FizzyOrange

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah they're very happy to use banners to raise money they don't really need. Maybe use them to affect policy?

I guess they'd sort of be better off being apolitical but when it is an existential risk I feel like people would be ok with it.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

Why is it "hairy creature" and not "bigfoot"? Is bigfoot trademarked or something?

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

You could argue that but I think most people would agree that "real name" means "legal name" (or some obvious shortening/variation of it).

Still, they've contradicted their own "real name" policy so it doesn't really matter.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah Musk is already doing that very obviously with Grok. I guess it's the more subtle manipulation that we have to worry about.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Funny, their policy allows you to use your "preferred professional name":

The name fields of your profile name may only include the first, middle, and last names of your real or preferred professional name, plus your preferred pronouns. When registering on our site, LinkedIn does not allow members to use pseudonyms, fake names, business names, associations, groups, email addresses, or special characters that do not reflect your real or preferred professional name.

Although if you read the user agreement it contradicts that and says that you agree to

Use your real name on your profile

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 10 points 2 weeks ago

I don't. You can't even copy to the clipboard in an insecure context.

Except... You can! You just have to use the old deprecated and ridiculously awkward execCommand method.

If that's so insecure why do all browser's still support it?

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah of Linux on the Desktop!

First you'll need this guide to make copy & paste work... 🤦🏻‍♂️

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

I bought a cd key for like £4 from one of those dubious cd key sites. It worked flawlessly. I don't know how legal that is exactly (the internet isn't exactly clear on how those sites obtain keys), but tbh it's good enough for me and has no risk of malware. I figure Microsoft could easily block such keys if they wanted and they haven't.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 12 points 2 weeks ago

Git's autocrlf feature causes more issues than it solves in my experience. I don't think there are really any tools on Windows that can't handle Unix line endings any more. Even notepad can now.

I recommend you set it to input which will fix them to be Unix line endings on commit, and not change them back on checkout.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 14 points 2 weeks ago

Me too. I think announcing this is good - otherwise he'll get no feedback.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think the combination of two things actually makes this slightly difficult to defeat:

  1. The app will take a video and look for movement so a static photo won't cut it.
  2. They apparently flash the screen red green and blue which allows them to distinguish reflective and emissive surfaces. So you can't just point it at a video of an old person because no suitable reflective colour displays exist yet.

There are a few ways I can think of to circumvent it:

  1. Write an app that displays a video and simultaneously averages the colour of the front facing camera and applies that as a filter to the video, emulating a reflective display. There would be some lag but I bet it works.

  2. Use the Android emulator and directly read the screen colour, and use that to filter the camera input (and connect the camera to an AI video). I dunno how detectable the Android emulator is these days though. Probably the age verification apps can detect it fairly easily.

  3. Find a homeless person and pay them £2 to look at your phone.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago

widely acclaimed new TV show that became a monster hit earlier this year.

7.3 on IMDB (not great for a TV show).

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