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Agreed, hearing about AI is unavoidable just by the sheer number of non-tech people who are impressed by novelties such as generative AI and ChatGPT. I have to tell them I'm not in…

Apologies if it's hard to follow; I basically had to brain-dump the best I could because I'm still figuring this out from firsthand experience, and it isn't like this is a well-kno…

I found myself facing a corner case of the implications of AI and summarised it up here: https://wowana.me/blog/ais-effect-on-human-consciousness.xht Basically I've been without em…

Loving the downvote and the hyperbole to ignore the fact that even the current state of "artificial intelligence", as the general public understands it, is still extremely dangerou…

Fearmongering? No, run. This is a warning. People (the ones who support AI) are after devs like they serve CAPTCHAs to bots now. It's psychological warfare.

Well-said? He approached a sensitive topic by prefacing it with horse shit about how all "free[-]speech absolutists" in cyberspace are not victims of hate speech, therefore they go…

All instances I see federating to everyone else, they all handle CSAM reasonably quickly

My experience has been that Maps works fine without Google Play services, the only issue being a popup/notification that says you "need" services to use the app.

They probably block commonly-abused user-agent strings such as wget and a blank string. A custom string may work, or just spoofing a browser.

I hate useragent strings, but with the current state of the Web, your UA sticks out more if you omit the version header rather than copying a common one. That's still no excuse for…

People can use things occasionally without having an addiction that impacts their lives.

Your site blocks read-only access via Tor with a CAPTCHA.

I don't know why you're getting downvoted when you're correct here.

>some usernames are green New user. >I do not want to know Too bad :)

I don't use Github, but thanks for confirming you received it, and feel free to take time to get around to it.

I'm sorry but error handling and testing requirements are true for any software or script a person writes. The application should not give a shit, and a simple execve() is the best…

There are some issues with nuvious' pam-duress that allow for untrusted string inputs when handling scripts with system() call, and I sent a patch to them via E-mail in an attempt …

Are you seriously writing a script when the cops are at your door? No, you aren't. You always need to verify that your protective mechanisms work before actually relying on them.

I don't understand why partners willingly share passwords.

Depends on your locking program but yes, PAM can be used for that.

I use an authentication PGP subkey for SSH so I have to unlock it with a passphrase before using it. Normal SSH keys can be encrypted similarly, and either gpg-agent or ssh-agent c…

You have the freedom to do whatever you want with the script. It's trivial to `exec >/dev/null 2>/dev/null` first thing in a script if you want it to be silent.

Please keep track of the thread. Parent post made a claim that this was not an "abuse of power" and I was clarifying how it was indeed an abuse of power. Apparently the policies ar…

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Lee expresses interest in decentralised/distributed alternatives to DNS so it does make sense. What doesn't make sense is the fact that I'm seeing a more-homogeneous set of ircops …