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New comment by bslanej in "Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it "hostile/political""

bslanej — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:59:40 +0000

The same result for the average poor sap, the only difference is who’s pocketing that price increase.

New comment by bslanej in "Cybercriminals Take Responsibility for Spain and Portugal Power Outages"

bslanej — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:53:02 +0000

I don’t even consider cyberattack a possibility since I assume all systems involved are completely airgapped. This was obviously something done from the inside.

New comment by bslanej in "The Zuckerbergs Founded Two Bay Area Schools. Now They're Closing"

bslanej — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:36:40 +0000

> opened the schools to help communities of color

Farewell, racist schools. You won’t be missed.

New comment by bslanej in "Intel Removed All CPU information pages before 2nd generation processors"

bslanej — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:35:45 +0000

That’s a really long stretch there.

New comment by bslanej in "Intel Removed All CPU information pages before 2nd generation processors"

bslanej — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:04:55 +0000

What does open source have to do with this?

New comment by bslanej in "Still standing"

bslanej — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 23:53:17 +0000

There will always be places devoid of normies, thankfully. They exist in every platform, new and old. Knowledge of dog whistles will be necessary though…

New comment by bslanej in "How a single line of code could brick your iPhone"

bslanej — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 23:41:30 +0000

I’m too lazy to look it up but there was some string you could send over IRC that would make some routers drop the connection immediately - if you pasted that string in a big channel you would see dozens of people immediately disconnect.

New comment by bslanej in "University of Waterloo withholds coding contest results over suspected AI use"

bslanej — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 19:18:37 +0000

That’s hyperbolic. An LLM gets you like… 90% of the way there. That’s much better than the previous baseline of 0%

New comment by bslanej in "University of Waterloo withholds coding contest results over suspected AI use"

bslanej — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:53:05 +0000

Have you tried using code generated by an LLM? It rarely runs at all until you fix it yourself.

It reminds me of how ezines would publish source codes to run exploits with slight errors so script kiddies couldn’t run them if they didn’t know how to fix them.

New comment by bslanej in "Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining"

bslanej — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:36:05 +0000

How do you “accidentally post a photo”?

New comment by bslanej in "Microsoft subtracts C/C++ extension from VS Code forks"

bslanej — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:24:28 +0000

>it's like saying "hey I got free lemonade here, but you can't have it unless I decide I like you first."

Which is completely reasonable, you may need a different analogy.

New comment by bslanej in "Henry James was not at home in America"

bslanej — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:29:52 +0000

More like they love their content so much that they think those who want to read it would endure that penance.

If you are seeing ads it’s probably because you inadvertently disabled your ad blocker or it’s not properly configured.

New comment by bslanej in "I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video]"

bslanej — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:19:45 +0000

You have to reverse engineer the protocol encryption, which is illegal in some places. Also, lots of copyrighted material such as NPC names and quest text must be stored in the server and transmitted from the server to the client, which is piracy in plain terms.

New comment by bslanej in "I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video]"

bslanej — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:15:34 +0000

First, to download the world of Warcraft client, you need to log into the battlenet client, which requires an account. Second, the world of Warcraft client is completely useless without a server to connect to. Alternative world of Warcraft servers are technically possible but illegal to run.

New comment by bslanej in "I just got an ad in VS Code"

bslanej — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:50:42 +0000

I think maybe later means no. But it’s worded to assure the user that the choice is reversible.

New comment by bslanej in "Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss"

bslanej — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:32:07 +0000

Because our metabolisation mechanisms are extremely complex and many things, like genetics, decide how we metabolise food; we are not petrol engines.

New comment by bslanej in "How Meta AI Staff Deemed More Than 7M Books to Have No "Economic Value""

bslanej — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:18:16 +0000

I agree, but I don’t see how facebook getting punished gets us any closer to a good situation.

New comment by bslanej in "TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale"

bslanej — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:34:21 +0000

Both parents working makes child rearing extremely hard but there are some obvious taboos around this discussion.

New comment by bslanej in "TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale"

bslanej — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:31:57 +0000

Your comment mentions that your nephew swaps between games every 5 minutes but it doesn’t say why that is bad. Or maybe I don’t see how the argument follows.

New comment by bslanej in "How Meta AI Staff Deemed More Than 7M Books to Have No "Economic Value""

bslanej — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:28:27 +0000

Piracy is very good and morally right except when it’s someone I don’t like doing it.