you subjecting yourself to that instead of downloading Firefox + uBlock origin? See the headline of this article for Exhibit (I've actually run out of letters in the alphabet) why adblocking is a moral imperative.
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by akersten 4d ago
We must ensure the gravy train keeps rolling until we IPO. > Crack down on unauthorized distillation / prevent weight theft Actually hilarious to put that in writing, given the genesis of this entire business model.
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by akersten 6d ago
Eh, I hope Apple continues to provide this and it forces the needed discussion about how two-party consent requirements are nonsensical. Why should it be illegal for me to remember exactly a conversation that I participated in, instead of o
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by akersten 9d ago
> They were coordinating with OpenAI regarding a publishing timeline, but could not come to an agreement, Skimming the PDFs it seems much more dramatic than that? It sounds like at least one of them is concerned OpenAI "solved"
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by akersten 12d ago
There are only two types of scanned ID documents, those that are known to be compromised and those that are not
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by akersten 13d ago
> So we take a web browser and trim it down to only ever show a single <textarea> element you say? I was saying if the goal is "text editor," the web platform is the wrong foundation entirely
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by akersten 13d ago
Ok, co.uk was perhaps a bad example, because it's owned by the same registry as the TLD, but perhaps there are other 2nd level TLDs where that is not the case. My point is both that it's hard to tell, and more broadly why would an
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by akersten 13d ago
I know about the public suffix list - I was wondering about the wildcard specifically. In the very issue you linked to, as of 2025, it seems this was still unresolved...: > We have no plans to modify the .name entries at this point in ti
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by akersten 13d ago
It kind of seems like an insane TLD structure to begin with, right? I always thought .co.uk was bad (you're just pinning yourself to whoever owns the .co. part, but at least browsers have some suffix list where you can't, I don&#x
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by akersten 14d ago
What the author describes here is hard because it's "simple." What's simple because it's "hard" is replacing parts 2 & 3 with a network appliance like TrueNAS running a zfs pool that syncs to backblaze
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by akersten 15d ago
Yes, who would have guessed that the <textarea> element, designed specifically for this use case and built into browsers for 3 decades, would be the most performant and behaviorally consistent way to implement editable text. I'm
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by akersten 15d ago
> Can someone explain what coordinated pacing is? My charitable read is a legal cartel that allows the small club to switch to Marathon instead of Sprint mode, and drip feed us frontier models at inflated prices, while preventing open so
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Important Security Update for Plex Media Server v1.43.2 and Earlier(forums.plex.tv)
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by akersten 15d ago
> Also, a watermark doesn’t stop your tool from working for you. It just stops you from passing of its work as yours. I think we fundamentally disagree on what "working for me" means, but I remain steadfast in saying we should
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by akersten 15d ago
> generated text being watermarked is universally good. If it worked perfectly, maybe you could make this argument in a vacuum. It does not work perfectly. (It cannot. It is by definition a heuristic). That means there will be false p
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by akersten 15d ago
> Clearly we can't do nothing, Why is that so clear? I can think of hundreds of real daily problems I'd rather my legislators be focused on than deciding how old my kids have to be before they're allowed on some website. I
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by akersten 15d ago
No, sometimes doing something really is worse than doing nothing.
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by akersten 16d ago
I wish the author got more into the weeds of anitcheat and how it evolved over time. Jagex was banning bots based on mouse movement heuristics in like 2005. 20 years later and there's some JS framework on the front page here heralding
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by akersten 17d ago
The brazen crime of asking for a resource and receiving it. You have the power, and should exercise it, to rate limit bad actors
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by akersten 19d ago
> People interpret business as hostility because they cannot conceive of the idea that they themselves should pay for a service. If that's what the business really believed, they'd put up a paywall instead of literally giving a
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by akersten 20d ago
It's just drivel from the Economist, it's not surprising that it makes all these errors. Their real goal is to shape the narrative and get people through their turnstyle. They really don't care about finer minutae like correc
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by akersten 22d ago
Well, all one has to do is look at the bigger picture of how rooted devices are being shuffled into 3rd rate/totally blocked experiences and the overall direction of things starts to take very clear shape. At over a decade old, still p
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by akersten 22d ago
A desperate attempt to establish their version of regulatory capture and not have to pay licensing fees to the other guy
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by akersten 23d ago
> I think there is a good argument for being able to distinguish AI generated image and video... Neat but that's not what's being built here. What's being built is "we can trace back this content to who made it"
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by akersten 27d ago
On a big page with lots of collapsed content, I want control+f to search it and find anything in the collapsed sections without having to manually expand them all before I hit control+f
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by akersten 27d ago
> or operating outside their depth and giving unqualified feedback to the models I wonder if the labs are sufficiently prepared to filter this kind of stuff out. I see a lot of non-developers asking development things of Claude, getting
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by akersten 29d ago
> They promise to get you to your destination. Critically they promise "by a certain time" as well. Surely with so many miles you are aware of the "significant disruption to my travel plans" aspect to getting compensa
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by akersten 29d ago
I suppose consider yourself lucky that you haven't yet been inconvenienced by an issue completely within the airline's control and been offered $50 in funny money even though you had to pay out of pocket for your dingy hotel and t
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by akersten 1mo ago
I'm simultaneously hearing that the internet is more addicting than cigarettes to the point where multiple states are finding success levying gigantic fines on companies for having too good of a product, and also that the internet is b
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by akersten 1mo ago
That such a setting does not exist suggests the feature's true purpose is not for the end user's own benefit!

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