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by grishka 7mo ago
For the Mastodon Android app, I also sometimes see crashes that make no sense. For example, how about native crashes, on a thread that is created and run by the system, that only contains system libraries in its stack trace, and that never
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by grishka 7mo ago
No. The optimum amount of AI in this world is zero.
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by grishka 7mo ago
VC funding gets you enslaved. There's no such thing as free money.
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by grishka 7mo ago
As if VC funding is a good thing. Good software is made by individual people, nonprofits, or privately-owned entities.
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by grishka 7mo ago
Definitely that, a finite scope is good and finished software is beautiful. But also, most of the modern software is in what I call "eternal beta". The assumption that your users always have an internet connection creates a perver
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by grishka 8mo ago
An expired certificate causes a different error.
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by grishka 8mo ago
I want my posts universally-readable and universally-interactable (that's why I don't like the idea of locking my accounts). I also want to be able to explore the social graph — looking at who follows who, what that friend of a
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by grishka 8mo ago
My point is that I just want to be able to discuss any topic with my followers without self-policing lest a bunch of anonymous accounts butts into the conversation and completely derails it.
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by grishka 8mo ago
I myself started making the same distinction when I talk about these things in English, except it's "social media " vs "social networks ". Though I have no idea how to make that distinction in Russian, social &quo
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by grishka 8mo ago
That's what metrics-driven development gets you.
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by grishka 8mo ago
> Once Meta identifies you as male, you will get almost exclusively thirst trap posts no matter what you do. What if you're gay though. They have to be able to detect that somehow too
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by grishka 8mo ago
You're talking about it like they change by the force of nature, not because humans change them .
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by grishka 8mo ago
Because domains change owners. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074127
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by grishka 8mo ago
Of course they do, they have to. But it's okay for things that are sent to you over the network to expire. It's not okay for things built into your potentially abandoned OS to expire.
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by grishka 8mo ago
> risk of cert compromise and forgery increases over time. And what if the certificate is compromised before it expires? Right, there's a revocation mechanism for that. So why expire them then if they can be revoked anyway IF they
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by grishka 8mo ago
And no one can even give a concrete answer why root certificates need expiration dates. It's just because reasons . IMO the whole PKI thing is a terrible idea to begin with. It would make much more sense to tie the trust in TLS to DNS
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by grishka 8mo ago
If you mean the software supply chain, minimize third-party dependencies and carefully review any updates. I mean read and understand code diffs before you bump versions. If you mean the hardware supply chain, has that ever actually happene
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by grishka 8mo ago
Or maybe, you know, we should stop writing security-critical software in memory-unsafe languages. Mobile devices not treating their owner as an adversary would also be nice.
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by grishka 8mo ago
I worked at Russia's largest social media company as the founding Android developer. I quit as soon as I realized it was only going to get worse from now on after an acquisition and a very noticeable shift in user treatment. But that j
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by grishka 8mo ago
I meant choosing multiple values, e.g. 4 to represent 2 bits. Say, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, and 1. Then when decoding you would pick the closest valid value, so for example for 0.20 it would be 0.25. Not using AC coefficients would mean that theore
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by grishka 8mo ago
He encodes bits as signs of DCT coefficients. I do feel like this is not as optimal as it could be. A better approach IMO would be to just ignore the AC coefficients altogether and instead encode several bits per block into the DC. Not usin
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by grishka 8mo ago
IIRC there exist "magneto-optical" disks and drives for PCs that use a similar technology, but they were niche even when that technology was current.
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by grishka 8mo ago
The one related thing that has always driven me a bit crazy on iOS (which I hardly ever use, only for testing) compared to Android (which I've been using daily since 2011) is how touches register slightly higher than where you're
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by grishka 8mo ago
> Before you get your pitchforks out.. > ..and call me an AI luddite Oh please do call me an AI luddite. It's an honor for me.
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by grishka 8mo ago
Except you don't get to choose where other people host their communities.
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by grishka 8mo ago
> a lot of people in Russia stopped using any other form of internet access What you're saying is just plain false. No one has ever used Starlink in Russia. It doesn't even work here. It never did. Russian troops were using Sta
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by grishka 8mo ago
The fediverse already exists.
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by grishka 8mo ago
The use of AI is a choice. You make that choice, no one else does it for you. I myself chose to act like AI does not exist. The author, evidently, did not. So it's odd, then, that they're complaining about the consequences of th
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by grishka 8mo ago
Huh, so someone actually built this? I was thinking about something similar the other day, in the form of a Windows 9x driver that would use that inaccessible RAM as a "page file".
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by grishka 8mo ago
That's why I started distinguishing these two concepts when I talk about them in English. The terrible thing that insists on obnoxiously getting in your way with its stupid algorithms when you're just trying to have conversations

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