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deusum··on Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candy
This would be a fascinating Code Golf challenge.
deusum··on Space secrets leak disclosure
That $10k was probably the limit for their work, not someone else’s stolen time.
deusum··on Arthur Whitney releases an open-source subset of K with MIT license
Script kiddies bust their butts phishing and installing black market ransomware. This Whitney fellow is probably sitting in his office somewhere expecting people to just throw $100k (per month!) at him. ;-)
deusum··on Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)
I believe it's now well into the realm of genericization.[1] Xerox lost a major lawsuit relatedly, iirc.

[1] e.g, https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/15-product-trade...

deusum··on Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
No one has pointed out that the AI companies are being sued for 'stealing' vast troves of copyrighted data, and the case is still in progress.

If the police departments are complicit, then does copyright stand to lose de facto as AI will only be increasingly implemented while the case slogs through the courts?

deusum··on Bing climbs to 13% of search engine market share in the US
My favorite part is when you search for a local file, but it fails because it can't connect to the internet.
deusum··on Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later
With AI we can expect full disinformation posts with supporting conversations.
deusum··on Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server
This would be good opportunity to test out BSDs or Illumos variants, as well.
deusum··on Antarctic English
At the Toys-R-Us in Antarctica, kids really don't grow up!

"I don't wanna grow up, I'm a Toys-R-Us kid..."

deusum··on New jet engine enables efficiency at every speed for cheaper orbital launches
Thank you, that context was illuminating.
deusum··on Whole Earth Index
"Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002."
deusum··on Princess: Coding Like Royalty
Execute the function correctly, or the Princess will have you executed.
deusum··on VirtualBox KVM Public Release
Virt-Manager does allow you to edit the xml config file by hand from within the interface. So, yes you can use ipv6; but no, it's not a convenient point and click gui interaction.

I'd be curious to hear the specific reasoning behind it.

deusum··on A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
Is it just me? His posts always begin with an interesting technical anecdote and then veer off into boring propaganda with sullies the reputability. It's an intellectual let-down.
deusum··on I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy
Being a pro means you can fix anything you break - preferably before anyone noticies
deusum··on How Gyms Make Money (2015)
AI can probably fix that in the near future.
deusum··on Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
Qubes does allow creating a VM for just about any program or service. But, in my experience, it suffers from latency. So, while fine for web browsing, it wasn't too keen on playing videos. YMMV of course, but Adobe products are already hogs without the emu layer.
deusum··on Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)
We're still finding roman coins in the UK, that should be enough physical evidence against the idea. But, I imagine salt would be useful for bartering with some of the "barbari" the soldiers encountered.
deusum··on Video-Game Company Unity Closes Offices Following Death Threat
Nah, that sort of regulation hurts innovation. /ˢ
deusum··on Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP
...a textbook oxymoron?
deusum··on Changing the Android captive portal page (2020)
Just marvel at how much data/metadata they get from that little trick when multiplied by millions users.
deusum··on How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust
People keep saying they need a light and fast distro - no systemd, no glibc - but it breaks a lot of other software. So, you need to be prepared to patch a lot of stuff, and build packages from source.

Personally, I would love more of them to consider FreeBSD. It's got all of those features, a linux compatibility layer if necessary, a more permissive license, etc. I'd just love to see a lot more developers helping over there.

deusum··on Anatomy of a Firework (2002)
Page was probably designed for Netscape Navigator 4.
deusum··on Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings
Save a lot of time and space by doing an rm -rf first
deusum··on UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years
And to add to that, these companies hide addictive processed sugars and additives in such you that can be psychologically if not physically dependent on things without realizing it.
deusum··on UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years
Expecting everyone to just give up meat and bread for rice and beans is nonsense. And eating too many calories is unhealthy, but who are you to decide. You're blaming the victim.
deusum··on Nvidia researchers setup an open source sensor network on Antartica
NVIDIA on FreeBSD is better than ever, but Wayland is broken, still, if my failed attempts are a fair measure.
deusum··on Nvidia researchers setup an open source sensor network on Antartica
NVIDIA would rather bring open source to Antarctica than Linux.
deusum··on Vodafone unveils prototype 5G network built on a Raspberry Pi computer
Software updates discontinued after twelve months.

New hardware required for modest <insert basic feature> improvement.

deusum··on The Janet Language
The parentheses would appear to antagonize the humours.
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