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by heavensteeth 1y ago
Right, it's only natural; they MitM 20% of the internet. Similarly, I struggle to believe they're not providing much of the data they collect to the CIA.
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
That article reeks of AI generation. The "author" also uses an AI generated profile picture. I struggle to trust anything this page says.
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
I ask in complete earnest: is that your honest reaction to seeing it, or did you hype it up for your comment? Personally very little could evoke that kind of reaction from me. Maybe a little, "oh, that's an interesting thing to be
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
Whether or not you agree with Kent on this, you have to commend that he tends to be very active in discussing issues with the community in a fairly open, calm, and thought out way (at least from what I've seen). Comparatively, I find s
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
SponsorBlock doesn't send video IDs to the server. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlockServer/issues/25
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
I'm not surprised by the data recovery company story, it feels like I only hear bad things about that industry. I remember something similar happened with LinusTechTips.
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
> I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. - Blaise Pascal im also unfortunately immediately weary of pretty, punctuated prose now. when something is thrown together with and features quips, slang, and informal
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
I've referenced this a few times working with Win32, it really saved my ass. I don't remember being able to find many other simple matter-of-fact C Win32 documentation. Win32 is weird and ugly and annoying at times, but I kind o
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
Pretty reductive. The author even lists pros and cons for every alternative, as if every option is a shade of gray except email+password. I'm not going to force users of my service to create a Google account, I'm not going to let
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
Recently I've had Google return results lacking search terms I've put in quotes (and then clicked "Show results for xxx instead" when it tries to 'correct' me). I have no idea how I'm supposed to make my d
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
right, I suspect "NT" is the category they're looking for.
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High Frequency-Ratio Anagrams(ea935.github.io)
2 points by heavensteeth 1y ago|0 comments
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
"chaos and controversy" might be a stretch but I see him solely as an 'influencer' rather than a programmer. Clickbait, reaction content; I remember the last video I watched of his was a C "code review", but ba
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
How do you ensure the veracity of reports?
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
I'm not sure I'd appreciate this feature. When I used LLMs I found conversations got more difficult the longer they went on - I'd ask one question, then another, and it'd try its best to answer the latter in the context
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Remember FastCGI? (2021)(brokenco.de)
53 points by heavensteeth 1y ago|56 comments
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by heavensteeth 1y ago
> It's like saying [...] "Proof by analogy is fraud" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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by heavensteeth 2y ago
What could explain encrypting the first 65k with KCipher2 and the rest with something else? Seems odd.
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by heavensteeth 2y ago
I try to keep a few things in mind whenever I'm arguing with somebody that I think are helpful (hopefully): 1. Most arguments come down to defining words, even if you may not realise it. 2. Don't follow rabbitholes. Don't dev
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by heavensteeth 2y ago
Every time MattKC uploads[0], his video's subject matter appears on HN a few hours later. I'm beginning to think it's not a coincidence :) [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMGu6Ng_3yA
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by heavensteeth 2y ago
Perhaps a little petty, but I dislike that about half of the readme, at the beginning no less, is an AI generated image. I dislike images in readmes in general, and this one doesn't even provide any value.
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by heavensteeth 2y ago
> Another alternative would be to encode the content of a MathB.in post and embed it into the URL, which could then be distributed with others. Upon visiting the URL, the application would read the encoded content from the URL, decode it
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by heavensteeth 2y ago
What is authoritarianism but politics?
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by heavensteeth 2y ago
Experiencing this for the first time was really jaw dropping. And I believe by default "python3" has distinct behaviour of _telling you_ to visit the Microsoft Store, but not opening it. Bizarre.
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by heavensteeth 2y ago
I'll leave my imcomplete mind dump below for posterity but I'll make it known that while writing it, I did realise that what I've invented is a text editor. ---------------------------------- I had an idea for a deeply unix-y
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by heavensteeth 2y ago
I'm sure this is some kind of fallacy, but I feel I quite often see ostensibly impressive small side projects like this written in simple plain languages like C (or here COBOL). Every similar, e.g., Rust project I see seems almost non-
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by heavensteeth 2y ago
It's the length of an MD5 hash, which I'd wager isn't a coincidence. It's not "salmagundi", "Salmagundi", or "salmagundi.h" though.
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by heavensteeth 2y ago
Twitter is extremely user hostile. Every time I've made an account it has inevitability asked for an email and a phone number, and at least a few captchas.
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by heavensteeth 2y ago
I feel this. I tried using GTK4 a little while ago and almost immediately switched library when I realised it's simply incapable of doing certain things I needed, usually because either Wayland can't do it or GNOME doesn't ne
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by heavensteeth 2y ago
Pedophiles. I had no idea "MAP" had a foothold anywhere but their own communities.

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