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MadameMinty··on Never buy a .online domain
Sounds textbook to me.
MadameMinty··on Never buy a .online domain
The registrar should ignore reports of abuse, especially if coming from an authoritative source with vast resources that's been collecting reports on its own?

No.

The source should be more careful. It's the equivalent of a renowned newspaper printing warning a restaurant being unsafe to visit. Should the customers' willingness to visit be magically decoupled from this opinion?

MadameMinty··on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
Next up, 2% cut whenever you use any banking or payment app. Only 1.5% when you use Apple Pay!
MadameMinty··on Just the Browser
Funny because it would mean the guess is a hole in one when essentially blindfolded. Glad it looks like it!
MadameMinty··on We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports
I've noticed this also. But I didn't ascribe it to LLMs, rather figured there is some sort of rogue educator in India who's instructing students to do this on public repos and they just don't know better. But the prof should.
MadameMinty··on Just the Browser
[1] Sounds difficult without any other detail.

But it would be funny if it's this: https://archive.org/details/teachyourselfweb00lema/page/n9/m...

MadameMinty··on GitHub Incident
Angry unicorns seem to be over.
MadameMinty··on Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections
Making strawmen. Your position of "policy is impossible to write" is inane.
MadameMinty··on Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections
This notion always puzzles me. It's not a complex idea.

Just like, say, banning GMO bananas. But such regulation is a whole text which may need to define or refer to definitions of "GMO" and "banana", specify what's banned, exemptions, enforcement authority, penalties, and so on. Maybe 10 pages of legalese. It requires time, expertise, research. But it's still just a ban on GMO bananas.

Or a programmed UI button to show a message. Simple. The specifics of the execution are a separate matter.

It's not "indescribable", but no one will describe it to you ad hoc and expecting it is silly.

MadameMinty··on Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections
It'd simply have to be carefully drafted policy rather than an internet comment.
MadameMinty··on Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections
Simple. Don't protect it just like sharing nuclear secrets or CSAM isn't protected.
MadameMinty··on Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections
I imagine the random person, if they were to accept, would likely find themselves out of depth and simply outsource most of the job to whoever convinces them they're the right choice.

The system would then morph into a variant of representative democracy. Instead of millions voting for, say, around a thousand of various level representatives, you get a random thousand "voting" for "consultants".

These consultants would be directly hired by the random thousand to do the work for them. They would predicably have marketing campaigns to make themselves seem the right pick. They might even offer their services for free. Demagoguery and corporate sponsorship as usual.

In the end 1000 people would hire, say, 1-1000 consultants to represent them. Thus emulating the original process, or worse. The only difference is the tiny electorate, which increases volatility.

If you'd like to regulate it to prevent this, you'd have to expend an effort and fight similar pressures as with doing it in any other system.

MadameMinty··on Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings
I see it. Overworked special effects artists, I suppose. It's funny how well some movie CGI from the 90s holds up in comparison.
MadameMinty··on Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014)
Yes, but that doesn't potentially waste your opponents' time.
MadameMinty··on Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface
I'm extremely picky and Atkinson Hyperlegible was my favorite variable-width font. Never knew there's a "Next", so +
MadameMinty··on Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014)
I remember a protocol which required the text to be replaced with random-length output of a Markov chain text generator, and only then pixelizing.

Oh, you've spent hours on unpixelizing my secrets? Well congratulations, is the last telescope that, nor drink from shrinking nothing out and this and shutting.

MadameMinty··on Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014)
You should be blacking out information, to be sure, but credit card numbers are one of the very few examples where cracking makes sense, given that otherwise you don't know the pattern nor the font. Assuming it's text at all.
MadameMinty··on Maybe the default settings are too high
Please move on, then.
MadameMinty··on Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes
That reminds me when I got a server-grade Xeon E5472 (LGA771) and after some very minor tinkering (knife, sticker mod) fit it into a cheap consumer-grade LGA775 socket. Same microarchitecture, power delivery class, all that.

LGA2011-0 and LGA2011-1 are very unalike, from the memory controller to vast pin rearrangement.

So not only they call two different sockets almost the same per the post, but they also call essentially the same sockets differently to artificially segment the market.

MadameMinty··on GPT-5
The idea matches, but 2019 is a far cry from, say, 1930.
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