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by petcat 8mo ago
> XML Is a Cheap [...] > XML is notoriously expensive to properly parse in many languages. I'm glad this is the top comment. I have extensive experience in enterprise-y Java and XML and XML is anything but cheap . In fact, doi
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by petcat 8mo ago
You can get all of that one-by-one? Or can you get the whole database at once?
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by petcat 8mo ago
public information if they signed an agreement with the Swedish government?
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by petcat 8mo ago
> by simply signing an agreement with SPAR But that seems like a completely different thing than a nefarious and anonymous person or group having access to the entire database.
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by petcat 8mo ago
maybe you could throw up a magnet link
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by petcat 8mo ago
> hammer their website unnecessarily This is what a CDN will prevent
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by petcat 8mo ago
NASCAR is awesome. Don't diss NASCAR.
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by petcat 8mo ago
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. You can j
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by petcat 8mo ago
> Some people thought that surgical masks wouldn’t stop you from getting Covid You do realize that masks would help prevent you from getting covid if other people are wearing the masks , right? The comment just talked about masks, not
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by petcat 8mo ago
It's a distinction without a difference. Masks served to reduce the herd from spreading covid. Including other people giving it to you.
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by petcat 8mo ago
> If you speak bad of the current administration or its allies expect to be punished extrajudicially I have no fear of calling the current US president a pedo, or saying "Fuck the Police" on my Twitter. Let's not equate th
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by petcat 8mo ago
It's quite a defeatist perspective. You're saying that because we can't fix or prevent everything , then we should choose not to fix or prevent anything ? Many US states do not impose government surveillance or have age ve
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by petcat 8mo ago
> China has much lower crime, cheaper healthcare and is making progress in other aspects. China is also a horrifying place to live unless you are content just to participate quietly in society and never put a political sign in your yard
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by petcat 8mo ago
Wild exaggeration. Here's an example just recently: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/17/nx-s1-5612825/flock-contracts... It's a constant and ongoing public concern.
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by petcat 8mo ago
> Now your countries are little different from Russia or China or Dubai The fact that many independent national newspapers (including this article from CNBC) are openly calling-out the surveillance state and entering the debate into the
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by petcat 8mo ago
I've seen skills on the various skillz marketplaces that specifically instruct the LLM-generated text to replace emdashes with hyphens (or double-hyphens), and never to use the "it's not just <thing>, it's <othe
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by petcat 8mo ago
I've always been fascinated by this, but I have never known what it would be useful for. Does anyone know of any practical use cases?
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by petcat 8mo ago
Do we know how much Meta donated to ffmpeg? A quick search shows that the German STF donated €157,580.00 for 2024/2025.
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by petcat 8mo ago
It's even more nuanced than that because the United States is made up of many different states, with many different energy policies. Ireland would most closely equate to the state of Massachusetts by population and economic size, and M
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by petcat 8mo ago
Isn't Google a trillion dollar company going gangbusters toward its next trillion dollars?
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by petcat 8mo ago
It looks like it's both
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by petcat 8mo ago
Not to mention, why on earth would I ever operate a TOR relay or exit node on my home internet connection? Maybe if I could guarantee that it could only be used by journalists or political dissidents, but everything else? No. I don't
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by petcat 8mo ago
From the article, it sounds like that engineer did a lot of other reckless things even before handing the tasks over to the AI agent to continue the recklessness with even more abandon. This is a case study in "if you don't know w
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by petcat 8mo ago
> The records provide insight into the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on its end-to-end encryption and that it is only governed by Swiss privacy law, can and does provide to third parties. Didn't Proton alre
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by petcat 8mo ago
I think she had a principled perspective not to politicize her role as a Supreme Court Justice. Maybe her ideology was wrong.
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by petcat 8mo ago
I can't blame Ginsurg. She was still capable of performing her duties even at the end. She resisted an overtly political retirement and it wasn't even clear if a compatible replacement would be confirmed even if she did retire e
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by petcat 8mo ago
You're saying that he had access to all of the Supreme Court Justices' chambers?
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by petcat 8mo ago
Is it insider trading to bet on a Supreme Court verdict? It's not like it was a slam dunk. The decision was 6-3.
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by petcat 8mo ago
> The president's a pedophile, a criminal, undeterred by democracy, economy or social disorder but you can freely yell into the void. Have you considered that in the US one can freely say all these things precisely because that&#x27
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by petcat 8mo ago
> nobody in China cares about what you speak with each other privately, and people talk about stupid policies all the time. The government cares about _public_ actions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252833 My co

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