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news.ycombinator.com 11d ago

Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number

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lists.debian.org 6mo ago

Debian GNOME team announces intent to remove GTK 2 in Debian 14

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anubis.techaro.lol 1y ago

Anubis 1.20.0 implements non-JS meta-refresh based proof-of-work

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computoid.com 1y ago

Perl Is Portable (2022)

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support.mozilla.org 1y ago

Mozilla closes support thread 2 days before baked-in CA TLS certs expire

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news.itsfoss.com 1y ago

GTK Drops X11

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www.nysenate.gov 1y ago

NY Assembly Bill: Criminal background checks for (nearly all) 3D printers

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript

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blog.apnic.net 2y ago

Is regulated BGP security coming?

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help.openai.com 2y ago

OpenAI email announces Mar 8th switch to pre-paid only API access

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www.aphis.usda.gov 2y ago

USDA APHIS approves sale of genetically modified glowing Petunia

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relay.firefox.com 2y ago

Firefox Relay – secure random email and phone number masks

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ai-photo-sorter.vercel.app 3y ago

“AI Photo Sorter” runs locally in browser as ~100MB of WebAssembly

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www.techdirt.com 3y ago

Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run the Content Moderation Learning Curve

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debugmo.de 3y ago

Fjita: A half-working FPGA controlled low level DVD burner

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blog.apnic.net 4y ago

Why the NRO is defending AFRINIC

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birdnetpi.com 4y ago

BirdNET-Pi: Automated, locally run bird sound identification and tracking

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travisdowns.github.io 5y ago

Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday

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blog.torproject.org 5y ago

Tor is killing off all v2 domains on October 15th, 2021

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owlspace.xyz 5y ago

Unveiling Steam's browser login method (for real this time)

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www.nsf.gov 5y ago

NSF-supported researchers achieve two-way communication with dreaming people

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www.devever.net 5y ago

In the future, even your RAM will have firmware

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playgo.to 5y ago

The Interactive Way to Go

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www.tablix.org 6y ago

On missing IPv6 router advertisements

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www.ghacks.net 6y ago

Mozilla re-enables TLS 1.0 and 1.1 because of Coronavirus (and Google)

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tbrindus.ca 6y ago

Mining for Tor v3 Onions in the Cloud

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www.ctrl.blog 7y ago

Aren't AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?

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bit-player.org 7y ago

The Mind Wanders

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www.tablix.org 8y ago

Python applications in a .zip

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I think we can all agree that the above, and other mentioned subreddits were genuinely undesirable, no quotations needed. I was clear that wasn't what I was talking about. Your practice of just parroting these nasty people and their words doesn't actually address my point at all. Which was that it went far beyond just the nasty people to groups that weren't nasty and just made some advertisers uncomfortable.

It seems like you just want to point out nasty terrible people to stop conversation of if it was justification for doing bad things to everyone. That's a popular sentiment these days but it is wrong. Just because one group of people (or subreddits) in those punished by the authorities is actually nasty doesn't meant that all group of people punished by the authorities are.

That actually happened much later. I am talking about examples like r/gundeals being removed, lots of accounts asking about it then getting banned, etc. Please don't try to imply that "undesirables" means just actually offensive or illegal behavior, though there was that on reddit too. Much like what the environment of a public bar would be: informal and varied.

It is not controversial to say that the corporate environment style social rules implemented in ~2015 went far beyond gnerally offensive content to the point where it was obviously catering to whims of the advertisers demanding they not be beside content their target demographics would just not like (ie, for political reasons or whatever).

This is the second death of reddit, the penultimate one. But it stems directly from the first death in ~2015 when they accepted the massive venture capital investment and then had to try to monetize the facebook refugees which meant clearing out all the business appropriate "undesirables" including firing many beloved long time corporate employee, and switching to model where people and corporations posted to their profiles (like facebook) instead of subreddits set up by the existing userbase. It hasn't been reddit since. And they're making that very clear as of yesterday.

I am not reading or hearing anything about criminal charges or even indictments brought by the state or national government. I really hope this isn't the beginning of corporations getting even more protection from the liability for their criminal actions. Because this was a crime commited by openai. Not by an ai, by the corporate person OpenAI. The human persons in OpenAI corporation are already protected from criminal liability for their actions by the corporation itself. Adding in another layer of protection by pretending that OpenAI is not responsible for their actions because of "AI" is going to make our world a lot, lot worse.

I felt the same way about openai's text-davinci-002 and code-davinci-002 (gpt-3.5). They were amazing completion models and openai basically dumped them with no equal cost or equal performance replacement. Instead all their models are opaque with no ability to work in completion mode where one actually controls the text input to the model.

These days no company even has completion models where one controls the text input fully. Worthless.

I didn't mean to imply that your blog seemed commercial. I meant that there was no need for commercial patterns on your personal blog like putting links behind JS. Things like that have justification in commerce but rarely in personal stuff so I wanted to leave that conditional just in case your blog was for commerce so as not to offend.

If that's just the way you like things, sure, that's what personal sites are for. How you like it. I apologize for implying otherwise (it must come off that way since two different people took it that way). I just really dislike the web as 'executable application distribution layer' model and try to stick to websites that are HTML pages.

