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Re:One thing has been holding back the Middle East
on Friday October 17, 2025 @08:56PM (#45623876)
> I guess I am not alone in wondering how different the Middle East might have been had it not been for the seismic influence of Al-Ghazali, that revered scholar of Sunni thought, who in the 12th century argued that science is not a liberator but a threat to the word of God and a danger to the clerics, who had every incentive to thwart the thirst for knowledge to maintain their power and privileges. “Innovator” was not regarded as a term of praise but, as the scholar Toby Huff has put it, “a term for a heretic and non-believer, subject to death”.
This quote has two parts, both of which are wrong and sensationalized. About al Ghazali being anti science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QjSXJSt7KI
And on the status of innovator. The author is equivocating, the negative term innovator is applied to people who innovate in religious matter, ie: altering the religion. Not referring to people who advance knowledge of the "worldly sciences".
Re:Firefox is the best mobile browser
on Saturday October 11, 2025 @05:34PM (#45552901)
Of course, but so will large OEMs like Samsung. Google is not going to nuke either project.
Re:Firefox is the best mobile browser
on Saturday October 11, 2025 @01:34PM (#45551029)
There are numerous extensions for Safari in the app store that block ads the way uBlock does. You can also pair it with plain old DNS ad blocking too.
Re:Firefox is the best mobile browser
on Saturday October 11, 2025 @01:33PM (#45551014)
> they are counting their days left to live
The Graphene team has seemingly partnered with an OEM, who is releasing binary security patches for them already (with source code available after embargo lifts). Hardware does not seem too far away at this point either.
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Re:GPT-Image-1-Mini
on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @02:37PM (#45506975)
Oh shoot, good catch. No more HN comments after midnight!
Re:GPT-Image-1-Mini
on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @02:06AM (#45499848)
This model did suspiciously well on the pelican test. Simon has mentioned something along the lines of AI companies cheating his benchmark, and using other random absurd prompts to thwart it.
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Re:Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 withou...
on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:53AM (#45499786)
Steam works, and so do very competitive games with picky anti-cheats!
Re:Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 withou...
on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:52AM (#45499776)
I am on an LTSC install. Installing the Microsoft store is as easy as typing `wsreset -i` into an admin powershell.
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Re:Money mistakes you didn't know you're making
on Monday September 01, 2025 @12:04PM (#45093855)
As a Muslim, I am not allowed to participate in interest related transactions. This makes a whole assortment of smart financial planning unavailable to me. I am otherwise in excellent financial shape, it's just difficult knowing that I am not padding my retirement accounts and other investments at such an early age (19). There is a degree of dissonance in that I rationalize to myself being banked at all, as well as using credit cards (which I have never paid a cent of interest on). Ultimately everything has been polluted by interest in the modern economy.
Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux
on Saturday August 23, 2025 @01:24AM (#44993424)
So what are the implications of having my KeePassXC database open while playing a game that utilizes one of these invasive anticheats? Every time I do it I feel uneasy, but nothing bad has happened yet.
Re:How I code with AI on a budget/free
on Sunday August 10, 2025 @12:42AM (#44852806)
As of today, what is the best local model that can be run on a system with 32gb of ram and 24gb of vram?
Re:I built a tool to help people remove their info from the Tea App
on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @01:53AM (#44808176)
I have not seen anyone mention _any_ constraints regarding geographic location or proximity to the man in question. How would your random travel fling be able to report her experience from across the globe?
Re:I built a tool to help people remove their info from the Tea App
on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:46PM (#44807396)
Is it possible to know if you are on the app without anyone of your female relatives or friends having to submit their biometrics to a company who has had one of the worst breaches ever?