> This was also a time when Flash content was supported by Apple QuickTime While QuickTime supported some Flash content, my recollection is that it only supported simple animations which could be mapped onto QuickTime's…
There was even an unpleasant period in the early 2000s where MSIE was the only viable browser on Mac OS. Safari and Firefox hadn't been released yet, Netscape 4.x never made the jump to OS X, and ports of the Mozilla…
LLMs are also incredibly poor at recognizing that they're "out of their depth", especially when their context is already full of their attempts to do something.
> They stopped piling on all sorts of non-standard vendor lock-in stuff after IE6. IE6 also stuck around a lot longer than previous versions. It was released in 2001; IE7 didn't show up until 2006, and was an optional…
I've seen a number of "child invents thing" news stories where the supposed invention was entirely bogus. For example, one widely circulated story in the late 2000s involved a young student in Nepal inventing a solar…
No, neither - the amount of CO2 that'd be needed for use as a refrigerant is insignificant. There's already a lot of CO2 produced as a byproduct of industrial chemical processes like petroleum refining. Some of it is…
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Yes. This typically manifested as either: - religious or mystical experiences, often paired with the belief that the AI model is a manifestation of a divine being and/or has become sentient - belief that the person has…
I also have some fond memories of WWWBoard instances, from Matt's Script Archive. https://www.scriptarchive.com/wwwboard.html
The automated installers only showed up later, in the phpBB2 era. Early "mods" for phpBB had to be applied by hand - the typical format was a text file (or a series of forum posts) containing descriptions of changes…
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Well, then, I guess we'll just have to release the hypnodrones.
+1. Especially given that it can even run in the browser - https://yowasp.org/
ICE40UP5K is large enough to synthesize a simple RISC-V CPU with some basic peripherals. It's not huge or fast, but it's capable enough.
> GNUstep ran early MacOS apps on Linux after Apple bought Next and adopted their APIs. No, it did not. There was no point at which GNUstep provided binary compatibility with Mac OS applications - while the two…
I would be much more surprised by a system of commands which could be read in any order.
The subsection requires that the person "knowingly materially misrepresent [...] that material or activity is infringing". Proving that the misrepresentation was made knowingly can be extremely difficult.
From a pragmatic perspective: Berkeley Systems went through a long chain of acquisitions in the late 90s/early 2000s and eventually ended up under Vivendi, which hasn't done anything significant with the rights since a…
What I'm getting at is that metadata that claims that a photo is "real" won't necessarily convince people that it is, and the lack of that metadata doesn't mean anything at all. About the only real use I've seen for…
And I'm not sure it's even useful to solve. The presence/absence of a digital signature is unlikely to ever be the deciding factor in whether people accept or reject an image as authentic.
At least there was some genuine effort involved there. What I find most disheartening about the current wave of AI-generated projects is that there's often very little personal involvement - someone had a general idea…
No - if you did that, you're likely to end up with an email address which many services will treat as suspicious or reject entirely, both for incoming and outbound mail. And you'll still get spam.
> Is FTP really worse HTTP? I don't think I'd even call it that. FTP had one purpose: it was an early protocol for remotely managing files. It never had any intent to support dynamically generated or otherwise "virtual"…
> Denying the existence of a major dynasty is like declaring that Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson didn't exist There's a great difference of scale. Lincoln died about 150 years ago. There are voluminous primary…
> This was also a time when Flash content was supported by Apple QuickTime While QuickTime supported some Flash content, my recollection is that it only supported simple animations which could be mapped onto QuickTime's…
There was even an unpleasant period in the early 2000s where MSIE was the only viable browser on Mac OS. Safari and Firefox hadn't been released yet, Netscape 4.x never made the jump to OS X, and ports of the Mozilla…
LLMs are also incredibly poor at recognizing that they're "out of their depth", especially when their context is already full of their attempts to do something.
> They stopped piling on all sorts of non-standard vendor lock-in stuff after IE6. IE6 also stuck around a lot longer than previous versions. It was released in 2001; IE7 didn't show up until 2006, and was an optional…
I've seen a number of "child invents thing" news stories where the supposed invention was entirely bogus. For example, one widely circulated story in the late 2000s involved a young student in Nepal inventing a solar…
No, neither - the amount of CO2 that'd be needed for use as a refrigerant is insignificant. There's already a lot of CO2 produced as a byproduct of industrial chemical processes like petroleum refining. Some of it is…
WordPress is free software. Its users are under no obligation to contribute to its development, or to make financial "contributions" to Automattic.
Yes. This typically manifested as either: - religious or mystical experiences, often paired with the belief that the AI model is a manifestation of a divine being and/or has become sentient - belief that the person has…
I also have some fond memories of WWWBoard instances, from Matt's Script Archive. https://www.scriptarchive.com/wwwboard.html
The automated installers only showed up later, in the phpBB2 era. Early "mods" for phpBB had to be applied by hand - the typical format was a text file (or a series of forum posts) containing descriptions of changes…
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Well, then, I guess we'll just have to release the hypnodrones.
+1. Especially given that it can even run in the browser - https://yowasp.org/
ICE40UP5K is large enough to synthesize a simple RISC-V CPU with some basic peripherals. It's not huge or fast, but it's capable enough.
> GNUstep ran early MacOS apps on Linux after Apple bought Next and adopted their APIs. No, it did not. There was no point at which GNUstep provided binary compatibility with Mac OS applications - while the two…
I would be much more surprised by a system of commands which could be read in any order.
The subsection requires that the person "knowingly materially misrepresent [...] that material or activity is infringing". Proving that the misrepresentation was made knowingly can be extremely difficult.
From a pragmatic perspective: Berkeley Systems went through a long chain of acquisitions in the late 90s/early 2000s and eventually ended up under Vivendi, which hasn't done anything significant with the rights since a…
What I'm getting at is that metadata that claims that a photo is "real" won't necessarily convince people that it is, and the lack of that metadata doesn't mean anything at all. About the only real use I've seen for…
And I'm not sure it's even useful to solve. The presence/absence of a digital signature is unlikely to ever be the deciding factor in whether people accept or reject an image as authentic.
At least there was some genuine effort involved there. What I find most disheartening about the current wave of AI-generated projects is that there's often very little personal involvement - someone had a general idea…
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No - if you did that, you're likely to end up with an email address which many services will treat as suspicious or reject entirely, both for incoming and outbound mail. And you'll still get spam.
> Is FTP really worse HTTP? I don't think I'd even call it that. FTP had one purpose: it was an early protocol for remotely managing files. It never had any intent to support dynamically generated or otherwise "virtual"…
> Denying the existence of a major dynasty is like declaring that Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson didn't exist There's a great difference of scale. Lincoln died about 150 years ago. There are voluminous primary…