cormorant · HackerTrans

3 giorni fadiscuss

> 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

cormorant

19 giorni fadiscuss

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

cormorant

19 giorni fadiscuss

> ...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

26 giorni fadiscuss

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

cormorant

26 giorni fadiscuss

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

2 mesi fadiscuss

It still (again?) loads for me.

cormorant

2 mesi fadiscuss

> and existing third level domain names will be terminated

Wow! The risks of being esoteric

cormorant

2 mesi fadiscuss

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!

cormorant

2 mesi fadiscuss

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...

cormorant

2 mesi fadiscuss

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...

cormorant

2 mesi fadiscuss

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

cormorant

3 mesi fadiscuss

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

cormorant

6 mesi fadiscuss

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

cormorant

6 mesi fadiscuss

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

cormorant

6 mesi fadiscuss

How do you disable Shortcuts?

cormorant

6 mesi fadiscuss

Many people are experiencing the opposite.

cormorant

6 mesi fadiscuss

> 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

6 mesi fadiscuss

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

cormorant

6 mesi fadiscuss

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.

cormorant

6 mesi fadiscuss

> 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.