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by bambax 10mo ago
Of course it will. At least the second time, after you tell it that '.popup-subscribe-modal' should never be seen again.
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by bambax 10mo ago
Pop-ups aren't the problem and they never were. Ads are. The solution is not to block pop-ups, it's to use adblock, and for that we have uBlock Origin. Don't try to browse the web without it.
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by bambax 10mo ago
What I'm currently doing could be called compute-fetch-store: the compute part is done entirely in the database with SQL views stacked one on top of the other. Then the program just fetches the result of the last view and stores it whe
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by bambax 10mo ago
You can try creating a profile as a woman. I did, five years ago, on a site that advertised itself as being dedicated to "affairs" between married people. All I said was I was 20, was red haired, and open minded. Nothing more, and
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by bambax 10mo ago
> Your level dictates your salary, your stock grants, and most importantly, the scope of problems you are allowed to solve. I found myself in a situation common to many engineers at large organizations. I was operating at a “Senior” or
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by bambax 10mo ago
Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing. Capture the text somehow and send that, and reconstruct it on the other end; and the best part is you only need to send each new character, not the whole screen, so it should be very small and lightn
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by bambax 10mo ago
No, they can buy previously authorized DJI drones, or used ones on eBay, no problem.
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by bambax 10mo ago
If drones are a threat to national security, then all existing drones should be grounded, regardless of the manufacturer. Or, if Chinese drones are the threat, then all existing Chinese-made drones should be grounded? I don't understan
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by bambax 10mo ago
> Logging Sucks But does it? Or is it bad logging, or excessive logging, or unsearchable logs? A client of mine uses SnapLogic, which is a middleware / ETL that's supposed run pipelines in batch mode to pass data around betwe
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by bambax 10mo ago
"at scale" could mean they had direct access to a server or to storage, maybe because they had an insider giving them access, or they found secrets that had leaked somewhere?
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by bambax 10mo ago
Your comment may be sarcastic, IDK; but if it is I concur. Fighting "CSAM" is absurd and ridiculous, and used as a justification for eroding public liberties. So is the fight against "terrorism". The US government has de
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by bambax 10mo ago
Of course it's a good thing. It's an excellent thing. Is there any European company or individual arguing otherwise?
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by bambax 10mo ago
Yes. It is extortion. Same on Amazon. Those "platforms" are no better than plain old mafia thugs.
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by bambax 10mo ago
Same. I'm done.
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by bambax 10mo ago
> Search results ads help customers discover your app right when they’re searching for apps to download. One would think it's good search that helps users find what they want. But noooo! It's ads! Ads help users! One has to l
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by bambax 10mo ago
OCR is fascinating; I did some experiments on OCR for an ancient French book that made it to HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42443022 I found that at the time no LLM was able to properly organize the text
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by bambax 10mo ago
Yeah but is this entirely true though? It seems Google pays FF just for existing, to protect them from antitrust litigation (or what's left of it); so Google can't really stop paying FF and can't try to kill it, as its death
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by bambax 10mo ago
If a time comes when there are zero free browser with effective ad-blocking, it will create space for a non-free browser that does it. It would create a whole ecosystem. I currently pay zero for ad-blocking (FF + uBlock Origin) and it works
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by bambax 10mo ago
> Killing one of its advantages over the Chromium engine, being able to have a fucking adblocker that's actually useful, and that nowadays is a fucking security feature due to malvertising, will be another nail in the coffin, IMHO.
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by bambax 10mo ago
But the SQLite test suite is proprietary (and it seems nobody ever tried to buy it).
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by bambax 10mo ago
> It will evolve into a modern AI browser OMG, please, no! What are they thinking and who wants an "AI browser"? > Are there any true alternatives Firefox with blocked updates works pretty well.
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by bambax 10mo ago
A Few Good Men is also a great movie IMHO. And he was quite excellent in The Wolf of Wall Street (playing I think Leonardo's father?) Very sad development.
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by bambax 10mo ago
I don't have anything serious on Google drive, just some files I share with third parties that primarily exist on my network; and certainly no photos. Photos are on my NAS which is backed up on several disks; I publish them on a small
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by bambax 10mo ago
I have content on Google and Dropbox but I have live backups. It would be very annoying to be locked out of Google, but I would not lose any data. Anyone can have a NAS, you don't need a while basement or to live inside of one (??!?) Y
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by bambax 10mo ago
> It holds terabytes of family photos Why do people still do this, why??!? This is not an ignorant user! The author (and victim) has written several books about Apple tech, how do they not know that these "platforms" cannot b
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by bambax 10mo ago
Opening an article on HN, seeing one of my comments quoted at the top, and then finding out the whole article is about that one comment: that's a first! > So, thanks bambax! You're most welcome! And yes, SQLite is awesome!!
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by bambax 10mo ago
I went through the same nightmare a couple of months ago; in frustration I sent a not very nice email to support. They did respond a week later, saying everything was "fixed". But by that time I had moved on, and will probably nev
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by bambax 10mo ago
> Or hell, why not do it in x86 assembly? I do vibe code in C; I'm not a C programmer and I certainly couldn't do a security audit of any serious C codebase, but I can read and understand a simple C program, and debug and ref
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by bambax 10mo ago
In this analogy, horses are jobs, not humans; you could argue there's not much of a difference between the two, because people without jobs will starve, etc., but still, they're not the same.
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by bambax 10mo ago
Same. Firefox works well on mobile and allows uBlock Origin (in my experience NewPipe is fragile).

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