mort96

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by mort96 3d ago
I made no argument about guilt. I made an argument about the semantics of the word "let".
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by mort96 3d ago
Yea, my understanding is that the split between / and /usr used to be more or less: the drive they used for / ran out of space, so they mounted another drive as /usr. As a consequence, / became where you put stuff t
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by mort96 3d ago
Ah. That makes sense. It's so annoying how deeply UNIX packaging philosophy assumes that installation directories are something you hard-code at build time.
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by mort96 3d ago
Wait what? Why prefix length limits? Linux paths can be 4096 bytes long, I can't imagine y'all are hitting that?
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by mort96 3d ago
.. what exactly depends on who started the escalator? My comment was in support of the argument that the word "let" does not imply agency on the part of the object in a sentence. Does the semantics of the word "let" depe
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by mort96 3d ago
Or, "let the escalator keep going instead of pressing the emergency stop".
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by mort96 4d ago
Why do people keep saying this? No, CPUs are not autocomplete.
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by mort96 5d ago
Yeah so there's no input to activate recording, it always records what you're saying so that at any point in time, it can go back 15 seconds. When you double press the crown, it can't go back in time to start recording 15 s
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by mort96 6d ago
How is Live Rewind able to show a transcript of a conversation which happened before it was activated? That makes no sense, it needs to record stuff continuously in order to at any time tell you what was said 15 seconds ago
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by mort96 6d ago
I agree! And this is always recording. It remembers what people said and can produce a transcript of it; that's a record. The "hey siri" feature doesn't keep a record of what everyone said (except when it triggers incorr
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by mort96 6d ago
No, but I'm not sure what the point of this kind of feature would be if it isn't always listening. Do you usually plan out in advance when you're going to miss what someone said so that you can enable recording just for tha
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by mort96 6d ago
In the video, the waitress said something, then the guy looked up on his watch what she said. Where's the part where he enables anything? Clearly it was already listening, otherwise it wouldn't have caught what she said.
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by mort96 7d ago
Well no, they made the Ultra for very rich people who do long hikes or similar. For most of us, a smart watch isn't so important that the increase in price is worth it, even if we're annoyed by the battery life of the non-Ultra
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by mort96 7d ago
If I learned that someone I've been speaking to for a while was recording the conversation using the audio recorder app on their phone, I'd find that extremely creepy.
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by mort96 7d ago
It's so creepy. So their watch is now always recording audio, and the rumors say that their next generation of AirPods Pro will gain cameras. I don't want an always-listening watch. I don't want earbuds with cameras. I don&#x
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by mort96 7d ago
It "makes sense" that plainly telling the chat bot to make one button blue makes the whole site blue? It "makes sense" that correcting it and repeating 3 times that no, only the one button should be blue, should make t
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by mort96 8d ago
I would also have been annoyed with that if I had to use GrapheneOS, security is a terrible argument to deny people access to their own hardware. But then I'm not a GrapheneOS user, just like I wouldn't have been a Fedora user on
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by mort96 8d ago
And if a streaming app stops working due to a compatibility issue, I might consider updating if it's a streaming app I use a lot. If I can update the app independent of the OS, great; if not, it might mean an OS update.
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by mort96 8d ago
The best solution is obviously sanctioned rooting so that vulnerabilities can be freely shared with manufacturers and fixed. But that's not going to happen.
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by mort96 8d ago
To me as a user, responsible disclosure takes away my right to do what I want with my hardware.
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by mort96 8d ago
No. My computer is a tool I actively use. The TV is an almost entirely passive consumption device. Was performance not good enough when it was new? If it wasn't, will the new software versions truly buck the trend we've seen in so
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by mort96 8d ago
I've never used a TV that way, that's the job of whatever is connected to the TV. But if you do use your TV like that, didn't those things work when you got it? Why do you need software updates?
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by mort96 8d ago
Wait who are these people who praise GrapheneOS but complain about it not allowing root? It sounds like you're conflating two groups of people
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by mort96 8d ago
why would I want to keep the software on my TV updated, it's a screen
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by mort96 8d ago
Responsible disclosure makes sense when the user and the manufacturer have the same goal of the product being secure. Jailbreaking is a case where the user and the manufacturer have opposing goals: the user wants to be in charge their hardw
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by mort96 12d ago
A V8 does not "predict" the firing of the next piston, it triggers the firing of the next piston at a precisely controlled time with a spark plug (or a fuel injection nozzle in the case of a diesel engine). The output of the LLM
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by mort96 12d ago
At the same time, it ... is literally a next token predictor. Like that's what it is. The input is a sequence of tokens. The output is a probability distribution of next tokens.
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by mort96 14d ago
It has mostly become my go-to as well. Just wish it wasn't a Facebook product.
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by mort96 14d ago
The problem is that everyone who's championing IPv6 is talking about how it makes NAT unnecessary and about how bad NAT is. See TFA as one example. NAT is perfectly fine, so all the IPv6 boosters who make this huge deal of it get dismi
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by mort96 15d ago
It's sadly the only practical way to do things now. For client/server, you only need one party (the server) to not be behind CGNAT. For p2p, you need both parties to not be behind CGNAT. It's typically only possible to guaran

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