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by jchw 10mo ago
> Is a piece of software really only of value to the open source community if any kind of unscrupulous use of it is allowed? It's not even open source in the first place if any kind of unscrupulous use of it is disallowed , as that
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by jchw 10mo ago
My reasoning behind the pidfd thing would just be as a way to try to avoid race conditions, though on second thought maybe it's not needed. I think you can take your pick on how exactly to validate the executable. My thought was to go
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by jchw 10mo ago
> Validate what? You're just moving the responsibility to whatever answer you give here. If you say "validate the exec name is firefox-bin" then the next person who comes in will say "I hate $your_new_fangled_ipc, you
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by jchw 10mo ago
> And pointless here, since everything runs under the same uid. You need to authenticate this is the same browser that stored this secret, not that this is the same uid (useless), or the same pid, or any other concept that unix domain so
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by jchw 10mo ago
Remember when GPT-3 came out and everybody collectively freaked the hell out? That's how I've felt watching the reaction to any of the new model releases lately that make any progress. I'm honestly not complaining about the m
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by jchw 10mo ago
IMO this is the best approach, but it is worth noting that musl libc is not without its caveats. I'd say for most people it is best to tread carefully and make sure that differences between musl libc and glibc don't cause addition
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by jchw 10mo ago
Fine, but then my critique moves over: the article should do a better job of conveying what the argument is and why it matters . It opens with rms complaining about the names in the emacs ecosystem not being descriptive enough. OK. But the
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by jchw 10mo ago
> My argument is that even a name like awk is much more relevant to the people who used this software back then, of course it was not the best way to name it, but at least it held some meaning to it. Unlike modern software, awk and other
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by jchw 10mo ago
Sometimes I am baffled at what gets onto the frontpage at HN, reminding us all that the people who vote stories and the people who comment on them are less of an overlapping group than you might think. I can understand the desire to have na
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by jchw 11mo ago
I don't believe your comment is just a direct dump out of an LLM's output, mainly because of the minor typo of "acquihires", but as much as I'd love to ignore superficial things and focus on the substance of a post,
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by jchw 11mo ago
> Which isn't true at all. They make a token effort. Look, the point was whether or not it would be okay to put batteries on it, not whether it would keep a drink warm for 12 hours. If the base is cool to the touch, I think it will
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by jchw 11mo ago
I watched the video already before this HN thread, being a Technology Connections subscriber, but I genuinely forgot or missed that it discussed that aspect. I'm not surprised, though.
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by jchw 11mo ago
Yes I understand. But what I'm saying is, normally neutral and ground would have roughly 0V potential, but in this case the UK neutral and UK ground will have 120V potential between them, because the US 120V second phase will have 120V
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by jchw 11mo ago
Basically my concern is, ordinarily the potential from neutral to ground would be roughly 0V with some slack. In this case, though, the potential from neutral to ground would necessarily be 120V. I have no idea what the implications of that
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by jchw 11mo ago
Personally I would just wire some NEMA 240V outlet and then have a separate adapter with a pigtail of that receptacle type and a workbox with the UK receptacle. It's a little unwieldy, but it puts the questionable hackery outside the r
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by jchw 11mo ago
It doesn't have to be insulated like an insulated water bottle or anything, plastic is good enough for this. I have a cheap 120V kettle, nothing special, probably mostly plastic but with some superficial bits of stainless steel. After
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by jchw 11mo ago
If people are willing to rewire their homes for kettles, I guess a couple hundred bucks isn't that bad. > limited by the battery's rated number of cycles Obviously the battery should be replaceable. (It should be in most el
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by jchw 11mo ago
This begs the question, and I've genuinely thought this before, of why we don't just strap a battery to a kettle and end this silly debate. If it takes 5 minutes to boil a cup of water in a 1000 watt kettle, that's somewhere
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by jchw 11mo ago
In most cases we actually get both local and global pain, since most people are running servers behind Cloudflare.
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by jchw 11mo ago
Personally, I am glad to see it. I definitely got vaccinated as soon as I could, but I was also still nervous as there did seem to be some level of reasonable doubt. I would be happy to see more studies confirm what many consider to be obvi
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by jchw 11mo ago
Anti-cheat is a misnomer; it's much more about detecting cheats more than it is preventing them. For people who are familiar with how modern anti-cheat systems work, actually cheating is really the easy part; trying to remain undetecte
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by jchw 11mo ago
> and modern multiplayer games with anti-cheat simply do not work through a translation layer, something Valve hopes will change in the future. Although this is true for most games it is worth noting that it isn't universally true.
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by jchw 11mo ago
To me it reminds me of Smart Pipe. https://youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
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by jchw 11mo ago
Former Dendrite user: Yes and no. Mautrix stuff does work with Dendrite, technically, but only partially. For Mautrix-Discord, I was able to get DMs mostly working, but only DMs: bridging servers just never really worked at all. I'm
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by jchw 11mo ago
I honestly don't blame them that Dendrite didn't work out, I blame them for leaving us all stranded without any sort of migration path. I don't personally care if my homeserver is written in Python or Go or Rust, at least n
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by jchw 11mo ago
In a healthier ecosystem with many stakeholders and sponsors this is less of a concern. However, instead of Matrix Foundation gaining more independence, it seems like almost everything moved out of the Matrix Foundation and into a for-profi
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by jchw 11mo ago
I've mentioned this here before, but it bears repeating. A couple years ago or so, I made the catastrophic choice to use Dendrite as my homeserver software. It seemed like a safe bet: it was supposedly lighter weight than Synapse, bein
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by jchw 11mo ago
Does Secure Boot with NixOS even make sense? In an ordinary Secure Boot setup, you get the kernel/initrd/etc. with signatures from a trusted vendor, but with NixOS it is going to obviously sign everything locally. That means that
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by jchw 11mo ago
Most web application servers have already equipped to be able to easily parse parameters out of the URL path for many years, of course, it's definitely nothing new, it's just that historically, people reached for URL query paramet
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by jchw 11mo ago
Yes! This sounds like a great idea to me. It does have some trade-offs, but I think we would've been better off with this than ever having put queries in the URL in the first place. Rather, if it made enough sense to have some data in

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