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by progval 6y ago
Twitter works with JS disabled, but there's a nag screen on every page load. Alternatively, for reading only, there is https://nitter.net/
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by progval 6y ago
GP and you aren't using the same definition of cloud. By cloud, they mean infrastuctures like AWS/GCP/Azure, not simple VM hosting (called VPS outside "clouds", and compute nodes in "clouds")
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by progval 6y ago
> ( ) planetary-scale engineering is impractical
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by progval 6y ago
Other people who should be liable, at least as much as those using the model: 1. sellers/providers of the model, if they lied about the efficiency 2. buyers/deciders, who not necessarily the same as those using the model (usually
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by progval 6y ago
You may be interested in joining the Fediverse, a federated network of microblogging software (Mastodon, Pleroma, ...). Most of the implementations support all four of these features. And most of it is free and/or donation-supported. B
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by progval 6y ago
No, it's because Twitter Web removes elements from the DOM when they are far from the viewport. There are two ways you can see it: 1. Open a DOM debugger, select an element in a tweet, scroll down. Eventually the element disappears. 2.
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by progval 6y ago
> Although these are probably not searchable.. Edit: hmm Ctrl-F actually finds "string"! Depends on the search engine. And Ctrl-F is already unusable on Twitter Web anyway, because it only works on tweets in the viewport (or cl
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by progval 6y ago
on the row of number keys: éèçà on the right of the keyboard: ù but that's enough to want accents and symbols on the number row by default (&é"'(-è_çà) and numbers when pressing shift. I think that's the reason that
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Burritos for the Hungry Mathematician (2015) [pdf](emorehouse.wescreates.wesleyan.edu)
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by progval 6y ago
Looks like they stopped using MongoDB: https://blog.requarks.io/the-switch-to-rdbms/
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by progval 6y ago
Agreed. In addition to looking nice and working without JS, I understood in less than five seconds what it's about. That's much better than most landing pages.
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by progval 6y ago
Just make sure the billing info of the outgoing VPN can't be traced back to you if you want anonymity.
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by progval 6y ago
I work at Software Heritage, where we archive all source code we can find, including all GitHub repositories, and deduplicate them internally. The size of all file contents (including older versions of files) is a few hundreds TBs, and ever
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by progval 6y ago
But if you have less intructions to run, you won't turn the machine on in the first place. And even if the machine is already on, giving it instructions to run will make it change the CPU frequency (DVFS), access the RAM, etc. which do
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by progval 6y ago
How does this compare (performance-wise) to simply truncating all tables?
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by progval 6y ago
About TLS: it means the spec requires Gemini to be encapsulated in TLS; the same way RFC 2616 recommends HTTP be encapsulated in both TCP and IP ("HTTP communication usually takes place over TCP/IP connections"). Yes, technic
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by progval 6y ago
https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services
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by progval 6y ago
> those can include key rebindings; e.g. your Enter key can be rebound to “rm -rf ∗” or “sendfile ∗ evil@example.com”. oh my god. From http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm : > Set Key Definition <ESC>[{key}
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by progval 6y ago
That's if you're installing from a channel, because channels get updated. If you use a local clone/submodule of nixpkgs (the git repository with the definition of all nixos packages) at a specific commit, then you will always
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by progval 6y ago
Alternative to 2: No one should have guns
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by progval 6y ago
I'm guessing this submission is a reaction to another post on the frontpage: "SQLite as an Application File Format" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23508923 In this case it's relevant, as untrusted
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by progval 6y ago
The CPU vendor apparently distributes binaries for this SoC that infringe on u-boot and linux's licenses: https://linux-sunxi.org/A64#GPL_Violations Do you know if these binaries are required to run the Pinetab?
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by progval 6y ago
> You trusted the app developers as soon as you installed that app on your computer with full privileges. No, I don't. First, most apps' code won't run as root. Only install scripts, written my distribution's maintain
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by progval 6y ago
> 1. Hopefully none of your users run an unreleased clang from head, so you're not using anything a user will run into. Yes, but clang eventually gets released. You want to catch bugs in clang and get them fixed before that release
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by progval 6y ago
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE....
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by progval 6y ago
When you review the list of changes (including added files), you notice the files that shouldn't be there; so you would see them before committing. And even if you forget, git also lists new files after calling "git commit"
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by progval 6y ago
I have another step between 1 and 2: send a mail to the abuse contact of their AS. You can do it either manually, or with a tool like https://www.spamcop.net/ . Sometimes it works (but rarely).
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by progval 6y ago
If the spammer spams thousands of people, it's a better use of everyone's time if an admin bans it once and for all.
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by progval 6y ago
> Are you blocking instances, and on what conditions? I block instances when they either flood or I find I don't want to have anything to do with them (I do tolerate opinions I disagree with, of course; but not patent bigotry). And
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by progval 6y ago
> There was a block-list circulating around, and if you do not block every instance on the list, your instance is misogynist, pedophile and far-right. I must have missed the memo, because I run a medium-sized instance, don't follow

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