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1. 691.▲
   by cedws 1y ago

   SHA256 is an odd choice given that there are ASICs readily available that can compute hashes crazy fast, made for Bitcoin mining. An ASIC-resistant/memory hard algorithm would be a better choice, possibly one of the Argon2 variants.
2. 692.▲
   by cedws 1y ago

   Thanks for the insight.
3. 693.▲
   by cedws 1y ago

   Civilisation has had the technology to sustain itself and minimise suffering for a while now. There’s no reason to push further, yet we do.
4. 694.▲
   by cedws 1y ago

   I’ve used PureGym before, as the author points out the app is terrible, even on a good signal it takes 30s+ to “warm up”, whatever that means. I don’t want the app to “warm up”, I want the QR code right now, I’m left standing outside the gy
5. 695.▲
   by cedws 1y ago

   So why can’t they learn? We have Google, we have Stack Overflow, we have LLMs. My cynical take is that there’s just nobody there who gives a shit about the UX, most likely the team that built all of their backend stuff is long gone (quit or
6. 696.▲
   by cedws 1y ago

   With iCloud encryption being no longer offered in the UK, and Apple having already built the infrastructure needed to fingerprint and snitch on users possessing specific images, erasing events from the citizens' devices is entirely pos
7. 697.▲
   by cedws 1y ago

   I live in Japan at the moment and from what I've observed, people enjoy the night a lot more than in London. I'm 24 and almost never see people my age in central London - it's simply too expensive for anyone to really hang ou
8. 698.▲
   by cedws 1y ago

   I use SimpleLogin aliases via my Proton subscription. But I'm terrified of what happens if I lose access to my Proton account, either because I get banned or the company disappears into a black hole. It would be a personal disaster to
9. 699.▲
   by cedws 1y ago

   Isn’t that basically every neobank?
10. 700.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    Reality Labs is still a thing, they’re still working on VR/MR.
11. 701.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    Yes, it would be disastrous for OpenAI if it got out they are training on B2B data despite saying they don’t.
12. 702.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    I don’t think OpenAI train on data processed via the API, unless there’s an exception specifically for this.
13. 703.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    People have this weird idea that you must drink a certain amount of fluid per day or be reminded to drink every so often. Like no, if you need water, you will be thirsty. If you feel the need to drink then drink, it’s not complicated.
14. 704.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    Yeah that’s generally how it works, you throw away ethics to make more money.
15. 705.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    FWIW I still use docker-compose and had no idea it was deprecated. Pretty sure my colleagues do also.
16. 706.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    I mean, even PornHub (owned by MindGeek, practically a porn conglomerate) had to bend to the whim of payment processors. I’d argue we have a bigger problem than porn and porn access - we have a duopoly that can exercise financial control ov
17. 707.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    Seems you're right.
18. 708.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    I was initially optimistic about Bitchat but after investigating it does just seem to be an early hobby project. We need more than individual apps meshing via Bluetooth. I’m doubtful Bitchat will ever be used outside of a group of nerds at
19. 709.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    I don't buy it. Feels like a psyop.
20. 710.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    Yeah China might have something to say about that unapproved stimulation.
21. 711.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    I don’t trust anything I read on reddit anymore. The site is astroturfed and botted to hell.
22. 712.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    What was the scraper gathering specifically?
23. 713.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    Can you just make them expire after 1000 years?
24. 714.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    I'd rather they just call it GPT-5 than GPT 4.1o-Pro-Max like their current nightmare naming convention. I lost track of what the 'best' model is.
25. 715.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    +1, interested in mirroring my repos to Radicle and running a node if it’s not too hard
26. 716.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    I often miss entire files in the review process because the review page collapses them by default and makes them hard to spot. If they’re going to be collapsed by default at least make it very visible. This is critical for security too, you
27. 717.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    Docker's primary purpose is to give applications their own namespaces in which they can run without conflict. It does confine applications to their own root filesystem, own process namespace and so on, but this isn't intended as a
28. 718.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    Docker isn’t a sandbox and shouldn’t be treated like one. Admittedly if I’m going to run untrusted code I’ll run it in Docker, but I’m aware that whatever I’m running could break out. I wouldn’t blindly run some bullshit even in Docker unle
29. 719.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    Botnet maybe.
30. 720.▲
    by cedws 1y ago

    Nah I think they’re just bad at search, macOS Spotlight search has to be the most slow janky search I have ever used.