DarkUranium

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1. 61.▲
   by DarkUranium 5mo ago

   No need for this dance in a modern browser: `crypto.randomUUID()` is a thing nowadays.
2. 62.▲
   by DarkUranium 5mo ago

   AWS as well, and I've done this myself, too. It really helps debugging.
3. 63.▲
   by DarkUranium 5mo ago

   It's definitely not. Completely bespoke OS.
4. 64.▲
   by DarkUranium 6mo ago

   FWIW: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020960 Plus there's the Wikipedia link another user posted.
5. 65.▲
   by DarkUranium 6mo ago

   To avoid repeating myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020960
6. 66.▲
   by DarkUranium 6mo ago

   I apologize; my comment is vague because I wrote it on my phone, and didn't feel like writing super-long text there. I hate typing on a phone. Anyway, for a browser that keeps touting how it's privacy-centered, they sure as hell l
7. 67.▲
   by DarkUranium 6mo ago

   There are far more Google Chrome users than probably PlayStation & Steam users combined. Also, someone installing Steam is going to expect large downloads, hell, the platform tells you the size as you're about to start the downlo
8. 68.▲
   by DarkUranium 6mo ago

   I'd recommend checking out WaterFox. It's what I switched to when I finally got sick & tired of Mozilla's shit.
9. 69.▲
   by DarkUranium 6mo ago

   I mean ... frankly, and I say this as a guy who's used solely Firefox since before it was Firefox all the way until 2025 when I finally got sick & tired of their shit... (now on WaterFox because I refuse to submit to the Google bro
10. 70.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    1000x less eyes is true, but also: Linux, even in the kernel, has a long history of "move fast and break things". Yes, the syscall API is (famously) stable, but the drivers, for example, are such a mess that many non-Linux project
11. 71.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    Considering Win11 being, well, Win11, I wouldn't be surprised if they were sending partition tables of hard drives to detect other OSes. They won't be able to detect which Linux distro it is that way, but they'd definitely
12. 72.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    The Linux Foundation hasn't been about Linux (except marginally) in a long while, if ever. The name is a misnomer.
13. 73.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    Wrapping text is a bit tricky because of differences in text wrapping algorithms. Though I suppose an "easy" fix would be to be able to specify a very specific algorithm (to ensure equal representation across systems), or allowing
14. 74.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    I feel like Zig is to C what Rust is to C++, kind of.
15. 75.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    Also with the exception of trace/debug print. At least I 'd consider it a fair exception. (it's what I'm planning for my own lang, having `trace` be "blessed" to not make a function unpure despite I/O)
16. 76.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    I think there's actually a decent compromise one could make here (not that Rust did, mind), and it's what I'm planning for my own language, in big part to avoid the Rust/NPM/etc situation. TL;DR, the official librar
17. 77.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    Isn't that basically a heavier version of a unikernel?
18. 78.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    I'm curious, what about Microsoft/Outlook? I also have my own MTA. No problems with anyone ..... except Microsoft, who (silently) never delivers the mail.
19. 79.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    I hope they don't, considering Matrix's handling of security is on the level of a bumbling toddler.
20. 80.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    To an extent. WinAPI's file watching has a race condition in it, and there's no simple workaround (just complex & error-prone ones). Well, for backups the workaround is a bit easier (as they strictly only ever read files), b
21. 81.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    I know a lot of security researchers will disagree with this notion, but I personally think that security (& privacy, I'm going to refer to both as "security" for brevity here) are an overhead. I think that's why it
22. 82.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    I'd also like to add that, since immediate-operand instructions exist, constants are absolutely not the same as variables at the machine level, since immediates will never be stored in a register (typically, e.g. "move immediate&q
23. 83.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    Well, they got one half of that label right...
24. 84.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    You mean DVD-R? DVD-RW is re writable, which means it's not really RO. The semi-obscure DVD-RAM takes this a step further by making it work a lot like a hard/flash drive (at the user level, not technical).
25. 85.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    Why not a simple switch, not unlike on SD cards (but implemented on the device, not host/reader, and enforced by said device)? Though yes, two USB ports would definitely work; it's just that the concept might be better served by p
26. 86.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    Yikes, you're not wrong. And I guess he's never heard of security issues, what with his ROM idea. Neat for a console (where the ROMs are game cartridges, as they used to be) or an appliance not connected to the internet, not a gen
27. 87.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    Monopolies.
28. 88.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    I used to play on top of a giant (for a kid me, anyway) anthill in a nearby forest. That's how I learned that forest ants, at least the local ones, are incredibly docile. I never got bothered by them.
29. 89.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    Have a look at Seafile's SeaDrive client for that. Mind, I haven't actually used it in anger, as I prefer full file sync vs on-demand.
30. 90.▲
    by DarkUranium 6mo ago

    Seafile seems to have that feature, but upload only. And I haven't tried it ... unfortunately, the Android app is also ...... buggy.