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Is that intentionally designed to completely occupy the full context window of the earlier GPT models?

Either way, that’s hilarious. Well done.

While clever, as a Scandinavian I regret to inform you that I would read that as: Uh Uh Seven, not (double) Oh Seven ;)

It seems very politically convenient to be able to hide that one number behind the other. To obfuscate something highly controversial by making it artificially conflated with something everyone would agree on with.

This is what governments do when they want to avoid public scrutiny. This is not the win you are looking for.

These tweets had 33 views. At least before being made a charge.

I think that puts the likelihood-factor at zero.

> mass surveillance comes from the European Council, the thing is that literally are "just" the locally elected leaders...

Factually incorrect.

The European Parliament is elected. The Council is appointed, so there is no direct democratic incentive for the council to act on and no direct electorate to please.

On top of that the actually elected European Parliament can only approve (or turn down) directives authored by the Council. They have no authority to draft policies on their own.

To make matters even worse the European Council, which drafts the policies, has no public minutes to inspect. Which obviously makes it ripe for corruption. Which evidently there is a lot of!

Looking at the complete picture, the EU looks like a construct designed intentionally to superficially appear democratic while in reality being the opposite. The more you look at how it actually works, the worse it looks. Sadly.

Europe deserved something better than this.

If my checks are correct, this site uses Cloudflare for DNS and AWS for hosting.

So if any of the things you want to know is down is down, chances are this site will be too ;)

Maybe I’m misunderstanding something…

But are you accusing someone of promoting vendor lock-in (cloudflare) while at the same time promoting vendor lock-in (tailscale)?

If you’re ok with vendor lock-in, shouldn’t you in theory be ok with any vendor?

Incorrect.

AirPods noise cancellation can be controlled by holding the AirPod stalk.

And that’s not an excuse or a workaround: That’s how I always do it. I’ve never bothered doing it through software on my iDevices, because that’s much more cumbersome.

So you’re just going to accept a digital invasion happening and not care, because of some semantics and details somewhere in a document which was penned 200 years prior to the internet being invented?

I don’t know about you, but to me that seems kind of naive and short sighted.

That’s just semantics.

If a website which otherwise wouldn’t censor you begins to censor you because of threats from foreign nations, that’s a foreign nation pressuring an American company into suppressing rights of American citizens.

That’s a foreign nation imposing on your rights. In the past that used to require an invasion, so it was a bit more obvious what was happening, but the result is still the same.

Yes it’s through a website, which is owned by a company, which technically speaking owes you nothing.

In the digital age though, where are you going to use your speech, if not on a website?

What you (and others) are doing is trying to reduce the significance of a major transgression over a minor technicality. Way to miss the forest for trees.

The EU can stuff it on this one. And I supported (still support!) the GDPR.

So they’re asking American companies to repeal the first amendment rights of American citizens on all websites accessible in the EU.

How this not a declaration of war?

> Or even: 1. Test 2. Implement IMO, this last popular approach gets things completely backwards. It assumes there is no need to think about the problem before hand

I think you misunderstand this approach.

The point of writing the tests is to think about the desired behaviour of the system/module you are implementing, before your mind gets lost in all the complexities which necessarily happens during the implementation.

When you write code, and hit a wall, it’s super easy to get hyper-focused on solving that one problem, and while doing so: lose the big picture.

Writing tests first can be a way to avoid this, by thinking of the tests as a specification you think you should adhere to later, without having to worry about how you get there.

For some problems, this works really well. For others, it might not. Just don’t dismiss the idea completely :)

I fondly remember working with FreeBSD in my younger days when I would tinker more.

Back in those days I could make any Windows installation unrecoverable. I could severely botch a Linux system. But FreeBSD would always keep chugging, no matter what crazy idea I wanted to try.

It may not be the fastest. It may not be the flashiest. But in my mind, it has this whole "reliability" thing written all over it like no other OS has.

For instance, when I was a student (and thus poor), I had a PC made of (free) scavenged parts. It wouldn't boot Windows. Linux would crash during boot. But FreeBSD just chugged along like there were no issues at all.

I later discovered there were some physical issues with the UDMA mode on the IDE controller, and that's probably what tripped of the other OSes, but FreeBSD would just work. Albeit slowly, but it actually ran fine. For years.

So while I no longer rely on FreeBSD myself, I look back on it with fondness. That's also why I decided to help port .NET to FreeBSD when the first cross-platform version of .NET Core was launched (for Windows, Linux and Mac only). I thought every decent OS deserved to have a working .NET version ;)

I started programming on the Tandy TRS-80. Never made significant X11 contributions.

So I doubt age is the deciding factor ;)

I think the short story is that the people who develop Wayland are the people who used to develop Xorg.

And they’d rather spend their energy on giving you a compelling reason to switch, rather than using it to add to the reasons for staying on a project they now consider obsolete.

