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7heo ,

Also, work off of the copy. Never touch the source.

7heo ,

Larger might be acceptable too, not sure

It should.

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Usually that’s about when I stracethe process before running it through gdb…

7heo ,

Yeah, make your user agent absolutely unique. Too much entropy will surely confuse the shit out server side HTTP Header tracking. 😬

7heo , (edited )

Oh gee, I wasn’t aware there was more to it than the UA. Thanks for opening my eyes.

Edit: I checked your link, most of the parameters on the test require client side execution. That (client side tracking) is absolutely unrelated to what (server side tracking) I was talking about, and is something you can control (by not allowing JavaScript, for example). Please do not confuse the two. There is literally nothing you can do against server side tracking.

7heo ,

Yes, I get that point, but I also think that it’s tempting for the privacy-minded novice to think “the less information I provide, the better!”, while in actuality, it is better to provide “more” information: the most common UA, even if it means lying about your featureset. In this case, truly, more is less.

7heo ,

A then C. If you know how to do it[^1] ofc. If you don’t, then assume it is. Very different situation if the weapon is loaded. Both require C, but one much more intensely than the other.

[^1]: Hopefully /s is obvious enough here, but I’m not taking chances: /s, OK?

7heo ,

This isn’t about you. Your data is key in making other, relevant people stand out. Why relevant? Because they resist. Because they aren’t depressed, they are fighting back. And whatever the reason that drives them, they can be manipulated. By compromising their anonymity. By making literally everyone else a “known variable”. With your help.

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Personally I have never considered that there would be a risk of the UBI recipients to spend the money unwisely.

People needing UBI have a very long standing experience of not getting what they need to minimise their losses on a daily basis, so of course they will invest in that first. They all probably have a ranked, itemised list of all that would help. And I’m willing to bet that said list, on average, would be at least 80% correct (the 20% being influenced by personal sensitivities and beliefs, like a vegan person spending more on plastic based clothing, that wears out faster).

People not needing UBI already have more money than they can find intelligent uses for, and so they already are spending money unwisely.

Nah, the part that concerns me is that as soon as we all get UBI, and I do mean the very next day, rents are gonna rise by 33% of the amount of the UBI, the cost of food will rise by 33% of the amount of the UBI, and the cost of all the rest combined will rise by 34% of the amount of the UBI. It will be back to square one, and all we will have achieved will be funnelling our taxes straight into the pockets of for profit, private megacorporations.

We need to “fix” that megacorporation problem first.

7heo ,

How can you be so thick? If the problem was with profits, we’d have solved it essentially on day one of capitalism.

No, profits are good, it means you can live from your work.

The problem here is greed. And you know what? Unlike with finding out that you’re too stupid to get this, finding out where profits stop and greed start is a hard problem. Not individually, because that is about when a business owner starts paying their workforce less and starts buying stupid useless crap to show their status or grow their comfort much beyond the average… No, systematically. Because differences in management style mean that sometimes it makes sense to shrink everyone’s income (including the CEO’s) to be able to address challenges. But you can’t easily tell that apart from greed and dodging taxes.

7heo ,

You can live from your work without profit. Wages are a cost, not the result of profit.

This only works when you have enough capital to back it up. Can’t switch to a salary-based remuneration model without having enough assets to make sure you don’t default every other month. But yes indeed, you can do that, once you have made enough profits to have an appropriate capital for this use case.

I would argue it’s very easy to see when greed begins - it’s when people (shareholders) are paid without having done any work.

Yes, that is correct. However the appreciation of “work” is actually the hard part. If it wasn’t, micromanagement wouldn’t be a thing. So I guess we’re saying the same thing, from different angles.

Obviously there is an argument that senior managers get paid disproportionately, but a part of that will always be stock for which they will continue to earn money without doing anything at all. At least their wage is paid for doing something.

Yeah, so, already, this is going into “hard to gauge” territory. Is the senior manager one of the founding members, that grew a business from nothing, eating pasta and sweating blood for years; is the senior manager one of the founding members, that just was a dick from day one, backed by inherited money or VC money; or is the senior manager someone who just joined along the way, and is now profiting off of the work of others?

See, in these 3 eventualities alone, only the first one actually has any kind of legitimacy for being paid and not doing much. Because then, it is a return on investment, and a pretty damn hard investment at that. However, even in that case, it is extremely easy to overdo it and end up paying yourself more than you would actually deserve, even with the all hard work, the initial risk and stress, and the dedication combined.

The other commenter misses a key point that under the current system to truly compete with megacorps you need investors to build scale.

I believe you don’t necessarily need investors, but then, you need skill, wits, balls, and a whole lot of sheer luck. Oh, and a “sure thing” product/service too. Can’t take any chances.

