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by noirscape 10mo ago
Firefox fell behind Chrome because of aggressive marketing from Google in a way that probably violates some antitrust laws if they were actually being enforced, combined with a couple of own-goals from Mozilla. Basically Google exploits the
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by noirscape 10mo ago
I'd say it's probably worse in terms of scope. The audience for some AI-powered documentation platform will ultimately be fairly small (mostly corporations). Anubis is promoting itself as a sort of Cloudflare-esque service to miti
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by noirscape 10mo ago
If Mozilla were to kill adblockers, there's basically no reason to not use Chromium. It's pretty much the only relevant difference between Chromium and Firefox these days. It's truly impressive how they've managed to do
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by noirscape 10mo ago
Insane that they're dropping client certificates for authentication. Reading the linked post, it's because Google wants them to be separate PKIs and forced the change in their root program. They aren't used much, but they are
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by noirscape 10mo ago
It's technically possible to get any Android app to accept user CAs. Unfortunately it requires unpacking it with apktool, adding a networkconfigoverride to the XML assets and pointing the AndroidManifest.xml to use it. Then restitch
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by noirscape 10mo ago
For a lot of developers, the current biggest failure of open source is the AWS/Azure/GCP problem. BigCloud has a tendency to just take well liked open source products, provide a hosted version of them and as a result they absolute
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by noirscape 10mo ago
It's not impossible to run a publicly owned company in the US that isn't insanely hostile towards it's customers or employees... it's just really damn difficult because of bad legal precedent. Dodge v. Ford is basicall
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by noirscape 10mo ago
Taking out the public leaderboard makes sense imo. Even when you don't consider the LLM problem, the public Leaderboard's design was never really suited for anyone outside of the very specific short list of (US) timezones where co
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by noirscape 11mo ago
> Furthermore, current copyright terms are decades past the death of the creator. It's important to recognize why this is the case - a lot of the hubbub around posthumous copyright comes from the fact that a large amount of classic
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by noirscape 11mo ago
Grades aren't necessarily an indicator on if a person comprehends the educational material. Someone can visibly under-perform on general tests, but when questioned in-person/made to do an exam still recite the educational material
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by noirscape 11mo ago
It keeps astounding me that people assign value to a score whose purpose was mainly intended to find outliers in the education system as being anything besides that. Or to quote the late astrophysicist Stephen Hawking: "People who boas
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by noirscape 11mo ago
The problem with a standard video element is that while it's mostly nice for the user, it tends to be pretty bad for the server operator. There's a ton of problems with browser video, beginning pretty much entirely with "what
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by noirscape 11mo ago
A cache can help even for small stuff if there's something time-consuming to do on a small server. Redis/valkey is definitely overkill though. A slightly modified memcached config (only so it accepts larger keys; server responses
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by noirscape 11mo ago
The problem that is that a lot of CVEs often don't represent "real" vulnerabilities, but merely theoretical ones that could hypothetically be combined to make a real exploit. Regex exploitation is the forever example to bri
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by noirscape 11mo ago
Pretty much. Most animals are both smarter than you expect, but also tend to be more limited in what they can reason about. It's why anyone who's ever taken care of a needy pet will inevitably reach the comparison that taking care
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by noirscape 11mo ago
Nowadays pip also defaults to installing to the users home folder if you don't run it as root. Basically the only thing missing from pip install being a smooth experience is something like npx to cleanly run modules/binary files t
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by noirscape 11mo ago
> You can get $2/yr domain names on weird TLDs like .site, .cam, .link, ... You can, but as stated - that's not free (or easy). That's still yet another fee you have to pay for... which hurts adoption of HTTPS for intran
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by noirscape 11mo ago
I never said they had an incentive to solve it. I said that it's one of the big blockers to getting regular adoption. It ought to be obvious that all these issues aren't a problem if you look at it through the big tech lens: why
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by noirscape 11mo ago
Main reason is that it's hard to get certificates for intranets that all devices will properly trust. Public CAs don't issue (free) certificates for internal hostnames and running your own CA has the drawback that Android doesn&#x
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by noirscape 11mo ago
At its core, the main drawbacks that need to be solved for them to be a viable option are imo: * Improving OS flows. Every passkey implementer that's also an OS gets really excited about enrolling you into their proprietary clouds, and
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by noirscape 11mo ago
They mention it later in the article; if they drop connections to internal networks from the graph, Linux shoots up all the way to 97%. The answer is probably that people that run Linux are far more likely to run a homelab intranet that isn
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by noirscape 1y ago
There's basically 2 major schools of thought for submitting patches under git: * Pile of commits - each individual commit doesn't matter as much as they all work combined. As a general rule, the only requirement for a valid patch
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by noirscape 1y ago
Without knowing much about jj, isn't this more of a problem in how the GitHub/GitLab/Forgejo Pull Request system works rather than a jj problem? Patch-based workflows in general (where you heavily use git rebase -i to curate
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by noirscape 1y ago
It's already seen as a valid opt-out signal against this sort of thing in Germany. LinkedIn got in trouble and lost a court case for not respecting the DNT header if memory serves me right.
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by noirscape 1y ago
They did include the methodology in the actual publication[0], the Guardian just refuses to source their statements. AP used the existing tools for showing how people politically align[1] to generate 3000 identities (equally split amongst t
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by noirscape 1y ago
I might actually do that; like I said, I mostly just moved on to nginx eventually because it happened to fit how I wanted to configure a server. It was mostly me comparing nginx to caddy. One thing I did like about Apache back in the day wa
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by noirscape 1y ago
The main difference (as someone who is familiar with nginx and caddy, and whose Apache knowledge mostly comes from the era of "webapps are folders in your root with PHP files in them", so not very good) is that Nginx tends to be a
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by noirscape 1y ago
In general a lot of the modern HTTPS approach "feels" broken. Looking at it purely from a usability perspective, HTTPS combines two things when it really should only be doing one of them: * Encryption is the first thing HTTPS does
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by noirscape 1y ago
Killing Reader didn't just kill Reader. It killed the expectation of RSS to be a valid default consumption format of the internet . These days, if you use RSS, it's either relying on some legacy hidden feed feature that hasn&#x27
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by noirscape 1y ago
Like a lot of advice for documentation, it's not completely accurate. Good documentation should cover 3 "kinds" of users. * Absolute beginners/newbies: These users are best helped by showing a "happy path" thro

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