xoa

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by xoa 6d ago
> On the other hand, disabling WebGPU is offering entropy for fingerprinting, too. A vanishingly small % of users will have done so. I think near any anti-fingerprinting efforts though presume some floor level of system security and sta
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by xoa 6d ago
While I'm sure it has its uses, particularly if someone really does want to game or do complex computational stuff purely within a web browser, I'll admit I've grown pretty cautious/tired around the ever increasing amoun
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by xoa 6d ago
> EXIF data is stripped for a good reason - because it can be a privacy hazard. Suddenly this plays no role anymore? Can you clarify what your actual complaint is here? Putting aside for a second obvious implementation options, it'
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by xoa 6d ago
As @severine said a few hours ago, lots of upvotes, zero comments, guess today between work we're all squeezing in a bit of Shattered 4.0.0 instead of HN ;). I got an incredibly lucky 7 challenge Assassin run going on the previous vers
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by xoa 10d ago
> I am not sure I see a fundamental distinction between HN censoring your speech on their platform or the government preventing you from speaking in public. Both are censoring you right? Wrong. HN is not "censoring" you at all
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by xoa 10d ago
I'm a free speech absolutist (albeit one of apparently few people who actually knows what "free speech" is [0]) and I'm absolutely outraged and infuriated by this action and a long history of anti-speech actions by the U
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by xoa 12d ago
> On hardware, it's very expensive to purchase anything which can provide a fraction of the performance of a subscription. One of the basic questions/concerns here though is that it's not like the AI places are getting th
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by xoa 13d ago
> It's interesting that diesel is taxed more than gas in the US. It's the other way around in France. Although in the US there is commonly an "on-road"/"off-road" split, at least in more rural/agr
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by xoa 15d ago
In our case we use both Dropbox and also have a few teams using the 1P.com sync in addition. So we value both, plus just plain still don't like the 1P8 software itself. Of course with the original Dropbox based sync, a concern is that
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Tell HN: 1Password 7 final retirement notice
6 points by xoa 15d ago|3 comments
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by xoa 18d ago
> but "the company reviews each request for data it gets to ensure it is legal" just sounds like something a judge should do, no? No, unless you're arguing that the government should be barred from even making voluntary r
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by xoa 18d ago
> Since when were private companies part of the Judicial Branch? What part of GP's quote from the article gets you to "private companies are part of the judicial branch"? The judicial branch wasn't involved there, on
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by xoa 19d ago
> By a strict definition of gambling, the stock market is gambling: It's a monetary wager placed on an unknown future event. No, that is not a strict definition of gambling, that is your own loose, personal and casual definition. T
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by xoa 19d ago
I mean sure, people can find ways to use all sorts of events and activities for gambling, but that doesn't mean the events/activities themselves are. And the sentiment you expressed joking has gotten repeated with (afaict) total s
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by xoa 19d ago
No, the stock market is not gambling (or at least hasn't been, need not, and should not be). The stock market is a positive sum game, linked to the growth of the economy as a whole. Humanity is very, very far from the maximum possible
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by xoa 19d ago
It's hard to give a big enough :rolleyes: for this nihilistic bullshit being spouted in 2026. In fact I'm going to go further: I accuse you lrvick of active maliciousness and trying to aid illicit access and discourage people from
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by xoa 20d ago
It's worth a spin. Before moving to iSCSI I had my home folder as well as lots of projects and data on ZFS for macOS for almost a decade, and it was extremely reliable and performant within reason [0]. ZoL of course is also quite solid
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Ask HN: Are there any PiKVM equivalent iSCSI USB gadget projects?
1 points by xoa 21d ago|0 comments
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by xoa 21d ago
Not saying your VM approach isn't right for you, but: > and because there's no performant way to share disk space for data with MacOS Have you tried a ZFS partition? If it's a desktop system use iSCSI to network storage (
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by xoa 26d ago
> There are many instances today of cops forcibly entering a home claiming nothing more than a welfare check, or "we received a call." Sure, but there are also many instances today of evidence getting thrown out in court due t
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by xoa 27d ago
> It should be about who got the camera there and set it up, not who pushed the button. With automated recording (dashcams), there isn't even "a button". I'm actually having a bit of trouble thinking of what sufficie
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by xoa 29d ago
> but it's all people seem to care about. This is a pretty weird assertion to make on HN when we've had constant AI threads about everything from mass surveillance and job threats to bio-warfare agent creation. Or just simple
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by xoa 1mo ago
> I just want to note that pretty much all airlines and travel credit cards and other similar services offer travel insurance products that deliver this exact “take care of every travel risk” coverage if you want it. And that's wro
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by xoa 1mo ago
> Because airlines don't -and can't- promise incident free travel. That's a strawman of the request, not the request. The request is that, same as anything else in a proper Free Market, the price includes all costs and in
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by xoa 1mo ago
There's some proper shareholder-oriented thinking! Even I was falling into the trap of purely considering Flock in a governmental context, and thus the potential for law abuse. But of course, they're not government, they're a
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by xoa 1mo ago
So to put the overall point first: democracy and freedom can require putting some money and effort into protecting rights, preventing abuse, preventing dragnets, and honestly addressing second/third/nth order effects that people a
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As Wisconsin cities flee Flock, its shared camera network loses value(arstechnica.com)
87 points by xoa 1mo ago|88 comments
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by xoa 1mo ago
It seems really obvious as soon as I read it, but for some reason as I've been working locally in my neck of the woods against Flock and worrying about it snowballing it hadn't really occurred to me that the snowball could work th
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by xoa 1mo ago
> Some things are worth an alias, or a script, some things aren't quite worth either but you still wanna run them again in the future I think the bigger problem is that sometimes it's just hard to know upfront exactly what i
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by xoa 1mo ago
> What do you mean "personally" ? Are you expecting a process to behead the Prime Minister or something ? I don't know precisely what they were thinking, but in America someone who is impeached and convicted by the Senate

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