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omniglottal··on Removing Guix from Debian
Yes, and these numbers have been established as what we in the industry call "invalid".
omniglottal··on Navy backs right to repair after $13B carrier goes half-fed
Maybe they are an aircraft carrier that is deployed in places that no reasonable human can expect a service technician to visit, and this level of imbecility should generally be avoided.
omniglottal··on The low fertility trap: An analysis of the great worldwide baby bust
You're being bad for the community. But thanks for including a well - spoken, albeit opinionated reply, in your otherwise rude, projecting, and downright censorious comment.
omniglottal··on Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel
This rationale is fundamentally incorrect. God's gift of Free Will (unto Man) is specifically the power (with faith) to manifest that which is nondeterministic. Where you got this notion of determinism, and thus nonjudgment, is a fancy set of mental gymnastics which is inconsistent with any known Christian teachings.
omniglottal··on RestGPT
There was insufficient context. Imagine I tell you "turn on that light, where I'm pointing". You'd do no better. No one here is under the conviction magical prescience is involved. This tooling provides the mechanism for an initial API call to be tied to the event described, in natural language, as "look where I'm pointing". The first response (to ask for clarification) is precisely what a human agent would do to get context to clarify the coarse-grained request. The second guess, assuming you disabled the (explicit) allowance for clarifying questions, is also a magnificent recognition of implicit, common-sense context. Seems it's even more effective than you at following the true context for this tools appropriate placement.
omniglottal··on RestGPT
Indeed, the context is "people using natural language to make requests". No soul on earth would consider/use your phrasing. I (a human) have clue what your request is for - "lowest observed request volume"...??? Try "raisr the lights where we usually aren't asking you for much" and you might get tge same result. As far as I can tell, brightness increase in the garage (where, I'd guess, you've made the least requests), the AI apparenyly understood better than you or I what you meant.
omniglottal··on A group of open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions
Your false dichotomy is disingenuous, a distraction/derailment to the discourse, and does not engage in addressing the issue of a person wanting to pay the developer yet having no privacy-respecting way to do so. Please revisit site guidelines on "snark".
omniglottal··on Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication
An "interesting distance" at which this device could communicate is the distance which the Titan submersible operated below its ship.
omniglottal··on Device offers long-distance, low-power underwater communication
There is no more information, as described in TFA, for reasons of this information having not been discovered yet by the researchers studying the new tech.
omniglottal··on Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecution
The argument for inevitability is inevitably a lie. His opinion is engulfed in the notion that there exists no individual whose will is truly free as if given by God alone.
omniglottal··on Australian MPs to lobby US to drop Julian Assange prosecution
"Toying with an idea" is fundamentally considering its real world implementation unless your toy idea is intended to only ever be just fantasy.
omniglottal··on Therapy isn't fixing America's mental health crisis
Or, as another apt metaphor, its like taking hydration tablets instead of water. Not that they don't help, but that you're using them wrong. In your example, it sounds like arrogance, hubris, and dogmatic conviction could be problematic if a person cannot recognize room for growth without first identifying a character flaw to grow out of.
omniglottal··on Therapy isn't fixing America's mental health crisis
Yeah, they may be great for empathy, but not so much for advice.
omniglottal··on Therapy isn't fixing America's mental health crisis
Going to a priest may be cheaper, but when they say to "go to god" instead of to the police when reporting rape and abuse, it becomes quite costly.
omniglottal··on Mentra aims to match neurodivergent jobseekers with jobs
There's a lot of imagined, manufactured offense here which should perhaps remain packed up. You know a strawman fallacy makes your paraphrasing both inaccurate and rude, no?
omniglottal··on Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root?
But can you uninstall the root certificates of an adversarial government (i.e., your own)? Is it now necessary that the chain of trust includes entities you don't trust?
omniglottal··on Hackers selling hacked police emails to request user data from TikTok, Facebook
Analog. Unencrypted. Your intent to misinform appears evident.
omniglottal··on Hackers selling hacked police emails to request user data from TikTok, Facebook
One of those countries is the US. Fax is unencrypted analog. If practice, tgis is ver certainly not secure. It's only "more secure" in the sense that unauthorized access to it counts as wiretapping, whereas the feds carved a loophole allowing them to read private emails without going afoul our anti-wiretapping laws. That you don't see the absurdity means our educational system is also doing what feds built it to do.
omniglottal··on Hackers selling hacked police emails to request user data from TikTok, Facebook
"Try" == "it's a .gov email - looks good!"
omniglottal··on Hackers selling hacked police emails to request user data from TikTok, Facebook
Never buillding a back door for LEOs sounds like a reasonable option.
omniglottal··on The Federal Helium reserve is for sale
Yes.
omniglottal··on Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates
Fundamentally, IoT security will increase in proportion to repairability and our. ability to modify/reflash IoT devices. No other change will have as great of an effect. If we (the people) cannot audit a thing, its obscurity will harbor vast troves of insecurities.
omniglottal··on Get a cable modem, go to jail (1999)
Not all the value going over those lines is created by the cable company. In fact, very little of it is, and it can only exist on the vast majority of its path with taxpayer support.
omniglottal··on The problem of creeping commercial surveillance (2022)
Commercial surveillance, by definition, includes the context of a surveillance company's primary customer. When dealing with the sale of endangered animal furs, you don't just go after the trappers. It's no good to ignore the market effects of an eager customer.
omniglottal··on The problem of creeping commercial surveillance (2022)
Consider asking a cashier for a new membership card and take the membership form home but never fill it out. Why give a fake name when you can give no name at all? The loyalty card still works, and a usage pattern is tracked, even if not necessarilly tied to an identity.
omniglottal··on NYPD will use drones to monitor backyard parties this weekend
You don't need "escape velocity", and a suitable PCP can be mail-ordered.
omniglottal··on At Taser maker Axon, ex-staffers say loyalty meant being tased or tattooed
The tattooless are not a protected class.
omniglottal··on Apple clarifies why it abandoned plan to detect CSAM in iCloud photos
s/positive/negative/
omniglottal··on Amazon insisted I report my missing package to the police
You can also afford yo noy answer your phone. This is the problem.
omniglottal··on Ask HN: Robot vacuum but without the privacy invasion?
Pihole is a DNS solution, not a firewall. Any IoT that calls home via IP address gets right through
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