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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Thanks for letting me know. aldaily works great in raw mode: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/raw?https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aldaily.com%2F Clicking on the "more" links which take you to the news articles also
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
I too was using text-only versions of sites like CNN, Reuters, or Christian Science Monitor[1], and they were fine. But what I really wanted was to turn any news website into a text-only website. So I build NewsWaffle, which for any website
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Only you can’t copy it if it’s in the middle of a transaction or you corrupt it and have to roll back the Journal. And coping the journal, WAL, and DB itself directly and trying to backup from that isn’t recommended. In fact SQLite itself h
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
While RSA isn't a state-funded technology company, they did accept a $10M payment from the NSA to make their BSafe security product default to use the DUAL_EC_DRBG cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. Which the NSA
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Below a certain threshold a Sales cycle length is driven by price, not customer size. I’ve sold a $300 a month SaaS product to Fortune 500 companies like Target and Apple, as well as smaller sized companies with 50-100 people. Pretty much $
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Fun fact: several computer games in the late 80s used MIDI to support cross computer multiplayer. At the time Ethernet/LAN cards on home PCs were rare, but if you played games you mostly likely had a sound card/MIDI card! https:&
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
They were wanting to implement end-to-end encryption for Photos and iCloud backups (both announced today). Scanning uploaded data in the cloud for CSAM wouldn’t work then. Hence on device scanning
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
It’s not text only. It’s 1 page == 1 request. Meaning that a page can have links to images but a client will not fetch them and display them inline. This prevents cross-site tracking where view a page forces the client to also make a reques
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Gemini is a lot of fun. It feels like the mid-90's web. As a reader, I stumble upon interesting content all the time. As a developer and hacker, it's neat to play with. Currently its about 500,000 pages, so crawling and indexing i
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
This commit from 29 days ago added a ton of behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot for the full motion videos which was going to be included in the game and which were famously cut [1]. https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/do
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Function pointers I was a self-taught programmer as a teenager so there was a lot of theory and mental models I was missing. I viewed code as something static I wrote into an editor and later interpreted (QBasic) or compiled and ran (C). Le
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
The vast majority of files on Textfiles.com came from BBSs in the 1980s and early 90s. The founder, Jason Scott made an awesome documentary about the BBS days. Steven Levy also covers the time and the scene somewhat towards the end of his f
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Last week I learned some cool mouse and keyboard shortcuts in JetBrains, only to then discover they also did the same action in Visual Studio! No more “right click-go to definition” for me! I was presently surprised at how polished it was
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
It’s a flight from SEO optimized nonsense and junk food content. I don’t care at all if a creator looks like or thinks like I do. I want to read interesting content. As an example, Gemini has a strong collection of LGBTQ+ and furry creators
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
It's a presentation in blog form. The images are the slides from presentation, the text is what Xe says. Perhaps you don't like this style of presentation? Excellent content.
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Nice job getting to launch. However I'm really confused about the value prop. > There's no point competing in that noisy market, so we're undercutting it instead, by treating developers as first-class citizens. Who is the
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Sounds like you should join a Pubnix! https://tilde.team/
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
@marginalia, Can you talk more about how you prioritize the URL frontier?
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Some context: they raised $600M total, including a $100M series A in December of 2020. Which is mind-boggling since, if there “18 month” timer is true, They raised $100M with no revenue and no growth numbers or retention numbers. I’m not su
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
I am glad that there is native manufacturing, but let's but that in perspective: Apple doesn't publish units-sold figures, but Iphone revenue is 5x that of Macs [0]. The Mac Pro is the least popular Mac. Again, I don't have n
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
It's a little terrifying to see some QBasic zines I wrote nearly 25 years ago on that site.
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
True but by Google own posts about initiatives like Core Web Vital and mobile first these are used as tie-breaking factors not as ranking factors. If you have 2 pages that are judged to have equally relevant content per all of Google’s othe
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
So your app is for people who aren’t willing to pay other companies for their private hosting feature… and your plan is to charge those people money? And your app is for people not technical enough to build or move or even iframe these page
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
To be clear there’s a lot wrong with these companies, but this passage below isn’t one of them: > The article brought attention to other things not going right at the company. For example, DataRobot sent its top salespeople on a lavish t
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
I understand what you are saying about declining cognitive abilities, and don’t necessarily disagree. However the lifetime appointment of US Supreme Court justices is a purposeful designed feature, not a bug. It is to foster an independent
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Sourcing your news from Wikipedia is a really smart idea. Looking at your site and the Current Events portal on Wikipedia I see some differences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events How are you pulling
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
It’s really easy to leave a company If you become disheartened or don’t agree with their direction. It’s virtually impossible to leave your country.
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
Raspberry Pis, old thinkpads, and the like are how most people host their Gemini capsules
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True, but you use the wrong FFMpeg codec, or transcode an audio track instead of copying it to the output, no one is left dangerously insecure. You just have a bloated MKV :-D
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by billyhoffman 4y ago
I do all my hobbyist development in .NET 5 on a M1 Mac using Visual Studio 2019 for Mac (now VS 2022) and then deploy to x86 Linux boxes on OVH. I used to use the .NET runtime on Linux but now I just use a Make file to publish to self-conta

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