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vaylian

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    Comment #49207395

    I agree that sponsoring DHH was a mistake. But I don't see how Framework could have used more money on security to prevent a zeroday in a third party product.

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    Comment #49169986

    "Give us your phone number or we will hold your minecraft account ransom"

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    Comment #49152486

    You still need to verify that the answer that Claude gave is not hallucinated. That will also cost you some more time. If the answer is wrong and people trust your judgement, then …

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    Comment #49113177

    Hint: The tech is not the hard part. The puzzles, stories, voice acting and animations take considerable time.

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    Comment #49111804

    Interesting take-away: > Claude is unable to look at code, look at refactorings in general and work out which are suitable to apply: a human needs to actively guide it. Claude is h…

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    Comment #49080824

    Does anyone know if this also affects South Korea?

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    Comment #49070165

    Thank you for doing this. The conclusion from the text is: > For consumers who wish to minimize potential exposure to PTFE coating particles, the simplest approach may be to treat …

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    Comment #49044543

    Well deserved. She is an excellent science communicator.

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    Comment #49035556

    Consider getting a hardware key (typical example: YubiKey)

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    Comment #49032402

    > LLMs are a fascinating technology created by us humans, and they have the potential to make our life better. Just like forever chemicals. LLMs cause a lot of problems and they sh…

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    Comment #49025108

    Sweet. I had hoped for someone to make a p2p container registry eventually. There is too much centralization with the current popular registries.

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    Comment #49024944

    Honestly: I don't get what the benefit of Nostr is for this use-case.

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    Comment #49012066

    Obligatory https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shatt... It's a shame, because WebAuthn is really great technology. But tech companies are botching the rollout.

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    Comment #49002923

    I also wonder how Nostr is useful here. The central idea of Nostr is that it's a lot harder to deplatform people, because a user can publish to several independent relays. Buzz is …

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    Comment #48931376

    Are there upsides to using AI? Yes. Are there downsides? Definitely yes. And the problem is that most people ignore these downsides. Either due to ignorance, or because they got to…

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    Comment #48918254

    You are right. Steve Jobs also used the opportunity to destroy Flash. But my point still stands: Most web sites weren't developed with the mobile form-factor in mind until a while …

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    Comment #48912865

    Web sites optimized for mobile weren't really a thing when the iPhone launched. That's why apps shined on smart phones. Web designers did eventually catch up with the hack but the …

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    Comment #48858301

    Hard disagree on the conclusion. I agree that the commission and the council have made very unfair moves and it's justified to call them out for it. But we have also seen that the …

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    Comment #48857537

    > I'll be voting anti-EU in future I think. You shouldn't go that far. Simply don't vote for the EPP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_People%27s_Party_Grou... ) in your cou…

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    Comment #48856889

    Neat. What is the primary use case for this dialect?

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    Comment #48856775

    The lisp curse: https://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

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    Comment #48842455

    > The APIs have been there for ages True. But my impression is that the whole TPM ecosystem is poorly documented. Maybe I just don't know where to look. But to me TPMs are still mo…

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    Comment #48842309

    > Could you elaborate on why this is so evil? I think you have a fair use-case when you think about corporate machines, that are not personal devices. However, the more this type o…