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by miki123211 3mo ago
No. I think narrative stories are a "brain hack", in the same way heavily processed food, drugs, clickbait, soap operas and TikTok are brain hacks, combined with some exclusivity status signaling games. They're just old enoug
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by miki123211 3mo ago
What I want instead is for devices to ship a (tiny) HTML/JS control panel (or its hash if ROM space is limited), using some specialized interface to make requests over BLE or a relay chosen by the user. The reason we need an app in the
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by miki123211 3mo ago
Running on a Cloudbox has its own set of problems. Some projects need desktop GUI tools (particularly desktop apps themselves, but some may also want these for profilers / debuggers etc). Some projects need USB. Even if you don't
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by miki123211 3mo ago
This is impractical because micropayments are impractical. I have a better idea; split the problem into two. First, require all messages to include an `Automated: 0|1` header; eventually downranking / banning providers that don't
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by miki123211 3mo ago
If you do this sort of thing, for the love of God, test it with screen readers. And Reader mode. And probably a bunch of other things neither I nor you can think of, but that students will absolutely use, and then be falsely accused of chea
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by miki123211 3mo ago
Not necessarily. What OpenAI and Anthropic are selling — a flat-rate subscription with both 5-hour and weekly rate limits — is a bit like an all-you-can-eat buffet. They expect some customers to generate more in costs than they bring in rev
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by miki123211 3mo ago
If Django could run reasonable numbers of requests on early-200s0 servers... what has gone wrong since? I imagine even a $10 VPS should be a much more powerful machine than a high-end server from 2005 or so.
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by miki123211 3mo ago
agreed 100%, the most under-appreciated programming ecosystem of them all. It's also the only one that has support for making truly native apps for all four major platforms: Windows, Linux, MacOS and iOS. If you're willing to put
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by miki123211 3mo ago
Apple (sort of) did it, with (proprietary) Airdrop, and yes, it was "Bluejacking, but with dick pics." AFAIK, they changed policy a few years ago, so that even if you set discoverability to "everybody", it changes back t
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by miki123211 3mo ago
AFAIK, there's a pre-shared key exchanged during pairing, and you then calculate keypairs based on (key, timestamp). Rotating your keypairs in that way prevents attackers from identifying you across time. E.G. if they link a particular
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by miki123211 3mo ago
People can be surprisingly resourceful when they feel like they have a need to do so . In tech circles, we talk a lot about friction and user experience, and those matter enormously , but they're not the be-all-end-all. We have OSS d
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by miki123211 3mo ago
Bitchat and IRDA solve very different problems. IRDA is 1-to-1 and basically requires both users to do nothing else but use IRDA (including being within line-of-sight of each other). For a use case like talking to a family member a few seat
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by miki123211 3mo ago
This is the problem with choosing platform for moral — instead of practical — reasons. Platforms that are known for making moral judgments will likely keep making moral judgments in the future. Eventually, they'll make a judgment that
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by miki123211 3mo ago
The Smalltalk approach doesn't really integrate well with anything else. If you treat data and code the same, it's hard to separate code from data. If you're writing a program for a single machine on which it should be used,
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by miki123211 3mo ago
Hammerspoon (Mac) is much better. It's basically Lua, with access to all the MacOS automation APIs.
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by miki123211 3mo ago
Another approach to this is "build mechanism, not policy" (also of Unix philosophy fame). Encapsulate the hard parts in libraries, ship the topmost layer as codegen templates that depend on those libraries, and let agents / d
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by miki123211 3mo ago
https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-forgotten-war... https://pessimistsarchive.org/cat/bicycle https://pessimistsarchive.org/list/walkman
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by miki123211 3mo ago
No, Rowling is not a banned author on MAM (and that list is exactly what I thought of when posting this comment). Hello, fellow user.
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by miki123211 3mo ago
> The case centered on the copyright battle involving Anne Frank's diary If there's a copyright dispute somewhere, you can bet it's either Anne Frank's estate, Tolkien's estate, or the Beatles's old record l
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by miki123211 3mo ago
CSA doesn't neatly fit into a narrative. If there's a person committing abuse against a child, usually a family member in their own household, there's no story there. They (hopefully) get arrested, get a minor mention in the
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by miki123211 3mo ago
> researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s webOS store allow unknown third-parties to route their Internet traffic through a user’s TV. Eh, so even sources as reliable as Krebs on
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by miki123211 3mo ago
From what I've heard, Canada is actually a lot worse than the US. I was traveling as part of a party of five (different travel dates, separate ETA filings, no apparent connection). One of us didn't get an ETA. Another got one just
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by miki123211 3mo ago
Yes. In fact, you have to do it twice; once to apply and once to receive it. In Poland at least, the queues are often a few weeks long, and you have to book online in advance. If it's summer season and you need to travel soon, you usua
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by miki123211 3mo ago
Which you don't need to do, because the fingerprints are in the passport (cryptographically secure so only an authorized reader can access them, and only when able to OCR the inside of the passport). They're signed by your issuing
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by miki123211 3mo ago
With port forwarding, somebody else still owns the identifier that points to your website, whether that's a domain name or an IP address.
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by miki123211 3mo ago
A huge advantage of GH / CF is that your site has a strong chance of outliving you, if that's something you care about. If you're self hosting, either at home or on a VPS, you have to worry about domains expiring and credit c
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by miki123211 3mo ago
Accessibility. All accessibility stacks sucks in some respect, but Linux's sucks most of all, and Wayland people in particular don't seem to be willing to compromise on security (which is required for accessibility to work).
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by miki123211 3mo ago
For audio interfaces, HDAudio lets you do most of this. What the extra software gives you instead is often some crappy DSP that increases latency and messes with sound quality. For years, Dell's / Realtek's software had an un
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by miki123211 3mo ago
8. ANd this isn't specific to LG. If LG can do it, anyone can, even if they aren't right now. Buying from companies you trust isn't a solution either. Founders sometimes get into fatal car accidents or lose some of their asse
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by miki123211 3mo ago
That's called a screenshot. Google search or a traditional paginated forum doesn't provide that either. No guarantee that page 15 of thread X will contain the same posts as it does now when the moderators wake up and delete the fl

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