red_admiral

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by red_admiral 8d ago
Archimedes comes to mind.
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by red_admiral 8d ago
> Both Apple and Google want your identity anchored to their operating systems. The “happy path” on their devices is to use their synced passkey management tied to your Apple or Google account. <sarcasm>On the plus side, this way p
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by red_admiral 13d ago
Also, black cards already exist in other sports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penalty_card
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by red_admiral 13d ago
Could they be put in what bitcoin people call "cold storage"? I can't imagine they're used every day.
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by red_admiral 15d ago
When AI watermark detection is properly up and running, there may yet be a market here. As long as the Kenyans don't try and use AI themselves.
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by red_admiral 15d ago
In the past you could just hire Swiss.
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by red_admiral 16d ago
Terry Pratchett: "You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!' IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE. 'She's a child!' shouted Crumley. IT'S ED
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by red_admiral 17d ago
Might well be the ADHD - it seems to be common among neurodiverse people.
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by red_admiral 17d ago
More people should read Oliver Sacks' book Uncle Tungsten. As a kid he was allowed to buy real chemicals for his chemistry set and was told things like "can you make slightly less hydrogen peroxide next time". Minors buying
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by red_admiral 17d ago
Depends. Dolls' tea parties aren't violent.
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by red_admiral 17d ago
Those who don't lose the fun of hitting things graduate to hitting things with swords and end up in the SCA (not the coffee one). I see the point about violence but I'm ok with it because it's based on fun and not anger. Olym
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by red_admiral 17d ago
Relevant past HN submission: https://www.hgreer.com/PlayingInTheCreek/ (summary: AI as a metaphor for optimising the fun out of play)
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by red_admiral 19d ago
Why LGPL when the original license is more permissive? ( https://sourceware.org/bzip2/manual/manual.html )
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by red_admiral 19d ago
This is a great replacement for Office Online and Onedrive, but will it work as a standalone desktop application that stores files to by home directory?
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by red_admiral 20d ago
Office is going to be a blocker - not just because of the two XML file formats, but because of the different UI. I personally find the Microsoft version more productive despite a mental list of complaints I have with it. The correct choice,
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by red_admiral 20d ago
The EUPL sound like a good idea - preserving some of the ideas of the FSF (copyleft) but in a way that governments and companies can actually use to develop their own software. Personally I'm still in the BSD camp, but my current ranki
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by red_admiral 21d ago
We achieved "get the Iraqis out of Kuwait" back in the day.
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by red_admiral 22d ago
(EC)DSA is indeed fiddly enough that you wonder if it was an NSA operation in the first place. EdDSA on the other hand seems ok.
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by red_admiral 22d ago
Curve25519 exists because it's also easy to build ECC footguns - not checking if an input is a valid curve point comes to mind. ECC is definitely more efficient though. Then again, we're all supposed to switch to post-quantum.
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by red_admiral 22d ago
Which would still apply if the game were sold on a CD-ROM, but needed an internet connection to Sony's licence servers to run. The important bit is that once you bought a music CD, no-one can stop you from playing it?
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by red_admiral 22d ago
In the UK at least, consumer contracts have to be "fair", determined as necessary in a court of law: https://www.gov.uk/unfair-terms-in-sales-contracts/unfair-co... Making the game unplayable on Wednesday mig
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by red_admiral 23d ago
Sony is correct here? If I buy a CD or a cassette or a record, I own the physical media but I only have a licence to the music it contains - not the ownership, and not the copyright. Whether I can play that music as a DJ at an event or on t
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by red_admiral 23d ago
That's typical RAF. Same kind of thinking as the exploding marshmallow incident in a nuclear bomber ( https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/exploding-teacakes ).
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by red_admiral 24d ago
If open source matters more than anything else, there's always GIMP. If you just want to use the thing, not recompile it, paint.net is still free, even for commercial work, and (in my opinion) has better UX.
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by red_admiral 24d ago
It says something that an old paint.net derivative is still the best general purpose image editor out there. (I consider GIMP harder and slower to use.)
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by red_admiral 24d ago
To riff of an old political joke: X is for the evil party, bluesky is for the stupid party.
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by red_admiral 25d ago
I'm afraid this reads like "we've not 100% proved that smoking causes cancer, so ..." Is the science 100% settled? No. Is this the best possible way to regulate this? No. But it's sure better than the current state
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by red_admiral 26d ago
No, it's just the most accurate re-implementation that I know of at least for Windows. You can sometimes tell the difference because the QT emulated widget can do things that the native widget can't.
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by red_admiral 26d ago
I guess there's an exception for startups where you have to have something before you reach the end of the runway, and as you say, _mature code_.
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by red_admiral 26d ago
> Most apps these days gather credit card details That's one of the few consumer-facing areas where there are still standards in place, namely PCI-DSS. As far as I know the audits require the name of a human who is responsible for p

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