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It's the typography. I'm yet to see a single AI generated thing where the typography is not distorted. The examples generated are no exception, everything is just a bit off.

It's not horrible, no: it's off enough to make one feel uneasy looking at it without being able to pinpoint the problem.

pmlnron Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

Maemo.

pmlnron My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it

Read the linked entry.

pmlnron Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography

At this point it'd be easier to return to film.

pmlnron “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain

Microblogging.

That's the original term.

pmlnron Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

There wasn't anyone there.

I made a site, I put it out there, because as a 14 year old, it was fantastic I could make completely mine and nobody else's at all. That was the drive.

pmlnron We have a year to fix security everywhere

> The problem is no one ever built one that works for normal people.

https://getpublii.com/

pmlnron GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea

> True, but rooting the device de-facto means breaking the trust-chain of the OS.

Like every single Microsoft laptop out there does so? Think a bit harder before sentences like this, please.

pmlnron GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea

> Rooted devices make devices unpredictable.

you/we/me not having root while, for example, Google Play Services does on invalidates everything you said.

pmlnron GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea

> If you root or jailbreak your devices, you've, by their very nature, broken their security.

Wow. Please stop spreading things like this.

Not having root means not owning a device you paid for and have in your home.

pmlnron We have a year to fix security everywhere

"First step"

Nobody said it's enough, but it's a start.

pmlnron We have a year to fix security everywhere

Here's an idea: as a first step, simplify everything, and make sure you're aware how your stack works, and what it imports.

As an example: WordPress is a horrible thing, but the core has been through so much, that it's suprisingly secure. Then plugins and themes come, and whoosh, the security is gone.

We need a new KISS: keep it simple, stupid, secure.

pmlnron Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

> What are incentives for the average person? Their logic seems straightforward: they want to be where their friends are at

This is some sort of absolute, fundamental difference between the early web and now, at least how I experienced it as a teen in the late 90s in Hungary. Back then I made a site, because you wanted to make something of my own, in my style, as I wanted. There was nobody else online from my friends, and I made new friends online. I actually found my age people on ICQ, within the same subculture.

This "oh my friends are there" approach is what destroys everything. More precisely the people who can't decide for themselves.

pmlnron Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

For starts, there's no such thing as Twitter any more, and hasn't been, for years.

pmlnron Creepy Crawlies

https://petermolnar.net/article/asn-blocking-freebsd-pf-ngin...

It's not the most sophisticated thing.

pmlnron Creepy Crawlies

Fail2ban becomes a serious bottleneck at significant traffic. I've replaced it with a shell script and direct pf commands that run every few minutes.

pmlnron Glacier Mice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronauts

pmlnron What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022)

So did Edgar Allan Poe. As a non-native speaker, it's, to say the least, a challenging read.

pmlnron What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022)

    They're pathetically pretechnological or brilliantly post-technological.
    - Stargate Atlantis ep. 14: Sanctuary

pmlnron What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022)

> I don't like spending too much time in nature, I get hot and sweaty and itchy and bothered by bugs

To me, it sounds like you haven't been in nature at enough places to find the one that talks and belongs to you.

Travel more.

pmlnron CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

> The next session opens with a <past_decisions> block so the Executive remembers what it recommended last month.

This is morbidly unrealistic.

pmlnron Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Github activity from 12 years ago should be an indicator: https://github.com/tgodier?tab=overview&from=2014-12-01&to=2...

pmlnron Kill The Cookie Banner

Nothing.

People not reading back on history is still very much a thing.