franky47

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   by franky47 5y ago

   My Italian teacher in college had the following saying: "Traduttore, traditore": the translator is a traitor.
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   by franky47 5y ago

   We call them GAFAM in France.
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   by franky47 5y ago

   I made an open-source service [1] that does the same thing earlier this year. Although it's pitched for OpenGraph images (where I share OP's pain when dealing with blog post assets), it works for any kind of image, by proxying the
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   by franky47 5y ago

   This is where Tor shines: you never connect to the destination IP directly, so this kind of tracing is made much harder.
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   by franky47 5y ago

   Looks like your website is custom-made, it could be a great place to host your photographs there. No like counters, no social gaming, ToS or malgorithms, just your content, displayed the way you want it.
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   by franky47 5y ago

   What would happen when you lose the connection ?
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   by franky47 5y ago

   Neat idea! If the author is checking the comments, videos don't work on Firefox Android (they do on Chrome Android).
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   by franky47 5y ago

   Author here: I love this song, and I had never seen the music video before. Thanks for pointing out a happy coincidence!
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   by franky47 5y ago

   That's also where I first encountered the expression. IIRC it used a clever pun of using the pipe shell operator | to install Sinatra (put that in your pipe) and a simple hello world code sample (and smoke it).
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    by franky47 5y ago

    Also worth mentioning (and playing) is Nexuiz, which also used the modified DarkPlaces engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexuiz
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    by franky47 5y ago

    Along with repo.new to create a new GitHub repository.
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    by franky47 5y ago

    I use the chat with two friends who use that exclusively, and I also use KBFS. Whenever Zoom finally decides to kill it, I'll probably move my conversations to Signal, and my files to ProtonDrive (whenever it ships).
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    by franky47 5y ago

    > Earn cryptocurrency *close tab More seriously, can we stop slapping blockchains on any problem? For decentralisation, federation is a good low-energy alternative. https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous
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    by franky47 6y ago

    What are the differences between service costs and operating costs? [1] I'm surprised not to see taxes and other external costs being taken into account in the Retention Margin. Are they pre-subtracted from gross sales as the input of
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    by franky47 6y ago

    There's a link to an unprocessed part of a photograph in the Post Scriptum: https://www.podniesinski.pl/portal/wp-content/uploads/slice1...
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    by franky47 6y ago

    Original article by the photographer (including a sample photo tainted by radiation, which is missing in the petapixel version): https://www.podniesinski.pl/portal/the-sarcophaguss-labyrint...
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    by franky47 6y ago

    I discovered robohash from Gravatar actually, but forgot to mention it, thanks for the reminder.
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    by franky47 6y ago

    Thanks for your feedback. Are the color-blindness simulators in Firefox devtools good enough to reproduce your experience? Or do you have tools that you'd recommend?
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    by franky47 6y ago

    That's a great suggestion, I love the "hole punching" idea (although it'll probably end up looking like Swiss cheese). The key is to find a solution that looks good enough when zoomed out to ~64px square, which is tricky
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    by franky47 6y ago

    Someone actually built exactly that while I was writing the article :) https://github.com/wzulfikar/hashvatar
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    by franky47 6y ago

    What do you mean by "shave off 2 bits"?
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    by franky47 6y ago

    Using the hash as a seed for an AI face generator like thispersondoesnotexist would be pretty powerful. Free idea for anyone who wants to give it a shot.
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    by franky47 6y ago

    What would you suggest as a solution ? I considered swapping Hue for Lightness in order to increase contrast changes. Would you be interested in testing out some variants ?
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    Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars(francoisbest.com)

    198 points by franky47 6y ago|72 comments
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    by franky47 6y ago

    Great opportunity for a business here: add wheels to the Peloton. /s Sarcasm aside, congrats to OP for the achievement. Using my own bike inside on a turbo-trainer helped a lot during the first lockdown.
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    by franky47 6y ago

    It may be shorter, but I like the spread syntax best used sparingly, it's harder to grasp why it was necessary there at a glance. That's what I like in the elegance of Array.from({ length: 1000 }): it's a hack, but it reads n
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    by franky47 6y ago

    Unless clicking the button furiously sends ton of network requests (I'm on my phone so can't confirm ATM), the only thing you're DoSing is your own CPU, as I forgot to add some kind of thread relief delay.
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    by franky47 6y ago

    Try iterating on it, it won't work. This creates 1000 "empty slots".
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    by franky47 6y ago

    Array.from lets you build an array from an iterable source (often used in conjunction with `new Set` to eliminate duplicates), or in this case, of a fixed length.
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    by franky47 6y ago

    I did not know this variant, thanks. Having to fill the array with anything (even `undefined`) to iterate on it seemed such a weird concept (but then again, JS is weird).