simias

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by simias 6y ago
>Instead of ads, I thought I would try and sell an NFT of the page. I’d read a fair amount about NFTs (both good and bad), and I was a mix of sceptical and curious. I thought this would be an interesting and weird opportunity to try it o
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by simias 6y ago
I don't buy the age thing at all. Younger generations are superficially more tech savvy but it doesn't really help here. Just go browse reddit for 10 minutes if you don't believe me. I recommend the /r/GME cult for
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by simias 6y ago
There's no simple solution to this problem but note that the problem is not so much that we're "bored of disputation" is that we're "overwhelmed with disputation". It's always the same issues: making
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by simias 6y ago
I was not familiar with the original argument but it's so ridiculous at face value that I wonder if a rebuttal was necessary. Mining Bitcoins is like Iceland smelting aluminum? Mining bitcoin "converts electricity into value"
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by simias 6y ago
I think there's a lot of bad linguistics in the linked article and in these comments, but your comment being more substantial than most I decided to focus my criticism there, sorry if that comes of as a bit adversarial. I just think th
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by simias 6y ago
I don't think it's a good ethical argument. We decide to birth these animals for our own well being, ergo we are responsible for their suffering. If we only rescued lost cows from the wilderness, giving them shelter and a good lif
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by simias 6y ago
Indeed, years ago I had scripts to automatically fetch URLs from IRC and I quickly realized that if I didn't spoof the user agent of a proper web browser many websites would reject the query. Googlebot's UA worked just fine howeve
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by simias 6y ago
In emulators I often have to implement various FIFOs with a fixed word size (8 bits, 16bits, 32bits etc...) and depth (16, 32 or 64 elements etc...). I could very easily make the word size generic, but not the depth. So I either had to make
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by simias 6y ago
Indeed. Time to rewrite all of my code that used hacks to work around this limitation.
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by simias 6y ago
What makes you say that? I haven't followed StarLink very closely but it seems to me that in order to be competitive and maximize profits it would be extremely beneficial for them to have regional pricing policies.
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by simias 6y ago
I'm not willing to write Firefox/Gecko off until I encounter significant issues in the wild, although I agree that the future doesn't look bright.
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by simias 6y ago
They're all based on chromium though. That gives Google a lot of leverage because every time these projects decide to do something different from upstream it adds to the maintenance burden. If Google decides to make some fundamental ch
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by simias 6y ago
I considered that, but I think at the moment there's no concept of IP address for web certificates, it's all based on domain names as far as I know. It doesn't mean it's not doable of course, but I could understand if it
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by simias 6y ago
HTTP is effectively considered legacy by the big web actors these days. More and more APIs are HTTPS-only (often for good reasons) and the "insecure" warnings you get from using HTTP become more intrusive every year. The trajector
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by simias 6y ago
I've literally never seen anybody use a domain name to address my devices, only a simple IPv4. That already makes it a nonstarter, but let's entertain the idea. Maybe I can convince my clients to change the way they work, they gen
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by simias 6y ago
That's quite a cool hack, but as I mentioned elsewhere in this discussion it's still a lot of infrastructure to let a user connect to a device on their own lan, and it still presupposes that the user will have a robust internet co
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by simias 6y ago
That's very cool, but it still requires a working and reliable internet connection. Also these ultra-long URLs are very clumsy and can't really be used directly, so you need to have some sort of cloud frontend that where the devic
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by simias 6y ago
I develop broadcast TV equipments which are often rented all over the place for short amounts of time, often don't have any direct internet access etc... I simply cannot make any assumption about the network these devices will run, and
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by simias 6y ago
I wish there was a solution for those of us who develop web interfaces for embedded products designed to live on LAN, often without any internet access and no well defined domain name. I'm all for HTTPS everywhere but right now for my
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by simias 6y ago
You could even have a bot automatically asking for the version if it's not mentioned, and closing the ticket automatically if the version is no longer supported. A bit rude, but it gets the point across...
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by simias 6y ago
>But the whole goal of auto-upgrading is to avoid the spread versions, it's a mess to investigate when you have reports from 1 year old version, that's the main reason why we choose to do that. Why not just outright reject issu
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by simias 6y ago
Note that it only works if it's set on the source page, for obvious reasons. So if you set these headers on your page the browser will send the referrer when browsing away from your page, but not when your page is the target.
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by simias 6y ago
You'll still get the source domain name, you just won't be able to see the full path. Of course how useful it is will depend on the source website, if it's "news.ycombinator.com" it won't be too difficult to fi
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by simias 6y ago
I would be willing to compromise if at least there was a widely adopted set of standard protocols that I could use to interface these devices with my own favourite controller. Instead it's a mish-mash of bespoke proprietary smartphone
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by simias 6y ago
Home automation is really not particularly novel. Quoting Wikipedia: >In 1975, the first general purpose home automation network technology, X10, was developed. It is a communication protocol for electronic devices. It primarily uses ele
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by simias 6y ago
They still send the domain name on cross-origin requests, so the type of filtering Vimeo does will be unaffected as far as I can tell. It's only when the target website needs the full source URL (with path and GET parameters) that you
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by simias 6y ago
Some websites would whitelist referrers to prevent hotlinking resources from other websites (incurring potentially high bandwidth costs). But overall I'm all for getting rid of it. It's a remnant of the early web that doesn't
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by simias 6y ago
I don't use twitter so I don't know what the etiquette over there but outside of emails I wouldn't normally expect any salutation in an internet message. So for me it's not so much that the salutation not formal enough,
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by simias 6y ago
I didn't downvote but I think "please don't do X" is really a poor way to frame this opinion. I also don't care much for podcasts and prefer a textual format, but if you think you'd prefer making it a podcast t
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by simias 6y ago
It's mostly these sentences (in relation to that diagram) that I really fail to understand: >If Bitcoin used only wasted energy it would consume >2/3rds of the energy of the planet. >This is why hand-wringing about Bitcoi

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