cormorant · HackerTrans

hace 3 díasdiscuss

> five seconds to Google this and discover

...(after much longer) that it's a rabbit hole with nuance. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18481910

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hace 19 díasdiscuss

I feel like HN should ban linking to the domain. After all, no good-faith commenter intends the result that happens.

cormorant

hace 19 díasdiscuss

> ...jwz.org...

Holy fuck, man, visiting that with a HN referer serves up a rather NSFW rude image, and evidently sets a cookie to make sure it happens next time too.

replacement link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260401175031/https://www.jwz.o...

cormorant

hace 26 díasdiscuss

I absolutely despised the game "Mafia" when my friends played it in college. Now I know I'm not alone in that.

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hace 26 díasdiscuss

When I first heard of "Hackers" being equated with startups (viz. this very forum's name!) I was disgusted. A hacker, to me, was personified by Richard Stallman, or a phreaker, or Neo from the Matrix. But here we are.

cormorant

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

It still (again?) loads for me.

cormorant

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

> and existing third level domain names will be terminated

Wow! The risks of being esoteric

cormorant

hace 2 mesesdiscuss

Some similarities to *.<lastname>.name -- one of which is that the Public Suffix List thinks you're part of a single site with others you have no control over. Another is the weird registration procedure, but this one is weirder!

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

Source publications cited in first sentence but not linked. https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/2026/05/05/telus-uses-ai-to-ch... , https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-telus-ai-ac...

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

It's not faster than userspace, it's much slower normally. On special boards with crypto accelerators it can be faster, and there can be compliance reasons to want it. References: [1] https://www.chronox.de/libkcapi/html/ch01s02.html [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/410763/ [3] https://trac.gateworks.com/wiki/linux/encryption#PerformaceC...

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

Who's to say the business that issued the ticket will accept your homemade imitation? with "adjustable styles, images, colors, and text fields"?

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hace 3 mesesdiscuss

missing a ? character. https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%...

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hace 6 mesesdiscuss

To a young enough audience, you will sound like you exclusively use ChatGPT instead.

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hace 6 mesesdiscuss

Howard Oakley has made more effort to understand what macOS is doing (and blog about it) than practically anyone else ever.

cormorant

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

How do you disable Shortcuts?

cormorant

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

Many people are experiencing the opposite.

cormorant

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

> mediaanalysisd

Incredibly, the current mitigation is a cronjob to SIGSTOP it once per minute. https://github.com/jac-jim/stop-mediaanalysisd

Yearslong history of this issue, with it getting harder and harder. https://gist.github.com/huksley/564be2c903312bcee7dffe415d12...

cormorant

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

Further info: https://old.reddit.com/r/cellmapper/comments/1qcwj48/observa...

cormorant

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

It's a population map lacking Dallas for sure ... which might mean something real ... but that doesn't match the per-city charts they offer. Who knows.

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hace 6 mesesdiscuss

> 48khz exists because it syncs with video easily

I guess meaning 24fps video? Because 44100 is already a multiple of 25, 30, 50, and 60.