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j5155··on www.google.com – The page is blank when accessed
Google is an advertising company. I’m sure they’re collecting quite a bit more then just your text input
j5155··on Yuzu Progress Report October 2023
I would say VR support is an exaggeration…no motion controls, no first person view, and in SMO you can’t even play the main game iirc
j5155··on Plex to block all servers hosted at Hetzner
Elaborate?
j5155··on Unity has seemingly silently removed its GitHub repo that tracks ToS changes
Reminder that Amazon did something like that once: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/techn...
j5155··on Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
I was banned from a Discord server for reasons like these, and I found it really helpful for knowing for sure that I needed to change my behavior. I think it fundamentally comes down to the person; I have struggled with knowing how to “read the room” and when something is acceptable or not, and it was a very clear “it’s not” after the ban.
j5155··on Interactive Map of Linux Kernel
Modern-ish version you can run on Linux: https://github.com/mcuelenaere/fsv
j5155··on Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root?
If I understand correctly, system certificates can be modified without jailbreak or any root access on iPhones.
j5155··on Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components
A joke made even funnier by being true (FaceTime Audio)
j5155··on False canopies on fighters work, one almost killed me
I live in Alaska, and this is why flying at night/IMC is strongly not recommended. Local CAP squadron just did a search and rescue this morning for someone who this happened to.
j5155··on Ask HN: Why did Microsoft, Meta, and PayPal update their ToS today?
Tailscale does this! https://github.com/tailscale/terms-and-conditions Because “our legal team advised us not to summarize changes”, so now you can just view diffs!
j5155··on The video call revolution is dead
Or Duo, or Hangouts…
j5155··on Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA (2022)
Article mentions https://stackoverflow.com/a/5396422 as a countermeasure to this
j5155··on Why even let users set their own passwords?
Are you aware that iOS supports PWAs, and recently implemented notifications for them?
j5155··on Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
I mean, given that AI might be trained on HN, maybe it’s ChatGPT saying things that sound like HN commenters…
j5155··on uBlock Origin 1.50.0
Agreed. Funnily enough every single school provided chromebook in my city comes with it preinstalled, and yet the teachers don’t use it.
j5155··on Is this octopus having a nightmare?
I think that the crucial difference between animals and humans there is not necessarily one of definite intelligence but that we have a civilization and written language; no one person or group of people could have gone from discovering things like gravity, energy, algebra, etc all the way to spaceflight in one lifetime, but because we have long-term records we can work on things across generations.
j5155··on More than 600k students and teachers use Z-Library
“Federally publishing” books seems like it would be left to the lowest bidder and the results would be terrible. I took a government class recently that used one of the mentioned open textbooks and it was great.
j5155··on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
This aspect of adding randomness to avoid local maximums reminds me of AlphaPhoenix’s automated gerrymandering project: https://youtu.be/Lq-Y7crQo44
j5155··on Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT
I mean, there is no requirement that we use neural networks for driving (or for all of driving); standard logic and sensor analysis is also an option if less general. There are also things like automatic emergency braking that kick in with direct logic even when a human is driving; presumably we may be able to make more advanced similar systems for self driving.

But in general I would definitely agree that putting chatgpt into a car would end poorly.

j5155··on Social network ad targeting can “listen into” conversations using “live photos”
Other examples where all photos are required, if maybe not valid: third party automatic photo backup, showing a random photo on a widget, prompting a user to post a photo of a location to Google Maps automatically…
j5155··on Steam Now Offers 90-Minute Game Trials
From what other comments have said they also seem to give refunds outside of that if you have a good explanation (“questions asked” I guess)
j5155··on The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
TOTK added a recipe system where once you cook a meal, you can select an ingredient to view all meals containing it and automatically select all the ingredients for a specific meal. Which is at least part of what you want. I would definitely agree that things like cooking 100 hearty durians gets really painful after a while though.
j5155··on Apple Pay’s long road to paying off is getting shorter
This is definitely possible with things like a Flipper Zero, but I doubt adding the cloned card to Apple Wallet is possible on iPhones (though I imagine Androids have no such restriction)
j5155··on The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
I completely agree with you, but I think the issue with something like this is the sheer volume of lobbying power that companies like Nintendo and Disney have to stop it.
j5155··on Why do ships use “port” and “starboard” instead of “left” and “right?”
In my experience with man overboard drills clock faces are used as you describe. Port/starboard is only for low precision things.
j5155··on The LLama Effect: Leak Sparked a Series of Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT
I think things like this (or simpler things like asking ChatGPT for ascii art of a circle) really show the difference between LLMs and humans. The issue is that it’s a language model rather then an image one, so it doesn’t understand the concept of ‘looks like a dog’.
j5155··on Folia – Multithreading Coming to your Minecraft server
This exists, it’s how the much more popular Bedrock edition’s addons work.
j5155··on John Glenn’s $40 Camera Forced NASA to Rethink Space Missions
I don’t know whether you’re discussing FIRST Tech Challenge or FIRST Robotics Competition, but I know that at our team’s competition they specifically asked if we had any GoPros in real-time mode and the remote software prevented viewing any cameras and driving at the same time. Otherwise I think this strategy would have been a huge help to us!
j5155··on Shields Up
Adblock is easy because ads are usually hosted on a different site to main content. Clickbait, however, is not.
j5155··on Altstore: Home for apps that push the boundaries of iOS
Banned by who? The app is sideloaded, it isn’t on the App Store. (“Sideloaded” here meaning from Apple/your phone’s point of view you developed the app and are just testing it, which is a fairly essential feature)
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