100 is not a perfect score on an IQ test! 100 is the mean score. It's not a percentage.

I don't think that's what the GP was going for... rather, implying that flat-eartherness is uncorrelated to IQ and, thus, the average IQ of flat-earthers is the same as that of the general population.

Flerfers seem to be a somewhat different problem. In my experience, the vast majority of flat earthers are trolls, pretending to be stupid for the purpose of angering people.

I'm sure there are some genuine flat earthers out there, and I imagine that their IQs do average near 100 (perhaps a little lower). But I'm basing that on a general understanding of how people come to stupid beliefs, rather than from observations of individuals, because I'm not sure I've ever met a flat earther who actually believed what he was saying.

It's the government who defines what "criminal" means.

Not necessarily. I'm free to make my own determination on the matter.

You are certainly free to make up your own definitions for words and speak a dialect that is niche but you will not be effectively communicating when you do. By commonly understood definition criminality is a matter of law.

Well, the dude here hasn't been put on trial, let alone convicted, as far as I can tell from the article. So he's not officially considered a criminal by a government. Yet we all seem comfortable calling him one, so I'd say that it is not, in fact, commonly understood to be exclusively a matter of law.

BrightData is another company offering hosted browsers who has also recently leaked private data, although they did email customers to warn them.

I wonder if both of these companies were compromised by a shared vulnerability in headless Chrome? Or else just a coincidence that 2 headless browser companies got hacked at the same time?

I run a headless browser fingerprinting project and have found that URLs that I only fetched via BrightData have subsequently had fetches by Anthropic's Claudebot.

I think most likely an attacker who has the customer data is using Claude to analyse it.

Brightdata? Isn't that the israeli firm formerly called luminati that sells you shady "high quality residential IPs" that you can rotate to scrape the web?

Yes, that's the one. Their residential IPs service is one of the best ones, but their "ethically sourced proxies" claim seems dubious at best.

There was a research paper several years ago showing that the "residential IP" stuff is powered by botnets and compromised devices. Luminati is specifically called out.

Paper: https://xianghang.me/files/resi_paper.pdf Medium Article: https://medium.com/@xianghangmi/resident-evil-understanding-...

Historically, their residential proxies came from backdoored proxies of HolaVPN users.

Yes. Their hosted browser service is one of the best ones out there.

Now I remember these scumbags. Hijacked HolaVPN I think.

It makes it easier to treat the computer as part of your own body, allowing operation without conscious thought, as you would a pencil or similar hand tool.

> What use is there in display frame rates above 60 fps?

On a CRT monitor the difference between running at 60 Hz and even a just slightly better 72 Hz was night and day. Unbearable flickening vs a much better experience. I remember having some little utility for Windows that'd allow the display rate to be 75 (not 72 but 75). Under Linux I was writing modelines myself (these were the days!) to have the refresh rate and screen size (in pixels) I liked: I was running "weird" resolutions like 832x604 @ 75 Hz instead of 800x600 @ 60 Hz, just to gain a little bit more screen real estate and better refresh rate.

Now since monitors started using flat panels: I sure as heck have no idea if 60 fps vs 120 fps or whatever change anything for a "desktop" usage. I don't think the problem of the image fading too quickly at 60 Hz that CRT had is still present. But I'm not sure about it.

120 FPS vs 60 FPS is definitely noticeable for desktop use. Scrolling and dragging are night and day, but even simple mouse cursor movement is noticeably smoother.

Outside of gaming, not much. However, now that I'm used to a 144Hz main monitor, there is no world where I would get back. You just feel the difference.

So basically, no use when you've not tasted 120+Hz displays. And don't because once you do, you won't go back.

Mine supports variable refresh rate, which means for most desktops tasks (I.e when nothing is moving), it runs at 48Hz.

Incredibly, Linux has better support than windows for it on the desktop: DWM runs full blast, while sway supports VRR on the desktop. Windows will only enable it for games (and games that support it). Disclaimer: Wayland compositor required.

It’s not enabled by default on e.g. sway because on some GPU and monitor combos, it can make the display flicker. But if you can, give it a try!

Windows 11 idles at around 60 Hz in 120 Hz modes on my VRR ("G-SYNC Compatible") display when the "Dynamic refresh rate" option is enabled, and supports VRR for applications other than games (e.g., fullscreen 24 FPS video playback runs at 48 Hz* via VRR rather than mode switching, even with "Dynamic refresh rate" disabled).

* The minimum variable refresh rate my display (LG C4) supports is 40 Hz.

Ah, then Windows 11 has at least one improvement compared to Windows 10 as far as user experience goes. Good to know, as I never made the jump

I use KDE + Nvidia, and last I looked into it, it only worked if you had one monitor enabled. That's fine for gaming, not for working.

But it has been a while since I've tried it, maybe I should look into it again

AFAIK it’s very compositor-dependent. Works fine with disparate monitors on Sway + NVIDIA (1x144 VRR, 2x60 no VRR + 1x120 VRR when the TV is on).

The state of Wayland compositors move fast, so support may be here. Last thing I’m waiting for is sway 1.12 that will bring HDR.

I, for one, lose track of the mouse way less often at 165Hz.

I lose track of the mouse less often at 1024x768!

You need a bigger cursor.

That fact that something is hard to do is not what makes it valuable.

It's hard to dig really big holes in the ground all day at random, but it's not valuable.

> It's hard to dig really big holes in the ground all day at random, but it's not valuable

Don't mistake "it takes a lot of effort" with "it is hard"

Digging holes isn't hard, it just takes a lot of effort

Speak for yourself, big-holes-in-ground are very valuable to me.

> but that’s part of why it is so valuable

“part of” leaves a lot of room for each of us to insert our own definition of “valuable” here.

Marx begs to differ. By labor theory of value Sisyphus should be the wealthiest man on Earth; unless you smuggle all the complexity and paradoxes of this theory into some ill-defined notion of "socially useful labour" (how does one measure or quantify utility?) of course...

Marx's labor theory of value very much still assumes a product of that labor to embody its value.

Possibly you're just joking, but it's pretty obvious that the flash would not appreciably illuminate the entire earth.

Obviously. It was a joke.

But this is nothing to do with the agent being tricked. This is ordinary old-fashioned code being tricked!

But was the code written by an agent? It's agents all the way down

If most people kept cars for 20 years, and the secondhand market exists, then by the time an average car is scrapped it must be substantially over 20 years old.

They give free credit to startups if you fill in a few forms.

so does AWS and GCP... but pretty bad if that's the deciding criteria.

I think yes it is less 3d-printed if it is assembled out of multiple pieces.

How small would the pieces have to be before you say it's not a 3d-printed building? Is a building made out of 3d-printed bricks a 3d-printed building or are the bricks 3d-printed but the building not?

The limit as piece size tends to zero is that 3d-printed-ness tends to 0.

I wonder what happens if we go in the other direction.

Instead of printing a single building as one piece, what if we print a whole city block as a single piece. Are those buildings 3d-printed then, or are they just part of a 3d-printed bigger whole? Asking seriously btw.

"how complex is your apartment complex?"

I disagree.

You're using a 3D printer in both cases. 3D printers print three-dimensionally, as they do.

Requiring assembly is more of a qualifier. It isn't just set-it-and-forget-it the way a single piece is.