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Re:Using AirPods as a Morse Transmitter on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @12:41PM (#40300124)
Neat! I wonder if both airpods could be used more like paddles for dot/dash, rather than one click for dot and two clicks for dash.
Re:AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:03AM (#37161732)
I always thought that's what captchas evolved into anyways. Human-reinforced training for AI image recognition.
Re:IronOS: Open-source soldering iron firmware on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:30PM (#36960293)
That's a good cheap option, but for me the most convenient way to power it is with USB-C. I just use the same 60W USB-C PD power block and beefy USB-C cable that I carry in my bag anyways. The cable is also much more flexible than the ones with the barrel jack I've used before, so it is easier to hold and control while soldering.
Re:Pulling my site from Google over AI training on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:20PM (#36730720)
So what are these "consequences" you keep referring to?
Re:Pulling my site from Google over AI training on Friday July 14, 2023 @04:27PM (#36729462)
Ah, yes. More complaining about freely posting content publicly on the internet and then being upset when it's used in a way you don't want. I'm sure foreign companies and even governments are doing something similar, what will U.S. laws do to stop that?
Re:Bing Chat now has Ads on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @02:34PM (#35361317)
Why is this assumed to be an issue of intentionally 'injecting ads into Bing Chat', and not just a side effect of parsing Bing search results that may include advertisements that have always been there? The later seems much more likely, and they are even explicitly marking info coming from ads as such.
Re:Automate your Python project with Makefile (2021) on Monday March 27, 2023 @02:11PM (#35330137)
Those two examples are the exact use-case that defining scripts in pyproject.toml are meant for. Users of my installed package would never need to run `twine publish` or build the project's docker image. That's only really needed by developers who would be working from the full project source including pyproject.toml.
Re:Tell HN: We Need Robots.txt but for AI on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @10:11AM (#34325984)
I seriously don't understand why everyone is scrambling to cripple AI in an effort to maintain human copyright bs. Do you think upcoming AI models from countries like China are going to care about whether or not it learns from copyrighted, or even illegally obtained data? No, which means that their AI systems will be much more capable than ours. We will be left in the dust because everyone is too worries about losing credit or not getting paid.

Same thing with OSS licensing. Once you publicly release your code onto the internet, it is out there permanently. Anybody can read it, learn from it, and copy or reproduce it, regardless of whether or not the original developer wants them to. Any copyright or licensing issues are enforced by human laws, only relevant if you live in the country that the laws apply. So again you have companies in places like China who take OSS projects and use the code, and there is not a damn thing anybody can do about it.

Re:Hstr: Bash and zsh shell history suggest box on Thursday December 01, 2022 @03:18PM (#33822116)
Oh neat, how very newsworthy, a decade-old project that hasn't been updated in nearly a year.
Works fine for me on Firefox 99.0
I panicked for a few minutes waiting for IT to knock on my office door...
Re:Yet another macOS privacy protections bypass on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:53AM (#25266923)
Is this also the case when replacing the stock ls binary with the one from GNU coreutils?
If you care about not having a Google account, then start talking about custom ROMs. Not really a relevant complaint since custom ROMs exist.

And it'd be trivial to compile the latest kernel and load it on your device. Someone who really cares and needs features or fixes from a newer kernel could do it if they wanted.

> though I will be overjoyed once GNU/Linux on phones reaches enough maturity to replace Android

You do realize that Android does run the Linux kernel, and generally has GNU coreutils available, right?