necovek

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by necovek 3d ago
I am not disagreeing it's outright fraud. I am disagreeing it's the same thing as water company not testing the water they distribute on purpose (or hiding the negative results).
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by necovek 4d ago
Were they? Did Concorde provide return on investment? When was the break-even expected? Sure, if we look at it as R&D subsidized by governments of UK and France, then yet, it was profitable. In particular, the problem with it was that i
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by necovek 4d ago
I agree an argument can be made that not all the worst outcomes include restricting public access, but focusing on niche extremist groups (who might also get access to it through government programs by some of them being government employ
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by necovek 4d ago
It did partially, which is why I have the second part — even if we applied the same rule, it's not really apples-to-apples.
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by necovek 5d ago
Liability when it happens? Don't all water companies do it? And while it may point at what we could do with Google and the likes, the risk profile is still a bit different (make many people ill or die vs "unknowingly" stealin
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by necovek 5d ago
The more these small devs realize their ad spend is going to bots, the less they'll spend. Like the OP. Once the word gets around, even small non-techy businesses will pick up on it.
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by necovek 5d ago
At least on my up-to-date Pixel phone, home screen search bar only searches the web (by default).
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by necovek 5d ago
> ...this is Microsoft we are talking about. Exactly! More seriously, it not just about building a compliant web browser engine, it is about tracking the dominant browser engine which introduces their own "standards" along th
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by necovek 6d ago
One thing to keep in mind is that your brain's hardware heavily influences your experience and thus your brain's development. Eg. whether you are male or female, tall or short, your limbs can make you run fast or not, your eyes ca
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by necovek 6d ago
Uhm, I am saying that I do not want a 100 apps (website-based or native) on my phone because this is hard to manage without better human-computer interfaces like a big screen and physical keyboard. So I am not sure how making a web page int
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by necovek 7d ago
> Websites instead of apps on mobile is something that basically always sucks I find it's the opposite: on my computer, I want native apps, but on the phone, it is very hard to manage a large collection of single use apps because I
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by necovek 8d ago
I'll just throw this out here: https://www.webosbrew.org/rooting/ I believe I did have to connect it to the network to get it to some web page or other, but after that I had full control of it. My LG TV is a bit o
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by necovek 8d ago
"I have a PinePhone with phosh, which is neither Android nor iOS — where can I get the app?" Obviously, it still won't get you anywhere except maybe hasten the return as it is not compatible to your environment.
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by necovek 8d ago
The point GP was making is that DNS-record based ACME mechanism for verification of ownership implies trust in the domain name owner (or really, anyone who can edit records in the domain zone), making the issuance of a certificate actually
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by necovek 8d ago
IIRC, Netscape 4.* series was the last in the proprietary line of Netscape Navigators (though 4.* had a broader name like "Communicator" or something, since it included more than just the browser — but "3.0 Gold" was the
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by necovek 9d ago
It becomes tricky fast. There is obviously a fine that could bankrupt the company: this would be a clear signal "do not do this". There are also many cases where people have been doing everything they should have been, and still g
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by necovek 9d ago
One could say that simply incentives are wrong so people turn negligent and/or are out of their breadth on a topic. But is there someone accountable for it being so? Are they malicious? Who is ultimately to blame?
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by necovek 11d ago
I would say that maintaining legacy systems as a software engineer is effectively "using bugs to make money" and very much an "economically legitimate activity". If old systems had no bugs/issues, companies could do
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by necovek 13d ago
Actually, the fact that you have to cite official registrar docs is exactly the problem. There are 200+ country TLDs, and by now probably thousands of other self-governed TLDs like .name. For instance, in Serbia, there is a similar scheme
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by necovek 13d ago
I just did a similar test with Kagi image search using "person on a bicycle", and this actually favours left-pointing bikes (12 left to 3 right to 4 front/back). Maybe so the mechanism does not overwhelm the person? A search
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by necovek 13d ago
As a counterpoint, I did a quick image search on Kagi with "person on a bicycle", and I ended up with 12-left-pointed bicycles, only 3-right-pointed bicycles, 3 facing the camera, and 1 facing away from the camera — looking at pho
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by necovek 13d ago
I've done a similar thing with asking a few LLMs to do it using PostScript: in my view, a couple generations behind compared to doing it in SVG. https://danilo.segan.org/blog/llm/postscript-pelicans-on-bic...
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by necovek 13d ago
How familiar are you with Serbian co.rs, org.rs, in.rs (individuals) and top-level .rs too? Will you confuse it with iz.rs giving free subdomains to individuals too ("iz" means from in Serbian)? How about all the other 200+ count
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by necovek 13d ago
I can you can always use an em-dash instead of the hyphen for extra LLM cred: "load—bearing" :)
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by necovek 14d ago
I am now waiting for someone to show up in a pelican costume to a job interview — obviously riding there on a bike. Too bad most are now online, so there are fewer opportunies.
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by necovek 14d ago
No disagreement there, but I do disagree that on the internet, poor and rich would not intermingle without the big tech players: they already have, and even if not for them, they would have continued. I am not reminiscing anything here, but
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by necovek 14d ago
Ads, in general, have one main purpose: to make the public, and especially your prospective customers, aware of your product and how it fits and solves problems for them. By their nature, they should be a positive. However, media in gener
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by necovek 14d ago
Now let's be honest: short men clothing is basically modern, "slim fit" clothing; you get that fashionable bare-ankles look with short pants. And again, who does not want to drive a tractor in their city when they hit the pot
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by necovek 14d ago
Before Google, before Reddit, before Facebook, people all over the world, rich and poor, run their own sites and their own forums, allowing them to chat with people throughout the world. Here in Serbia, even in the worst of times (sanctions
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by necovek 17d ago
Network Video Recorder, a name for devices where IP cameras stream their video to to be stored on, usually, a hard disk drive. Same thing as DVR for analog surveillance cameras, just with eth (usually PoE) ports.

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