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by duskwuff 4d ago
> This was also a time when Flash content was supported by Apple QuickTime While QuickTime supported some Flash content, my recollection is that it only supported simple animations which could be mapped onto QuickTime's own intera
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by duskwuff 5d ago
There was even an unpleasant period in the early 2000s where MSIE was the only viable browser on Mac OS . Safari and Firefox hadn't been released yet, Netscape 4.x never made the jump to OS X, and ports of the Mozilla suite were never
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by duskwuff 5d ago
LLMs are also incredibly poor at recognizing that they're "out of their depth", especially when their context is already full of their attempts to do something.
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by duskwuff 5d ago
> They stopped piling on all sorts of non-standard vendor lock-in stuff after IE6. IE6 also stuck around a lot longer than previous versions. It was released in 2001; IE7 didn't show up until 2006, and was an optional update which
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by duskwuff 6d ago
I've seen a number of "child invents thing" news stories where the supposed invention was entirely bogus. For example, one widely circulated story in the late 2000s involved a young student in Nepal inventing a solar cell mad
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by duskwuff 6d ago
No, neither - the amount of CO2 that'd be needed for use as a refrigerant is insignificant. There's already a lot of CO2 produced as a byproduct of industrial chemical processes like petroleum refining. Some of it is captured for
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by duskwuff 7d ago
WordPress is free software. Its users are under no obligation to contribute to its development, or to give money to Automattic.
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by duskwuff 7d ago
Yes. This typically manifested as either: - religious or mystical experiences, often paired with the belief that the AI model is a manifestation of a divine being and/or has become sentient - belief that the person has made a great sci
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by duskwuff 8d ago
I also have some fond memories of WWWBoard instances, from Matt's Script Archive. https://www.scriptarchive.com/wwwboard.html
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by duskwuff 8d ago
> Smart Tags was a system Microsoft introduced in Internet Explorer 6 which would automatically inject hyperlinks into pages. Smart Tags was present in some beta versions of MSIE6, but was removed before release. The MSSmartTagsPrevent
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by duskwuff 12d ago
Well, then, I guess we'll just have to release the hypnodrones.
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by duskwuff 15d ago
+1. Especially given that it can even run in the browser - https://yowasp.org/
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by duskwuff 15d ago
ICE40UP5K is large enough to synthesize a simple RISC-V CPU with some basic peripherals. It's not huge or fast, but it's capable enough.
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by duskwuff 16d ago
> GNUstep ran early MacOS apps on Linux after Apple bought Next and adopted their APIs. No, it did not. There was no point at which GNUstep provided binary compatibility with Mac OS applications - while the two ecosystems shared some com
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by duskwuff 18d ago
I would be much more surprised by a system of commands which could be read in any order.
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by duskwuff 19d ago
The subsection requires that the person " knowingly materially misrepresent [...] that material or activity is infringing". Proving that the misrepresentation was made knowingly can be extremely difficult.
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by duskwuff 20d ago
From a pragmatic perspective: Berkeley Systems went through a long chain of acquisitions in the late 90s/early 2000s and eventually ended up under Vivendi, which hasn't done anything significant with the rights since a Flying Toas
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by duskwuff 22d ago
What I'm getting at is that metadata that claims that a photo is "real" won't necessarily convince people that it is, and the lack of that metadata doesn't mean anything at all. About the only real use I've see
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by duskwuff 22d ago
And I'm not sure it's even useful to solve. The presence/absence of a digital signature will never be the deciding factor in whether people accept/reject an image as authentic.
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by duskwuff 22d ago
At least there was some genuine effort involved there. What I find most disheartening about the current wave of AI-generated projects is that there's often very little personal involvement - someone had a general idea and asked Claude
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by duskwuff 22d ago
Twitter was doing stupid growth hacks, like requiring login to view replies, even before AI scrapers were a concern. (And I suspect many of the scrapers are just using logged-in accounts.)
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by duskwuff 22d ago
No - if you did that, you're likely to end up with an email address which many services will treat as suspicious or reject entirely, both for incoming and outbound mail. And you'll still get spam.
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by duskwuff 22d ago
> Is FTP really worse HTTP? I don't think I'd even call it that. FTP had one purpose: it was an early protocol for remotely managing files. It never had any intent to support dynamically generated or otherwise "virtual&quo
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by duskwuff 23d ago
> Denying the existence of a major dynasty is like declaring that Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson didn't exist There's a great difference of scale. Lincoln died about 150 years ago. There are voluminous primary sources about
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by duskwuff 24d ago
In many phones, some of the radio hardware is integrated into the SoC. Adding a second, independent radio is a larger engineering task.
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by duskwuff 24d ago
> was any evidence ever given? Try browsing through the offtopic forum [1] if you're not convinced. About half of the threads lead with a post which uses the phrase "food noise" (often "the food noise came back")
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by duskwuff 26d ago
Don't forget that you're flying NYC to SF to "regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building". What, you thought you got the weekend off? Rise and grind.
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by duskwuff 26d ago
Good news / bad news: employees are also expected to "co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses" (i.e. corporate frat house). Not quite sure how they get "teams of 20" living in those houses with a total company
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by duskwuff 26d ago
You might be thinking of Nauru. Different island.
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by duskwuff 26d ago
> I suppose in principle the RPi Pico could self-host its own OS and devel environment. 520 KB of RAM in the old days was plenty to fit an OS and compiler. With two cheap PSRAM chips and a bit of trickery, you can upgrade that to 32(.5)

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