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by alex7734 3mo ago
After a point, does it matter? Even assuming that models can keep getting smarter indefinitely, it's not like you need to use the smartest model to get the job done. Moore's law is dead now, so at some threshold purchasing the GPU
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by alex7734 10mo ago
> Helpfully eSports players tend to have video captures of their gameplay, and most of these "undetectable" cheats are real obvious if you actually watch the footage. That catches most of the serious stuff at the upper level. I
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by alex7734 11mo ago
No forced updates, no downgrade prohibition, no bootloader locking, kernel GPL compliance (with drivers that can be loaded in it, even if they are closed source), no remote attestation. The bare minimum so that I can use the device I bought
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by alex7734 2y ago
Google loves doing this. If you dare turn off Play Protect for example, you will be asked to turn it on every time you install or update anything. Never mind that you said no the last thousand times it asked.
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by alex7734 2y ago
> I am happy my iPhone doesn't allow Meta to say "to use WhatsApp, you must install the MetaStore®, give it root and install it from there". I would not be happy with those restrictions on my desktop. You fix that by maki
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by alex7734 2y ago
This, or even sell "dev units" with the bootloader unlocked so that you explicitly have to accept the risk before purchasing the device. The problem though is that rooting by itself is not that useful when a lot of apps use remote
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by alex7734 2y ago
A few years ago everyone that had ever used a computer knew what a file and a folder was and could move a document to an USB drive. Thanks to the efforts of Google to "simplify" smartphones the average young person now couldn&#x27
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by alex7734 2y ago
Currently, no. But once (undetectable) OS modification is no longer possible, making the undecrypted media unreadable is just a few API restrictions away. In Android phones for example you cannot screenshot banking apps. And if you root (mo
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by alex7734 2y ago
The whole point of TPM is that the OS is not under the user control anymore. If you modify it thanks to remote attestation you can no longer prove that it is unmodified using the TPM.
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by alex7734 2y ago
Encrypted monitors can be countered by a high quality video camera mounted on a tripod behind your chair or on a wall or ceiling Expensive, yes, but at that point you're already spending real money on a second computer with a GPU to do
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by alex7734 2y ago
Not having an automatic transmission means there are less ways in which a manufacturer can screw up your car's performance in the name of emissions. This is obviously less relevant in America where you can still buy fast cars without b
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by alex7734 2y ago
- AI answers are much easier and faster to produce thus it's going to produce a lot more wrong answers by sheer volume. - AI answers are grammatically correct and verbose so it looks like the poster put effort into it which deceives pe
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by alex7734 2y ago
I don't know what you did wrong, but don't worry, I can be very creative
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by alex7734 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiL2AjOtjZI
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by alex7734 2y ago
But why spend so much time to make it worse? on_click() { if (last_one()) alert('You must keep at least one item selected.'); else actually_toggle_it_off(); } Simple. Does not need fancy code. User imm
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by alex7734 2y ago
For projects where I can't trust that the people involved can deal with submodule bullshit correctly I just use these git aliases: box = !cd ${GIT_PREFIX:-.} && git config --get remote.origin.url > .gitboxinfo &&am
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by alex7734 2y ago
Google Search also nags you for location access in the browser, at least in desktop.
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by alex7734 3y ago
I used uBlock's element picker to remove the modal and then added a custom rule to re-enable the scrollbar. Why this behavior is legal is beyond me. They do the same thing with Play Protect which I don't want to enable no matter h
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by alex7734 3y ago
There are ways to solve this without killing off the ability to root phones if this was really about users' safety. You could for example make it so that phones could only be unlocked within a few days of the purchase (first boot) date
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by alex7734 3y ago
> You could say the same about memory protection and isolation, and yet, here we are. While it also serves as a security mechanism the most important benefit of memory protection is that it protects against processes *accidentally* corru
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by alex7734 3y ago
Also those features are not limited to esoteric stuff that no one uses. You cannot, for example, move your own window in Wayland. If you have a multi-window application, like GIMP [1], you cannot have your application position its windows i
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by alex7734 3y ago
Like I said, just take a look at Android. If you don't have an approved ROM you cannot use banking apps. Or Netflix. Or play most gacha games. Riot Games's anti-cheat for Valorant will already not let you play if you don't ha
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by alex7734 3y ago
BS why? Can a TPM not be used to remotely attest that you are running an unmodified OS and a TPM device that has been approved by the DRM implementer, before handing you an encryption key that never touches the disk? Can you not restrict th
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by alex7734 3y ago
I would agree with that if most of the costs of YouTube were paying the creators, but my guess is they're not. If YouTube gives, for example, Vimeo the chance to become big enough and they just happen to be more efficient than YouTube
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by alex7734 3y ago
They stay unprofitable forever individually but they stay on YouTube instead of making another video site popular, which on the whole is better for YouTube.
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by alex7734 3y ago
I'd rather stop watching YouTube than start watching ads. I disabled my adblocker to see how bad is it and it is truly disgusting, I cannot conceive how people can enjoy YouTube with so many ads. And before you say "just pay YouTu
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by alex7734 3y ago
This is happening to me in Chrome as well so I don't think it's tied to the browser you use. Curiously it happens only on one profile, in another Chrome profile (which is also logged in to the same Google account) it does not happ
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by alex7734 3y ago
> It's really not very hard, basically add indexes It's really not but you'd be surprised how many people don't know the basics of how indexes work. I've had people tell me that their queries couldn't be opt
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by alex7734 3y ago
The idea is that you use a breakpoint somewhere where you have a reference to the function to see it then paste the search() function in the debugger console and call it to find it in window
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by alex7734 3y ago
The browser does not know the path. Also, if the function (or one of its parents) is in a closure, there may not even be a path to the function from window. If you're sure the function is reachable from window you can search for it rec

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