Independent companies can certainly reinvest their earnings rather than claiming them as profits, which is far better than having them siphoned off, but won’t get you anywhere near the kind of cash that you need.

I mean, if you are truly starting a honest business, without much starting capital, and without much preexisting means (e.g. no privileged professional network, access to means of production at extremely low, or no cost, free raw materials/energy, etc), you can’t really do it any other way. You gotta reinvest as much as possible, pay yourself the minimum viable amount (pasta/rice only, and necessities. No travel, no leisure, no comfort), to grow the business into something that can ultimately support your life in a more “normal” way.

And as soon as you have investors, they expect their cut.

The main problem with investors isn’t even that. Them wanting their cuts is definitely a challenge. But the pressure they can exert on the management, the changes they can enact, the decisions they can force, that is the actual problem with investors. They aren’t doing it just for the money. It is a domination kink.

7heo ,

Yeah totally merge everything, people like a good spaghetti salad.

7heo ,

(> (explicit) (implicit))

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3090 degrees is above its boiling point (which is 2950 degrees).

So it doesn’t become “clear”, it literally vaporises.

7heo ,

Love how nuanced this is 🙃

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So, lemme get this straight. We fucked up the climate with industrialisation and uncontrolled capitalism, through energy consumption. Now, the #1 industrial company (that’s two for two, if you’re counting) in chip making is using one of the most energy (and there we go, 100% 🥳) intensive technology at our disposal to try and eventually have a shot at maybe keeping the climate in somewhat of a check… Am I the only one seeing this? 😶

That’s the energy equivalent of giving every kid and teacher guns to “stop school shootings”. 🙃

7heo ,

If you can’t count to 3, that’s a you problem, dude…

7heo ,

Plot twist, the drone was inert, the AK exploded.

7heo ,

Better lzma performance with xz. 🤪

7heo ,

And then the next days, news were all about teens who committed suicide (or failed to, ending up as vegetables) in a similar fashion.

That was weird.

7heo ,

on their conscience

🤣

Thanks for the laugh, I needed that. 🙂

7heo , (edited )

There’s a wonderfully complex system of deferred responsibilities making sure that the people who actually caused this can have all the plausible deniability in the world, see themselves as having nothing to do with it, and enjoy a very relaxed life with riches we can only imagine.

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That’s the point of the plausible deniability. You can go after them with a personal conviction, but you can’t go after them with proof. There’s nothing left to “logically connect”.

Because they controlled the mechanisms that were designed to hold them accountable, and made sure not to be accounted for.

Kinda like how attackers who intrude on a system delete the logs and other traces of their presence.

7heo ,

Finally someone is making sense. I was getting depressed with all the logical metric inspired units disguised as jokes everywhere in this thread. You get it. Thank you 🙏

7heo , (edited )

I mean his email is “Dirt nap Brian ([email protected])” after all. I wouldn’t know about the fart noises tho, it doesn’t say.

7heo ,

Ꭺɩɩ ҺƋīɩ ƮҺɘ ՏƮɘƋɱ Ꭰɘϲĸḷḷ

7heo ,

Technically, “without text nor image”. Your list is implying otherwise.

7heo ,

In that case, your second and subsequent points should have no text, since the source material has no text for them. And the last point can’t arguably have text at all either way. 😉

More seriously, the source material has both texts and images, and it was your choice to only represent half of that. You could have easily written:

meme explanationNote: Descriptive information is in italics. | text | image | | :— | :— | | understanding a meme with text | Small brain | | understanding a meme without text | Normal brain | | understanding a meme without text | Nor image | | understanding a meme without meme | ❌ | Or: This meme is taking the classical “expanding brain” meme, and removing increasingly more content with each panel, implicitly prompting the reader to interpolate more information at each step, to practically illustrate the concept of the meme itself. The last panel has nothing at all.

7heo ,

Obviously, cash shops should be banned in games immediately.

Upvoted specifically for that last part.

7heo , (edited )

So fwiw, it has ChatGPT-3

Screenshot

7heo ,

Alright, well, I haven’t got more time to spend on hacking the prompts to get it to disclose intel. So that’s the best I got.

7heo ,

Substantially. CISC vs RISC is night and day. Keeping x86 for so long was a mistake, but one that generated billions in value for shareholders.

7heo ,

Additionally to the other answer: the reason CISC came up to be was “less instructions”. Memory was a lot more expensive, and developers worked in assembly a lot more. So, less instructions made a lot of sense. Now, memory is cheap, and developers almost never write assembly unassisted.

7heo ,

Umbrella corp. That has to be satire. Right? Right??

