minitech

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by minitech 5y ago
> A lack of a colon is clearly an oversight. You mean {"k"}? That's PostgreSQL array syntax, not JSON. It's correct. ('{"k"}' could also be written ARRAY['k'].)
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by minitech 5y ago
It’s vague because “client-server cryptography pretending to be end-to-end” could be referring to any of a number of different flaws when you could just be specific in the first place in as many words, and it’s misleading because actual cli
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by minitech 5y ago
> Since this is browser crypto, and not native execution like Magic Wormhole, all of this is irrelevant; the important distinction between the two projects isn't that one uses a lesser cryptosystem, but rather that the other uses re
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by minitech 5y ago
I know, right? It’d be like making a linter configuration for your personal JavaScript style and naming it “JavaScript Standard Style”.
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by minitech 5y ago
Followed the links to here: https://github.com/bluenumberfoundation/humanid-documentatio... > To make it more difficult to brute force, when generating the humanID Account ID, we will concatenate the phone number wi
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by minitech 6y ago
Share people’s Referer, destination, and control over their destination with a random third party that may or may not be around in the future :)
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by minitech 6y ago
> If Google decides to blocklist their own domains for HTTP header modifications, we're fucked. I mean, you could just stop using Chrome if this happened, if you haven’t already. All the other popular browsers would be unaffected, a
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by minitech 6y ago
> So a site that has your information because you shared it with them will be able to see your cohort changing this itself is already unwanted > otherwise you'll look like a new user each time. but you won’t, because the existenc
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by minitech 6y ago
> Then fix fingerprinting. Yeah, working on it. > "But fingerprinting!" is yet another pretext for just trying to make advertising in general non-viable for aesthetic or ideological reasons. It isn’t though.
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by minitech 6y ago
> Would you really agree that the HTML for my "GET STARTED NOW" button should change depending on what kind of method my app uses? Indeed not! “Get started now” should always be a link. If you want to give it fancy behaviour, y
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by minitech 6y ago
> It's a SPA. Yeah, but even ignoring all the SPA-caused bugs that other people pointed out – why? It’s just static content.
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by minitech 6y ago
.button { all: unset; /* continue styling */ }
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by minitech 6y ago
- “whom” is for all objects, no direct/indirect distinction - I’ve never heard “acquiesce” used with a direct object and dictionaries don’t seem to have either - but they said “aquisice” anyway so who knows So yeah, it’s needlessly flo
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by minitech 6y ago
> Edit: actually, I stand corrected. GNU is including a bunch of styling code and then commenting it out so it doesn't work. Where do you see that? If you’re referring to the  in the <style>, that’s an old stan
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by minitech 6y ago
> My pc idles at 80 watts, so it saves a decent amount of energy to hibernate often. You should compare the power use on sleep, not idle.
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by minitech 6y ago
It’s for people with enough spare time. If you find yourself having to cut your work hours to the tune of $1000/mo (or more realistically, personal time that you value) to self-host some stuff compared to the time it would take to main
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by minitech 6y ago
Looks like the Ruby code in https://gist.github.com/amirrajan/e26fc9de3c20e7c395f6809a99... does a fixed update, so maybe FixedUpdate with Unity would be a better comparison?
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by minitech 6y ago
https://docs.github.com/en/rest
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by minitech 6y ago
A lot of websites: - reimplement browser features and do a bad job of it - are unnecessarily slow - try to stop being slow by breaking even more stuff Some examples I’ve come across within the last week: - Twitter pages randomly failing to
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by minitech 6y ago
GitHub Actions and other CI, Heroku, AWS, GCP, Azure, Fly.io, etc. have free tiers. This is another one of those that, when misused enough, will develop a bad reputation too. (Except in the case of Cloudflare workers to Cloudflare bot block
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by minitech 6y ago
Yep – any legitimate tool that makes requests on behalf of a user could do so using Cloudflare workers. (A webpage translation service, for example.) It’s the same as any other provider. You could block based on the value of the CF-Worker
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by minitech 6y ago
This just sounds like a way to make a proxy with Cloudflare workers, which aren’t considered by Cloudflare’s filters to be as suspicious as Tor yet. You could do the same with any new VPS/cloud function provider. Am I missing some actu
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by minitech 6y ago
That’s a simpler solution in the sense that there aren’t many steps to get there from existing tools, but the HTTP protocol is incredibly complicated compared to Gemini, and Markdown is complicated compared to Gemini’s rich text format too.
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by minitech 6y ago
Ah, sorry, it was fixed in https://github.com/rs/node-netmask/commit/3f19a056c4eb808ea4... . And good catch, of course :)
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by minitech 6y ago
One of them is uppercase in the actual code.
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by minitech 6y ago
Setting aside the issue of whether inconsiderate use of vehicles is a newly millennial phenomenon for the moment and considering what this is in reply to: are you saying that the situation could have been avoided if your neighbour had been
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by minitech 6y ago
> I was reading comments in another HN thread, and one poster suggested that this might arise from raising kids without bullying. Like the immune system, if we don't develop a central tolerance, perhaps we start attacking everything
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by minitech 6y ago
Lead paint being banned by law helped immensely, so not sure about that example. Outlets are also a lot easier to replace than lead paint. … not that I think it’s a good idea to make USB outlets a legal requirement.
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by minitech 6y ago
That was because of the user’s shadowban, not votes.
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by minitech 6y ago
- consider that the same thing applies to sites that aren’t google/amazon/facebook that you might care about - it helps with fingerprinting - there’s no reason to allow it

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