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by batat 5mo ago
I think they do, and it's even scarier than SynthID. Look closely at the generated images and you'll start to notice some diamond-shaped high-frequency patterns in different parts of the image (tree crowns, vegetation, hair, textu
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by batat 6mo ago
So far AI did a terrible job there: https://imgur.com/a/CJ7NU5w Original scene was far from perfect, but it was somewhat more consistent: a sunny spring day, warm tones, noon, some sun rays casting deep shadows on the
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by batat 7mo ago
So it’s neither "yes" nor "no", but some kind of philosophical note somewhere in-between a "Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released" and "CodeWeavers tests their ARM64 compatibility on System76" that isn’t even li
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by batat 8mo ago
> A "Core Isolation: Memory Integrity" feature of Windows 10+ prevents creating such memory area (leading to BSOD). > We tried to attestation sign the driver via new EV certificate by MS to fix the driver's limitation,
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by batat 8mo ago
It doesn't matter really because nowadays all of them are just a front-ends to Windows Firewall. Also legitimate software (i.e. firewall/AV) cannot use "oldschool" tricks like system service descriptor table hooks to obt
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by batat 5y ago
Yet another manifest found in es5-ext: https://github.com/medikoo/es5-ext/issues/116
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by batat 5y ago
Right now it's included as a dependency only in node-ipc package [1] from the same author (1M weekly downloads/355 dependents). [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-ipc
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Protestware: “peacenotwar” NPM package drops anti-war message on user's desktop(github.com)
5 points by batat 5y ago|6 comments
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by batat 5y ago
Madness, this should not exist at all, it's broken in so many ways.
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by batat 5y ago
You are right, good catch.
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by batat 5y ago
Yeah, dead-on. Like "The right to be rude"[0], a year old events when Eric S. Raymond - co-founder of OSI - was kicked off from the OSI mailing list. (Back then someone suggested adding a "we-don't-like-them" clause
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by batat 5y ago
Yes, silent-majority, exactly. Because we (or this is me only?) were taught that expressing point of view which differs from current "course of the party", while may not be a subject of criminal prosecution (therefore, your freedo
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by batat 5y ago
People who are against bullying of Richard Stallman exists too! And there are lot of them - quiet developers, incapable of social interaction. We are not reading Twitter 24/7, we are not speakers nor evangelists. We write commit messag
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by batat 7y ago
Looks pretty much like "fixed price logos" made by russian designer Artemy Lebedev[1]. People keeps buying them for 100,000 RUB (~1600 USD). [1] https://www.artlebedev.ru/express-design/projects/
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by batat 7y ago
Not sure about zeros and ones, but there were some interesting copyright violation cases with long primes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
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by batat 7y ago
I was forced to use web interface after app reinstall because Dropbox free account now supports only 3 linked devices (and I have 7).
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by batat 7y ago
SQL Server prior to 2019 stores unicode data in UCS-2 (UTF-16 analog, rougly). SQL Server 2019 supports UTF-8.
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by batat 7y ago
Also there are no secret chats on desktop client at all.
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by batat 7y ago
> The browser is the OS. The website is the application. No, that's wrong.
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by batat 7y ago
Depends, also WinSxS[1] helps. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-by-side_assembly
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by batat 7y ago
I quit using Imgur because of agressive promotion of their app. Actually you can't even upload an image, neither view a full-size image on mobile version now.
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by batat 7y ago
Through Steam service running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM? Like "Mozilla Maintenance Service" for Firefox.
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by batat 7y ago
> once-reasonable people to be deeply and irredeemably terrible in many other ways Like otaku. Or furries. Can't imagine anything more terribly dangerous than furry otaku spreading GNU Manifesto and forcing you to install Gentoo. Aw
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by batat 7y ago
A lot of the plot, but my guess the main reason is upcoming Cloudflare IPO[1]. Сan't blame them for for doing that. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare-plans-to-ipo-in-s...
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by batat 7y ago
Oh yes, there indeed will be no more mass shooting if you close down %SITE_NAME%.
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by batat 7y ago
Even further. Wondered why there are no single Stallman reference here and in the previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20531039
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by batat 7y ago
IIRC the whole point of economic restrictions on the occupied territories is to increase number of unsatisfied people which could oppose the occupation from inside.
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by batat 7y ago
MCAS can be disabled, but pilots says this may not help in some situations: > On the simulator when the stabilizer was "on a dive" at maximum angle, me and my colleagues weren't able to recover a plane. > If you follow
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by batat 8y ago
Just found out that Reddit banned /r/watchpeople for the same reason [1]. I believe all these censorship attempts only makes it worse - we're experiencing the Streisand Effect at its best now. [1] http://fortune.co
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by batat 8y ago
I'm wondering if it's legal to block sites in Australia simply because "we feel this is the right thing to do"?

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