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Re:Authorization Terminology Is a Mess: Let's Fix It on Friday September 04, 2026 @05:49AM (#49562464)
Quite literally the first thing that jumped to my mind when I read the title
Fix your website. Drop the shitty Javascript animations. Jesus these things were solved in 2014 with D3JS and jQuery.
Thank you so much for posting this. I have been paying the annual 10$ (which went up by 2$ this year), but now it looks like I have to pay a whopping 30$ a year (a 3x increase, with no increase in features or value at all).

The cherry on the shit cake is that they did not give me any heads up at all. Quite sad. Bitwarden has been consistently one of the best pieces of softwares I have ever used. Simple, just does what it does and gets out of the way.

Sad really ...

Re:Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @06:13AM (#46778474)
The most impressive thing is that if they stopped putting out new features, and solely delivered security and optimization patches for Windows, it would unironically be the best no-frills platform. You could just keep milking steady upgrade fees.

But no, they have to go out of their way to accelerate the enshittification of Windows.

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen on Saturday January 03, 2026 @08:52AM (#46476626)
Episodes like these only serve to cement that Iran and North Korea are right to think that having nuclear deterrence is the only viable insurance policy.

(Delivery & effectiveness is another subject on its own but still)

Re:Drilling Down on Uncle Sam's Proposed TP-Link Ban on Monday November 10, 2025 @02:38AM (#45873428)
So let me get this straight: The US government directly buying stakes in Intel is A-OK, but any involvement from the CCP in any form in any company is Not Good ?

If the only issue at hand was indeed security vulnerabilities, then I can see many ways that can constructively address that (e.g. Since a large number of SKUs deployed in the US are managed by the Telcos, then force them to finance the support for continued firmware updates).

The US will probably be collecting the reciprocity of their actions, and they won't like it ... It's a very childish game they're playing and it will hurt them in 15 years time ...

Re:Amazon imposing fees on using their marketplace API on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @06:21AM (#45809714)
I hope this does not affect Camelcamelcamel or Idealo, because if not we lose the power to get real visibility over real value of items.
While I agree with the general idea, I think the sales pitch is less "a bunch of ARM Cortex cores" and more "a bunch of RDNA2 cores stuck to the same Cortex cores you're used to".

For things like the automotive industry or industrial applications, it could have some sense. Most are high-margin industries ready to commit to specific architectures.

Re:Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers on Monday October 06, 2025 @05:24AM (#45489435)
Funnily enough, I got into trouble in Korea (Jeju to be specific) because of this. I had just stopped at a red light (huge intersection), and I saw a police car get behind me, they had their lights on and put on the sirens.

In my home country (France), lights mean emergency, sound means "MOVE ITS URGENT" (and they generally ONLY use sirens when it is REALLY urgent). So when they started the siren, I put my warning lights on and moved slowly through the red light and to the outside of the road (I did not continue moving).

The guy ripped me a new one in Korean, but then I explained that I thought it was urgent because we were all stopped and they put the sound on so I moved out of the way in the safest way I could and even stopped. He calmed down eventually.

Apparently, it's normal in Korea for police cars to 1) always have the lights on and 2) just randomly blast the sirens going about their day.

What this tells is the following:

1. You have absolutely no clue how the BitTorrent protocol works. 2. You have never maintained a widely used app as a single developer. 3. The extent of your use of LLMs is either academic / hobby or very narrowly focused and not integrated into a global product.

Just these points make your "suggestion" about using "LLMs to detect stuff is extremely easy" laughable at best.

The reason why people want to install their own software is to have freedom over their devices. The copyrighted content removal has a mechanism for it, called DMCA. And this is not how it works. The application does not have any content or means to circumvent any measures.

Re:I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C on Thursday August 07, 2025 @05:44AM (#44822515)
Impressive for a 16GBP watch !
Re: on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @02:52PM (#44802509)
Assuming this does happen, I would genuienly like to read what a plausible follow-up would look like, for peace in Gaza.

Would they extend Israel to Gaza and give everyone there a special status ? Or if they choose to setup a state, who will handle the "legal violence" part of the social contract ? Israel ? Folks from Gaza ?

And what about currency and international trade ? Would Gaza be allowed access to international waters ?

