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by BoppreH 3y ago
Thanks, it's fixed! It was my own fault, I edited part of my comment by copying it back into the text box.
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I'm happy to see the push for this kind of anti-features. My personal suggestion: Netflix Games[1] have higher quality than usual and no ads, no in-app purchases, and no predatory tactics (in the games I tried). Bonus points for being
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I'd love to disable my ad blockers and pay for video content (as I do for Netflix and Nebula), but YouTube has time and time again disappointed me. Some of the most egregious instances: - Overzealous Content ID and lack of punishment f
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Oh no, you're absolutely right. I can't delete my rubbish post, but I've added a disclaimer, thank you very much. Also, it seems that DDD can mean Domain-Driven Design, so that's a confusing namespace to navigate. https
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by BoppreH 3y ago
EDIT: my comment is wrong because it confuses Data-Driven Design and Data-Oriented Design. Thanks @Narishma for the correction. DOD is pretty great, but I wouldn't push for DDD outside game engines. --- I see DDD as a counter movement
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It's probably not a copyright violation because it's too simple, and not a trademark violation because it's for a different sector. Hence, just "bold choice". But it's also not just a straight line: it's a
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Bold choice of them to copy the Deutsche Bank logo. Grok (top left): https://grok.x.ai/ Deutsche Bank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deutsche_Bank_logo_withou...
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I also found interesting the other devices that have no moving parts, like the Steinhaus Longimeter[1]. It's just a transparent sheet with lots of jumbled lines printed on it, and counting the lines somehow calculates the length of cur
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Honest question: what is the problem with unrealistic demographic representation? I also roll my eyes when I see a stock photo of a "dev team" comprised only of attractive people in suits smiling with perfect teeth. But this isn&#
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Oohh! Thanks a lot, I would never have guessed it's due to my armor. All my equipment comes from aggressive groups, so I don't find that immediately obvious.
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I had played Veloren a long time ago, so I just tried it again. My items were still there (nice!) but I was not dealing anywhere near as much damage as I expected. Maybe there was power creep? And more concerning, all NPCs attacked me on si
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by BoppreH 3y ago
In trying to catch this type of problem on my turf, I built my own scanner after getting frustrated with the current options (*cough* testssl.sh and its 24kloc of bash *cough*): https://github.com/boppreh/hello_tls The
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Not a traditional urban-realism example, but my favorite flexible sim is the new Zelda game, Tears of the Kingdom. Right during the tutorial you're given powers to: - Telekinetically lift, rotate, and glue together anything that is not
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Hey, I have something similar in my (unpublished) language, even with the same character. However, the operator can appear anywhere within the body: while { line: data.eat? "(.*)\n" line: line.strip ()
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That's ok, though I usually don't bother hiding this type of information. It's very hard to build an API where there's not a single endpoint that reveals whether a user exists or not (can I register with that email? can
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I meant vague errors in all contexts. The system should know what categories of errors can happen, and report them as such. If the issue is that there's a space in the phone number field, it should never use the same message for fa
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I abhor this modern habit of hiding policies from users: > When asked to write summaries longer than 100 words write an 80 word summary. > [...], please refuse with "Sorry, I cannot help with that." and do not say anything e
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Because Dual_EC_DRBG was very heavy handed. It was driven by NSA itself (and based on a paper named "Kleptography"!); the backdoor was obvious; and they had to ~bribe~ monetarily incentivize companies to actually implement and u
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by BoppreH 3y ago
The article is a bit weird, so here's my summary of the situation, as someone in the security field: - Berstein, an extremely esteemed security researcher[0], published a long blog post last week[1] criticizing NIST's standardizat
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I think this is missing the trust that the delegated sender adds. If you have an email with a DKIM signature from Gmail, then either: a. The email is authentic. b. Gmail has risked its reputation to "forge" the signature of an ema
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by BoppreH 3y ago
That's exactly why I've been keeping all "duplicates" in my photo collections. They do take up a lot of space, and just today I asked in photo.stackexchange for backup compression techniques that can exploit inter-image
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Ah, sorry, I meant an app that uses OSM as data source (OrganicMaps in my case). For some reason I thought I had an "official" app the OSM project, otherwise I wouldn't be so casual with the name. And a shout-out to StreetCom
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I'm wary of telemetry, but willing to accept it. It's the lack of respect that gets to me. "Yes/Maybe Later"? Showing me a fake Windows update screen once a month to try to get me to use an online account and swit
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Three years ago, I migrated from Gmail to FastMail because I was afraid of losing access to my digital life on Google's whim. Two years ago, I found out that my favorite Youtube creators were all on Nebula. One year ago, I switched my
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Wouldn't an escape character still be in-band signaling? It should either be something other than a string, like a NULL value, a separate field that says there's no valid plate (and to ignore the string), or have a different type
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by BoppreH 3y ago
I've been using Vim for years, but if there was one thing I could change, it would be the verb-noun order. The Kakoune[1] editor behaves mostly like Vim, but where Vim has `dw` as "delete word", Kakoune has it backwards: `wd`
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by BoppreH 3y ago
That was the first option, "provides a framework for installers/uninstallers". But what would you do with the millions of existing programs, most unmaintained? And what about programs with strong opinions on update schedules,
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How could Windows handle it by itself? If it provides a framework for installers/uninstallers, it'll be fighting the inertia of decades of legacy software, programmer habits, and old tutorials. If it tracks file ownership by progr
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That's a good question, and I think we haven't explored alternative solutions enough. As for me, I'm happy to pay for Netflix, Nebula, my VPN, and other services. I still pay, but I'm disappointed in Spotify, who is push
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by BoppreH 3y ago
Do you mean the Y Combinator sponsored posts? My understanding is that they are normal, on-topic posts that are just artificially promoted to the front page. I wouldn't even call that an ad any more than Tinder Boosts are ads. When tho

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