meinersbur
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Comment · 13 days ago
At some point "enshittification" will likely also come to Cloudflare. They have the scale already, some new manager and/or investor/shareholder will push for all the money they can get, even if it has long-term cost.
Comment · 21 days ago
That's the entire appeal of WSL (for me). A single source checkout I can work on from both sides; no inconsistency of forgetting that I need to apply changes twice.
Without it, I can just as well ssh into another box.
Comment · 1 month ago
Linus Torvalds in 2007:
> but the point is the SHA-1, as far as Git is concerned, isn't even a security feature. It's purely a consistency check. The security parts are elsewhere, so a lot of people assume that since Git uses SHA-1 and SHA-1 is used for cryptographically secure stuff, they think that, Okay, it's a huge security feature. It has nothing at all to do with security, it's just the best hash you can get. ... [1]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8&t=56m20s
So Torvalds used SHA-1 purely because he needed a hash function with no other property than identifying content.
Comment · 1 month ago
I am surprised that a CAPTCHA is still an effective means for blocking today's vision-capable AIs.
Comment · 1 month ago
> I believe Web codecs should be purpose-built, efficient, and narrowly scoped to the needs of the Web.
The post downplays the usefulness of versatility. I disagree. I'd prefer not to play the "which image format is best for this image and this use case" game and having to transcode between them. For instance, it would be great if I could have an HTML gallery showing pictures of my files as I store them on harddisk. Today these are JPEG, because it's the lowest common denominator. WEBP, AVIF are not supported photography tools (e.g. https://support.captureone.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000262921...) and I don't expect support to ever be added since it is not formats intended for photography.
Comment · 2 months ago
https://archive.is/zKgVp
> During discovery in the case, Will Moye, one of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, found a five-page document called “Citation Overlay,” which appeared to have been generated by AI. Moye recognized the Citation Overlay document as being from ChatGPT, and demanded all of the prompts Autenrieth used from 3M’s lawyers. The deposition was paused for three hours while they were gathered, and Moye was given 350 pages of ChatGPT conversations that Autenrieth had when creating the report.
Comment · 6 months ago
Since ELIZA, the more we try to apply the Turing Test, the more evidence we get that the Turing Test about human gullibility, rather than saying anything meaningful about the machine [1,2]. Surprisingly it turns out that even critical thinker Richard Dawkins is quite gullible.
[1] https://medium.com/@innovariart/the-turing-test-no-longer-me...
Comment · 6 months ago
Moderators seem to have not enough to do. They closed my 16 year (!) old question and added comment:
> Do not include solution to question please (post a separate answer instead). -- user4157124
https://stackoverflow.com/q/2224373/102498
16 years ago, questions with intentionally open answers were common and providing a summary in the question was seen as a courtesy.
Comment · 6 months ago
They get their own build. E.g.
* GeForce NOW SDK: https://developer.geforcenow.com/learn/guides/offerings-sdk
* Stadia SDK: developer.stadia.com (offline)
* Xbox Cloud Gaming: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/gdk/docs/features/c...
* ...
Just like every Game Store requires its own build: Steamworks SDK, even GOG: https://docs.gog.com/sdk/
Some games allow browsing files locally for savegames, music libray, ... . Imagine if you could do that on the cloud VM.
Comment · 7 months ago
It has nothing to so with NTFS, but all with the Win32 API. The Windows kernel supports this file model, proven by WSL1. There is a blog post somewhere (Old New Thing?) stating the engineers would like to e.g. allow deleting a file even if there is still a program with with a file handle to it, but are concerned deviation from current behavior would cause more problems than it solves.
The reason that they want a reboot is that they do not want to support a system using two versions of the same library at the same time, let's say ntdll. So they would have to close any program using that library before programs that use the new version can be started. That is equivalent to a reboot.
And I completely understand the reason. For a long time when Firefox would update on Linux, the browser windows still open were broken; it opened resources meant for the updated Firefox with the processes runnung the non-updated Firefox. The Chrome developers mentioned [2] that the "proper" solution would be to open every file at start and pass that file descriptor to the subprocesses so all of them are using the same version of the file. Needless to say, resource usage would go up.
[2]: https://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/08/zygote...
Comment · 8 months ago
This is the WolfSSL maintainer's response[1]
> This ticket is rather long and has a lot of irrelevant content regarding this new topic. If I need to bring in a colleague I do not want them to have to wade through all the irrelevant context. If you would like, please open a new issue with regards to how we support middlebox compatibility.
The author turns this into:
> The GitHub issue comment left at the end leads me to believe that they aren't really interested in RFC compliance. There isn't a middleground here or a "different way" of implementing middlebox compatibility. It's either RFC compliant or not. And they're not.
This is a bad-faith interpretation of the maintainer's response. They only asked to open a new, more specific issue report. The maintainer always answered within minutes, which I find quite impressive (even after the author ghosted for months). The author consumed the maintainer's time and shouldn't get the blame for the author's problems.
Comment · 8 months ago
Reminds me of prompt injection: A tool that cannot distinguish between data and instructions.
Comment · 8 months ago
The time advantage of faking a scan becomes better the more pages you have to scan.
Comment · 9 months ago
It doesn't matter whether OSS is American (in whatever sense) -- anything that is America-specific (e.g. server addresses) can be patched for a localized European version. The different commercial model does matter: American law does not apply (Cloud Act, National Security Letters, ...)
Comment · 9 months ago
Live tiles are nearly universally praised in retrospect, but it might be a case of hindsight bias [1]. The video [2] brings up some problems of the concept and why no other company copied the concept.