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raverbashing··on Finance leaders warn over Mythos as UK banks prepare to use powerful ... AI tool
Finance leaders (who can't save a doc as pdf however many times they were told) warn over Mythos (because anything new to them is scary)
raverbashing··on EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted
"hacked"

And then this person says the pin shouldn't be encrypted (but I bet if this was otherwise they would be complaining as well)

I think scrutiny over the apps are fine, but treating every issue with the same brush is not

> this product will be the catalyst for an enormous breach at some point

Breach of what exactly is not clear since most information never leaves the phone

raverbashing··on Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12761986 (being this link more than 10yrs old is not surprising)

raverbashing··on Caffeine, cocaine, and painkillers detected in sharks from The Bahamas
Well I don't think Cocaine Snail would have been a blockbuster
raverbashing··on Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
Especially if the 640k are "in your hand" and the rest is "in the cloud"
raverbashing··on Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user
Honestly of the big companies sometimes I feel like Apple is the worse offender in i18n questions

Sure they have most of their stuff translated but some rough edges make me feel they do the bare minimum:

- Their ISO keyboard sucks. Sure their overall quality makes it good but of the major brands their Enter key is the most flimsy attempt at it

- Some long standing bugs https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250299816?sortBy=rank (which I had the impressions they were made worse in localized version or at least if you used a non American date format)

- General weirdness with translation missing sometimes

raverbashing··on US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
Yes

Oversimplified might be a better description but there needs to be a rule even dumb people can use

So the rule is: discard whatever comes first

If you expect every home distiller to understand the nuances of this you're going to end up with a lot of "accidents"

raverbashing··on Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops
Which is pretty much obvious to anyone who has heard of bitcoin in the year of our lord 2026

Especially since the "sell shovels during a gold rush" has been used to apply to nVidia

raverbashing··on Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops
Yup

The problem with BTC going down is that it's a double whammy of not only BTC going down but also the cost of its shovels going up

Before: BTC pays $100k but a shovel costs $300

Now: BTC pays $70k but a shovel costs $$??

Bitcoin asked the right questions but came back with the wrong answers

raverbashing··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
I think the main problem is that you lose the surface anodization and might end up with a more frail surface there (surface, the structural integrity is going to suffer but not much I guess)
raverbashing··on Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989
I'm surprised RHEL is requiring AVX2 models, they usually had some slack in processor requirements (though I'm sure not as big as Debian)
raverbashing··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
"We have two versions of Outlook and none of them are working"
raverbashing··on New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK
> you can buy a PASS age verification card at the local post office for 15£

If there's one thing the UK internet has taught me is that some brits will throw a fit for every minor inconvenience they face

"Dole appoint at 10am 30min from home!?" Means it's an unsurmountable challenge from them as they might be hangover from the previous day and what do you mean I have to pay the bus fare to get there?

Of course the privacy point stands. But their complaint is not about privacy, is about the effort

raverbashing··on EFF is leaving X
It would be ironic if Xorg launched a twitter competitor using a custom update protocol (an X extension) over the network and TCL
raverbashing··on Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6
I guess something like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-oper...
raverbashing··on Session is shutting down in 90 days
A collection of strongly opinionated crypto experts running on hopes more than money is no way to run a government^W^W a messaging app
raverbashing··on Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6
> C@+ (try to search this one nowadays)

I think not even Wikipedia knows about this (at least with a quick search)

raverbashing··on Oracle hires new CFO with $950K salary as thousands face layoffs
This number is probably not counting equity (not sure a CFO would have a variable compensation as well)
raverbashing··on 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone
I don't think he's joking, some people are just like that
raverbashing··on Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed
I wonder how this works on Windows, if any service overrides/resets it
raverbashing··on 81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone
lol not everyone wants/needs an iPhone

And yes. People need to get on with the times.

In the same way people "need" a power connection in their house. And water plumbing. And used to need a phone line to "participate in society"

raverbashing··on I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK
One very egregious example: Moovit

Even with mobile FF and adblock their mobile website is completely unusable. Now ask me if I'm happy to download ther app if their website is a complete POS like that

The desktop website works "fine" for the most part though

raverbashing··on German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
Ah yes a business like the mafia
raverbashing··on Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of EuropeanUnion inaction
I'd give it that matching hashes is probably the least worse way of going about this

Except for that pesky detail of hash collisions

raverbashing··on Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of EuropeanUnion inaction
> Reaffirming our commitment to regulatory capture and mass surveillance

FTFY

raverbashing··on Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
Yes and (IIRC) they don't want to flyby while at full moon on the far side as to have some shadows to help differentiate the terrain
raverbashing··on Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
Yeah your life must really suck if you only care about immediate hurdles and pains without making room for hope or creativity
raverbashing··on Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses
I think you can just replace it with Vaseline (Petroleum jelly) for 99% of the benefits
raverbashing··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
Yup, it would be so much better to have it tied to simcard (though it might not help so much with anonymity)

But I think there are still cell operators without sim card

raverbashing··on German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function
> Meanwhile you could be using a hardware security module in a bank vault

Yeah you could, but most people won't

Should they allow for a yubikey on a non-google phone? Or your own private key? Yes they should. But then there's the issue of enrollment, etc.

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