tester34

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   by tester34 5y ago

   I do wonder whether FBI will hunt those reverse and software engineers behind those tools I do wonder how many of them are in this comment chain or previous big thread about Pegasus
2. 182.▲
   by tester34 5y ago

   especially fbclid
3. 183.▲
   by tester34 5y ago

   Wow, nice. I bought kneeling chair and sitting ball, but prefered ball, but I don't know whether it helps me at all
4. 184.▲
   by tester34 5y ago

   I meant putting money into researching how does internet, internet communities, memes, social medias are used to manipulate, radicalize, create misinformation yada yada.
5. 185.▲
   by tester34 5y ago

   >They are pretty much using your own arguments: So what? blame the implementation detail and people behind it then It just shows that the argument stands, becaues it's an actual problem and I'd rather do not have to argue with
6. 186.▲
   by tester34 5y ago

   If you believe that manipulation and misinformation on the internet is not an actual problem then I don't know what to say It affected shitton of people about covid/vacciness related stuff It's one of the biggest challenges n
7. 187.▲
   by tester34 5y ago

   how's that bullshit? memes have strong power, especially if you can vote them to the front page there has been shitton of them before 2016 election and during Pandemic they were used for both - good and bad. From looking cost efficency
8. 188.▲
   by tester34 5y ago

   vaccines / covid are the new politics/religion from speaking from identity[0]? [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
9. 189.▲
   by tester34 5y ago

   I think organisations like DoD and schools should be force to give it to the pool if they aren't using significant part of those addresses.
10. 190.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    do Departament of Defense of US and some schools still own a lot of IPs?
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    by tester34 5y ago

    As a counter-experience I've been traveling 40km in 65mins each way using a train from the village "at the end of the world :)" that has a few thousands ppl, so definitely not capital city
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    by tester34 5y ago

    >It would add 90 minutes each way for my 15km commute. Oo I've been commuting 40km each way before pandemic with public transportation and it took me (65min of travel + waiting for train + 10min of walking) each way
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    by tester34 5y ago

    >This may just be my experience as a young person in San Francisco / Silicon Valley, but it's very common for office life and social life to be highly intertwined. Damn, I've seen some random ass video on yt called "n
14. 194.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    weird way to spell security who needs performance, current hardware is too fast for non-server meanwhile cruds can be optimized anyway
15. 195.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    If you're displaying username (like on NewsHacker) then maybe you don't want to allow people to use fancy weird characters that are untypable
16. 196.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    >I mean like Real Engineering fields. What we do in software is not real engineering, not even close. That has pros and cons. "Real Engineering" has definition and it fits SE, doesn't it? Computer industry iterated and man
17. 197.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    even on programming forums it's hard to avoid it. there's always some politics or stuff like covid
18. 198.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    You're right, thanks for reminding
19. 199.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    Ehh, I don't like current state of the Internet In last months I've started wondering why do I even pay my internet bills 60% of the reason I still do it is that I need internet for my job the rest is HN, two or three subreddits,
20. 200.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    I'm not a fan of the fact that world revolves around having smartphone
21. 201.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    I'd bet that if they were opening actual edge fab in Poland, then the priest would appear to sprinkle EUV machine
22. 202.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    Overall semiconducting industry seems to be way more exciting than boring computer industry
23. 203.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    how I'll walk to home when drunk at night without streetlamps? :| damn, those trade offs!
24. 204.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    >- sanitizing input Oh, that unicorn that everybody takes about, yet nobody does anything with it So, how do you sanitize input? you save in database escaped strings? allow only "english" letters? >- HTML injection >- XSS
25. 205.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    I've been doing it when I wanted open one program many times and prevent it from stacking so I can switch between instances faster.
26. 206.▲
    by tester34 5y ago

    Some forums add some kind of non-linearity by adding comments to posts this way you have linear main topic and offtopic "sub topics" in comment chains under posts. But I think that tree has some cons, namely - it creates/allo
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    by tester34 5y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27917179
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    by tester34 5y ago

    >What would the better version be? in my opinion? Forums with mature community and competent moderators. Forums have way better model for discussions - better than fb, reddit, hn, twitter. Discussions on forums can last weeks / mont
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    by tester34 5y ago

    Welcome to my guild, comrade.
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    by tester34 5y ago

    upvote/downvote system is flawed allows to manipulate, promotes groupthink and kind of harassing people it maybe worked over decade ago or so, but it's definitely not state of art nowadays. edit. or maybe it just doesn't work