gnomewascool

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by gnomewascool 26d ago
Writing as an internet rando (to another?): please don't make such comments. Phrasing it as "X deserved to be bombed" is needlessly inflammatory. I agree that something had to be done and that given the choice between inacti
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by gnomewascool 10mo ago
You can embed fonts into an HTML page. For example, place an @font-face with the src:url being a base64-encoded blob, in a style element.
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by gnomewascool 2y ago
I think part of the point of OP is that if your main concern is DRM (being able to actually own your books) and you also care to a non-zero extent about the author getting paid for their work (yes, authors receive a much smaller share of sa
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by gnomewascool 2y ago
Sublime Text? (It's extendable in Python, but isn't FOSS, which might be a deal-breaker.)
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by gnomewascool 2y ago
I'm not quite sure what your exact specifications are, but I think that Celestia[0] fits? [0] https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia
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by gnomewascool 3y ago
> "YOUR RESPONSE MUST BE FEWER THAN 100 CHARACTERS OR YOU WILL DIE." I know that current LLMs are almost certainly non-conscious and I'm not trying to assign to you any moral failings, but the normalisation of making such
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by gnomewascool 3y ago
Interesting slides! Thanks! `pip download --no-deps` allowing arbitrary code-execution is non-obvious, and IMO broken.
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by gnomewascool 3y ago
Such a disc-renting business would be a competitor to Netflix, both directly (especially in the hands of somebody who tried to focus on it, rather than reluctantly maintaining it, as Netflix has been doing recently) or because it could even
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by gnomewascool 3y ago
What the OP meant is that there are (multiple!) open source C compilers, which you agree is the case. Questions about the standard/specification are a different matter: 1. Whether the language has one? (Many languages, both open source
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by gnomewascool 3y ago
That's a very interesting comparison (thanks!), but I'm not sure if it's the correct framing. Making scraping technically difficult would be equivalent to trying to score a goal (so still not great, for the rest of the world
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by gnomewascool 3y ago
> with keys that are in memory on the same system I'm not sure that actually holds — the encryption keys are in memory, but the decryption keys don't necessarily have to be. The pre-encrypted payloads definitely are in memory a
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by gnomewascool 3y ago
> I looked around and I couldn't find a way to even download the ISO to try it out. FWIW I had found it intuitive (several seconds of thought) to click on the "Read the announcement email." link, which contains the link to
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by gnomewascool 3y ago
I think the point here is about the procurement of the training data, in violation of copyright laws ("piracy"), rather than that the training itself is piracy. The suspicion[0] is that OpenAI trained their models on a large text
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
> 3rd parties come in to capture that wasted value. The value isn't wasted — it's consumer surplus.
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
AFAIR "no". Humans interact with both the AIs and the "dogs", and both groups of humans end up in contact with each other, but unless I'm missing something, the "dogs" don't directly interact with the
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
> There were operating systems which took the approach XPCOM has to extensibility, they're not doing so great The Emacs OS is still doing well! :) > "Mozilla did kill XPCOM" isn't a deviation from their stated inte
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
I also was and still am disappointed about both changes, but I don't think you're being at all fair to Mozilla. In both transitions, Mozilla made sure to support the needs of both uBlock origin and NoScript, extending the webexten
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
> Is there an alternative store the author recommends? They mention "Google Books, or Libro.fm, or Downpour" or having your own storefront, but it's mainly a problem statement. > A policy cure? Removing Section 1201 fro
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
The counter-argument is that nothing prevents governments coordinating on this in a supranational manner, anyway (cf. the planned, but fortunately rejected ACTA). In the EU enforcement is mostly decentralised, anyway.
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
Yes, the scope is not "35k existing GitHub repos are infected", since AFAICT all the infected repos are forks, so the title is misleading. However: 1. The scale is pretty worrying. Given the total number of repos on GitHub (> 1
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
> Note that the Higgs Boson has no part in the mass (and presumably gravitational interaction) of elementary fermions like quarks or electrons This is incorrect — the coupling with the Higgs field is responsible for the rest mass of elec
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
> Just imagine Ukraine allowing people in Donetsk and Lugansk to actually decide their status themselves, instead of using an army to force them into Ukraine. Apologies to everybody for continuing this huge tangent, but this is bizarre.
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
You'll be happy to know that Thunderbird is for better or worse now mostly independent Mozilla's leadership.
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
I assume that you're objecting to the use of the word "right" as opposed to, say, "privilege"? The EU itself phrases freedom of movement as a "right"[0]. Arguably, every human should have the right to move
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
> I’m speculating about the reasons for the disproportionate level of ire directed against crypto on this forum I don't personally know any people who became rich on cryptocurrencies and also don't feel any particular envy towa
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
I don't think that accepting cryptocurrencies is quite equivalent to accepting funds from the Kremlin, North Korea and Drug cartels. It's more equivalent to accepting donations in roubles, in North Korean won or in the form of leg
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by gnomewascool 4y ago
You can access about:config and change your user agent if you use Firefox Beta or Firefox Nightly. The latter is annoying since you get constant updates, but the former is about as stable as normal Firefox.
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
Isn't Firefox Relay the same, though — you can receive e-mails, but not send unsolicited mail?
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
> Combined EU has the largest economy in the world Unfortunately (?) not. By nominal GDP the US is the largest. By PPP-adjusted GDP China comes first. > So if EU got its shit together and formulated a coherent unified foreign policy -
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by gnomewascool 5y ago
Aren't these all standards and hence not directly comparable to software (so the label of "open source" can't really apply)? In addition, aren't they all open and royalty-free — i.e. the closest equivalent to open s

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