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i've found a genuinely useful application of this that isn't just "talk secretively": I'm part of a community that has a chatroom on both discord and another platform. we have developped a bot that can make the bridge between the two, but it needs to maintain a table in a database of all the bridged messages, so that people use the "reply" feature on either platform, the reply is also performed on the other platform. With this, each platform's bridged message can contain hidden data that points to the other's platform ID, without the need to store it ourselves, and without it being visible to users.

obviously we won't be tearing down the infra already in place anytime soon, so we won't actually be doing that, but that's definitely a useful application for when you don't want to be hosting a database and just wish you could attach additional data to a restrictive format.

Famously for a long time, the best way to get a point of interest into PGO was to play ingress and request it's addition there

Right? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here and on Lemmy, the whole point of ingress was that it was made to sell Google mapping data and point of interest data, that's why the game didn't have monetizing practices for so long (of course it started having them once all the data was sold but hey)

I don't know the specific mechanism used in the OP, but android has several mechanisms that can be used to start an app on reboot. Take a look around a Google search, I'm sure you'll find what you need

Things do not require to be useful or to increase revenue in order for them to be enjoyable. If the only reason you ever do something is because you get material wealth out of it, are you even making choices or are you a perfect rational actor as described in textbooks?

Things are allowed to exist and be enjoyed on the sole basis that they are enjoyable

The user interface for a doorbell (smart or dumb) is a a single button that you press, with your finger. Compare that to take out my phone, find a way to scan a qr code, scan it, install an app (?!?!), press a single button with my finger, on the app.

This is even supposing that I want to do that to begin with (I know for sure delivery drivers are never doing it).

Good job on the project, I really mean it. It doesn't matter what you do, it matters that you've achieved it and for that, congrats. But as a practical semi-object, this has to be one of the worst ways possible to solve the problem.

It used to be a good browser, but nowadays it's just another chromium wrapper.

Some of these planes are constantly flying as long as they're not in maintenance. A plane not in the air is a plane the company bought that's not currently generating profit.

Do give KDE connect a try. It's great

Not really surprising. Vector embeddings are really not that great at conveying arbitrary "without"s. The words the model sees are "alligator", "tail", and "without", but without means nothing. If something is in the prompt, it should be drawn, so it's going to make extra sure there is a tail in the image.

The exception is when it's common to refer to something that has an element removed, for example, a french king without a head.

There are some prompting software that allows you to negatively specify certain words, which is useful for example if you want a picture of a mustang, the horse. You can specify negative: car, and the model will avoid diffusing into anything looking like a car, but you can't get that level of control from chatgpt.

It is not my intention to be contrarian, but honestly this might be the most incorrect comment I've ever read on hacker news, in several different ways. Sure, some of these might be subjective, but for example chromeOS is Linux with a shiny coat in top, how could it be any better than, well, Linux, let alone miles ahead?

Give this is already rolling off the production line, the toolchain they use must be certified iso 26262. More than actual engineering (though there still is some), the hard part is getting that certification at all, or you can't put it in a car.

I think now this is correct due to European laws, but not that long ago, if you were not in your home country and someone called you, you could be billed for the international part of the call. Nowadays the agreements telcos were forced to put in place means this is largely solved in the EU, and quite cheap outside of it.

This specifically is trivially defeated by ECC, though it wouldn't be that much harder to instead flip 3 bits and ECC would be unable to help. ECC has very poor penetration outside the server world though, so we're still safe. For now.

Most people paying for GCP are in need of much more than a VPS and also are quite probably not the decision makers

In my previous jobs we didn't have any business in china and banning all IP ranges was a cheap an easy strategy to remove 50% of unsuccessful login attempts.

Aren't these just IPCs disguised as normal function calls though? IIRC only the main node process does anything node, renderers can call "node functions" that really happen in the main process.

I like the idea but you can't ensure the battery supports the load and it's a matter of time before someone puts the shittiest of 18650s inside it and it explodes

The pinecil is $25.

I suspect the usb-PD standard doesn't allow for raising the voltage any more than they already do

My experience in soldering is a hobby one, but I've done hard enough things like install a Nintendo switch modchip without a microscope. I want to love this product, but I really think you're hitting the worst of both worlds in what you're trying to achieve.

On one hand, you're competing with "you're in the middle of a field and there exist no power outlets nearby" optimized irons, and you're offering some nicer features like 100W usb-c, but I don't think this is a field where one cares very much about the quality of their iron. I've fixed drones with the shittiest of usb-c irons, and I've done it with a pinecil, and when you're hunched over in a field, it frankly does not matter.

On the other hand, it seems you're also trying to compete in at-a-workbench soldering, a class in which your price point is simply never going to work for what you offer. You're being outclassed by half as expensive stationary stations, even more so when you consider that they don't use proprietary tips. My 40€ AliExpress special station came with 3 tips, heats up in 2 seconds, and offers about the same experience as your several hundred dollars one, at the supposed cost of repairability (I haven't come across an iron that doesn't work ever. I suspect it would be a comparable fix.)

That's incredibly money-efficient wow

Rainbow 6 siege has "individual" builds (they really have 8 different builds, each tied to 1/8 accounts).

Apparently it's not really effective at all.

BattlEye is generally broken even on windows (though it happens that it is actually working as intended right now). Cheaters generally use windows, and switching to Linux will only be done when the windows anticheat is considerably harder to break, and with proton/wine, you even get to run the same version on both.

The handle must have PROCESS_VM_READ access to the process.

While the process still stays in user space, that's significantly different than "just being a user space program"

All the accounts seen on the popular "ignore previous instructions" screenshots have paid for twitter. There's no reason to believe that these bots don't operate at scale and don't all spend $8 a month.

On top of that, they are effectively paying per word to post through paying for tokens. This does not stop them.

Ethereum has (had?) the added problem of fees and latency. After ~2018, doing anything on Ethereum required you to spend like $20 and wait 40 minutes.

I read is as "you're such a hacker that hearing garbage collection makes you think of memory management instead of the much more normal public service"

Also:

Do you use more than 8Mb?

I was actually surprised the test make thought to include terabytes at all

I overall agree, but "reliable holpunching" is an oxymoron. Hole punching is by definition an exploit of undefined behavior, and I don't see the specs getting updated to support it. UPnP IGD was supposed to be that, but well...