kevincox

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by kevincox 1y ago
It sounds like a large part of the problem is how important a subreddit name is to popularity. If a subreddit has a good obvious name it is going to collect members and activity even if the mods are awful. Competing subreddits will struggle
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by kevincox 1y ago
What readers have you tried? What do you mean by "handled YouTube feeds". YouTube feeds just work as far as I am aware, they are fairly regular feeds. Are you expecting something in particular?
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by kevincox 1y ago
Or you can leave the default so that the reader gets the font they want, because they are the one reading it so it doesn't really matter what the author thinks looks good unless it is somehow relevant to the text.
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by kevincox 1y ago
Now instead of having the 2nd and 3rd packages have ugly names all of them have ugly names! There are advantages to systems like this such as trust (I can tell that you.example/pkg1 and you.example/pkg2 are owned by the same perso
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by kevincox 1y ago
The problems with the torrents is that they can be updated if the file changes (sometimes small metadata changes) and now your seeders can't be found. Maybe if they also kept a list of old hashes so that you could at least manually try
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by kevincox 1y ago
I would use XHTML but IIUC no browser have streaming XHTML parsers so the performance is much worse than the horror of HTML. And now that HTML is strictly specified it is complex to get your emitter working correctly (example: you need to k
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by kevincox 1y ago
FWIW. We saw this and I started experimenting. A simple case of copying our production database locally a few times. About 1 in 4 times the local database was corrupted after running it. I also experienced very strange command line parsing
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by kevincox 1y ago
There is a clear difference between specific activities that need privacy (especially if it is temporary privacy or cases where it is protecting the privacy of the citizens not the government itself) and privacy by default for most or all g
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by kevincox 1y ago
I can buy the military exemption, and maybe some very top level government workers that are effectively military (example: POTUS). But the EU parliament has no reason to be excluded. It is definitely a terrible law if it is so bad that they
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by kevincox 1y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45372283
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by kevincox 1y ago
Yeah, all messaging apps seem to have decided that you shouldn't be able to select part of the message. The only option is to copy exactly one message. Not multiple messages, not that one word you want to look up from one message. I do
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by kevincox 1y ago
Yeah, at first I thought they were going to provide a free replacement. But no, just asking for more money from the people they just pissed off.
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by kevincox 1y ago
It basically feels like overfitting. They saw some use case so they added it. But they didn't think about how this would generalize and now this nice use case is disproportionately supported at the cost of surprising everyone who doesn
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by kevincox 1y ago
I presume it is also useful if you are using the unsafe APIs as well to mess with pointers and do raw memory reads.
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by kevincox 1y ago
Yeah, I totally get it. In an ideal world we could just stick a file on an HTTP server and people would download it reasonably. Everything is simpler and happier this way.
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by kevincox 1y ago
The problem is that this has effectively no conflict resolution. With naive file-based sync the best Syncthing can do is save both files. Then you are stuck merging yourself. Maybe if all of your devices are reliably online and you only use
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by kevincox 1y ago
It is sort of both. It is attacking encryption by bypassing it (by demanding a plan-text copy of the data) and it is using our devices to act against our interest. I think both are pretty bad.
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by kevincox 1y ago
Yes, it doesn't "break" encryption, it just defeats it. The client-side scanning means that some amount of your communication will be uploaded in clear text to the government. And unless the government keeps it completely sec
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by kevincox 1y ago
The fact that they will only pass this law if they exclude themselves from it should be enough to reject the idea without any further consideration. And of course if you do still consider further it only gets worse.
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by kevincox 1y ago
In my experience the official software was very buggy and unreliable. Which isn't great for something about making immutable data live forever. I had bugs with silent data truncation, GC deleting live paths and the server itself just l
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by kevincox 1y ago
But that raises the complexity of hosting this data immensely. From a file + nginx you now need active authentication, issuing keys, monitoring, rate limiting... Yes, this the the "right" solution but it is a huge pain and it woul
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by kevincox 1y ago
It does if you are building on the same host with preserved state and didn't clean it. There are lots of cases where people end up with with an empty docker repo at every CI run or regularly empty the repo because docker doesn't h
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by kevincox 1y ago
But rate-limiting public data is a huge pain. You can't really just have a static file anymore. Maybe you can configure your HTTP server to do IP based rate limiting but that is always ineffective (example public clouds where the downl
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by kevincox 1y ago
It's not really a great ending. They or people like them just opened 3 new accounts. They just closed this one because it was tainted.
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by kevincox 1y ago
These companies don't care about having reliable products, they care about the average consumer having the perception that their products are reliable.
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by kevincox 1y ago
It seems to use the link as the ID based on clicking a few examples on the site. An ok option for this type of thing.
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by kevincox 1y ago
Dates shouldn't matter. The feed has ID elements which is what identify entries. Atom has no guid element. So I would expect this to work with any reader.
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EC DMA Compliance Workshops(f-droid.org)
4 points by kevincox 1y ago|0 comments
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by kevincox 1y ago
Size of content does matter. Because the start of your content effectively builds up a dictionary. Once you have built a custom dictionary from the content you are compressing the initial dictionary is no longer relevant. So a dictionary ef
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by kevincox 1y ago
I guess it depends how you looked at it. Performance-wise AV1 seems more similar to h265. Hardware support wise h266 seems to have only had shipping hardware this year? So I guess neither of these line up 1:1. I tend to see h265 and AV1 com

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