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by dewey 1mo ago
That rule is always polarizing, but there's many people who don't like to download FLAC as it's too large, or they don't want to keep seeding FLAC forever if they just convert it to V0 or 320 right away anyway. I'd
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by dewey 1mo ago
Nice! I've tried to build something similar with Unifi cameras ( https://github.com/dewey/birdhomie ) and it worked pretty well, the species detection wasn't that accurate but I'll continue on that project
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by dewey 1mo ago
There's many ways to shoot yourself into the foot, most things that run in your userspace can do evil things and it's not an LLM exclusive feature. Any npm package you install on your machine can put you in danger already if it ex
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by dewey 1mo ago
HN has very little understanding of many things, especially if you are familiar with <specific thing>. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect
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by dewey 1mo ago
Most people already run software like that on their computer, even if it's just your coding harness that could just as easily run ssh and use your keys in ~/.ssh to connect to your servers. In my case I'd get a permission pro
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by dewey 1mo ago
I take issues with you calling it "antiquated", when it's just a different approach and both are valid and depend on a lot of factors if they are the right one for the specific community.
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by dewey 1mo ago
> The only downside is that it's missing some stuff Which is literally the reason why trackers that aim at variety use the "antiquated system". Trackers that don't care about the long tail so much because they aim for
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by dewey 1mo ago
There's a lot of content on private trackers that's not available on the public internet, especially when it's more local or obscure content. You'll always find the latest US tv shows or Hollywood movies everywhere, and
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by dewey 1mo ago
The easiest way to get upload on trackers is to upload your own content, on Red that's not very complicated if you have access to a library or another more obscure source of CDs that might not exist on the site yet. The other way that
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by dewey 1mo ago
Thanks, missed that article.
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by dewey 1mo ago
> you know they have them internally... What makes you think that? There's a lot of data centers that sell you access to colocated Mac Mini's, they have added FileVault unlock via SSH in the boot process which also makes things
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by dewey 1mo ago
Render page in headless browser with JS, cache challenge solution, re-use on all your non-browser requests. Won't really change anything and it will auto-adapt to any new challenge that is being thrown.
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by dewey 1mo ago
> But rarely from a wget script without a session cookie If you do scraping on a large scale you emulate a human very well to bypass bot protection. Setting dynamic but accurate user agents, setting proper sessions and persisting it, emu
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by dewey 1mo ago
Using a dictionary word for your project will never be easy, but what often happens now is to just not get the .com domain (Likely taken), or prefix with "get" and then later hope that you can time it right so that you can afford
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by dewey 1mo ago
The vault of the cloud provider would just inject the value of the environment variable securely so it doesn't have to be stored on-disk. What the parent poster wrote isn't wrong.
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by dewey 1mo ago
I'm not doubting you but I have a hard time believing that, as I see it all the time. Sometimes restaurants even accept it if they don't take card and then ask you to send to their private PayPal account as a fallback. It's e
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by dewey 1mo ago
We were having a lot of problems with that in Honduras, staff in the branch did not know how to do that, fees are extremely high and sometimes the bank system is just offline and you get sent home. There's a reason all these alternativ
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by dewey 1mo ago
Easy to say when you are in a country where you have a lot of options. There's some countries with very bad financial sector where your option is PayPal or Western Union as the local banks don't know how to do international transf
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by dewey 1mo ago
They don't really announce new iPads at the iPhone event.
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by dewey 1mo ago
I was curious and just looked it up: Germany reached 36.8% in 2024 ( https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung... ).
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by dewey 1mo ago
DHH has a large following, so do many people in this network. His blog posts are often discussed here, it's not really surprising that it gets attention and you don't need secret astroturfing or sneaky marketing if people just sha
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by dewey 1mo ago
Loved Adium and the community was great in building custom smileys (For the young people, that's how we called Emojis back in the days!), themes and dock icons.
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by dewey 1mo ago
Thanks! That was exactly the kind of "hidden usage" I was interested in as it seems to not be publicly used by a lot of people these days (As you can see by the user numbers on https://search.jabber.network/channel
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by dewey 1mo ago
The only place where I regularly stumble upon on it was/is on libgen.
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by dewey 1mo ago
> Matrix reinvented the wheel as a rubber-tyred metro. On paper, it provides real benefits, such as climbing steeper inclines, which are then used to aggressively advertise and lobby local governments to buy in. But in the end, the munic
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by dewey 1mo ago
Don't blame the user for a fault of the market and regulation. In the real world you'll always only ever see the duopoly of Android / iOS for phones for example. This can be government apps, parking apps, apps for your utilit
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by dewey 1mo ago
It's not investors, these are donations.
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by dewey 1mo ago
A lot of companies are built on the principle of having an opinionated way of doing things.
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by dewey 1mo ago
The foundation is not even one week old, and the first project just got selected as they were already closely working with the Omarchy project on some things. What makes you come to the conclusion that "more important" dependencie
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by dewey 1mo ago
That was the recent criticism: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/shopify-ceo-endorses-idea-to-...

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