7heo ,

If they are shocked by this, wait until they understand what meta does with their PII and behavioural information… I’m sure they will understand any day now. Any day…

Russia says 60 dead, 145 injured in concert hall raid; Islamic State group claims responsibility (apnews.com)

Assailants burst into a large concert hall in Moscow on Friday and sprayed the crowd with gunfire, killing over 60 people, injuring more than 100 and setting fire to the venue in a brazen attack just days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on power in a highly orchestrated electoral landslide....

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All bombings, the court ruled, were ordered by Islamist warlords Ibn Al-Khattab and Abu Omar al-Saif, who have been killed. Five other suspects have been killed and six have been convicted by Russian courts on terrorism-related charges.

Now waiting to see who putin will decide to make an “Islamist warlord” instead of having a balcony, windows, or tea accident.

Update: according to the last news I read, putin decided to make the Ukrainians “Islamist warlords”. Does not matter if it is at all believable or not now, does it? 🤡

7heo ,

Without paywall.

7heo ,

boom.

7heo ,

You’re right, send her a goatse link. Saves time.

7heo ,

“I’m being serious. I’ve never seen something this disgusting in my entire life.”

That’s a “you” problem, lady.

7heo , (edited )

Actual reddit link:

7heo ,

Ah, I explicitly removed it for the clients (like infinity) so that they can fetch the video properly in the app, instead of opening the link in a browser and fail… Well, thanks for the protip, I didn’t know. :)

7heo ,

Would it not be “additive burn-in” and “subtractive burn-in” or something then? Or “differential burn-in?”

7heo ,

Oh, no, we totally can. We just need to buy local. What? It is “too expensive!!”? Yeah, well, tell me about being part of the problem…

7heo ,

Have fun with the initramfs.

7heo ,

The ARM architecture does apparently (I’m no expert) have some inherent power-efficiency advantages over x86

Well, the R from ARM means RISC, and x86 (so, by extension, x86_64) is a CISC architecture, so they are not even in the same “family” of designs.

Originally, CISC architectures were more popular, because it meant less instructions to write, read, store, etc. Which is beneficial when hardware is limited and developers write in assembly directly.

Over time, the need for assembly programming faltered, and in the 90s, the debate for CISC vs RISC resurfaced. Most developers then wrote code in C and C++, and the underlaying architecture was losing relevance. It is also worth noting that due to a higher number of instructions, the machine code is more granular, and as a result, RISC code can inherently be further optimised. It also means that the processor design is simpler than for CISC architectures, which in turn leaves more room for innovation.

So, all else being equal, you’d expect Qualcomm to have an advantage in laptops with this chip, but all else isn’t equal because the software isn’t there yet, and no one in the PC market is quite in a position to kickstart the software development like Apple is with Macs.

Now, a key consideration here is that the x86 architecture has been dominating the personal computer market for close to half a century at this point, meaning that a lot of the hardware and software is accommodating (wrt functionality, optimisation, etc) for it specifically.

Therefore, RISC architectures find themselves at a disadvantage: the choice in Operating Systems is limited, firmware and drivers are missing, etc. Additionally, switching to RISC means breaking legacy support, or going through emulation (like the Apple M3 does).

However, in our modern ecosystem, the potential gain from switching to a RISC architecture is considerable (storage is cheaper than ever, RAM is cheap and fast, and seldom anyone is writing assembly anymore. Plus, those who do might enjoy the higher degree of control the additional granularity affords them, without having to do everything by hand, given the degree of assistance modern IDEs offer), and it will gradually become a necessity for every vendor.

For now however, the most popular computer Operating System worldwide has poor performance on ARM, and no support for other RISC architectures (such as RISC-V) that I know of.

The challenge here is in breaking a decades long dominance that originated from a monopoly: if you have paid attention to what Apple has been doing, they initially used large parts of FreeBSD to build a new Operating System that could run on their custom processors (Motorola 68k), and then built the rest of their Operating System (Darwin and Aqua) on top of it. This afforded them the possibility to switch to Intel CPUs in 2005, and back to ARM in 2020 with their M series CPUs.

The quality of their software (in large parts derived from the quality of free software and of staggering design work) has allowed them to grow from a virtually negligible share of computer users to the second place behind windows.

Now, other Operating Systems (such as Linux) have the same portability characteristics as FreeBSD, and can feasibly lead to such a viable commercial OS offering with support for several hardware architectures.

“All” that is needed is a consistent operating system, based on whichever kernel fits, to supplement MacOS in the alternative offering to windows.

Most software would be available, and a lot of firmware would too, thanks to ARM being used nearly exclusively in mobile phones, and most mobile phones running a Linux kernel.

Once we have a (or better, a few) Linux or BSD based operating system(s) with commercial support, consistent design, and acceptable UX for “normies”, such CPUs will become a very valid offering.

7heo ,

Yeah, well, I would advise you against using google docs, but at least you are using Firefox 😅

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