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by Retr0id 4mo ago
Every time I search something, I open a fresh private tab and google it. If I want to turn safe-search off, I'd have to go through this code verification flow for every single search. Aside from just being annoying, they'd have to
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
They are indeed draconian, and the rest of the world is now eyeing up adopting similar legislation.
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
I've yet to see one I consider reasonable.
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
Where are these mythical sweet-spot solutions? Concretely, half the websites I visit from the UK want me to either scan my face or upload ID documents to access their full featureset. Now that users have been conditioned to accept this, nob
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
Likely an artefact of the second-chance pool
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
The ideal "cyberdeck" form factor is just a regular laptop. So to the extent that a macbook pro counts as a cyberdeck, yes.
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
The page has scroll hijacking, too.
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
Their FAQ says there's no way to disable the restrictions, but they also say you can sideload APKs.
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
For some reason the diagram under the "Not Your Granny's Flip" heading has been AI-generated
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
It's a bizarre simulation of what would normally be a social interaction, and the (minor) effort I put in on my end just went into a black hole.
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
I wonder if they mean literal e-books, or if "1 e-book" is a journalistic unit of data (maybe 1MB or so...)
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
Yup, that's the one.
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
Last time I read the bun docs I spotted an off-by-one bug in sample code, so I opened a github issue. An AI bot responded, confirming the issue, and opened a PR to fix it - A simple "+ 1" added in the right place. Two other AI bot
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
Some ISPs block based on TLS SNI sniffing (so perhaps ECH will save us)
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
The PR is against bun's fork of WebKit, not upstream.
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
Is there a human-authored description of the PR anywhere? How are there not race conditions all over the place?
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
It is technically possible to circumvent the Great Firewall of China, but I think it's fair to say it's been successful in what it set out to achieve.
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
What is there to research? Yes, VPNs can be used to circumvent geofences (and by extension, regional age restrictions). Yes, attempting to age-restrict VPNs is at odds with strong privacy guarantees. Privacy is a human right, and one which
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
Yes, even the video's thumbnail explains this, I'm not sure how the article author managed to get it so badly wrong. (Although I'm not sure why it would need a windows bug, surely it's more of a drive firmware bug?)
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
> You still need a tiny bootstrap loader to decode the image. Nope, you can do it all in a single file with an html/png polyglot (and nowadays you can get better compression ratios with newer formats like webp). https://w
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
This made me wonder if anyone had done a self-balancing inverted double pendulum, and I found a triple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5GvwWKkBmg
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
Don't forget that server-grade drives are often 15K RPM, giving you ~2x over a typical 7200RPM drive.
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
Guest books are neat, but it's rare for someone maintain a guest book for the underside of a road bridge for example (with some geocaches being an exception!)
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
You can leave traces in the physical world too, although it's often looked down on as vandalism.
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
Comments that explicitly call out an article as slop tend to get downvoted (or disagreed with), it's best to guide the reader towards their own conclusions.
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
I make all sorts of silly mistakes, but I'd rarely say that running the code is the only way to detect issues. I also don't think the author wrote much of their codebase, or much of their blog post, but that's the brave new
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
There are a lot of use cases where you only truly need consistency, and durability can take a back seat. RocksDB for example does not fsync its WAL writes in the default configuration. https://github.com/facebook/rocksd
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
> A 100-bit bloom filter holding 100,000 keys is saturated instantly > This is the kind of bug you only find by building the thing and measuring it. No? I mean, maybe if you're vibecoding it's the only way, but in the prehis
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
> earn quality backlinks Well, at least its honest. For many (most?) of the listed sites, drive-by submitting a link just for the SEO juice would be considered rude.
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by Retr0id 4mo ago
Software-based memory encryption would be horrendously slow, and realistically you'd still need to have the key in memory.

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