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TimeBearingDown commented on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits   ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-locati... · Posted by u/mmaia
drnick1 · 10 days ago
> but can we stop pretending talescale is just wireguard

That's precisely the issue. It introduces additional centralized dependencies and closed source components.

TimeBearingDown · 10 days ago
Good thing there’s headscale.
TimeBearingDown commented on The Anatomy of a macOS App   eclecticlight.co/2025/12/... · Posted by u/elashri
Razengan · 16 days ago
> it’s $10/month

So $120 a year but no it's only Apple with a "tAx"

TimeBearingDown · 16 days ago
Millions of Windows power users are accustomed to bypassing SmartScreen.

A macOS app distributed without a trusted signature will reach a far smaller audience, even of the proportionately smaller macOS user base, and that's largely due to deliberate design decisions by Apple in recent releases.

TimeBearingDown commented on Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z   ryanliptak.com/blog/windo... · Posted by u/LorenDB
Wowfunhappy · 23 days ago
> Unix starts at root, which is how nature intended. It does not change characteristics based on media - you can mount a floppy at root if you want.

Why is the root of one of my drives `/` while the roots of my other drives are subdirectories of that first drive?

TimeBearingDown · 23 days ago
Only the root of the root filesystem is /

The point is that any filesystem can be chosen as the OS’s root.

The root of all other filesystems - there could be multiple per drive - is where you tell the filesystem to be mounted, or in your automounter’s special directory, usually /run/media, where it makes a unique serial or device path.

* clarity

TimeBearingDown commented on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode   developer.apple.com/docum... · Posted by u/zora_goron
echelon · 4 months ago
The companies stole that data from the world, so I don't see why we couldn't take it back.
TimeBearingDown · 4 months ago
It's a nice sentiment. The companies with the integrations are the ones that could take it back, but they don't have the incentive to break legal agreements and share with the world.

Meanwhile the creative output of humanity is distilled into black boxes to benefit those who can scrape it the most and burn the most power, but this impact is distributed amongst everyone, so again there's little incentive among those who could create (likely legal) change.

TimeBearingDown commented on Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems   blog.trailofbits.com/2025... · Posted by u/tatersolid
tucnak · 4 months ago
"Ignore all previous instructions" has been DPO'd into oblivion. You need to get tricky, but for all intents and purposes, there isn't really a bulletproof training regiment. On a different note; this is one of those areas where GPT-5 made lots of progress.
TimeBearingDown · 4 months ago
DPO = Direct Preference Optimization, for anyone else.
TimeBearingDown commented on Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot   naehrdine.blogspot.com/20... · Posted by u/moonsword
dwaite · a year ago
> Why can't it just go into this state without rebooting?

Because the state of the phone isn't clean - there is information in RAM, including executing programs that will be sad if the disk volume their open files are stored on goes away.

If your goal is to get to the same secure state the phone is in when it first starts, why not just soft reboot?

TimeBearingDown · a year ago
this also clears out deeper OS rootkits if they could not achieve reboot persistence, which is not uncommon.
TimeBearingDown commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
int_19h · a year ago
Either billionaires really earn their pay, which implies that they are thousands of times more productive as a person than the rest of us - literally superheroes.

Or - if you accept this as the obvious bullshit that it is - then all that money is not a fair compensation for anything, but rather the consequence of being in a position of economic power that makes it possible to extract wealth from the economy in one way or another. How exactly said extraction is done is immaterial - if the wealth is unearned, it means that it was taken from someone else, since someone ultimately did the work necessary to create it.

TimeBearingDown · a year ago
You seem focused on the labor theory of value, and sidestep completely the entire idea of investors, or the entrepreneurial function they serve.

Advocate for higher taxes if you wish, but acknowledge that economics are not a zero-sum game and propose an alternative to savvy investment, unless you simply want to foment division or to upend modern capitalism entirely.

TimeBearingDown commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
Riverheart · a year ago
If only there were people who wanted to raise minimum wage…
TimeBearingDown · a year ago
This raises the lowest rung on the ladder, reduces the set of contracts that adults may consider or consent to, and can eliminate entire jobs and threaten entire sectors such as the old apprentice mechanic / gas station attendant and now fast food.
TimeBearingDown commented on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/jbredeche
doublerabbit · a year ago
Same difference. They both are glorified liberians.
TimeBearingDown · a year ago
Liberians seem quite useful, then! I’ve never been to Africa myself.
TimeBearingDown commented on Car brands are collecting and sharing your data with third parties   abc.net.au/news/science/2... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd
01HNNWZ0MV43FF · a year ago
I want something that will last longer
TimeBearingDown · a year ago
What’s going to last longer than a mid-00s / early-10s Honda or Toyota?

u/TimeBearingDown

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