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by cge 12d ago
When I had a Fairphone 4, regulars on the community forum repeatedly reminded everyone that repairability was not a primary goal of Fairphone, ethical consumerism was, and any longevity and repairability was secondary or coincidental. Y
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by cge 14d ago
The entire paper is almost certainly Claude-generated, given the clear Claude-speak throughout. It seems like they didn’t even try to have Claude write a polished paper: it reads like Claude writing up a lengthy report, down to the needles
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by cge 22d ago
It's just such a bizarre choice that one might hope there would be another interpretation. Why measure a percentage change on sales tax, which varies heavily from location to location, and is not what the associated fees are based on,
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by cge 22d ago
The only way I can interpret the percentage is that they are stating the increased cost as a percentage of sales tax rather than a percentage of the sale, such that "26% higher sales tax" in a state changing 10% sales tax would me
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by cge 23d ago
That’s also very common in the UK, and shows up elsewhere in Europe sometimes. In the UK, they are legally but not practically or socially discretionary. There are some tax advantages for the restaurant and in the ideal case for staff.
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by cge 26d ago
>In a world where things such as GLM-5.3, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, and Kimi-K3 exists, this is a bit laughable. This is not just for security, too. Using Fable for anything that could be remotely construed as being connect to chemistry or
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by cge 1mo ago
For some reason, despite these things being rather simple and concrete distinctions, all the reporting around the case keeps being confusing, vague, and contradictory. I had been rather convinced by the Ars Technica article [1] that Iron M
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by cge 1mo ago
They comment years after immediately closing the bug as wontfix, vaguely talk about users for expressing interest in features while not being willing to open a PR, when people in the thread had actually been asking, over a long period of ti
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by cge 1mo ago
As an illustration of this, 100% of the detections in the trial in 2026 have been false positives. Scanning tens of thousands of faces for each deployment, they’ve had exactly one detection, which was false: https://www.btp.polic
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by cge 1mo ago
I think the point is that there is a distinction between calls that are intrusive spam or arguably scams but not already illegal, and calls where the content of the call is itself unambiguously illegal. Bans on unsolicited calls, or do-not-
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by cge 2mo ago
While the author mentions that they are not trying to defend the Phoebus cartel, I think they may inadvertently be somewhat misleading in their explanation. What they are saying is, from an engineering standpoint, true. But my understandi
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by cge 2mo ago
Without wanting to take a stance on either side of these arguments, it does occur to me that, for this and other major FOSS projects deciding on AI policies, others can always start forks with different policies. The success or failure of
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by cge 2mo ago
There’s confusion about the classifiers on Fable. They don’t ban chemistry and biology topics they flag as a potential risk, they ban anything related to chemistry or biology at all. This is intentional, and directly stated on the model car
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by cge 2mo ago
Asking about this, it seems like that might be the case: they likely intended the "even if they were not LLM-generated" to be counterfactual. It's an unfortunate place to leave such grammatical ambiguity.
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by cge 2mo ago
>And for what it's worth, it seems like they only care if the project is directly crypto related (e.g if you had a repo directly implementing a Monero node, that would probably not be allowed). Looking at community conversations, th
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by cge 2mo ago
Honestly, for me, both. While I can't find something specific about it in the new ToS, the new blog post notes that "side projects and experiments", and "specific tools and custom scripts that would be unlikely to find a
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by cge 2mo ago
That's just presenting improvements to a mechanism; while it isn't common, particularly for watches, and I don't know much about earlier examples, they do seem to exist. For clocks , however, there is the iconic Swiss railwa
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by cge 2mo ago
One of the significant problems with systems like automatic speed limits (and lane following, etc) is that they need to work well, and reliably, in all conditions, or they end up posing safety risks themselves. Potentially worse, the imple
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by cge 2mo ago
A perhaps similar sort of finder existed on a number of older (eg, first half of the 20th century) cameras, usually as a secondary option or an accessory, for quick shots. They tend to be common additions built into waist level finders bec
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by cge 2mo ago
That would be interesting to try, but unfortunately, at least on iOS, it’s region-locked by account region, so as someone who goes back and forth between the US and Europe often, despite being in Europe, I’m entirely unable to install it at
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by cge 2mo ago
On the one hand, the developers who were ultimately tasked directly with building Horizon were completely unqualified to write an accounting system, and lacked even basic knowledge about accounting in general, including fundamental misunder
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by cge 3mo ago
To add to the license complexity, the model uses another FUTO-written license, though it at least does not seem as bad as the license for the keyboard: https://huggingface.co/futo-org/futo-swipe/blob/main&#x2F
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by cge 3mo ago
These sorts of services do seem very dependent on the details of how they are organized. I’ve had experience with two university libraries with 3d printers. They both advertise them similarly, and they were nominally similar services, osten
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by cge 3mo ago
> It would be awesome if they supported something like Hurricane Electric’s tunneling. HE tunnel IP space is now sufficiently penalized as non-residential/office that I’ve had to turn it off anyway. YouTube, for example, largely see
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by cge 3mo ago
For both me (physics) and my wife (history), in the American system, both at strong universities, most of our committee members read most of of our dissertations. For her, in a field where thesis by publication is not standard (your thesis
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by cge 3mo ago
> Clearly with LLMs, bulletproof denials are ~impossible due to the way LLMs work. As a scientist who repeatedly ran into the classifier-based denials: it appears Anthropic’s strategy to make denials more robust, at the cost of many fals
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by cge 3mo ago
The reported commit [1] suggests to me that it was an account compromise of some sort, not orphan+adopt: the committer is the same in git, but the contact email changes in the PKGBUILD. This doesn't necessarily seem 'more elaborat
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by cge 3mo ago
>What some read as "gatekeeping" and "Arch Linux hostility" is in reality just a difference of culture, and that's not a bad thing. Oddly enough, when I was writing that, I wasn't thinking about Arch, but U
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by cge 3mo ago
> They're packaged using the same tools and technology, with the intent that they can be easily validated and promoted to core stuff in the future. That's perhaps the intent ideally, but in practice, it feels like AUR tends to
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by cge 3mo ago
I'm not asking for myself. Yes, I understand the build process, and know what to check. I've also written PKGBUILDs before and have had packages in AUR. I'm sure you understand it too, as well as many people here. But many

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