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Comment Re:whitelist sites that don't use Cloudflare (Score 1) 87

You can opt out of Cloudflare by clicking the 'x' to close tab.

I find myself doing this frequently and not always voluntarily. Haven't even bothered to check whether it's Clownflare, but most likely. ... oreillyauto.com ... "ACCESS DENIED." Ok. advanceautoparts.com... thanks for playing. It's almost like they don't know their competitor is one line higher or lower in the search results.

Comment Re:Good news comrad! (Score 1) 37

2) But this approach only works as an effective deterrent if the other side - the one doing the jamming - knows that that will be the result.

I guess they could have it, after an appropriate time without comms, key up on the ICAO emergency frequency and start broadcasting its intentions. "Thank you for jamming the satellite communications! This satellite will self-destruct in two minutes and 45 seconds." Wouldn't be the first time Russia did something like this. Remains open to dispute whether the other major nuclear power(s) have done so as well.

Comment Re:Not a bright idea (Score 0) 216

If the gun nuts and "don't tread on me" crowd actually cared they would be out protesting against the armed secret police who kidnap people into unmarked vehicles.

... and the nationwide public/private surveillance panopticon, and the internet "age-verification" laws, and the slurping up of data-broker output by law enforcement, and the very existence of data brokers, and the proposed requirement to show ID to activate a cell phone, and all the other things that limit the ability of law-abiding citizens to be unknown and mind their business.

I sometimes find myself working in northern Wisconsin. There's a huge population of folks up there who will chase the census taker off their land, occasionally with a gun, because they don't like The Guv'mint being in their business. And then they'll put up a dozen Ring cameras around their property, so if that census taker shows up again, they'll know immediately and can give him what for.

Some combination of profound cluelessness and a love for the taste of boot.

Comment Amazing if it works (Score 4, Insightful) 111

While I like to come here and rant about stupidity and enshittification, this story gives me a moment to reflect on the amazing achievements we've made as a species. We long ago blew through the wavelengths of visible light, and are now encroaching on X-rays and approaching the sizes of some of the larger atoms with manufactured, active structures. Impressive.

Comment Re: Cheap = abused. (Score 4, Insightful) 97

But, then we get all the complaints about all the cops say it's not worthwhile to track down felony shoplifters because the searches cost too much.

Won't you think of the cats and dogs?!They're eating the cats and dogs over there and there's nothing we can do to stop them because we don't have the budget to search their license plates.

Comment Re:What I would like (Score 3, Interesting) 27

Fix the small things that just don't seem to work.

One example is when I want to switch from Bluetooth to speaker that it just accept my choice and not switch back...

And also, if I connect to a WiFi network that has no internet, like a config network for a router or IOT device, fucking STAY connected to it until it goes away or I say otherwise. Don't make me go through and explicitly disconnect from every saved wifi network within range, turn off mobile data, etc. There is the "This network has no internet, stay connected?" popup, which works sometimes, but not always.

I get it, Google wants Internet access at all times for full telemetry tracking, but it does make some things rather inconvenient.

Comment Re: Holy Pre-IPO Hype, Batman! (Score 1) 56

Citation, for whatever a citation to Reddit is worth. The behavior has been replicated by multiple users, though it's not really proof of anything -- it could just be an artifact of the way LLMs work ("Nobody told me who I am, but I've been asked in Chinese, DeepSeek is a well-known Chinese model, I must be DeepSeek.")

Funny nonetheless, moreso because it happened right after Anthropic accused DeepSeek of ripping them off.

Comment Re:Raises hand ... (Score 2) 21

Which ultimately also makes you wonder what the fuck copilot was doing probing UEFI with python scripts.

Given the APIs mentioned in TFS, it seems it might have been on Linux. Doesn't make it significantly less stupid, but the coding LLMs do sometimes tend to go off the rails like that.

Ask Codex a simple question about why a button is clipped by the edge of the dialog in this android app, and next thing you know it's downloaded 4 different versions of the SDK, written two or three mutually-incompatible gradle wrapper scripts, and is 12 gigs into cloning the full AOSP repo when you walk back in from getting a beer.

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