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FizzyOrange

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  • We need to talk about your Github addiction

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  • VPN usage at risk in Michigan under new proposed adult content law

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  • "designed to" is in the text of the law. But it's not clearly written.

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  • Those seem to be like Amazon Go, where you just take what you want and it magically charges you.

    Whether that is worth avoiding pressing two buttons or not is debatable (totally isn't), but it is definitely something you can't easily do without AI.

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  • I don't think I've seen anyone really promote AI as a solution to something that could trivially be better done by ordinary programs. Nobody is saying we should replace simple maths with AI. There's no AI sorting algorithm. No AI DNS server. No AI ALU.

    AI is being pushed in places where we don't have any other automated solution - writing code, natural human interaction, reading and writing prose, etc.

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  • Frankly you're just holding it wrong if you expect it to do actual data processing like this directly.

    Ask it to write a Python script to compute the result and it will get it 100% right.

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  • Yeah potentially, but I think pirates are also more likely to have bitcoin stashes available for stealing.

    You're probably right though - it's just easier to use societal engineering.

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  • Huh did not know QBittorrent can search. I always use 1337x.to, which weirdly isn't blocked on my ISP and hasn't been for years, despite them blocking almost every other side. Also nyaa.si for anime stuff.

    The thing that always worries me is that QBittorrent and VLC are surely full of security vulnerabilities... I did check the torrent library that QBittorrent uses and it at least has fuzzing set up but still... Makes me nervous. Haven't been hacked ever and I haven't heard about any infected files tbf. Honour among pirates perhaps.

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  • Eh you made me read it now. It's not super clearly written but it does sound to me like it is only services that are designed to circumvent the moralising that are prohibited. It's a little ambiguous though.

    The more interesting thing I learned from reading it is that it isn't just about banning porn. It's also about banning the depiction of trans people - even descriptions! Insane. Come on America.

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  • Yeah but that's supposed to respond to everyone nearby. Surely smart glasses can separate sound coming from your mouth to external sound? Doesn't seem like a super hard problem.

    They could also use speaker recognition.

    I guess both of those would reduce reliability though so maybe they just don't care about false positives as much as false negatives, which is probably a good call.

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  • They shelved it because it didn't work. I have a very normal English accent (think BBC) and the voice recognition was extremely unreliable. Super frustrating experience. Plus nobody wants to use a voice interface in public.

    I dunno if we ever really saw how the "camera on your head" social aspect would have played out because they were too shit for anyone except the curious rich to buy them in the first place.

    This thing seems to work (well in theory anyway) without a voice interface which is much saner.

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  • Yeah I've heard it's really annoying to use the web from VPS IPs though because Cloudflare etc. will block you. Dunno how true that is but it sounds plausible.

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  • That's not how they'd implement it. They'd make it illegal to sell it advertise VPNs to the public. Then they'd impose fines on any American VPN companies that did it, and IP block and foreign VPN providers (their websites and apps) that didn't.

    Corporate VPNs wouldn't be targeted. But you're probably not going to watch porn through your work's VPN right?

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  • Corporate VPNs would be allowed presumably.

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  • Yeah but that's mostly network effects and free CI, which must cost them a ton of money. I'd be surprised if they're even profitable just because of that. I mean it's worth it for Microsoft clearly, but if they ever decide it isn't and turn the screws, there are at least two good alternatives - Gitlab and Codeberg.

    I would also jump ship immediately if there was a platform that properly handled stacked PRs. I literally just want to be able to say "this PR includes this other PR - don't show that one". Is that too much to ask?

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  • Yeah... For now. But there are plenty of attempts to make it so they don't even need your WiFi password to access the internet, e.g. Amazon Sidewalk and various LTE IoT things.

  • It's got a METH key!

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  • Yeah I agree it's bad from a UX point of view. I think the likely reason is adding an LED in the key itself is more expensive.

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  • Nobody touch types caps lock.

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  • I support the idea but is it really that important? It's just a name. Call it ECMAScript if you're worried. JavaScript if you aren't.