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Would be kinda funny if the lone bananas have been removed from the training dataset because they are not part of the depicted item but are merely in the picture for scale :)
Comment · 3 years ago
So, what's the solution to pairing socks? Buying many pairs from the same. Sure. That makes sense. But what happens when half of them are lost or damaged and you can't buy the same kind?

Do you end up as someone pairing socks again or do you throw away half of your socks?

Comment · 3 years ago
write a backdoor :) A kernel module that drops the user into a root shell if they call an obscure kernel functionality with a secret value in some registers.

This should be somewhat easy to start and self-contained. If you want, you can easily extend it if you want things to become more fancy. E.g., hiding the secret constant. Implementing a challenge response protocol, limiting access to other global state (hardware dongle? ip address?) and so on.

Comment · 3 years ago
Frankly, it's surprising how long they managed to drag it along given they build on top of a weird fork of Firefox ESR. Their foundation is crumbling for years and years. They really need to get off of it.
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MDN is documentation for the web, not Firefox.
Comment · 3 years ago
ESLint does not even support the browser. I think your first sentence is (I'm assuming accidentally) creating a straw man argument.
Comment · 4 years ago
The web platform was mostly piecemeal and happenstance. Not careful, coordinated design.

You'll find that it is unnecessarily and necessarily complex unless you adopt a framework that makes design decisions for you.

Comment · 4 years ago
Those who were involved with the Mozilla open source project or the company in the years of ~2013-2014 will heavily disagree.

There was a strong and long debate about the pros and cons. One of the strongest argument against was this here, including interoperability. I believe Cory Doctorow has also written multiple articles against DRM. I agree that DRM is generally bad.

However, the arguments for implementing it were the following: at least two other browsers will adopt the tech and that will allow it (per W3C process) to graduate from a Candidate Recommendation to a full Recommendation, making it part of the web platform.

On top, what would it mean for marketshare if people had to install a second browser just for watching movies? Would the non technical users accept and understand this without switching to a browser that they’d consider "actually feature complete"?

Comment · 4 years ago
Can’t they run an open collective just to pay the bandwidth bill?

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