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Comment · 1 day ago
It would be baking the model into hardware or FPGA, which ends up building the same thing being emulated. An emulated ALU in hardware is ... the ALU.
Comment · 1 day ago
How can self custody be a novelty when it is the original way and predates exchanges...
Comment · 3 days ago
Isn't the whole point of this to decide what "shady" CA's to trust? If a Russian site bothered to get signed in Greece, some people will trust the site, and some people will distrust the Greek CA's. That's how trust works.

You can add other options too, "Trust for 30 days" or something. I wish SSH known hosts has an auto-expunge.

Comment · 3 days ago
"It seems like you're visiting a site registered in XYZ country. Do you want to start trusting XYZ country key authorities?

[Do Not Trust], [Trust Once], [Trust Forever]"

Comment · 3 days ago
Yet they ask you what keyboard type to use, what Wifi network and password to use. Is it too much to ask, do you want to trust "key authorities" from outside your country? Users used to see computers as inherently technical devices and expect to get asked technical questions.

But even if not, you get asked whether to turn on Siri, whether to send telemetry, whether to sign away your rights, etc., all of which are consequential but prompts are massaged in a way where it's nice and easy for the user to answer a certain way without having a clue. Makes me think user comprehension isn't even a problem.

Where I suspect the problem lies is that it will not fly to make it seem like US-based CA's are more trustworthy just because the majority of sites roll up to them. Then you'll need to do some non-country-specific human tiering, and who's the judge of that?

Comment · 3 days ago
Why would that be? You're stuck on drivers either way and ARM Windows runs just fine virtualized.
Comment · 8 days ago
Yeah, this gives a new meaning to demanding your password at the border.
Comment · 8 days ago
What a sleight of hand. PDF's are obviously not executable, any more than text files are. Decoders are executable and they can choose to unsafely handle input. Even plain text editors can have exploits. It's no different than any piece of complex software.
Comment · 8 days ago
Where's the stance that "we tested them all", any links?
Comment · 10 days ago
One may even speculate the author got some, or a lot of ... "help", if it's even a real author.
Comment · 16 days ago
Why would it 'randomly' place things anyway. If there is ever a space constraint the most space-saving way is to group into highly generalizable concepts.
Comment · 19 days ago
It only started with Google.
Comment · 19 days ago
Human drama is what people use to advocate for themselves. Bureaucracy is what people use to protect themselves. Then you have the side effects but, you may also not like a world without those at all.
Comment · 19 days ago
Same as before, really. You can have geniuses but if not used right you get nothing.

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