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flotzam
·19 giorni fa·discuss
They acknowledge that it's odd, and give this justification:

"Using runtime panics has the nice property that inline assembly in dead code doesn't get in the way of porting software to Fil-C. Also, it's consistent with how Fil-C usually reports errors."
flotzam
·25 giorni fa·discuss
Ah. That makes sense. Maybe the polite fiction would clash too obviously with accounting standards once the (de facto) lowered rent payments roll in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567769

Could the situation be improved then if financial regulators started treating both versions ("temporary" vacancy / "temporarily" lowered rent) equally? Tolerate both or crack down on both.
flotzam
·25 giorni fa·discuss
How come this obvious workaround isn't used much more often:

>> If the system allows you to pretend that the vacancy is temporary, why doesn’t it allow you to lower rents on the pretense that lower rents are also temporary?

> This does happen sometimes: it’s packaged as “incentive offers,” like 50% off the first 12 or 24 months rent, or 6 months without rent, etc, that lower the average rent over the life of the lease without lowering the “list price.” That’s common in residential leases, and I know it happens sometimes in commercial leases, but I don’t know how prevalent it is.
flotzam
·mese scorso·discuss
Ok that one looks legit :)

I was thinking more about his experience with e.g. the last one on the page, Roof Garden at The Post Building:

> I still don't understand why it's here nor why it's open daily, nor why they insist on Photo ID "and a full written name" before they'll let you up. However I didn't get the chance to test this out yesterday because when I arrived the roof terrace was "closed due to essential maintenance work", inconveniencing probably nobody but myself.
flotzam
·mese scorso·discuss
> more likely to get planning permission if their new skyscraper included a free public roof terrace

If that's the deal, it's crazy that some of those places are getting away with then discouraging the public from actually going there. Book your visit in advance! Present ID! Photography forbidden! This grumpy security guard will be hovering nearby <3

It's like Nathan For You S03E01 where a store advertises a $1 TV, then tells the drawn in would-be customers to please respect the black tie dress code, crawl through a tiny door, and squeeze past the alligator.
flotzam
·2 mesi fa·discuss
https://kycnot.me/?categories=aggregator

https://kycnot.me/?categories=exchange
flotzam
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Tor Browser is always quick to rebase on the latest Firefox ESR. They released an update the next day:

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-15010/
flotzam
·3 mesi fa·discuss
They are not affected (except through second order effects, e.g. some FOSS app developers might give up on development)
flotzam
·3 mesi fa·discuss
He posted it at 8:03 AM though... (12:03 PM UTC, and he was in D.C.)

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1163519987825...
flotzam
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Isn't type 1a circumcision (removal of the clitoral hood, but not other parts) very rare? At least that's what the Wikipedia article claims, referencing a 2008 WHO report.
flotzam
·6 mesi fa·discuss
At the bottom of the page there's a link to the pdfresurrect package, whose description says

"The PDF format allows for previous changes to be retained in a revised version of the document, thereby keeping a running history of revisions to the document.

This tool extracts all previous revisions while also producing a summary of changes between revisions."
flotzam
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Right, I should have written "IPv4 bridges" (which can be obfuscated and distributed out of band), not "IPv4 entry nodes": https://bridges.torproject.org/

But you can reach the IPv6 internet through those too.
flotzam
·6 mesi fa·discuss
Tor can reach IPv6 destinations through IPv4 entry nodes, if that's what your asking.
flotzam
·7 mesi fa·discuss
> Does anybody know if Bluesky block people without account by default, or if this user intentionally set it this way?

It's the latter. You can use an app view that ignores this: https://anartia.kelinci.net/robpike.io
flotzam
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Probably by the phone number used for account verification, in many cases

The anime avi posters will have to level up their OPSEC
flotzam
·7 mesi fa·discuss
What happens if you declare that you don't have any social media accounts?

There are already forms that ask for social media info, e.g. student visa applications. Surely some of the applicants just don't have any social media profiles. Maybe some of them are reading this. I'm curious about their experiences.
flotzam
·7 mesi fa·discuss
Bandcamp is huge
flotzam
·8 mesi fa·discuss
No part of hosting or visiting onion services involves exit nodes. Onion service traffic stays within the Tor network instead of exiting to the clearnet.
flotzam
·9 mesi fa·discuss
A dirty intended use case...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_desiccation#Systemic_desi...
flotzam
·9 mesi fa·discuss
It's inherently a loss of privacy that anyone (given that the dataset is now public) can correlate

> Dates of birth, Email addresses, Loyalty program details, Names, Phone numbers