AlienRobot

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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt" is a reason why people don't open-source more often.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
I don't like Discourse because it's not paged. Infinite scrolling a thread just feels weird.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
Keeping a PC running when you aren't doing anything with it sounds like a waste of electricity to me. Electricity also wears down electronic components, so I think it also shortens the lifespan of your PC parts.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
There are two kinds of people. 1. People who have no idea what decentralized is. 2. People who would try to figure exactly how decentralized something is. If you are the latter, you would instantly question the data model of Bluesky and of
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
I think letting anyone make any TLD is a bigger mistake. .zip .pdf .mp3 I'd like to thank Caribbean island of Anguilla for having a ccTLD that helps identify which websites aren't worth your time in one quick look.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
Do you really expect us to read the terms of service of the service we use?!
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
I think they mean it's part of the standard library, instead of being a separate library.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
You mean they went to the codex bug tracker, on github, and they don't know how to use git? Well that is kind of ironic, isn't it?
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
Yeah, but you could also kill that business model without any legislation by simply... not visiting those websites.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
You need to be more realist. "Uses the personal information of the user to advertise" Is 99.9% of all websites. So long as websites don't sell things, they will be having ads. This includes Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitte
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
It's really absurd that we've boiled the frog until "ads in smart TVs UIs are normal" and now the goalpost was moved to "recording the consumer to show more ads"
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
It used to be that real life was anonymous, then people started pointing cameras to everyone in public all the time. Now they want to deanonimize communications you make from inside your private residence. Eventually you'll get a chip
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
If service A asks you for a photo of your ID/face to confirm age and service B asks for a photo of your ID/face to give you access to your account that's basically using the same password in two places except you will never b
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
lol. And passwords must be hashed, right? How is the public supposed to know how the black box of an online service handles their data?
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
That's not what I mean... There is a mountain of code written in C that you can simply include in Zig without a wrapper dependency and without having to create the wrapper yourself.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
With Zig, I can just import SDL.h and use it without writing a binding. Can I do that in C3 or Odin?
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
I wonder if packed union also got/will get the same "logical bits" treatment?
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
To me it makes sense. If you don't know what endianness is, it doesn't make sense that a program you write in one programming language works for one target but doesn't work for the other. I think endianness is the footgun tha
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by AlienRobot 4mo ago
I think it's because if it was someone else (e.g. Epic), they would have locked down the hardware and sold it like a console or smartphone where you can only install things from their app store.
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by AlienRobot 4mo ago
Yes, but if I remember correctly I ran into some issues with it. It's been a long time ago so I don't remember what those issues were.
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by AlienRobot 4mo ago
That just means it's poorly designed. There has to be a way to design this in such way it works.
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by AlienRobot 4mo ago
Flatpak is probably the worst way to "have" this possible. It's completely opaque to both app and user. If you ever tried to run an .exe through flatpak'd bottles, you'll run into an issue where .dll's aren&#x2
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by AlienRobot 4mo ago
One thing I miss from Windows is the tablet driver GUI. "cinnamon-settings wacom" doesn't let me map buttons to keys (important for software like FireAlpaca, which pans with the space key instead of supporting the middle mous
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by AlienRobot 4mo ago
Chromium has around the same market share as Windows, so at this point I feel people are targeting it as a web application development platform just as people target Windows.
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by AlienRobot 4mo ago
I wish we had this in the operating system. It would solve an immense number of risks such as data deletion from bugs and even ransomware.
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by AlienRobot 4mo ago
I have always thought of this as a "broken superman." Superman has super-hearing that allows him to hear anyone asking for help anywhere in the world. Super-speed to get there in an instant. And super-strength to solve all the pro
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by AlienRobot 4mo ago
A situation in which a string is manipulated with buggy code that can remove the sentinel, e.g. the program uses strncpy, there is a bug in how it uses it, the hacker exploits the bug. By contrast it's pretty unlikely for buggy code to
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by AlienRobot 4mo ago
That can't be true. If you have an array of pointers it can be terminated in NULL. But an array of integers can't have a NULL value, since NULL would probably be just 0 which is a normal integer. The null in a linked list is t
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by AlienRobot 4mo ago
>The problem now doubles with the introduction of UTF-8. Your string size is in bytes and you need to track characters separately. That isn't really a problem. The problem with null-terminated strings is specifically what happens wh
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by AlienRobot 4mo ago
At least it wasn't a crypto scam.

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