peppermint_gum

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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
What makes you think that it's "so damn hackable"? Also, this particular attack requires administrator privileges and bypasses a security boundary that doesn't even exist on e.g. Linux. Linux doesn't have driver sig
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
>It's simple. Human writing is short and to the point (either because they're lazy or want to save the reader's time), yet still manages to capture your attention. AI writing tends to be too elaborate and lacks a sense of
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
Then I'm not sure what you mean by "deterrence". Both of the linked articles argue against increasing the severity of punishment, but they also say that the certainty of getting caught is a strong deterrent. This doesn't
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
> AFAIK, there is reasonably clear evidence that deterrence has a very low impact on this sort of crime, Could you share some of this evidence?
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
This is a spam video composed of stock footage. It doesn't add any new information, it shows some random wasp species, unrelated to the ones just discovered, and some random scientists (possibly actors).
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
Yeah, OP is overly dramatic, Reddit has technical issues all the time.
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
So we shouldn't make it easier for people to meet each other, because some of those people might be white supremacists? I'm sorry, but I think you may be spending too much time online.
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
>not even considering some hostile emails that I recently received from the upstream developer or his public rants on lkml and reddit It feels like whenever the author of bcachefs comes up, it's always because of some drama. Just th
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
Swift's LLVM fork is open-source, just not upstreamed. No Free Software license requires forks to upstream their changes. https://github.com/swiftlang/llvm-project
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
One thing I don't understand about Swift is why it uses a private fork of LLVM. Why can't they upstream whatever changes they need?
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
This is not the first time this has happened. Back in 2019, many outlets[1] reported that Putin was still using Windows XP. Why? Because in a publicity photo, the taskbar on his computer had a blueish color. And some people even came up wit
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
I'm also interested in learning about it. I've only found this thread on Twitter: https://x.com/virtuallyfun/status/1804913568820699549 Apparently there are all kinds of goodies in that dump, like previo
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
>There will be four ways in which ISA systems will work to slow the vehicle down, and it will be up to the manufacturers to pick which one they want to use. The EU regulations permit a system that can use a cascaded acoustic warning, a c
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
This could have been AMD, but they choose to sabotage themselves with half-baked APIs that don't even support all of their GPUs. Hell, ROCm didn't even support Windows until recently. Frankly, it's shocking how bad they are a
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
This person's entire argument is that the (A)GPL is "viral", and therefore companies have no right to relicense the software they own the copyright for, and they should be sued. He doesn't quote any specific part of the
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
I don't understand why anyone would see dropping RISC-V support as a move against China. Chinese companies have their fingers in a lot of pies. They're mainly invested in the ARM ecosystem, companies such as Allwinner, HiSilicon,
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
My takeaway from the article is that junior developers are intimidated by stacktraces.
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by peppermint_gum 2y ago
I don't know, it's hard to tell because the video is heavily compressed. Even at 2160p the compression artifacts are huge.
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
This post makes it seem as if the NSA produced some kind of comprehensive review of programming languages which showed that Delphi is memory safe. No, what actually happened is they published a short 7-page blurb[1] and it mentions Delphi i
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
>But usually it’s a misunderstanding of what derivative works are. E.g building an extension to a GPL app. Many don’t believe that simply importing a GPL Python module is enough to make your extension have to comply to GPL. The GPL doesn
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
>Windows XP is the last version of Windows that's generally thought to be free of backdoors and US spyware. This is possibly why Putin seems to still use it Despite every major news outlet reporting this back in 2019, this is actual
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
>There must be a more rational reason than that. I've not heard anything better than legal reasons. But do correct me if I'm wrong. I've worked in big companies, and patents can be a show stopper. Seems like a plausible th
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
>To fix this, you'd need to convince Google, and other large companies that would be exposed to law suits related to these patents (Apple, Adobe, etc.), that these patent holders are not going to insist on being compensated. Apple h
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
In other words, there's no source.
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
On most forums there's no automated system that automatically shadowbans users for using a blacklisted IP. They also don't quietly remove comments in a way that is invisible to a user for triggering some keyword in AutoModerator o
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
AMD clearly believes that this newfangled "GPU compute" fad will pass soon, so there's no point to invest in it. This is one of the worst acts of self-sabotage I have ever seen in the tech business.
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
It doesn't seem it's new. The release notes for the 511.79 driver from February 2022 say the same thing: https://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/511.79/511.79-win11-w...
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
>There's a pretty decent chance nobody else is actually trying. The only other OS getting installed is Windows, and that's probably coming straight from a disk image or a recovery partition. From TFA: "Note: At this point,
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
Being an expert doesn't necessarily make you a good debater. Debates aren't about who's "right", they're about who has made a more convincing argument. The article used alternative history cranks as an example
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by peppermint_gum 3y ago
One aspect of the spread of LLMs is that we have lost a useful heuristic. Poor spelling and grammar used to be a signal used to quickly filter out worthless posts. Unfortunately, this doesn't work at all for AI-generated garbage. Its c

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