I tried manually typing a handful of common feed URLs relative and absolute, a firefox feed auto-finder extension, and a quick ctrl-f for feed in the source. But I guess if running an application is required for your webpages I'm better off not subscribing. That's not my kind of jam but it is understandable if your blog is for profit or it's purpose is to get you a job or something.

I don't know about you, but I don't know of any native (non website/javascript) software that supports h-feeds. IndiePass was only ever for smartphones and it's fully dead. h-feed is more of a html integrated mark-up for posts than any form of actual separate feed file. This is claimed to be a positive aspect of h-feeds, not being a separate file... but it really isn't. I keep track of all the other indieweb sites I care about via normal rss/atom feeds. h-feeds were an aspiration that did not actually come about. The rest of the indieweb protocols rock though.

I looked around andros.dev and found no (real) feeds so I'll probably just forget the site in a week. If it had had a feed I'd have added it to my desktop native readers.

For 20 years this was not really an issue. From 2010 to 2020 there wasn't a single nginx cve that applied to my simple static setup. There were literally only a handful of remote CVE at all. With the advent of LLM AI exploit finding there have been 2 CVE this year that I had to look in to. Neither actually applied to me, but it is a different world out there.

That said, the practice of running a modern corporate web browser that auto-executes all programs sent to it from arbitrary unknown third parties is a way, way, way bigger and more common and likely attack surface than a simple static webserver serving files in directories.

It's good advice, but one need not even include the "upload it to a web server" these days now that home connections are so fast. Install some static webserver on your desktop computer (nginx, caddy, whatever), forward the port 80 at your router to it's lanip:80, and just save .html and files to the web directory using your normal desktop interface. It doesn't matter if you shut off the computer sometimes. Uptime doesn't matter. Optionally file transfer (rsync, etc) this local copy to a VPS or something like the author suggests.

Indieweb receiving of webmention only requires the ability to log HTTP POSTs to some url endpoint. Or you can use one of third party services servers to receive that interact with your website via with 3rd party javascript applications you include on your webpage. Sending webmention can be done with cURL, even HTML forms, or again, 3rd party JS includes.

Eh? I think you've misunderstood. I said corporate browsers do work. Safari is very much a corporate browser developed and owned exclusively by Apple corporation.

But yeah, until it happens to themselves people generally don't believe anyone else's lived experience and react very negatively to it.

Microsoft Comic Chat was my first introduction to IRC. I was just a kid poking around in system32 directory and found mschat.exe. It opened a whole new world. I still participate in IRC communities to this day. I regularly reference it.

So it's a shame that microsoft is blocking non-corporate browsers from accessing this news release, "The request is blocked. 20260716T162640Z-r17d8486fc4rbjkdhC1CHI16pc00000008m000000000a54t" I imagine most people who care about MS Comic Chat aren't using Chrome or Edge. A better URL since MS is blocking might be https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Comic-Chat-OSS or just the github repo that's in another comment.

Such a system is RAM bandwidth limited and not compute limited Switching to q4 from q8 would decrease the amount of data needing to be loaded by half. The token generation rate would nearly double. But generally if you can do q6 or q8 and you have enough RAM you really should. Even if it's slower.

You can't just test one wayland compositor and talk about the performance of all wayland compositors. They're vastly different, especially when it comes to the extensions to wayland needed to handle input devices (ref: https://wayland.app/protocols/). It's not like how xorg is the standard strong reference implementation for X11 everywhere that works the same everywhere.

What's probably happening is that other wayland compositors are slower than KDE Plasma wayland which he tested. And people report that experience. Some other wayland compositors might even be faster than plasma. But what is for sure is that every wayland is very different from every other wayland.

The difference between ROCm and CUDA is that when a consumer GPU is released by nvidia it's supported for CUDA for about a decade (1xxx series cards just dropped last year). When a consumer GPU is released by AMD it's not supported by ROCm till about a year after release and then it's supported for about 3-4 years. With the RX 580 there were only 3.7 years after release before ROCm support was pulled. I bought mine a couple years after release and so only had about a year and a half of ROCm. Never again.

Things might be different in enterprise but for consumer AMD GPU ROCm is a trap. It is a mayfly. Sure, you can try to run the cards unsupported but you're just multiplying the difficulty and maintainence burden. And nothing will just work.

This is good. But unfortunately it doesn't mean the Flock cameras will be removed because the city doesn't own them. Flock does. And Flock will likely want to keep them there. In other cities when the contract is canceled or let expire Flock prevented those cities from removing the cameras. Some had to resort to covering them with trash bags because they could not legally remove them. This happened in Dayton, Ohio and many other cities. https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/cities-covering-flock-surv...

"Some locals have taken matters into their own hands by dismantling Flock cameras and covering them with trash bags"

This techcrunch article incorrectly characterizes this need and required behavior as something done by random citizens. But it is actually the cities themselves having to resort to it, totally officially and legally, because of Flock behaving badly.

With the end of easily available rtl-sdr dongles it's a relief to see someone has wrung such exceptional RF instantaneous bandwidth out of an RPI alternative interface. I really hope use of the camera interface for RF takes off.

Video game companies still remember when they owned the arcade machines and players were required to constantly insert money into the machines to keep playing. They've been chasing that high ever since.

The key to owning modern multiplayer online games is to have private servers run by human persons on their own owned computers. But except for TF2 no one has been able to (or cared enough) allow private servers alongside the much much more important microtransactions. This is what is killing ownership.