pwdisswordfishs

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by pwdisswordfishs 1mo ago
Trademarks and domain names are separate matters. It would be interesting to see a clone under a totally different name (like "Operation Bluebird" here) but still use a twitter.tld domain.
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by pwdisswordfishs 1mo ago
AFAIK, to date Twitter hasn't required its users agree to a copyright assignment or an exclusive license to the content of their tweets, so it wouldn't be a copyright suit. Twitter wouldn't have standing to bring suit, as th
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by pwdisswordfishs 2mo ago
So computer science actually involves science now.
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by pwdisswordfishs 2mo ago
> Google signaled their wholesale abandonment of the Chromebook platform When?
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by pwdisswordfishs 3mo ago
Open source it, you pussies
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by pwdisswordfishs 3mo ago
> Bloated file sizes due to javascript libraries for lazy loading data. Use of JS, including the NPM-backed bloat you see in libraries used on the modern web, is orthogonal to whether a site is on a static host or not—which is what &quot
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by pwdisswordfishs 3mo ago
> There's plenty of people who occasionally need to create barcodes > hopefully that [1MB] will be served from a cache
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by pwdisswordfishs 3mo ago
Aside from obfuscating the source code to sell licenses, how does this benefit from WASM? Barcodes have been generated for decades on low-resource embedded devices. Even what would have been a modest-to-low-end machine 25 years ago would h
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by pwdisswordfishs 4mo ago
> I use change detection to monitor all sorts of websites for changes. Some of my favorite authors don't have RSS. Have you considered offering, as penitence, a public feed to share the information that this process produces?
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by pwdisswordfishs 4mo ago
> it no longer works in every app because services insist on writing their own players that don't work as well as the player provided by Apple TV So much for those oft-touted benefits of Apple's policy on gatekeeping third-part
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by pwdisswordfishs 4mo ago
> it just is an overlay for pirate streaming sites Not "just". You left out its role as a bot network exit node.
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by pwdisswordfishs 4mo ago
For server implementations that aren't braindead, that is indeed the important bit. Computers don't inherently know how to run PHP. If the request handler doesn't look at the file extension to decide whether or not to pass
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by pwdisswordfishs 5mo ago
Honesty requires I note that I had badly mischaracterized my man, far more in his favor than anything of which he has proven deserving. On that note please excuse my use of a shared account, as I finish wrapping up my affairs on this benigh
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by pwdisswordfishs 5mo ago
> I find that most datepickers are better than the browser's You mean your browser's. There is no "the browser".
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by pwdisswordfishs 5mo ago
> the code itself makes it harder for people to contribute, especially those, like me, who don't use coding agents. > Where are the interface boundaries? Why are there methods that are 200 lines long? LLM-backed code assistants h
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by pwdisswordfishs 5mo ago
DHH, of course.
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by pwdisswordfishs 5mo ago
> it feels like this is much more a UX/social problem It's not merely "like" that. That's what it is. "Wiki" comes from the Hawaiian work for "quick". You spot an error, you click the button
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by pwdisswordfishs 5mo ago
If the contributor instructions for your wiki requires: 1. forking the repo 2. committing the changes 3. submitting a pull request ... then you don't have a wiki.
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by pwdisswordfishs 5mo ago
I've gotten those taps on the shoulder. Every time I went for it, I ended up thinking, "Geez. What was I expecting to be good about this? This experience is awful."
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by pwdisswordfishs 5mo ago
> This wouldn't be an issue if patches were XML or JSON Or MIME, even.
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by pwdisswordfishs 5mo ago
Solution: don't use mobile bank apps.
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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
"Trivial" doesn't exclusively mean "easy", though it is often used as a euphemism like that. In a literal sense, it very well may have been trivial, even if neither you nor the professor would have been able to ea
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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
Subjectively, it seems like it's even prudent to consider that someone who is involved in a discussion about whether or not they're suicidal is probably likelier than average to commit suicide. Fair chance that "I'm not
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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
Mozilla also isn't exactly strapped for cash. They pull in around half a billion dollars per year (to accomplish what could be done on a budget a tenth that size).
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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
There are very good reasons why you 501(c)(3) doesn't allow setting up a non-profit that accept "donations" that benefit one of the non-profit's wholly owned for-profit subsidiaries.
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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
You probably could have just dropped a line at the end saying that all of the links in the post so readers are advised 2 plz click so you can get credit.
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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
Bunny.net purports to have a pay-as-you-go prepaid credit system that sounds like it works the way people want, and with their description of the way it works probably being sufficient to be legally enforceable if it turns out that it actua
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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
> The same principle applies, though. How? "Firebase AI Logic" Is this a Firebase service or not?
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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
Google Maps is not Firebase. And "Firebase AI Logic" sure sounds like something easy to confuse with a Firebase service...
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by pwdisswordfishs 6mo ago
There's a brand-new, Gemini-specific feature for that (as new as March 23), but historically the answer has tended to be "no" from all the cloud providers. Most giants and indies alike have always been strongly opposed to im

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