Gormo

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by Gormo 7mo ago
> Personally I think this is untrue, and that acting like it's true is a defeatist attitude that sabotages any efforts to build alternative systems that accomplish the goal of age verification without user verification. It may well
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by Gormo 7mo ago
Only to the extent that the growers who apply deliberate selection criteria are themselves part of "nature". But we generally use that term to distinguish outcomes for which human intentions weren't a causal determinant, s
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by Gormo 7mo ago
There are plenty of telnet-enabled BBSes that have both: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ There's a lot of this back-to-basics stuff out there: BBSes, Gopher sites, Gemini protocol, etc. A lot of it is very refreshing
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> If you don't publish content to the public web anymore, you don't have to worry traffic or scraping or bots Similar to how if you demolish your house, you won't have to worry about burglars breaking in.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
That's true of almost all legislation. Every political initiative that tries to brute force specific outcomes instead of working to align incentives seems to fail miserably, online or offline.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> So you're saying that random access formats that are encoded to disk as a stream of bytes are not "serialized" because you don't alway read them in order? Yes. That's precisely what "random access" m
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by Gormo 7mo ago
I'm currently using XFCE on Arch, and have no incentives or motivation to use Wayland at all. I have no issues whatsoever with Xorg.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> Serialized just means encoded as a stream of bytes so that it can be transferred between systems. Yes, serially. Which means no random-access across the transfer channel.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
It's likely a static site being hosted on Cloudflare Pages, which auto-inserts beacon.js.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
Most news sites have RSS feeds. CNN is the major exception.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
That's not really random access, though. You're effectively just searching through the entire dataset for every targeted read you're after. What might be interesting is to have a tool that processes full JSON data and create
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by Gormo 7mo ago
It's also quite odd to create a serialization format optimized for random access.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
Well, em dashes are a standard punctuation mark used in English, and most rich-text input controls will automatically convert a double hyphen into a single em dash when typed. The meme that's been going around that em dashes are an ind
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by Gormo 7mo ago
Em dashes are not a valid indicator of LLM output.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
Well, only some of them actually offer full VPN service. Most of them are still just traffic-forwarding proxies, just not limited to HTTP. NordVPN used to offer full VPN service under the name "Meshnet", but actually discontinue
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by Gormo 7mo ago
WireGuard is VPN software. Tailscale is WireGuard-as-a-service.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
This looks like it's just a traffic proxy, and isn't actually a full VPN.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
It's funny that the EU pretends not to be a sovereign entity or a state in its own right, but then sets up legal frameworks like this. Even in the US, you can't set up a corporation at the federal level: apart from a handful of e
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> Spotify famously claimed their best devs were no longer writing any of their own code: It seems almost criminal to hire Ludvig Strigeus and then not let him write code.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> The idea that users can reliably supply their own vendor libs/execs for applications is a bit of a fantasy. That's why package managers and OS repos exist. Users shouldn't have to even be aware of this sort of stuff. I
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by Gormo 7mo ago
Quite the opposite, in fact: if the app gains popularity that people start looking to build and package it for their respective OSes or distribution channels, the author will be inundated with support requests on account of doing dependency
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> So it has, and I've been hating the excess complexity it brings for most of that thirty years! It reduces complexity compared to the administrative and security mess of every application having its own version of every library, le
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by Gormo 7mo ago
And even if the build scripts are downloading deps, having the application itself install dependencies to the user's home directory at runtime is unheard of.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
It did, but then the application didn't work because it couldn't find the Python interpreter that it itself downloaded into its own config directory.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> I really wanted an app to be as "grandma-proof" as possible, therefore I really wanted to have one binary that does the magic for you. Probably the best way to do that is to design, build, and distribute it like any other nor
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by Gormo 7mo ago
> It’s a desktop app for mostly non-technical users, so bundling the runtime is a deliberate tradeoff to reduce setup friction and machine-specific breakage. That's not a very reasonable justification, considering that dynamic linki
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by Gormo 7mo ago
It's an indicator of LLM output, so calls into question the integrity of the software itself.
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by Gormo 7mo ago
Just downloaded source and built this to play around with it. I was a bit surprised that the first thing it did when I ran it was to start downloading binaries from the internet. It went off to fetch FFMpeg from some remote server, but I
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by Gormo 8mo ago
> However, I haven't seen a function system based on this model yet. HN's mirror-universe counterpart, Lobste.rs, works basically this way.
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by Gormo 8mo ago
No, addiction involves physical substances interacting with a person's biochemistry. Attempting to extend the concept of addiction to include positive emotions brought on by sensory experiences or behavior is a disingenuous rhetorical

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