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Matl

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    Comment #49248945

    > If we don't see something that's substantially better in the ~30B param space soon - it would appear we might've saturated that size with knowledge. I wouldn't be quite so pessim…

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    Comment #49248745

    Amazon is not exactly known for playing fair or treating their workers well, so trying to play it like this is somehow the little guy being oppressed here or something is pathetic.…

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    Comment #49231660

    So noise and pollution that makes it impossible to live in or sell your house is now simply 'fashionable' to hate?

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    Comment #49202402

    Nintendo specifically is known to sue first, ask questions later. They just like to shake down the little guys, like their own fans.

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    Comment #49187320

    The AUR is not like Google Play. Arch has https://archlinux.org/packages for that. The AUR is like an APK from a Reddit post.

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    Comment #49187210

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    Comment #49144213

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    Comment #49127055

    Yes, my point being this isn't some 'Desktop Linux security' hole. This was a known and intentional model of how the AUR operated for decades. Unfortunately it was bound to get exp…

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    Comment #49126665

    I knew there's an unofficial version for ARM. I meant more that the vast majority of AUR packages target x64 only because that's what 'official' Arch supports. That being said, did…

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    Comment #49126449

    Arch is famously x64 only?

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    Comment #49126396

    With regards to sandboxing etc. maybe. With regards to packages? Official repos support signing and usually rely on maintainers with proven track records. AUR was a honor system an…

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    Comment #49126354

    Well, this kills a very useful feature of the AUR. It's like Wikipedia disabling editing. So I can see trying other things first before resorting to removing features, but I do agr…

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    Comment #49114055

    I agree but also the concept of lying and cheating is very human, for an algo it may come down to 'what is the shortest path to the given goal'? And the math comes down to lying an…

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    Comment #49037289

    > Unless they're illegal immigrants flooding the West. Then it's acceptable to leftists. What do you think the end result of making regions unstable such as by unprovoked attacks o…

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    Comment #49036564

    ICE should be dismantled based on how it treats US citizens alone.

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    Comment #49036236

    It's amazing how these people don't seem to get that the very fact it's an occupation makes basically everything Israel does there illegitimate. If someone enters my house uninvite…

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    Comment #49026018

    You're supposing an event that there's no evidence for happening and that is on par with 'let's ban open source software because some open source software could be malicious'. Let'…

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    Comment #49025829

    > Suppose By supposing, you can try to justify taking just about anything away.

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    Comment #49025517

    > Someone please enlighten me what the actual argument here is, cause I can’t see it. > The only thing a ban would do is protect the American market from further downward price pre…

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    Comment #49010302

    > So what is the issue here? The issue seems to be the US only likes competition when it is winning. Markets in Asia are meant for cheap labor and resources, they're not meant to a…

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    Comment #48981270

    > Yes, while the Chrome/Chromium hardware decoding, or any other uses of the GPU, like WebGL, was always impeccable on Linux Have you seen the massive blacklist Chromium maintains?…

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    Comment #48978071

    Fair choice but do you also boycott US companies assisting in the Gaza genocide and the unprovoked attack on Iran?

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    Comment #48967226

    I agree, it's unfortunate the headlines seem to have become 'rewritten in Rust' (not a bad thing) and not 'vibecoded in a week without review' (a bad thing).

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    Comment #48967110

    Right and what other product does Anthropic really have besides?

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    Comment #48966562

    > parent is saying we cannot know And my point is while we cannot know, it's not hard to make an informed guess as to their motivations i.e. there's some fairly obvious motivations…