Re:Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux on Friday June 27, 2025 @04:02AM (#44394763)
If you think of your fingerprint as a "secret", you're wrong. It's more your name. That would be like saying your face is a secret. It's not.
Re:Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @08:09AM (#44376354)
Sounds fairly sensible to me
Or randomascii. A freaking legend (although he had a heart braking streak of bad events ... I wish him the best)
Re:The April Fools joke that might have got me fired on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @07:56AM (#43545693)
While that may be the case, this subject is quite delicate and is best debated within the confines of informed animal sexology:

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Making an urgent phone call to your spouse while rushing to your kids in the ER without taking your hands off the steering while is a fucking godsend. No matter how broken they are currently, they do have their place, and they work at least a bare minimum.
Re:Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @08:04AM (#43331599)
All they have to show is incremental improvements over Siri. For that, Quantized models are more than enough in my opinion.
Re:Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @07:08AM (#43331248)
It's infuriating that folks develop on their own what Apple has been consistently failing to deliver with Siri for almost a decade.

Yes I understand at the Scale Siri needs to be deployed there are many challenges, including privacy wise, but it's still infuriating nonetheless...

Instead we get Genmoji.

Yes, but they did not touch that DNS specifically.
Have you actually read the article ? He explains everything in sufficient detail. He didn't "hijack" the DNS records, he bought the ones that were expired and available.

The only thing he doesn't explain (for obvious reasons) is the how he found the shells online (because as he puts it, they fell off the back of a truck).

Can a corporation CLAIM civil damages over their CEOs murder ? I'd think that would be his "estate" perhaps ? (Far from being a lawyer)
Re:Redis is trying to take over the all of the OSS Redis libraries on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @04:24AM (#42254441)
That is a very bold claim. A message queue can have many different requirements: Some message queues tolerate lost messages, others don't. Some require a notification mechanism (i.e. a push model instead of a polling model). Other require precise management of dead letters.

All this to say that, yes, you theoretically CAN use SQLite as a message queue. But atomic operations are usually WAY lower on the "must have" list for a message queue than other parameters.

The easiest way you could verify this is by looking at the guarantees provided by some of the most known MsgQueues.

I don't understand how you can characterize this as dictatorship. If anything, it's the very normal realization of the representational democracy: The people have voted for representatives, that themselves voted on laws to force everyone to serve, or go to jail.

If the people wish to repeal that law, then they should vote for representatives that will repeal this.

It's akin to asking the following:

What does a car do that you can't trivially do with something else ? Like a boat or an airplane ?

You simply cannot compare an in-memory Key-Value store, to a RDBS. And that's on a conceptual level. If you then consider performance, network latency and the guarantees, we're absolutely comparing airplanes to donkeys: You wouldn't use an airplane to climb up a rough mountain, and you certainly wouldn't prefer a donkey to travel to the other side of the world.

That is my point. Any order regarding flight restrictions will be immediately disseminated by the local ATC, and I do understand that the ATC does not coordinate the rescue effort over the area, my point is he DID get the permission and actively attempted and successfully coordinated and complied withe the DR team who set up a landing zone for him.

My point being this is a clear failure of the IC (the fire chief in this case)

A lot of folks in the comments are acting like this was one of what they refer to as "cowboys".

Yet the guy went through each and every hoop to cooperate and coordinate properly with the ATC (which should dispell all the "100 planes in the air" worries) and the local IC (that set up a landing zone for the guy and gave him the frequencies to coordinate).

I understand that there may be some vigilantes that would ignore the rules and procedures but this guy with his previous expertise in fire and rescure went through all the stages to help.

The local fire chief was either on a power trip, or had a knee-jerk reaction to out of org help (which IMO disqualifies him from being an effective IC capable of using the available resources to prioritize human life). It is very clear that the guy was absolutely ready to cooperate according to the rules that the chief would set, but ordering him to not go back for his son is ABSOLUTELY a power trip.

Re:New California law requires one-click subscription cancellations on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @03:30AM (#41644663)
Also in France, curious which gym you are talking about.

Went to the three _main_ commercial gym brands, and cancelling did NOT take more than a week including the letter arriving time in one case. The other two were online and with the branch staff.

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