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[–] eah@programming.dev 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It's from the Polandball subreddit, so the degree to which Dutch looks like a mix of the two in the comic may be exaggerated. The characters are speaking their foreign language whilst mixing in enough English to be understandable.

[–] eah@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Neither 867:5309:: nor 867::5309 appears to be allocated. Do IPv6 blocks work like car license plates where you can pay more to get a vanity plate of your choice or do you just get what you get?

[–] eah@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

One possible way to deal with this and very nearly return to the former freedom-to-tinker status quo is to send the bank your custom OS along with a computer-checkable formal proof that the bank's app, while running on your OS, behaves as it would be expected to under the stock OS. With homomorphic encryption, it might be possible to do this without revealing your custom OS, only its one-way hash. The bank can then verify that the proof is correct and then accept transactions with attestation from your custom OS. This would enable installing a custom ROM that can be used for online banking without having to go through some cabal/consortium. The only caveat is something of this magnitude has never been done before. It's a research project for sure. It would take many man- and compute-hours. But it would be very cool.

[–] eah@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago
[–] eah@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I'm sure they tested the new recipe on a sample audience long before they put it into mass production which informed them that the recipe change would positively impact their bottom line. Big companies don't make enormous blunders which put them out of business. The social media tech companies we all hate are still around and have billions of users after all the crap they did. Why? Because all of the negative changes they made to their platforms were first tested on a sample of users and the sample kept using it. After all of the recipe downgrades and shrinkflation, you still see the products on the shelves. The only time you ever see an established brand suddenly vanish is when they're bought out by private equity or they're made obsolete by new technology.

[–] eah@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've spent more time than I care to admit reading Wikipedia entries on significant people from past centuries. Way too often their life story is full of disease and death. A dozen siblings. All of them suffer the same disease in childhood. Half of them don't make it to adulthood. Mother dies during childbirth. Father struggles making money from their creative work, dies in a duel. Subject cared for by wealthy uncle. Is affected for the remainder of their life by the lingering effects of the childhood disease. Repeat for the next generation.

[–] eah@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It wouldn't be necessary for IA to go under. If push came to shove, they could just downsize and be forced to decide what to delete. They're probably sort of already doing that but for stuff they have not yet archived. What do you acquire verses what do you delete.

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