lewiscollard

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by lewiscollard 6y ago
livestream.com (owned by Vimeo) still requires Flash when I access it with Firefox. I occasionally used it to find obscure/minor motorsports livestreams from random parts of the world (before lockdown put an end to most of that).
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> There are many countries in the world. You're making an assumption that in exactly none of them could something crazy like this be enforced. Licenses should not attempt to optimise for hypothetical legal systems that may exist som
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> What’s idiotic about it? It imagines a model of open source wherein I can take some Goldman Sachs code (the font), use it in my project, then start making legal demands of Goldman Sachs because I used their code. I would be quite surpr
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> I think the point is that it has to excel over the iPhone/Android/laptop classes in some, significant, manner, or else it just gets sniffed at. This is an important thing to recognise in the quest for platform adoption. If yo
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
I don't have a use case. I am saying that it requires zero effort to treat filenames as a big bag of bytes containing whatever, encoded however anyone wants them to be. Anyone arguing for case-insensitivity has to both a) demonstrate t
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> Independent oversight? So .. like from a government? Cause that's the definition of independent, from the people for the people. If you do truly hold the belief that governments are "the definition of independent", and t
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> I wonder. Are all the vulnerabilities and issues with Zoom because of its popularity? In a sense, yes. I think Zoom has achieved far more popularity than Zoom was prepared for. Everything about Zoom feels like it was thrown together ha
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
You are entirely right. I've long said that optimising for "engagement", with no regard to what kind of "engagement" that is, is a paperclip maximiser.[0] Rewarding the posts that get the most comments regardless of
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
I would recommend Torvalds on this: https://lwn.net/ml/linux-fsdevel/CAHk-=wg2JvjXfdZ8K5Tv3vm6+b... As for my own thoughts on top... In US-ASCII, case insensitivity is easy. Outside of that, your operating system
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
From my background (I grew up in London), "geezer" seems like a decent approximation to me, though there's no female version of that I can think of. I gather it means "old man" elsewhere.
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
For the case of text, blur can be brute forced. If you redact, say, a credit card number with a blur, and I know what typeface the number would have been written in, and have a reasonable guess as to your blur radius, it might not be infeas
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
The author may be thinking of this work from last year: https://lwn.net/Articles/784041/ I do not know if this has since been merged.
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> All native Linux filesystems (except ext4) are case sensitive about filenames which utterly confuses most users. This wonderful peculiarity doesn't have any sensible rationale. There is in fact a solid rationale behind this. >
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> OSI decided to appropriate the term "Open source" to refer to something slightly weaker than "Free Software" but much stronger than "you can look at the source code". They are not in their right to do that
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
> and when they moved to pay only (or they closed? i can't remember) The incident you are thinking about, would be when they said they were going to close the service entirely, because of the volume of signups they had in the afterm
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
Hey, I know I was not as positive & encouraging as I should have been initially, hence the edit on the end. But thank you for the kind words mate, that actually means a lot to me. <3
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
Nice work, and that is a very cool approach to learning new things!
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
Hey thanks - somehow, I entirely missed this being a Thing in the stdlib in 3. :) I've used it in my PR on baicunko's repo.
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
It was while reading my above comments that I realised I should have shut up and contributed code instead, because that's definitely more helpful than being critical on HN, especially to a newcomer & their first project. So that is
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
Rate limiting (if by that you mean at the firewall or the web server) is not the way to do it. That shifts the problem somewhere else in the stack, into a place that isn't under version control in the same repository. Consider: If you
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
It's still far short of being suitable for use of any private documents. https://github.com/baicunko/scanyourpdf/blob/master/pdfwebsi... This is rather less than secure; output files are named, e.g.
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
That is definitely abnormal. For me (on an i5-3350P (!) Linux junk desktop from Hell) it starts up in about one second, so eomething is definitely wrong (or you're using an even worse machine than I am, in which case something _else_ i
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by lewiscollard 6y ago
"Market dominance" might overstate the case. Apple makes up for a small percentage of all laptops sold, even if you compare manufacturers (rather than "Apple" vs "Windows machine"). They have a smaller share of
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by lewiscollard 7y ago
This has little to do with dynamically typed languages, "JS" in the name notwithstanding. JSON is a serialisation format that is used in both statically & dynamically-typed languages. It makes as much sense to call XML validat
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by lewiscollard 7y ago
You make some reasonable points, but two I find somewhat strange: > Setting the master password to something insecure will undermine the security of all derived passwords Then don't do that. The question is: Is LessPass in practice
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by lewiscollard 7y ago
Here's the original gov.uk press release, and as always (kudos to their team) it's beautifully legible: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-strengthen-...
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by lewiscollard 7y ago
> Air bags, anti-lock brakes, and stability control are all controlled by complex computer systems and absolutely could kill you. They are not complex in the way I was thinking. Functioning airbags and anti-lock brakes have been around s
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by lewiscollard 7y ago
You are very perceptive with the "subscription model of commerce" thing. I do not like it either. But as for this: > I can accept unintended bugs, this is a risk I would be willing to take (and hopefully neither me nor my famil
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by lewiscollard 7y ago
As some that lives in a part of the country that voted for Brexit and actually knows a lot of people who voted Brexit: I can guarantee that nobody who voted for it did so because they wanted more privacy violations. Your link is inserted in
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by lewiscollard 7y ago
I know some of these are obviously backed by winks, but I got a smile from this because they're only a hair away from being rather plausible. You should be writing sci-fi! > Potemkin jobs abound in a world that doesn't require

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