jimmydorry

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by jimmydorry 16d ago
And wikipedia runs off a tiny tiny fraction of what they raise. Almost all of the good on wikipedia comes in-spite of the organisation that owns it. Without the community pouring hundreds of thousands of hours into the project (unpaid) a ye
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by jimmydorry 21d ago
Canada effectively requires leaving and re-entering. It can take multiple months for an online visa to get processed, meanwhile leaving and reentering takes hours.
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by jimmydorry 25d ago
You're being naieve if you don't think SNI will be fully deprecated in the future when a standard is settled on and reaches wide-adoption. Scare prompt fatigue is real. If you're constantly blasting users with "XXX wants
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by jimmydorry 25d ago
Mozilla has frequently made questionable choices with its ad tie-ins and promotions. Mr. Robot ads, anyone? Unlike Chrome, Mozilla has also embedded full on data-collection schemes (Cliqz which tracked typing and browsing to test monetisati
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by jimmydorry 1mo ago
Security upgrades are never opt-in, and for good reason. The status quo would remain in-secure. Every encryption suite upgrade, SSL software version, DNS versions, etc. maintained backwards compatibility for a window then closed it... just
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by jimmydorry 1mo ago
A valid claim. The unfettered access to. etc.
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by jimmydorry 1mo ago
If you've run a site with CORS reporting enabled, you'd see that a significant fraction of your userbase have malware extensions running (prior to manifest v3). I was absolutely shocked when I looked at the logs a decade ago, and
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by jimmydorry 1mo ago
>How do you secure against the system vendor (in this case the browser) limiting what the consumer/user can or can't do (alone or with the help of third parties) with the product after acquiring it though? If you don't lik
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by jimmydorry 1mo ago
>An adblocker, by its nature, needs to access * Well that's what is in contention. Does everything claiming to be an adblocker really need access to *? Is Adblocker5++ (totally not malware) entitled to as much access as uBlock Origi
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by jimmydorry 1mo ago
I think a big step forward, towards a better security model, was overall a good thing, even if it meant that a good extension no longer had unfettered access to everything your browser saw. I don't think this change is ridiculous at al
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by jimmydorry 1mo ago
So you're saying that because Google didn't completely up-end the security model and break almost every extension in the one-go, we should have no-progress towards a more secure extension model? uBlock Origin via declarative block
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by jimmydorry 1mo ago
The average Joe wouldn't know where to begin in setting that up. That solution is far from solving the problem.
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by jimmydorry 2mo ago
If you don't have the capability to train these models, then there's almost no chance of you having enough GPU power to run inference at a large scale on these models (assuming the weights for such a model are ever released or lea
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by jimmydorry 2mo ago
It's not the price of power that matters, it's the heat produced. Every extra W consumed is an extra W of heat that needs to be handled, and for consoles that tend to be chucked into confined spaces, that's an issue. Loudness
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by jimmydorry 2mo ago
If you're tech savvy enough to monitor your equipment, you're probably smart enough not to install "free VPNs" or "free stream pirate apps" to get pwned in the first place. You probably changed your router&#x27
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by jimmydorry 2mo ago
Right, this is orthagonal to the discussion though. While the IPs and bandwidth might be free, managing the malware botnet and trying to keep a low profile so as to not attract attention of authorities, makes it a risky market to cater to.
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by jimmydorry 2mo ago
Yes, the status quo right now is merely bandwidth... but if there was money to be made in providing a small amount of compute for the sake of solving the next gen captcha's, you can bet offerings will expand to meet it. It's impos
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by jimmydorry 2mo ago
These options are up to 10 times bigger than the SteamMachine, approach almost twice the power draw, and are up to 2.8 times louder than the SteamMachine. They aren't even close to comparable... so why exactly are they making this appl
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by jimmydorry 2mo ago
PoW barely affects the "residential proxies" aka. malware botfarms. The IPs are free for them and siphoning additional system resources for PoW doesn't matter at all for them. PoW only affects the large centralised scraping b
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by jimmydorry 3mo ago
All it takes is a populist with a good message to make a political group. All functional Western nations have voting mechanisms that allow for radical government change, if there is enough public support for it. It might take a decade to fu
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by jimmydorry 3mo ago
Indexes rebalance frequently. The "correct weight" today, won't be the correct weight in a year.
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by jimmydorry 4mo ago
They succesfully did away with 2nd hand markets and the concept of "owning" anything. So yes, I would imagine DRM would continue to exist without piracy.
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by jimmydorry 4mo ago
>of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world I think ~48 are in North and South America Why have you bundled South America with North America? Of the top 50, I see 4 from the US. Compared to about 40 (eye balling it) from South America.
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by jimmydorry 4mo ago
If cheaters were capped to mimicking good players, that's already an incredible win over the status quo. The players that are walling (as an example), are playing with more information than they should and this should always be detecta
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by jimmydorry 4mo ago
Looking at someone cheating in a replay, it's pretty obvious the majority of the time. To me, this signals that this could be a problem that can be solved by a combination of analytics to filter out statisticaly outliers + AI. This is
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by jimmydorry 4mo ago
>"taken an administrative role" Not GP, but no... a pension is not similar to an administrative role.
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by jimmydorry 5mo ago
That's one method, but consider what happens when someone deposits a million dollars at a bank. This million dollars can be lent out to another person as a mortgage, and guess where that person accepts that money? That's right, a
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by jimmydorry 5mo ago
On the other hand, health care is not scaling to meet the growing demand of societies (look at the growing wait queues for access to basic medical attention in most Western nations). The cause of this is a separate topic and something that
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by jimmydorry 5mo ago
We're lucky the EU regulators moved so slowly that the industry had already consolidated around USB-C (a standard that Apple was a key participant of and would have eventually moved to eventually). When they were first deciding what to
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by jimmydorry 5mo ago
I disagree! There very much is a distinction and every age verification process will have the same failure mode. If there is something wrong with your account or ID, the user will have to go via the manual support proccess, which necessitat

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