superkuh

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by superkuh 2y ago
It's easy as long as you're a corporation. It's onerous for a human person. Like the EU's excellent Digital Markets Act, GDPR should be altered to only apply to corporations. It'd be better if like the DMA it only a
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by superkuh 2y ago
>however it is never good when the protocol is defined by it's only implementation One counter-example to this is in desktop GUI environments. You want one single strong reference implementation there for stability/consistent e
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by superkuh 2y ago
You bring up a great point. The battery spec is only given at -10C. That's a mild normal day's low temperature in winter in Minneapolis, USA. But it's often much colder than that for long periods of time. I wonder if this gla
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by superkuh 2y ago
Bruce Sterling's "Heavy Weather" was a surprisingly accurate prediction of the 2020-2040s for coming out in 1995 at the peak of "the end of history". He called this one re: tuberculosis.
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by superkuh 2y ago
It's a fun mischarecterization. But the old sites were/are far more functional and less fragile. A single animated gif of the CONUS radar, for example, is way better user experience, incomparibly less fragile and easy to host, tha
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by superkuh 2y ago
Nope. I leave javascript turned off like with every other website. No CPU use issues.
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by superkuh 2y ago
I remember when the USA government spaceweather websites and FTP sites went away in the early 2010s. It was terrible. They replaced them with the current javascript monstrosities and hid the raw directories. It made automating mirroring of
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by superkuh 2y ago
Funny. NOAA spent 2015-now moving all their weather servers off premises and moving from HTML and static images with maybe a bit of client side javascript to entirely web application remote hosted monstrosities that all require javascript t
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by superkuh 2y ago
Look at literally any "newspaper" website. From the smallest local paper to the NYT.
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by superkuh 2y ago
I thought the same. And on this site I cannot even see the proposed anchor link because it's a badly implemented web component custom-element that is all JS defined instead of wrapping actual HTML elements/text. It's such an
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by superkuh 2y ago
I suppose the existence of bad uses does not invalidate the good but it feels like 99% of blurry image placeholder behavior is actually just preventing people from seeing anything unless they also run the ad and spying javascript that monet
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by superkuh 2y ago
As an end user I often patch the glibc version incompatibility away with https://github.com/corsix/polyfill-glibc $ ./polyfill-glibc --target-glibc=2.17 /path/to/my-program This often leads
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by superkuh 2y ago
It does. Gmail disabled imap login for everyone. You explicitly have to find and set up a special "app password" to enable just IMAP now. Many major corporate email clients (like thunderbird) have implemented these corporation-mai
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by superkuh 2y ago
Look in the thunderbird source. The devs had to make a many hundreds of lines config for each mega-corp. So, yeah, the mega-corps are covered by major workarounds in major email clients. But for normal email clients it's very hit and m
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by superkuh 2y ago
What is most apparent to me (putting in existing code and asking for changes) is Gemini 2.5 Pro's tendency to refuse to actually type out subroutines and routinely replace them with either stubs or comments that say, "put the subr
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by superkuh 2y ago
Of course these days the mega-corp walled garden email providers don't really follow standards like IMAP. IMAP will not work with, say, Google's gmail or Microsoft office365, or AT&T ISP email, etc, etc. They have each impleme
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by superkuh 2y ago
This is how it goes. Once one "undesirable" group has no civil rights at all, no one does. All that has to happen is for you to be accused of being an undersirable.
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by superkuh 2y ago
The nervous system damage like that is certainly a big concern. Especially with the adjacency of the mucosal tissues of the sinuses, etc, to the central nervous system proper. And then there's the problem that intramuscular sars-cov-2
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by superkuh 2y ago
For me it's not over till there's an FDA approved intranasal sars-cov-2 vaccine (mucosal) to complement the intramuscular (humoral) one. Different immune compartments, different antibodies, different tissues/organs protected.
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by superkuh 2y ago
While the motivations may be AI related the cause of the problem is the first and original type of non-human person: corporations. Corporations are doing this, not human persons, not AI.
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by superkuh 2y ago
I suppose you're right, it does slightly lower the barrier to entry compared to doing all the cert stuff manually. But not compared to HTTP itself. Then the first time it breaks (and it always will over a few years) the barrier to cont
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by superkuh 2y ago
Automation only hides the complexity. It doesn't solve it. Try using an acme1 client these days. Try using an older computer that has some LE expired root cert. etc. Over years it will break and then you've got a facefull of com
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by superkuh 2y ago
I feel the same way about letting a corporation control who can visit your site and when (CA TLS only). I personally tunnel to a VPS for browsing because my ISP, Comcast, will do MITM injections of javascript into HTTP pages. This notably u
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by superkuh 2y ago
It doesn't even have to be unrelible/cheap drivers that fail. Even name brand Cree/Phillips/etc stuff have drivers that will fail rather quickly if your wall current is at all dirty. The effect of this is LED lightbulbs
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by superkuh 2y ago
The idea that you have to have multiple pythons is weird, new, and despite what you say about not breaking a sweat, vastly more complex and time consuming than how python used to work before it became popular. It's broken now and peopl
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by superkuh 2y ago
> System python shouldn't be a thing in the first place. Sour gapes. The idea that "system python shouldn't be a thing" is really radical and massive change from the status quo of languages. Especially interpreted lan
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by superkuh 2y ago
Why is dropping HTTP valuable? CA HTTPS is extremely fragile and will eventually break over even just a few years without mantainence. HTTP sites have no expiration date(s). HTTP+HTTPS is the best of both worlds. Unless your threat model in
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by superkuh 2y ago
For example, HTTPS-only in browsers and CA TLS only connections in HTTP/3 protocol libraries. It's near impossible to host a visitable website without getting permission from a third party corporation every 90 days. These things m
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by superkuh 2y ago
In fact the indieweb cannot ever take off. Because take off means being used by a large fraction of people. And the large fraction of people only really use services where they consume content from people who produce content for monetary co
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by superkuh 2y ago
I agree with you from the developer point of view. But you should consider the point of view that other people might want to compile your software. Python is a great example of a software community that has enormous trouble due to always ch

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