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batat

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About batat

I'm a sweet potato.

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    Comment #47871380

    I think they do, and it's even scarier than SynthID. Look closely at the generated images and you'll start to notice some diamond-shaped high-frequency patterns in different parts …

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    Comment #47411735

    So far AI did a terrible job there: https://imgur.com/a/CJ7NU5w Original scene was far from perfect, but it was somewhat more consistent: a sunny spring day, warm tones, noon, some…

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    Comment #47281205

    So it’s neither "yes" nor "no", but some kind of philosophical note somewhere in-between a "Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released" and "CodeWeavers tests their ARM64 compatibility on System76…

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    Comment #46870520

    > A "Core Isolation: Memory Integrity" feature of Windows 10+ prevents creating such memory area (leading to BSOD). > We tried to attestation sign the driver via new EV certificate…

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    Comment #46870434

    It doesn't matter really because nowadays all of them are just a front-ends to Windows Firewall. Also legitimate software (i.e. firewall/AV) cannot use "oldschool" tricks like syst…

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    Comment #30701948

    Yet another manifest found in es5-ext: https://github.com/medikoo/es5-ext/issues/116

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    Comment #30686303

    Right now it's included as a dependency only in node-ipc package [1] from the same author (1M weekly downloads/355 dependents). [1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-ipc

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    Comment #27009295

    Madness, this should not exist at all, it's broken in so many ways.

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    Comment #26586131

    You are right, good catch.

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    Comment #26571993

    Yeah, dead-on. Like "The right to be rude"[0], a year old events when Eric S. Raymond - co-founder of OSI - was kicked off from the OSI mailing list. (Back then someone suggested a…

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    Comment #26566294

    Yes, silent-majority, exactly. Because we (or this is me only?) were taught that expressing point of view which differs from current "course of the party", while may not be a subje…

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    Comment #26565698

    People who are against bullying of Richard Stallman exists too! And there are lot of them - quiet developers, incapable of social interaction. We are not reading Twitter 24/7, we a…

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    Comment #22139775

    Looks pretty much like "fixed price logos" made by russian designer Artemy Lebedev[1]. People keeps buying them for 100,000 RUB (~1600 USD). [1] https://www.artlebedev.ru/express-d…

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    Comment #22067310

    Not sure about zeros and ones, but there were some interesting copyright violation cases with long primes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime

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    Comment #21368964

    I was forced to use web interface after app reinstall because Dropbox free account now supports only 3 linked devices (and I have 7).

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    Comment #21297465

    SQL Server prior to 2019 stores unicode data in UCS-2 (UTF-16 analog, rougly). SQL Server 2019 supports UTF-8.

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    Comment #20868106

    Also there are no secret chats on desktop client at all.

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    Comment #20807073

    > The browser is the OS. The website is the application. No, that's wrong.

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    Comment #20760022

    Depends, also WinSxS[1] helps. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-by-side_assembly

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    Comment #20755839

    I quit using Imgur because of agressive promotion of their app. Actually you can't even upload an image, neither view a full-size image on mobile version now.

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    Comment #20634205

    Through Steam service running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM? Like "Mozilla Maintenance Service" for Firefox.

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    Comment #20624918

    > once-reasonable people to be deeply and irredeemably terrible in many other ways Like otaku. Or furries. Can't imagine anything more terribly dangerous than furry otaku spreading…

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    Comment #20624837

    A lot of the plot, but my guess the main reason is upcoming Cloudflare IPO[1]. Сan't blame them for for doing that. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare-plans-to-ipo-in-s…

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    Comment #20624777

    Oh yes, there indeed will be no more mass shooting if you close down %SITE_NAME%.