You may disagree with their assessment, but you can’t blame them for how they decide to prioritize.

I bought one to replace my aging Amazon Kindle Oasis, after the DRM move.

I've loaded it up with the epubs I have in my Calibre library (which ironically contains mostly books I've bought from Amazon before they made stripping DRM unreasonably hard).

Now I won't buy anything from Amazon because I can't strip the DRM, and hence can't read the books on my e-reader of choice.

Their loss, not mine.

> That would be really easy to block -- if we were on IPv6.

Make that: If the service being attacked was on IPv6-only, and the attacker had no way to fall back to IPv4.

As long as we are dual-stack and IPv6 is optional, no attacker is going to be stupid enough to select the stack which has the highest probability of being defeated. Don't be naive.

> How about we actually finally roll out IPv6 and bury CGNAT in the graveyard where it belongs?

That depends on the service you are DDosing actually having an IPv6 presence. And lots of sites really don't.

It doesn't help if you have IPv6 if you need to fallback to IPv4 anyway. And if bot-net authors knows they can hide behind CGNAT, why would they IPv6 enable their bot-load when all sites and services are guaranteed to be reachable bia IPv4 for the next 3 decades?

(Disclaimer: This comment posted on IPv6)

   git clone
   repo init
   make lunch
   "Can’t get more open source than that!"

Man that seems like a long time ago, eh?

> Even autotools feels nice in comparison to that mayhem.

For all its warts and all the hate that it gets, at least autotools is stable and not introducing breaking changes.

The camera clicked, but they were never saved. Hard to back that up, really.

> The deal breaker: Despite staying on official ROMs, Google broke audio in video recording such that all my vacation videos with a special friend ended up with garbled audio.

For me it was also the Nexus 5.

It just lost many of my photos, of our firstborn child.

Unrecoverable. Gone. And so was I from the Android-platform.

> Still, their only real competition is Windows 11, which isn’t well received either.

It was at a certain point revealed that the people creating the new Windows-designs were in fact not using Windows anymore, they were using Macs.

In short they didn’t have to eat their own dogfood.

I’m starting to suspect the same thing have happened to Apple-designers…

I don't get it either. I open the Finder app, and the sidebar is randomly turquoise, over a white background.

It looks ugly, and I have no reason why that sidebar (unlike all other sidebars) is that specific colour. It just makes no sense.

Edit: Oh My God. I just tested installing my own app on Tahoe, and the DMG looks absolutely broken with what used to be solid edges confined inside a window, now being stretched to the window-edges, blurred by the glass-effect making the header on top unreadable.

THANKS APPLE. Jeez.

> The new UI is so incredibly ugly I honestly cannot understand how they thought it was acceptable to even released as a beta let alone an RC and now release.

I just tried it and maybe I've just been primed by the internet, but by god, I did not like it.

The side-bar design is terrible and lots of application (Maps, Music, etc) always look like they have a window overlapping the current application. So even with a single window open, my desktop already looks messy.

For people like me, with a slight OCD about certain details (don't talk to me about notification-bubbles), this is absolutely infuriating.

I'll disable auto-updates on all iDevices and Macs, and just keep on security-updates for previous gen OS as long as I can.

Eww.

> In my hands the 16 pro max looks small. I only care about battery life really and it is really not great

The Max version may have room for a bigger battery, but it needs to drive a bigger screen so it’s a double-edged sword. I’m not sure if you end up ahead or not.

If battery life is an issue you can turn off some the more gimmicky «pro» features like the always on screen.

I have a «regular» 15 pro and I think battery life is good. I haven’t had a single day where overrun out of battery so far.

> among other things, all the Emacs versions I've tried (stock GNU Emacs or Mac Port, downloaded binary blobs and compiled on my machine) are either immediately unusable or become so slow after a day that they are almost unusable.

So basically my #1 work tool will no longer work.

That’s a hard deal-breaker right there.

As a longer-term means of escape, what’s the best way to run a «full» Linux desktop on a otherwise managed Mac?

So for people with any practical needs what so ever (like banking): No.

At this point Android isn’t meaningfully an open-source platform any more and it haven’t been for years.

On the somewhat refreshing side, they are no longer being dishonest about it.

> There's VBA in excel, but I'm thinking about more like dynamic table that's linked to an endpoint

I believe Excel has PowerBI for this purpose.

I kept hitting my head against the wall, and getting a million stupid errors trying to resolve header files. But in the end I got it working, and I will no longer be one of the guys pestering the old Cocoapods servers :)

For whoever comes after me... When ChatGPT suggests changing your Objective-C from this:

   #import package.h

To this:

   #import <package/package.h>

Just skip that rabbithole of inifiny-nested failure, and just do this instead:

   @import package;

And you're done. You can thank me later :)