snackbroken

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by snackbroken 4d ago
People seem to get on with Discord invite links just fine. You don't have to do the "confirm that all these emoji are the same on both your devices" dance to stop spam.
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by snackbroken 4d ago
One possible solution is to only be able to contact someone if you have received an invitation code from them out of band. E.g. "scan this QR code to add me on signal". Such an invitation code should default to single-use but user
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by snackbroken 7d ago
> Finns and Norwegians only are able to bike part of the year. They very much bike all year round, even in the north where it regularly gets to -20C(-4F) in winter. Biking in snowy sub-freezing weather is really not a big deal as long as
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by snackbroken 8d ago
Heretic[1] is not that far off, though I suppose it's more along the lines of undoing the "for your own safety" lobotomy than explicitly specializing in unsafe things. [1] https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
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by snackbroken 16d ago
Workplace safety improved massively when labor unions became a thing and workers got a say in safety standards.
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by snackbroken 18d ago
You don't need explicit consent for functional cookies, e.g. a session cookie or to store what preferences the user has selected on your settings page. It is implicitly given by the user telling you to treat them a certain way. For tha
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by snackbroken 21d ago
>They "trust me" >Dumb fucks. Is an attitude he never grew out of.
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by snackbroken 1mo ago
Market forces are not effective at creating good outcomes when there is an oligopoly. If there are two producers each with ~50% market share, it's not profitable for one of them to improve their product such that they capture an additi
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by snackbroken 2mo ago
First, copying information isn't wrong to begin with. It is literally the one thing that makes our species special. Second, even if you are a copyright maximalist the output of an LLM is either a) not subject to copyright because it is
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by snackbroken 2mo ago
It's not just good PR for politicians to pass "<specific instance> case of already illegal <generic> is explicitly illegal"-laws. Prosecuting a violation of <generic> tends to be a lot harder because in ad
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by snackbroken 2mo ago
LLM text is like an optical illusion for the language part of your brain, only instead of the payoff being "Oh, cool! The dots aren't actually moving!" it's "Oh, 'cool'. You weren't actually trying to
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by snackbroken 2mo ago
50 years ago, publicly listed companies understood that chasing short-term growth targets undermined long-term sustainability. The current failure mode is not an inherent property of being a publicly listed company, it's a consequence
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by snackbroken 3mo ago
It is somewhat infuriating (though not unexpected) that the EC is parroting the AAA industry talking points when said talking points were/are blatantly obvious lies about what remedies the Stop Destroying Videogames ECI is actually see
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by snackbroken 3mo ago
It's jarring to see instant changes that don't make sense. Animations are primarily a way to paper over UI that sucks to begin with. Many transitions in Android are perfectly fine at 0x animation speed. The majority of transitions
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by snackbroken 4mo ago
Yes, It's something you'd only want to do in particular situations where you know you'd otherwise keep swapping between two pairs of glasses annoyingly often.
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by snackbroken 4mo ago
An alternative to multifocals is glasses with one lens for near and the other for far or to use a contact lens in only one eye in addition to your normal glasses. This also obviously comes with downsides that take some getting used to but s
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by snackbroken 4mo ago
There is potential danger with a lens that can suddenly change to a second prescription. For example: imagine you're driving and your whole field of vision suddenly starts flickering in and out of focus. That would be incredibly dist
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by snackbroken 4mo ago
> just so that grandma doesn't accidentally install malware That's the stated reason. The actual reason is that they are salivating at the sight of how much money the app store and play store are making. They just don't wa
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by snackbroken 4mo ago
The dislike stems from two (and a half) reasons: 1) Push vs pull. As you identified, ls doesn't stop you from doing the thing you wanted to push the man page on you when you don't need/want it. ls just does the thing you ask.
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by snackbroken 5mo ago
Here's a lifehack that will extend the life of the socket by ~1000x: you can buy a 3.5mm-to-3.5mm "adapter" that you keep plugged in to the female end. Now you have a wear part that is trivially replaceable. Of course that do
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by snackbroken 5mo ago
Further, "porn tokens" are the pointy end of the wedge, because it's easy to misconstrue any opposition as advocating for "kids should have access to porn, actually". The broad end that is being hammered towards is
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by snackbroken 5mo ago
I should not have to enter into a business relationship with google just to hand my non-technical friend an APK any more than I have to enter into a business relationship with the Linux Foundation to hand my friend an AppImage.
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by snackbroken 5mo ago
D2 https://d2lang.com/ added beta support for ASCII & Unicode output last year.
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by snackbroken 5mo ago
But laws against selling/giving alcohol to minors are moderately successful at curbing teen alcohol use because they carry with them a risk of punishment that grows with the scale of the operation. If all it took was one adult who th
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by snackbroken 5mo ago
Precisely. To rate-limit attestations you either need government somewhere in the loop so that they get notified and can revoke certificates when they detect abuse (but then they can correlate requests to prove adulthood with the service pr
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by snackbroken 5mo ago
> The point of this is that you can use the credentials on your phone to prove that you are an adult to a website using zero-knowledge proofs to avoid disclosing your identity to anybody. It is my understanding that this is not possible.
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by snackbroken 5mo ago
> Just because a company folds doesn't mean they can violate licensing agreements. It does if that's the law. Every jurisdiction routinely overrules contracts as unenforceable on the basis of some overriding law, so it wouldn&#
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by snackbroken 6mo ago
> Lately, it's been crashing if I hold the Backspace key down for too long. Golden opportunity to re-enact xkcd 1172.
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by snackbroken 6mo ago
"Meet me in the middle" says the unjust man. You take a step forward. He takes a step back. "Meet me in the middle" says the unjust man.
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by snackbroken 6mo ago
> It's clear how insane this culture war against trans people is when you consider this only applies to trans women and not trans men? In most sports, the "mens" division is actually an open division that accepts all parti

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