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Semaphor

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Balkan Sworn Virgins

en.wikipedia.org
26 points·by Semaphor·26 hari yang lalu·3 comments

Mozilla Slopaganda

dbushell.com
12 points·by Semaphor·5 bulan yang lalu·2 comments

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Semaphor
·kemarin dulu·discuss
No, please do keep using them if you use any requiring puzzles (like hCaptcha) at all. It’s the easiest captcha to solve automatically, with many extensions available.
Semaphor
·kemarin dulu·discuss
I plan to eventually get there, just need to find the time. It’s a lot of code, and a lot of it is not set up for testability.
Semaphor
·kemarin dulu·discuss
I work on a codebase from the early 2000s, a lot of it using webforms, a long abandoned .NET technology. A rewrite preserving all behavior and making no observable changes whatsoever would be amazing. But it’s also tested exactly as well as you’d expect from something like that so I’d rather not let AI go wild.
Semaphor
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
I’m not a huge AI fan, and was ready for some Schadenfreude. But with every paragraph I thought "so, just like modern human-created websites?"
Semaphor
·4 hari yang lalu·discuss
Personally, I like the elastic (and similar) license… as long as, as you did, it’s chosen upfront. Being open source as a marketing strategy and later switching to source available licenses is what I find highly [0] problematic.

[0]: With a bit of an understandable carve out if it turns out no one else ever contributed anything of significance.
Semaphor
·6 hari yang lalu·discuss
Still looking fondly back to when I was studying back in ~2006, and my C program on some (I think?) ATMega device (probably not the latest version of the compiler? I really can’t remember the details anymore) device didn’t work the way I thought it should. Called the professor over. He looked at the assembly and realized the compiler was modifying a variable outside the loop for some reason that was modified inside with the C code. So before I even heard of "It’s never the compiler", I learned that sometimes it actually is the compiler ;)
Semaphor
·10 hari yang lalu·discuss
> what requires the internet or becomes tedious if we opt not to use the internet

> Listening to music

Isn’t that just their choice? The most tedious it can get is if you want to stay completely offline, then for acquisition you have to buy the CD or Vinyl in person, which makes it about exactly as tedious as it used to be before the internet. Listening offline? Extremely easy. Works the same way it always had, but the software is better.

There are a lot more examples like this, where the tedious part is simply how it used to be, and using the internet instead is making it easier.

It doesn’t become tedious, it always was, and the internet simply offers an easier alternative. Granted, there are some other examples on there, but not that many.

They shortly after say "joking aside", but that seems like a lot of text for a "joke".
Semaphor
·13 hari yang lalu·discuss
This is not choosing between different models, really. You should check the (interesting, yet sadly very slop-padded) readme. It’s about trying to make a binary decision: Is this a hard or easy question, and about making that decision extremely fast. They suggest putting another router that chooses the model behind it. I’m not sure how well it would work, but the idea is interesting and different than other routers.
Semaphor
·17 hari yang lalu·discuss
I don't think forbidding that is legal in Germany
Semaphor
·19 hari yang lalu·discuss
OTOH, that’s probably how they got rich, and why I’ll never be.
Semaphor
·19 hari yang lalu·discuss
We are a very small company, and have always had far more Firefox than Safari users. And though they get by via dominance, IE style bundling of the browser to the OS is toxic, so good riddance.
Semaphor
·19 hari yang lalu·discuss
Depends on the region, no one where I work has an iPhone or a current Mac, so stuff gets tested on FF and Chrome, and Safari gets thoughts and prayers. We would test on Safari if it were simple, but alas.
Semaphor
·20 hari yang lalu·discuss
Sample size of 1, but my primary connection is my state (SH) in Germany, then European. I feel less of a connection to my country.

There was a map some time ago about who had what connections on the regional, country, and EU level. Iirc EU was almost never number one, but got quite a few second places.
Semaphor
·22 hari yang lalu·discuss
Reading the Wikipedia page (including the originally projected end date of 2026), it sounds a bit worse. Probably not Germany bad, but I wouldn't bet on the 4 years either.
Semaphor
·24 hari yang lalu·discuss
Being missing means they haven’t been tested, not that they don’t work. Generally they probably only don’t work if they require the google play verification thingy
Semaphor
·24 hari yang lalu·discuss
Clearly inspired by HN, there are few sites where I have to zoom in to get any kind of readability ;)
Semaphor
·24 hari yang lalu·discuss
The vast majority work, check this list for details: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...
Semaphor
·26 hari yang lalu·discuss
> He got called out several times

Good point, WP [0] has some details, looks like pretty credible call outs.

I did read about that when I watched the show, but proceeded to forget because I didn’t actually care that much ;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Adelstein#Career
Semaphor
·26 hari yang lalu·discuss
Thought the name seems familiar: Jake Adelstein got his 2009 memoir Tokyo Vice turned into a (fun to watch, apparently very dramatized, though that was already criticized for the memoirs) 2 season HBO series in 2022.
Semaphor
·27 hari yang lalu·discuss
> Iran, Haiti, Russia, Syria, Lebanon, Argentina have been at the "worse and worse" stages for decades and there is no "better" in sight.

Unless I’m completely misunderstanding things, it’s "better for the party". Our new Nazi party in Germany (AfD) even said something like that openly.