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by wvh 2y ago
I'm just getting a blank page on Firefox and a few of these errors in the inspector output: Uncaught SecurityError: Security error when calling GetDirectory It does work on Chromium. And it looks nice. I wish it had keyboard nav
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by wvh 2y ago
Be careful what you call AI, you might just get what you wish for...
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I agree with the sentiment, that the metrics of independence and self-reliance aren't the same as for economic success. On the other hand, "not taking off" also means that not enough people know or care for solutions that req
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by wvh 2y ago
That is your perspective. Not that of the site owner, or the internet at large, victim to any abuse somebody unkind can unleash. Security is a bit like traffic. If you're alone in the world, you do you. But you are not alone, you have
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by wvh 2y ago
This. And alerts are often just a fluke anyway. Sure many of us can step up and pull an all-nighter if it saves some company and you make some minor sacrifice to do something heroic. Being woken up several times at night for no reason but s
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by wvh 2y ago
There is this thing called balance. The middle road. Yin Yang. Entities keeping each other in check.
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by wvh 2y ago
Maybe we're beyond native software for things like Office suites already. I can see the benefit for always-online multi-user applications that combine text editing with project planning, wiki-like functionality, documentation base and
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by wvh 2y ago
I have worked on open-source software that was government/university funded. It's not uncommon in Europe. And yes, typical death-by-committee issues exist, but there is something to be said for a piece of software that holds peopl
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by wvh 2y ago
Funny how someone can invent a word such as Jirafied and most of us know exactly what that means.
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by wvh 2y ago
When universities, libraries, government and open-source community could unite and, perhaps most crucially, find a benevolent dictator for life that could shepherd the herd of cats with all noses in one direction instead of getting bogged d
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by wvh 2y ago
Lies, to many, are better than being alone in a dark and cold universe. Please tell me my worst fears and psychological hang-ups are not true.
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by wvh 2y ago
Isn't OVH a budget hoster, especially compared to AWS? Are you compensating that somewhat on the engineering and high-availability side? I work for a consultancy company that helps other companies set up cloud infrastructure and secure
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by wvh 2y ago
> iPads are just unserious computing devices for real work. But are they? Because of the hardware, or because of the restricted operating system? Most of my work is connecting to other things. With modern devices, it's not as much t
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by wvh 2y ago
Going from mid-90s assembly to full stack dev/sec/ops, getting back to just a simple Borland editor with C or assembly code sounds like a lovely dream. Your brain works a certain way, but you're forced to evolve into the nigh
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by wvh 2y ago
Hopefully it's a prog record with songs of at least 20 minutes.
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by wvh 2y ago
People are massively choosing sides, colours, flags, identities. It's not about left or right. It's about personal opinions and identity, and one side having the power to violently disagree with you, to the point of no recourse. I
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by wvh 2y ago
Still looking back with nostalgia to the themes.org heyday of creativity... There are a lot creative people, but making a theme work for all programs and people in all situations and edge cases likely requires a gigantic effort that seems b
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by wvh 2y ago
Isn't TikTok more like the Instagram of video? I seem to remember early Youtube had a lot of digitised content, like private videos and TV show ripped fragments. With TikTok I see more of a Twitter/Instagram vlog and opinion platf
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by wvh 2y ago
In the end it all boils down to higher-level logic compiling down to machine code that has to run. A language's culture and philosophical choices are tied to the language itself as much as syntax or compiler, so maybe the largest diffe
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by wvh 2y ago
Even just hearing the monicker "xor" brings me back to the nineties, analysing viruses that sometimes "encrypted" – or at least obfuscated – themselves using a `xor` operation, or zeroing out a register in assembly code.
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by wvh 2y ago
Wholeheartedly agree. Can't teach kids to eat broccoli if you don't eat it yourself, they're just too perceptive. I don't like phones myself, but sadly enough, it is becoming hard to keep up with society (e.g. sports gro
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by wvh 2y ago
Beautiful in that painfully human way, I agree.
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by wvh 2y ago
"That's my kink" is all I can think of right now...
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by wvh 2y ago
That's a beautiful answer. Sometimes people explain something you already know, but different parts of your brain light up. This doesn't just explain git once more, but also plants some seeds related to hashed state optimisations
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by wvh 2y ago
Many roads can lead to that hell. It's not because you take the scenic route that you shouldn't have some sense of awareness about where you might be headed. There is no us and them, just human nature.
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by wvh 2y ago
Surface area. Networking. Openness to those that for whatever reason click and might become friends, business associates and romantic partners. Few will click, but those few will have shown at least some interest in you and what you do. It
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by wvh 2y ago
There is some political-philosophical irony that the Chinese prefer their government to do the blocking and take away their freedom, while the US prefers their monopolistic capitalistic corporate world to do it. A rose by any other name. Ch
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by wvh 2y ago
I'm going to commit a netiquette faux-pas and, as a fellow European, simply wholeheartedly acknowledge all you just said, from politics to media to psychology and neurology. I don't know if the internet is just mirroring the gener
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by wvh 2y ago
There's a lack of transparency on what you're actually getting with storage these days. Akin to the actual flash architecture, I've been trying to find information on the level of OPAL/Sed support in SSDs and many manufa
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by wvh 2y ago
Maybe we are overstimulated by visual content and attracted to otherwise less visually striking objects, either to find some peace or to not be distracted from that content? At least for me, visually minimalist objects and environments are

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