ufmace

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by ufmace 3d ago
I don't understand why it's so common for Europeans to act like they speak for the entire rest of the world outside of North America.
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by ufmace 4d ago
I mostly agree. I think it's more of an imperfect world thing though. I agree that I don't entirely trust Google with all of this power. The problem seems to me to be that every other relevant player in the industry has even less
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by ufmace 9d ago
> key verification - I certainly don't see any of that in Google's "Messages" app! I do! I have a old-ish but up-to-date and stock Pixel phone, and I see (what appears to be) full E2EE with several text contacts in Me
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by ufmace 24d ago
It's a silly idea that's full of holes: > Free use comes with responsibility: whoever occupies a home must keep it in excellent condition and cover its ongoing maintenance costs. If you can’t afford to properly maintain a parti
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by ufmace 28d ago
Your link doesn't really work right, but note that light bulbs are not at all planned obsolescence. It's been known for a long time that making the filament temperature of an incandescent bulb hotter makes it brighter, more effici
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by ufmace 1mo ago
We still don't have much of a theoretical understanding of many things in medicine and healthcare, or have since learned that what we thought was a theoretical understanding is grossly wrong. Usually, the only way we can get any closer
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by ufmace 1mo ago
Well clearly you'll need to stop using Google search too
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by ufmace 2mo ago
I presume that at least some of them just log the host as accessible and maybe some basic statistics into a list for an actual person to look at later on. That actual person would be the one to look more closely to see if there are any inte
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by ufmace 2mo ago
I'd be more curious to know what these SSH scanner bots actually do if they manage to log in. Automated recon, install spambot/cryptominer/phishing site, something else?
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by ufmace 2mo ago
Sorry, I forgot that this building only has 18 floors, it's on me that your elevator is now airborne.
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by ufmace 2mo ago
> The generalization and summary of this rant is: slack is good. Happiness lives in slack. There is such thing as optimizing too much. Also the small, isolated systems under optimization, are in reality neither small nor isolated. Yeah
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by ufmace 2mo ago
Ehhhh I think it'd be more accurate to say that in a small percentage of potential routes there are alternatives.
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by ufmace 2mo ago
All that stuff actually works decently well on mobile... as long as one is willing to accept certain compromises. Note-taking works fine, in Google Keep, Apple Notes, or some other cloud equivalent. Yup, your data is in the cloud and owned
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by ufmace 2mo ago
It does effectively, if you turn on bucket versioning. I think write-only is worthwhile for database backups to guard against a ransomware compromise.
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by ufmace 2mo ago
I don't think they are anymore. The vast majority of ordinary person computer/internet use has already moved to smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and other such devices. It seems nowadays many people don't even know the basics
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by ufmace 2mo ago
Well I'll give you that most of the stuff about accessing other star systems is deeply unrealistic now. But pretty much all of the awesome stuff that we've actually created in the last 150+ years started out with someone's im
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by ufmace 2mo ago
I agree, and add that the N900 shipping 2 years later is another piece of proof that Nokia was doomed long-term. It was way too little, way too late. Nokia was never anywhere near the expertise they needed to be a first-class mobile OS plat
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by ufmace 2mo ago
The published reports of the exact things requested of them in the French arrest seem pretty vague. If they're related to the security of private messages and chats, it would seem to prove the point that they do infact refuse to provid
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by ufmace 2mo ago
That's vague to the point of being completely meaningless. Do you have any examples of a time they've been in "very big trouble", whatever that means? Exactly how often constitutes "all the time"? Do you have a
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by ufmace 2mo ago
I don't think anyone cares about E2E encryption as much as tech people think. For all of the much-vaunted complains about their lack of it, I am not aware of any proof or credible claims that Telegram the company has ever revealed the
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by ufmace 2mo ago
Thanks for your perspective. I do wonder if this arrangement is usually not as bad as some people are implying. Though on the other hand, the line between this sort of thing and something that can reasonably be called slavery can be quite f
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by ufmace 2mo ago
> Even here on HN, if you read the comments, there is so much blind hate against subscriptions, with little (if any) consideration for a sustainable software business. I'll admit I mostly don't care for subscriptions for this s
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by ufmace 3mo ago
I'm a subscriber, and I just tested that translate still works fine
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by ufmace 3mo ago
Along those lines, IMO these "spec wars" are not that important. I get that some people want the best bang for their buck, but pretty much everything has more than enough speed and battery life for most practical uses in my opinio
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by ufmace 3mo ago
Is there a laptop with super-awesome battery life on Linux? I'll buy one if so. I'm not sure it's fair to ding Framework specifically for not being able to make Linux battery life as good as Windows. Is that actually somethin
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by ufmace 3mo ago
I'd summarize the concept as, this youtube video could have been a tweet
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by ufmace 3mo ago
I tend to feel like, I start out with a rough idea of a program I want to write in my head. I find it easier to just write the code directly than to write a document with sufficient detail about how I want it to work for an LLM to actually
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by ufmace 3mo ago
Why not ever subscribe? I mean, yeah, subscriptions are getting pricey these days, but you can subscribe to one network, watch the things you want, then cancel and go to another. There's plenty you can trash Amazon for, but at least on
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by ufmace 3mo ago
Good recruiters can fill this function. Yeah, there's a lot of sleazy ones out there. But the better ones only take work from real companies that intend to actually hire and real candidates that are actually looking for jobs, and have
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by ufmace 3mo ago
It's not like job searches are the only context where you can get ghosted. It happens often enough in friendships, social activities, finding romantic partners, etc.

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