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  1. > one child's rules will seem draconian against their friend's lax parent.

    And that would be a great oportunity to teach that child that those measures exist for a reason.

    The government is and must always be a subsidiary actor.

    Not every risk must be addressed, otherwise zebra crossings would not exist, or driving would be prohibited.

  2. "Claims" in the title is misleading. He (It/They, I guess it is an organism, not a single person) is _warning_ about that, same as this page always does. So, it is not an infamous claim, it is a warning to all affected parties (i.e. also the government).
  3. I guess some kind of hard (repetitive) steganography where the private key signature of the original photo is somehow encoded lots of times; also watermarking everything and asking the reader for some kind of verification if they want their non-watermarked copy.

    There seems to be no other way (apart from air-gapping everything, as others say).

  4. Imagine you think you save… You only save after you have paid…
  5. I was asking for a technical argument against that spurious use of the term.
  6. Thank you.
  7. Honest question:

    > Anthropic showed that LLMs don't understand their own thought processes

    Where can I find this? I am really interested in that. Thanks.

  8. The apple watch has a kind of small space for writing letters, and underneath, a long “space” key. The character recognition is somewhat not optimal.
  9. Edit: night time here now, sorry if I cannot help right away.
  10. You are repeating the very same history and excuses (from the IT Dpt.) I lived and heard. Davmail works for me on Linux and MacOS even from outside the intranet. Give it a try and I would be happy to help, I have a gmail account with my nick.
  11. My mail gets updated every 3mins... ?
  12. I am surprised as davmail with the Exchange protocol has worked for me since I set it up. They made offlineimap unusable but davmail works (it even has a small web client for the login when more than a month has passed). ??

    Edit: they (my Uni) made offlineimap unusable, but it works with davmail.

  13. I have been usong mu4e with davmail in Exchange mode for my Uni mail. It was a pain to discover how to do it but the FAQ has been updated since and it works like a charm. Deop me a mail at gmail if you wish.
  14. Hi, I guess you have already tried.

    My Uni also made it difficult but I succeeded in setting up a working davmail, using the exchange protocol.

    Mail my username at gmail.com if you think I can help.

    Gateway: Exchange Protocol: O365Interactive OWA or EWS (Exchange) URL: https://outlook.office365.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx

    (follow the instructions at https://davmail.sourceforge.net/faq.html)

  15. Point taken about anonymity. However, its design (that of cash) is theoretically anonymous, it is reality which gets in the way. BTC, on the other hand, is "just" a huge ledger of transactions with giver and receiver perfectly "identified" (in a unique way, albeit just pseudonymous) and preserved forever.

    Also, as you point out, BTC is a massive waste of resources and storage space.

  16. It may be money, but it is definitely not cash. Cash is completely anonymous, BTC is not.
  17. Possibly, but then again, when I need to study a paper, I print it, when I need just to skim it and use a result from it, it is more likely that I just read it on a screen (tablet/monitor). That is the difference for me.
  18. Maxima, despite its shortcomings, is a great tool for symbolic computation.
  19. Have you tried Maple? It is also proprietary but it comes from (originally) Waterloo University, and is used in Academia too.
  20. That is also my feeling, although it has been ages since I last worked with Maple. But some colleagues of mine at other uni do use it instead of Mathematica. Thanks for the detailed reply!

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