sam_lowry_

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by sam_lowry_ 8d ago
Rather a tradition to call a malloc by the initials of the implementer: Jason Evans malloc (jemalloc), Poul-Henning Kamp malloc (phkmalloc), Doug Lea (dlmalloc). P.S. I also wondered whether systemd had any cultural reference to Système D a
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by sam_lowry_ 9d ago
EHLO is a better hello.
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by sam_lowry_ 10d ago
archive.is or archive.today? Why being shy in the era of stealing AI?
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by sam_lowry_ 12d ago
How do I know what certificates come with my browser?
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by sam_lowry_ 12d ago
Can't US government MITM all of us, even with certificate transparency logs?
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by sam_lowry_ 13d ago
Revolut is also run by a Russian with deep connections to wartime Russian elites, starting with his dad, who heads the biggest Gazprom R&D center.
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by sam_lowry_ 15d ago
There's money to be made trying to replace git but not succeeding )
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by sam_lowry_ 18d ago
CP stands for child porn?
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by sam_lowry_ 19d ago
Capitalists and workers?
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by sam_lowry_ 21d ago
So you are switching focus from blockchain-something to EU-something? Hm.
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by sam_lowry_ 21d ago
Try this git hosting, for a change: https://mikhailian.mova.org/posts/305-looking-for-a-european...
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Estonian defense minister resigns after procurement scandal(politico.eu)
4 points by sam_lowry_ 22d ago|1 comments
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by sam_lowry_ 22d ago
In fact, they were scammed.
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by sam_lowry_ 22d ago
>$1bn for copyright violations 3000$ per book, split 50/50 between the author and publisher. This is peanuts. Assuming the money reaches that far and does not settle in the hands of the country associations administering royalties o
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by sam_lowry_ 22d ago
The next step is giving up Digital Sovereignty to American companies via EU-DI ;-)
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by sam_lowry_ 22d ago
Why on Earth does everyone speaks about Estonian ID cards? Same ID-1 sized eID cards are now issued in many EU countries. Estonia wasn't even the first, Belgium was.
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by sam_lowry_ 23d ago
Street bumps damage cars, make noise and create even more pollution. I head of a neighborhood action were drivers were honking on newly installed speed bumps. Until they got removed.
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Ask HN: Should we rename programming into herding?
2 points by sam_lowry_ 27d ago|1 comments
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by sam_lowry_ 28d ago
Funny that they mention Gnome. Whenever I happen to use a Gnome application, opening and saving files via keyboard is a major PITA. One can navigate via tabs, but some controls are skipped and those that are selectable do not show this clea
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by sam_lowry_ 29d ago
One can still install Luanti from F-Droid. It's great little tool to teach coding.
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Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia(openai.com)
98 points by sam_lowry_ 1mo ago|65 comments
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by sam_lowry_ 1mo ago
Heh... Albert Heijn can not even cross the border between Flanders and Brussels. There are literally two Albert Heijns across the street from Brussels, but if they open shop in Brussels or Wallonia, they will have to provide packaging in Fr
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by sam_lowry_ 1mo ago
Why don't Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Facebook & Co defend Anna's Archive publicly? Coming out would be a bold move for them.
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by sam_lowry_ 1mo ago
oups.
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by sam_lowry_ 1mo ago
Are you fingerpointing Marc Andreessen?
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by sam_lowry_ 1mo ago
The end is really hilarious. Google had a stupid frontend-only validation, it seems.
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by sam_lowry_ 1mo ago
suckless.org?
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by sam_lowry_ 1mo ago
Please keep it, personal notes are worth it. Maybe less navigation or +/- voting, then ranking would help us navigate your site? Like in the good old commandlinefu.
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by sam_lowry_ 1mo ago
Fear of being tagged as AI even if you write the text yourself. For me personally, it's fear to use – and —. I have my versions of XKB keyboard layouts that handily map these but I don't use them anymore. Nor d
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by sam_lowry_ 1mo ago
Pangram sucks by seeding fear.

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