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byteknight··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
I get the argument, but if that is more than a strawman argument to you, I am bewildered. Making a network connection is infinitely less problematic than having root level access to a kernel (translate to windows language for NT)
byteknight··on A return to hand-written notes by learning to read and write
Grass is good.
byteknight··on Using static websites for tiny archives
I forked an android app [1] to share articles to the app, which converts to markdown and then sends to obsidian. I also use a Firefox extension that uses Obsidian extensuion Advanced URI to send markdown versions of articles (with frontmatter!) to Obsidian[2]

[1] https://github.com/IAmStoxe/obsidian-markdownr

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdownload/ - Theres also a chrome extension

byteknight··on Manifest v2 is now removed from Chrome canary
Firefox containers are amazing
byteknight··on "Begin disabling installed extensions still using Manifest V2 in Chrome stable"
So because you don't understand it, its rumors? A Simple google search would answer all of your questions in a literal sentence. It removes APIs used by ad blockers.

https://gprivate.com/6dp1q

byteknight··on FLUX1.1 [pro] – New SotA text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs
I won't pay for a model, but that cake image looks dang good.
byteknight··on Linux/4004: booting Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and no profit
And a gargantuan amount of RAM.
byteknight··on AI tool cuts unexpected deaths in hospital by 26%, Canadian study finds
I am beyond tired of the "It made a decision on a if-statement, that's AI!"
byteknight··on Crypto bros wrested Flappy Bird from its creator
Have you missed the LLM wave?
byteknight··on DataGemma: Using real-world data to address AI hallucinations
So... RAG? This is RAG.
byteknight··on Scanning the Internet with NMAP and Argo
It was purely to create a runtime infrastructure I could later build on and expand on the various scans performed on the results presented by NMAP.

Could it be done with a script on its own? Sure, but what fun is that? :)

byteknight··on Local Privilege Escalation via MSI Installer
This is way too broad of a title.

Title taken from their page:

> Local Privilege Escalation via MSI installer in SoftMaker Office / FreeOffice

I despise click bait.

byteknight··on Kids Should Be Taught to Think Logically
The "term" was not changed. Who is the authority on the term? Language is defined by those that use it.
byteknight··on New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings
I think you are applying your usecase and thinking that is everyone's use case. Think battery power.
byteknight··on Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet
This seems like cool work but with a ton of "marketing hype speak" that immediately gets watered down by the first paragraph.

Ordering of statements.

1. (Title) Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet

2. (First Paragraph) Well not all, but all the PDFs in Common Crawl

3. (First Image) Well not all of them, but 500k of them.

I am not knocking the project, but while categorizing 500k PDFs is something we couldnt necessarily do well a few years ago, this is far from "The internet's PDFs".

byteknight··on A new type of neural network is more interpretable
We went to different highschools unfortunately.
byteknight··on A new type of neural network is more interpretable
Side question:

Can people this deep in the field read that visualization with all the formulas and actually grok what's going on? I'm trying to understand just how far behind I am from the average math person (obviously very very very far, but quantifiable lol)

byteknight··on Violence against women and girls a national emergency, says policing report
This is a change of argument and I won't be engaging in it.
byteknight··on FCC liability for radio pirates operating on your property
Agreed - But if everyone followed this philosophy we would have reason to enforce it. Perhaps the thinking is then, therefore, enforce before it becomes a problem?
byteknight··on Why Proton VPN doesn't use RAM-only VPN servers
Totally non-expert thought: Isn't that only true if you're total RAM cpacity is N(2), where N is the amount of RAM for the server. Due to the volatile nature of memory, without snapping, freezing, modifying, and promoting how would one envision updating a RAM-disk OS?
byteknight··on Turing's topological proof that every written alphabet is finite (2010)
I smell a supertask
byteknight··on Violence against women and girls a national emergency, says policing report
This does absolutely nothing to compare it to violence against men. Without a comparison, for all we know, its far less than the crime against men.

Now, I am not diminishing anything stated in this article. Im purely stating this article does a very poor job of conveying how the numbers they present are statistically significant outside their immediate domain.

Isn't this just pandering?

byteknight··on Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling
CFAA was already reworded I thought to avoid these exact types of situations? Among other things, responsible disclosure.
byteknight··on Empathy for the user having sex with your software
You are either speaking hyperbolicly or lying. Bluetooth is very stable these days.
byteknight··on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
Your daughter is awesome! I love this!!!
byteknight··on L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrastructure
This answers and solves nothing new. SSL exists.
byteknight··on Mice live longer when inflammation-boosting protein is blocked
A super uneducated piece of input for thought:

Perhaps it is not that it is evolutionarily beneficial, but rather a byproduct of other evolutionarily beneficial processes? Such as sending larger amounts of blood to an affected region.

byteknight··on L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrastructure
Can anyone tell me why this is any better than just logging in? This seems like its solving a problem that doesnt exist.
byteknight··on An abundance of Katherines: The game theory of baby naming
Kay is derived from Kate. Kate is Derived from Kathy or Katherine.
byteknight··on Multi-agent chatbot murder mystery
You just made front page. Definitely keep an eye on usage :)
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