oh hell yes. And oh yes iframes and postmessages, of course people would setup them incorrectly and even if they do some (probably not that important but still) data will leak if you're creative enough. Thanks for the link!
I know the law is often behind the trend because of the rate tech develops, but surely the old analogy for all technology is postal mail.
Last time I checked, the postal service had no responsibility or requirement that they don't distribute certain messages or ideas? In some cases the government can ask to intercept them, but there's no regulation requiring them to scan letters for banned content.
Why don't these same rules apply to online technology?
> Last time I checked, the postal service had no responsibility or requirement that they don't distribute certain messages or ideas?
Technically the Comstock Act hasn't been repealed in the US, and Republicans have been talking about enforcing it again. Democrats heard this and did nothing about it, because of course they did.
It's even the opposite: the US Postal Service is *positively obligated* by the 1st Amendment to deliver content without discrimination. E.g. Lamont v. Postmaster General (1965) (US post can't create friction for US citizens subscribing to Soviet propaganda newspapers by mail).
I’m not going to discuss the merits of the rules, but postal mail seems a terrible comparison to the web. Global visibility, instant transmission of ideas, effectively free (as in beer) distribution.
Yeah, I think this is one of those domains where frictions (or lack thereof) matter. It is much faster, cheaper, and easier to send out a significant volume of material on the Internet than through the mail. In theory, somebody could send a bunch of obscene trolling letters, but having to lick all those envelopes seems to deter most of the people who'd be otherwise tempted.
An ISP is closer to the post office than a pastebin site. A pastebin site is closer to a factory that produces and ships content to all that order it, and thus responsible for what they ship.
It's unfortunate that things are the way they are, but I'm not sure there's a better option. If you give an inch, abusers will take a mile.
I think AI is well suited to this role, especially with new models being cable of learning and updating their weights as they go without needing retraining/finetuning.
Because there are far more places to apply leverage, and they know they can get away with it precisely because online is "different". Why? Because they said so.
I think the results would be similar if anyone was allowed to create their own mail delivery service. The politicians would create regulations so most people would not be allowed to run his mail delivery, and finally only a few regulated services like the postal service would remain.
Someone more experienced that me could probably comment on this more, but theoretically is it possible for Electron production builds to become more efficient by having a much longer build process and stripping out all the unnecessary parts of Chromium?
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I've got a semi-obscure DNS question.
I'd like to use Cloudflare's Zero Trust DNS filtering with DoH by running a DNS proxy on my network.
I can get this to work great with github.com/adguardTeam/dnsproxy (running on a Pi 4B) but what I would really like is to have different devices (based on their IP on the network) get their queries forwarded onto a different DoH upstream.
Please don't spam HN with LLM generated slop. The value of HN is the human discussion, everyone here is perfectly capable of asking an LLM of their choice.
One difference between Monitors and TV used to be that Monitors used RGB Subpixel-Layout and TVs used BGR. (i.e. TV panels are upside down)
Configuring subpixel-layout per monitor is something that most OS won't allow.
So if you use several monitors, you usually have to mount the BGR-ones upside down. (Otherwise fonts will be blurry...)
For some time now there are really cheap 4K Monitors with BGR-layout available. If you mount those upside down you're fine... (I use LG 4K Monitors mounted upside down in combination with other screens)
Subpixel hinting isn't that useful at high DPIs though. Apple has ditched it entirely in macOS, regardless of monitor DPI, and gone back to standard anti-aliasing.
Bare in mind I went down this hole years ago, so these could be solved problems, but in my experience Monitors speak a set of more useful modes (Resolution and refresh rate combos) and tv's often need to be trammed in a bit, the default screen position not being properly centered in all cases.
Yeah exactly, as also others point out in the thread, if you want "TV-sized monitor" you will pay more than for a TV, and probably get worse panel, lower brightness, etc. Hence it would be useful to buy "smart" TV and turn it into a monitor instead.
That would be a cinch with a Mac one decade ago, or 20 years or 30 years ago, or probably even back in 1985.
But these days, when it comes to external bootable drives, Apple vacillates between neglect and hostility.
I've lost track of the current status of bootable backups on the Mac. Based on the following blog, it seems there's some new insult to the process once or twice a year: https://eclecticlight.co
