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nomercy400··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
They did find tangible evidence.
nomercy400··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
It wasn't even an experiment for western markets. It was a small team that convinced leadership to try and sell for the international market. The initial focus was China. And then it became an unexpectedly large international success.
nomercy400··on US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]
Can I do the reverse now as well? Email a company a unilateral change in the TOS? Or do TOS's have provisions against that as well?

"I do not agree with your new TOS and will continue under your old TOS, and I will continue to use your service". And see when they will close your account down.

nomercy400··on Claude built a system in 3 rounds, latent bugs from round 1 exploded in round 3
Yes, this is simply 'technical debt'.

They should try to fix technical debt before going to the next round. Of course Claude can probably also do this.

nomercy400··on A CPU that runs entirely on GPU
I was taught years ago that MUL and ADD can be implemented in one or a few cycles. They can be the same complexity. What am I missing here?

Also, is it possible to use the GPU's ADD/MUL implementation? It is what a GPU does best.

nomercy400··on European Tech Alternatives
ASML is not a chip maker, it is a chip-maker maker. Still important though.

Europe should request a discount for ASML machines in a EU factory.

nomercy400··on Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth
Yes exactly.

Where the map does not represent the actual venue. Where every route leads to the gift shop. Where some displays are only in English. Where the flow between the rooms is non-intuitive. Where the audio guide is too loud/quiet and you cannot adjust the volume, or pause it during an item. Where there are mind-your-head bars in the way for no reason.

nomercy400··on Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
That also sounds like the client came with list of additional requirements.

The ethical part you mentioned is still true.

nomercy400··on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
That's about an extra iPhone every 3-4 years.
nomercy400··on Wall Street just lost $285B because of 13 Markdown files
I wrote my comment without knowing about the moltbook thing. I somehow missed it.

Good to know it exists.

nomercy400··on Wall Street just lost $285B because of 13 Markdown files
How long until we have agents talking to other agents in a web of agents, and together deciding on something catastrophic? Not individually, but somehow the result of a group process.
nomercy400··on A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
You might as well place it next to the © 2026, on the bottom every page.
nomercy400··on When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
From what I understand, sentry.io is like a tracing and logging service, used by many organizations.

This helps you (=NAS developer) to centralize logs and trace a request through all your application layers (client->server->db and back), so you can identify performance bottlenecks and measure usage patterns.

This is what you can find behind the 'anonymized diagnostics' and 'telemetry' settings you are asked to enable/consent.

For a WebUI it is implemented via javascript, which runs on the client's machine and hooks into the clicks, API calls and page content. It then sends statistics and logs back to, in this case, sentry.io. Your browser just sees javascript, so don't blame them. Privacy Badger might block it.

It is as nefarious as the developer of the application wants to use it. Normally you would use it to centralize logging, find performance issues, and get a basic idea on what features users actually use, so you can debug more easily. But you can also use it to track users. And don't forget, sentry.io is a cloud solution. If you post it on machines outside your control, expect it to be public. Sentry has a self-hosted solution, btw.

nomercy400··on American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis
In contrast to what other country?

If a think tank from a non-tariffed country would write this piece, they risk getting tariffs tomorrow.

And would Americans trust a (US) think tank in the juristiction of the US government right now?

nomercy400··on Microsoft admits Teams eats RAM on Win doing nothing, and "fix" is another EXE
This fix sounds more like a hack. Effective, but not a long term solution, and it has negative effects like the firewall.

It is almost guaranteed that people will not be able to call, due to firewall blocks or process not running or some other issue.

It feels kind of strange to pull the main feature/usecase of your application out of your application. I would reconsider my design by then.

nomercy400··on French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]
From a story point or view it makes sense. Why try to please those not present at Christmas table.

If the table was filled with carrots as guests, do you think the rabbits would be invited? The original wolf would.

I know, I know, it is about bettering yourself.

nomercy400··on CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally
Anonymity should not be possible if you pay/receive money for it. Anonymity should be possible if it doesn't involve money / contracts with money. See my sibling post on my view.
nomercy400··on CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally
The important part is that there is a difference between

content for money

and

content not for money

The first should make the hoster liable, they have a contract involving money. The second should not automatically make the host liable.

nomercy400··on CJEU has made it effectively impossible to run a user-generated platform legally
The party which decides to show the advertisment in exchange for payment, should be more responsible for what they are showing than a free user posting content.

Now things become interesting when a users pays for ranking or 'verification' checkmarks. What makes that content different than a paid advertisment?

nomercy400··on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
You cannot lead if you only copy.
nomercy400··on XSLT RIP
How about using Javascript to fetch the XML (like you would do with JSON), and then parse/transform it with a Javascript or wasm XSLT library? Just like you would do with JSON.

You need a server to serve Json as well. Basically, see XML as data format.

RSS readers are not chrome, so they have their own libraries for parsing/transforming with XSLT.

nomercy400··on XSLT RIP
Aren't there other ways to load and parse a technical format like RSS to a human-readable format? Like you would do with JSON.

Or can't you polyfill this / use a library to parse this?

nomercy400··on What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
Private site. The event site could hold events where cameras are forbidden. There are other examples like spas or swimming pools where cameras are forbidden.
nomercy400··on Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords
I had to do this as well. My account got spammed daily in such a way I had to verify my account and change my password on every login.

With the alias I no longer have this issue.

nomercy400··on Sign in with Google in Chrome
I always thought drawing over the content area is a no-no, because then anybody can fake that dialog via html/css and make it do something completely different.
nomercy400··on OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio
Do you have more details or examples on how to downsample the context in the encoder? I treat the encoder as an opaque block, so I have no idea where to start.
nomercy400··on The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
Does that also work for showers, with mixing hot and cold water. I feel that a 1% change in the knob/balance goes from too cold to too hot.
nomercy400··on Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought
I wonder how you decide to measure things in years on this scale. I mean, in about 10^10 years, the whole concept of a 'year' will stop to exist. What will you do then?

I would expect something like 'tera-seconds', or something related to a cosmological constant but at cosmological scale, like the time to decay hydrogen or number of caesium vibrations for example, but then scaled at AU scale. A value not related to time or space.

nomercy400··on MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming
I know nothing of baseball.

If pitching evolves faster than hitting, does that mean the response time of the hitter becomes shkrter? Can't you move the pitcher further away to give the hitter more time to respond?

nomercy400··on You're protecting your data wrong – Introducing the Protected Query Pattern
I am kind of missing how the 'pure' query problem is solved.

Say I have 10000 rows, and my authorization gives access to 3 of those rows.

With security in the database, you return 3 rows. From what I can read, the protect pattern returns 10000 rows from the database, but discard 9997 of them afterwards. Doesn't this increase load and memory usage? Shouldn't there be a balance?

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