stinky613

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by stinky613 8mo ago
A year or two ago I personally encountered scraping bots that were scraping every possible resultant page from a given starting point. So if it scraped a search results page it would also scrape every single distinct combination of facets o
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by stinky613 10mo ago
Seems like they didn't even read the headline...
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by stinky613 10mo ago
That's not at all what the article says is happening. "Immigration Judge John P. Burns has been using artificial intelligence * to generate audio recordings of his courtroom decisions* at the New York Broadway Immigration Court,
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by stinky613 1y ago
> requiring internet access to access local media Good news! You can whitelist exceptions by IP/subnet Go into Plex Settings, then Settings > Network (show advanced). Scroll down to "List of IP addresses and networks that ar
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by stinky613 3y ago
> Would be nice if Integer(nil) worked like Array(nil) though. How would that work, though? A value of 0 is conceptually different from not having a value
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by stinky613 4y ago
Do people really believe that Meta isn't correlating/linking Meta accounts to Facebook accounts regardless of user consent? I don't understand why we should trust this company to not do shady shit with user data
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by stinky613 4y ago
I didn't say Musk was being a hypocrite, and I don't appreciate the smug sarcasm of your response
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by stinky613 4y ago
Clearly she needs to charge enough for the sweatshirt to at least cover costs, and she provided reasons why the costs here would justify that price. She could charge less if she used sweatshop labor, but that would make her a hypocrite. The
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by stinky613 4y ago
Musk waived his right to exercise internal due diligence https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/twitter-board-te... https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-17/el
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by stinky613 5y ago
The part that confuses me the most is that the two 'vaccine side effects' in question are the swelling of muscles in or around the heart... But side effects of (even mild[1]) COVID infections include _damage_ to muscles in or arou
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by stinky613 5y ago
...well, yeah; that's what executives are hired to do
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by stinky613 5y ago
The Taliban in Afghanistan isn't/wasn't listed officially as terrorist group by the US government. The Taliban in Pakistan, however, is a terrorist organization, according to the US government. The Taliban in Afghanistan may
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by stinky613 5y ago
On yeah? So how do people run iOS apps on instruction-executing machines that weren't made by Apple?
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by stinky613 5y ago
> The iPhone is an instruction-executing machine. That's what people buy. That's not what people buy; that's the hardware they receive as part of their purchase.
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by stinky613 5y ago
I had that issue when upgrading from 3.x->4 -- I was so cocky from years of ST's insane consistency that it honestly didn't even occur to me that my unsaved documents might be lost. I wasn't even mad; just a little surpris
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by stinky613 6y ago
Completely agree; Robinhood seems to give us a new reason to distrust them each week. The guy who allowed his service to store passwords as plaintext[1] says “There is no reason why the greatest financial system the world has ever seen cann
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by stinky613 6y ago
I have an iPad Pro with the Magic Keyboard. The magnetic attachment is fantastic. I can hold the palmrest on the keyboard, turn the whole thing upside down, and shake it without the iPad falling off. From my first day of using them together
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by stinky613 6y ago
I tried doing that just moments ago and it wouldn't let me proceed without providing a phone number.
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by stinky613 7y ago
Fwiw, COVID-19 is the disease caused by the "2019 novel coronavirus". Afaik the most accurate and succinct way to refer to the virus itself is SARS-CoV-2. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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by stinky613 7y ago
That's a great link! Thank you, very much
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by stinky613 7y ago
I wasn't aware. Do you have some specific examples, for my own edification?
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by stinky613 7y ago
Is the article wrong in saying that the metadata isn't encrypted?
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by stinky613 7y ago
Instead of instructions for how to use PGP to you could give instructions on how to use Signal. A new SIM card isn't free, but it seems like it would be easier to reliably cover your tracks by buying a burner phone with cash than conce
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by stinky613 7y ago
It shows up if Firefox is your default browser
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by stinky613 7y ago
Reminds me of Sony-BMG installing rootkits to enforce DRM; and Dell and Lenovo pinning their own root certs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
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by stinky613 7y ago
I think that would depend on how precisely they need to be calibrated, right? IIRC even military GPS is still only accurate to within a few feet.
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by stinky613 7y ago
> Is switching to python 3 really that hard? I think it's more that given their specific codebase it's similarly difficult to switch to python 3 as it is to switch to a number of other, entirely different programming languages.
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by stinky613 7y ago
8. If you watch using (most) web browsers you'll be limited to 720p E.g. Netflix: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23931
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by stinky613 7y ago
It really is crazy. For example, CDW.com has so many tracking websites whitelisted in its header that our firewall blocks it: Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'
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by stinky613 7y ago
> As a side note, I’m horrified by the idea that there are people whose Netflix watching habit runs afoul of their ISP’s data cap If he's sticking with UHD content on Netflix then 4-5 hours average per day per account per month woul

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