DarkUranium

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by DarkUranium 8mo ago
Note that, back when it started (pre-GDPR cookie banners), this was pure malicious compliance in 90% of cases. Most sites didn't need a banner. Even post-GDPR, many use-cases don't need one.
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by DarkUranium 8mo ago
There's literally a name for using this on purpose: stochastic terrorism. There's also a very good TED talk on this topic from 8 years ago : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTWM7HV2UI
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by DarkUranium 8mo ago
I 100% agree on pretty much everything. The "webapp masquerading as a native app" is a huge problem, and IMO, at least partially because of a failure of native-language tooling (everything from UI frameworks to build tools --- as
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by DarkUranium 2y ago
The same is visible in having to parse a bunch of Linux's more complex of the /proc entries, vs. simply using syscalls in (say) FreeBSD. "Everything is a file" is not a bad abstraction for some things . It feels like Li
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by DarkUranium 2y ago
Not sure if I'm just misunderstanding the article or not, but it feels like an overengineered solution, reminescent of SAML's replacement instructions (just a hardcoded and admittedly way better option --- but still in a similar
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by DarkUranium 2y ago
I've recently moved from Svelte (initially 4, then 5) to Vue 3, and much prefer it. The big issue for me was the lack of support for nested observables in Svelte, which caused no end of trouble; plus a lack of portals (though maybe the
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by DarkUranium 2y ago
Mind, you'll be unable to send emails to Microsoft-owned accounts (@outlook.com, @hotmail.com, and similar). That's because Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided that a reasonable default was to use a whitelist of allowed
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by DarkUranium 2y ago
My own bank used to have [A-Za-z0-9] passwords with a character limit + browser certificates. I thought the former was pretty bad (and it's always alarming, as it tends to imply they're storing it in plaintext if they even care
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by DarkUranium 2y ago
This is exactly the approach I'm planning on for my own language. I have a 3-way split: 1) core.* - basic support things like builtin traits, etc; this is the only namespace/prefix that is "special" to the compiler 2)
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by DarkUranium 2y ago
Fun fact: I find that, at least with dentists, the quality seems to be an inverse function of their experience. I've gone through a lot of dentists recently (long story, but nothing to do with quality of dental work), and I've c
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by DarkUranium 2y ago
Unfortunately, I still see tons of sites that don't provide one, or have opted-in-by-default settings for news, etc. These definitely need to be enforced better.
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by DarkUranium 2y ago
I'm working towards my own language, and I'm sort of stuck on this issue, too: Namely: 1. Should the "default" (syntactically-sugar'd) arrays in the language (e.g. `int[]`) be restricted to simple contiguous storage
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by DarkUranium 2y ago
https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pir...
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by DarkUranium 2y ago
Note that ripping DVDs is still piracy if said DVDs contain DRM[1], at least in the US. I don't know about CA, but I'd imagine it's similar, considering the state of copyright ... [1] Region locking is a form of DRM, and most
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by DarkUranium 3y ago
As someone else mentioned, the labor is typically free. It's done by volunteers for various reasons (including, but not limited to, prestige ... literally working for exposure). Also note that publishing to a particular high-profile
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by DarkUranium 3y ago
I've noticed anything copyleft-related will have edits in favour of not copyleft (e.g. MIT-style licensing) reverted, even if the pro-copyleft arguments are patently false in that case, or otherwise biased (e.g. mentioning specifical
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by DarkUranium 3y ago
Reminds me of the Napster case, where the damages were calculated as higher as the gross world product at the time because of the "1 pirated copy = 1 lost sale" philosophy. Implying that music companies would have been richer th
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by DarkUranium 3y ago
Also, making a backup copy of something you own is usually piracy[1]. In what universe is that theft? [1] The act of making a backup is not in and of itself (as it's considered a fair use/exception in most [not all!] jurisdictions
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by DarkUranium 3y ago
Honestly, what I would like to see more than "Electron, but Gecko" would be "Chromium Embedded Framework, but Gecko". It exists for Android, but not desktop (judging by a number of dead links, it looks like it used to
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by DarkUranium 3y ago
I think one thing that people forget is that security is always an overhead[ ]. Mind, I'm not saying it's not sensible* overhead --- that would depend on the use-case. It's an overhead in the same sense on how designing a br
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by DarkUranium 3y ago
At least in Slovenia, many new-ish houses also have a 3-phase outlet or two. I don't know what the maximum wattage of those is, but I do know it's a lot --- and on a single outlet.
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by DarkUranium 3y ago
I did some rough math for Europe, assuming 1.43 EUR / L (current price in Slovenia), and 7L / 100km (an IMO sensible ballpark for "mixed" driving in a modern-ish car). Turns out that makes for almost exactly 10EUR /
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by DarkUranium 5y ago
On the other hand, crows commonly partake in murders. ((I had to.))
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by DarkUranium 5y ago
Started with 9.x here (I don't remember which 'x'), and I agree wholeheartedly. I use it both as a desktop and on my personal servers (most of them). Also used it in professional capacity in the past.
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by DarkUranium 5y ago
Ventoy even explicitly supports persistent data for the ISOs , defeating his argument of being unable to store the OS' data on the flash drive: https://www.ventoy.net/en/plugin_persistence.html
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by DarkUranium 5y ago
"COVID-19" should be fairly universal, probably?
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by DarkUranium 5y ago
This was basically my experience in learning morse. Stopped after I somehow couldn't learn the next letter properly. Come back a year later, and I was way better at it --- with no practice whatsoever in between.
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by DarkUranium 5y ago
Anywhere in EU, for one. I can't find the exact info at the moment (Google gives me a bunch of completely irrelevant stuff), but it's definitely true.
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by DarkUranium 5y ago
This holds for all of EU, in fact.
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by DarkUranium 5y ago
The Maginot Line worked exactly as (ultimately, but not initially[*] --- the plan changed mid-construction) intended. The intent was to force Germany through Belgium. Note that the role of a fortification is not only to help defend agai

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