For the people saying "this isn't affordable," decent thermal cameras range in the thousands of dollars.
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Entinel commented on Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security securityonline.info/intel... · Posted by u/transpute
That's all fodder for valid political debate. My objection is the denigration and condemnation of those with differing opinions. It's immature and toxic.
> Just because people are "good and decent" doesn't mean that the outcomes they support are thus.
That's exactly what many on the right think of leftist policies. That the bulk of sustainable and healthy solutions should come from the grassroots, and that many government interventions are unsustainable and have profound unintended negative consequences that aren't fully appreciated by the calculus of the left.
> There are many good and decent people, who are firmly rooted in reality and facts, that count themselves as part of the Republican base.
I'm sure that's true, but those people aren't being voted for. Those people aren't in power and as long as people are voting for literal Nazis there is no discussion to be had. Can't have a rational discussion with people who don't believe you should even exist.
Entinel commented on Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security securityonline.info/intel... · Posted by u/transpute
It worked several times before (Clinton email server, Hunter Biden laptop, various examples from other countries) so no reason why this argument would not work again.
It worked against Democrats because the Republican base does not care about facts and just need a reason, fact or fiction, to justify the outrage they are told to feel.
Entinel commented on Discord’s username change is causing discord theverge.com/2023/5/6/237... · Posted by u/marban
Seems like a way to normalize social profiles to have a loose federation across multiple services.
This could lead to pierat@coolsite.com@discord.com and use discord as a federated source of truth.
Yeah it's painful, but it doesn't 'feel bad'.
No this definitely feels real bad.
Entinel commented on Discord’s username change is causing discord theverge.com/2023/5/6/237... · Posted by u/marban
Battle.net used to have unique usernames. People would just add numbers to their name to make them unique.
Then for starcraft2 they added a 3 digit number - basically same system Discord uses - to differentiate usernames. But why? How is that any different than a unique username except it's now more restricting and confusing to boot.
Just have unique usernames and/or a display name.
You can argue it is more confusing but it is by definition not more restricting. It gives everyone the chance to just use whatever name they want which is the opposite of how restricting unique usernames are. Also, you can already change your display name by server.
Entinel commented on America Forgot About IBM Watson. Is ChatGPT Next? theatlantic.com/technolog... · Posted by u/fortran77
Watson had the unfortunate issue of being an IBM product and you couldn't pay me deal with IBM these days.
Who is "they"?
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/s686/cosponsors along with I assume intelligence organizations.
... so just ban it already. this is getting tiring as we're in the 3rd or 4th year of this nonsense.
They don't want to ban it. They want to be pass an Orwellian surveillance bill and Tiktok is being used as a boogeyman.
Entinel commented on Show HN: Remove sponsored content in YouTube videos butter.sonnet.io... · Posted by u/rpastuszak
A toggle allowing me not to see the videos with sponsored content would be nice and a comparable amount of work, probably less.
Saying we should have an off switch is different than saying there is tons of UX work going into making you watch these videos. Especially since there is no incentive on Youtube's part to do this because they don't get a content of sponsored revenue. You are moving goal post.
Note that there was an attempted discussion of that paper on HN but it was immediately flagged to death. It always happens for every such paper. People still aren't ready to do a full and honest accounting. Probably they never will be.