saltminer

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by saltminer 3y ago
> A bot like this can make thousands to tens of thousands of requests per second. You don't need to use a bot to do this, Twitter literally did this to themselves through their own buggy code https://sfba.social/@sys
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by saltminer 3y ago
I see more spam these days, particularly coming from accounts that paid for the blue check mark. IIRC, Musk said that paid verification would make things better since scammers wouldn't dare pay for it (I would find where he said this b
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by saltminer 3y ago
Lots of subreddits have minimum account age and/or karma requirements due to how bad the bot situation has gotten, so unless you're willing to farm karma and wait a month to post each time (or maintain multiple semi-permanent &quo
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by saltminer 3y ago
Having modded a phpBB forum with <1k active users in the late 00s/early 10s, I used to have some sympathy for bearing the burden of being the world's biggest forum admin, but that all vanished when he started defaming the Apoll
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by saltminer 3y ago
Thanks, that explains a lot. Sounds like a task that would have to be done in Python 4, if ever it exists.
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by saltminer 3y ago
This might be a dumb question, but why would removing the GIL break FFI? Is it just that existing no-GIL implementations/proposals have discarded/ignored it, or is there a fundamental requirement, e.g. C programs unavoidably inter
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by saltminer 3y ago
> locking kills performance, and if you don't have GIL, you'll need to manage explicit locks I was under the impression that the Python thread scheduler is dependent on the host OS (rather than being intelligent enough to magic
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by saltminer 3y ago
> - headphone/mic jack > - mic only jack (but why another one?) Simple: some people use headsets that have a TRRS connector (stereo audio and mono mic on one cable), others have headsets with a TRS (stereo audio) and TS (mono for
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by saltminer 3y ago
> greenhouse gas warming plus various feedbacks will cause extreme weather, render some parts of the world unlivable due to wet bulb temperature, and overwhelm unprepared infrastructure, costing huge amounts of money and creating million
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by saltminer 3y ago
Their catalog [0] lists the base price as $799.00, and you can easily spec it out and add to cart to view the cost with your ideal configuration. [0] https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/notebook-computers-gnu-...
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by saltminer 3y ago
> And those NSFW posts are far from just porn. It's frequently news (especially related to war), the "vice" subreddits (cigars, guns), mental health subreddits, ect. And for the longest time, many subs based their flairs a
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by saltminer 3y ago
> Many images for the web are highly compressed but nobody really notices. Or they do but they just assume that's the way things are. They don't know why an image that's been reposted from Facebook to Twitter to Instagram
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by saltminer 3y ago
In theory, no, but if you're using an AMD Ryzen CPU, there's some nasty bugs related to VME instructions (which AMD appears to have no intention of fixing) that break some DOS-based applications, including Windows 3, 9x, and proba
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by saltminer 3y ago
Thankfully, a .js TLD is out of the question since you cannot create a 2-letter gTLD [0]. But who knows, maybe some private equity firm will try and bribe a nation to change names so they can get a new country code. [0] https://n
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by saltminer 3y ago
I think it's a great solution to the problem of username theft (which, as shown by the OGUsers forum, can rise to the level of swatting and extortion). There's little incentive to try and hack Discord accounts for their usernames,
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by saltminer 4y ago
> Since it seems like you are computing both the shortest and the "most interesting" path between the two articles, it would be cool to give me a way to see both on the final loaded page. The shortest path is interesting too, e
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by saltminer 4y ago
Off-topic, but why do these seizure notices always look like shitposts? They always give off "graphic design is my passion" vibes.
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by saltminer 4y ago
Twitter search is also a total crapshoot now. Some days it returns zero results, some days it returns completely irrelevant results that match none of my filters, and once in a blue moon it seems to work properly, but unless I want to brows
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by saltminer 4y ago
> Being tech enthusiasts means they're probably doing better than a lot of other creators From what I've seen, LMG is a large corporation still being run like a startup. Considering how often they churn out videos about their f
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by saltminer 4y ago
And if you want to see idiots fighting, comp.os.linux.advocacy
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by saltminer 4y ago
Xorg has a lot of accumulated hacks that make scaling work ok-ish. It falls apart when you have multiple monitors with different scaling, but for a laptop, just close the lid when you dock it and it should be good enough. Wayland, after muc
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by saltminer 4y ago
You can select "English (US)" for ANSI
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by saltminer 4y ago
>They will be bringing artists that were removed from latest SD models. Is this referring to artists opting-out (i.e. requesting to have their work removed) from the datasets used to create SD models? Because if so, I fully support that.
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by saltminer 4y ago
BitWarden and other self-hostable open source solutions do allow you to verify everything is encrypted, though you have to self-host to truly verify it (since it's always possible the official hosting service runs different software)
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by saltminer 4y ago
This is way worse than a lot of people realize. Obviously, the unencrypted URLs mean we may see another wave of blackmail a la Ashley Madison, but there's a huge potential vulnerability in that most people only have one personal email
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by saltminer 4y ago
The CXL implementation is exciting! A shared memory bank that's concurrently-accessible in a cache-coherent manner? The possibilities are enormous! This is huge for distributed computation where the biggest bottleneck is oftentimes jus
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by saltminer 4y ago
Sadly, this. "Tort reform" is the name of the game, and it's depressing how well it's worked. Much like the more recent efforts to rebrand estate taxes as a "death tax" to bolster public support for the wealthy
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by saltminer 4y ago
I've read some speculation that Musk did it because he wanted to dump a bunch of Tesla stock without tanking its price (with the justification being to help fund the Twitter buyout) and thought he could somehow back out of the agreemen
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by saltminer 4y ago
I feel like this "content moderation council" would be a fine idea if there weren't a large segment of the US population (the country which will almost certainly dominate the council) still living in a complete fantasy land w
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by saltminer 4y ago
> The state would not allow him to have his say, to raise constitutional issues I could just quote thwayunion's comments on not being allowed to re-litigate issues that were already decided on in an attempt to derail the damages pha

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