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This is really cool. I wonder what the performance would be like for real-time transformations and animations.

Lowkeylokion Cryptography Dispatches: Hello World, and OpenPGP Is Broken

I've seen the link from this article before about alternatives to PGP and it bugs me for two reasons. One is the implication that everyone should write all software in Go. The other is that when you swap out one system for half a dozen, you now need to identify yourself half a dozen different ways. That seems confusing.

Lowkeylokion I Used Google Ads for Social Engineering

The Redirect Method sounds like it may be one of Jigsaw's projects. Jigsaw recently got some bad press you may find interesting.[0]

Also, there was a similar experiment done in targeted ads on Facebook not too long ago.[1]

[0] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb98pb/google-jigsaw-beca...

[1] https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-facebook-war...

Lowkeylokion Let's build a circuit that displays an image on a VGA monitor [video]

Depending on the definition of the word "image" in this context, I'd love to see people play the electronics component version of code golf to see what the fewest number of basic components would be required to put an "image" on a screen. No SOACs allowed.

Lowkeylokion Why I Don't Think Craig Wright is Satoshi

That's a completely fair point.

Lowkeylokion Babel 7.5

I have a strong feeling that these pipeline operators are headed for the purgatory that decorators are languishing in, at least as far as official ECMA spec approval goes. But I hope to be proven wrong.

Lowkeylokion Canonical Ltd source code repositories have been compromised

Link, please?

Lowkeylokion Why I Don't Think Craig Wright is Satoshi

Maybe it's just me, but who cares who Satoshi is? Knowing wouldn't change anything.

Lowkeylokion Soul Machines

This reminds me of those attempts to "record" people's consciousnesses by feeding all their digital communications into neural nets. But this is somehow even worse.

Lowkeylokion Understanding Kafka with Factorio

You lost me at the part about partitions. It might help if those gifs were labeled.

Lowkeylokion Nothing to worry about, just mutant fruit flies invented by a neural network

It's scary how easily GPT-2 slips into writing absurdist humor.

I used to be able to tell pretty easily when people were making up "an AI wrote this" stories and jokes because they were absurd but made too much sense. A context was held for too long. But this is starting to push it into the realm of possibility.

Lowkeylokion Google’s Jigsaw Was Supposed to Save the Internet

While trying to save the internet from censorship, extremists, and hackers[...]

How can you combat censorship and extremist speech at the same time?

Lowkeylokion Pi-Top 4

I got the original Pi-Top when it was crowdfunded and I was sorely disappointed, mostly due to the extremely poor quality of the keyboard. The whole thing was awfully big, too. To the point of being unwieldy. Has anyone here bought a "Pi-Top [3]"? Has the quality/design improved at all?

Lowkeylokion Matlab vs. Julia vs. Python

Specifically the author's mention of extended character support in Julia for math symbols, as well as the emphasis on matrix support, makes me wonder why APL didn't maintain popularity among the academic crowd.

Lowkeylokion Show HN: A tiny JS library for real-time localization of eye pupils

Sorry if I don't trust some random web page to use my camera because they promise they're not logging it to their server.

Lowkeylokion Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU

I don't know if they're a joke. There are quite a few players out there who seem to like it just fine. But I, on the other hand, am absolutely a joke trying to play FPS games with a controller. I need a keyboard and mouse or I can barely play at all. There are ways to hook up a keyboard and mouse to some consoles and some games, but it's generally considered "cheating".

Doesn't matter anyway. My reflexes aren't what they were when I was a teenager.

Lowkeylokion You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes

This is such an important lesson. Also, you're worth more than "what you've done lately". I personally struggle with tying my self worth to my productivity.

Lowkeylokion FreeDOS's Linux Roots

One of the comments on the article proper makes me so sad. It basically says "What a monumental waste of effort. You should have spent your time improving Linux and not recreating DOS."

It's fine if you don't get the allure of this project. But to presume to tell someone how they should spend their own time is ridiculous to me. The creator of FreeDOS set out to do something, succeeded, and enjoyed their time doing it. And this person is telling them they're wrong.

Lowkeylokion HTML is the Web

I looked up what the semantic web actually is and you're right. But at the same time, I was surprised to find that it's all properties! The tags are all divs and spans!

I guess the semantic web is orthogonal to this discussion. My apologies. I guess it's another buzzword that was thrown around for a time. In that case, assume I meant web components whenever I said semantic web.

Lowkeylokion HTML is the Web

I mainly work in React. You can write semantic HTML up to a point. Things like article, section, header, footer, etc. are supported. But if you wanted to make up your own tag and expect it to act like a div, I think React would complain that it doesn't understand that tag.

That's what I meant by "the promise of the semantic web". As I originally understood it, you could make your own custom tags that describe the intent of the document. You wouldn't be bound by what the w3c or browser vendors blessed. Any tags that were unknown to the browser would be treated mostly the same as a div. Web components occupy a similar space.

Lowkeylokion HTML is the Web

Let me give slightly more context. As a developer, I'd love to use div less often. However, I feel like the promise of the "semantic web" fell short. And "web components" as a first-class HTML citizen isn't really there. So React/Vue components are the best we've got even though they're actually just divs and spans at the lowest level. I want the web to be semantic and componentized. But it's not there yet and this is the best we've got.

Lowkeylokion HTML is the Web

The author is right, but this comes off very much as "old man yells at cloud" to me. Sorry.

Lowkeylokion Tracing the Supply Chain Attack on Android

It's worth noting that while the affected phones run Android and Google has officially commented on this, the affected phones don't appear to be Pixel or Nexus phones or anything like that. I got the impression that the affected phones were first-party models based on the first paragraph for some reason. That does not appear to be the case.

Lowkeylokion Floppycasts – 1.44MB Podcasts

That's odd. My experience was the opposite. Although the Opus one was a bit muffled and some of the low end was missing so I had to strain a little to hear, the MP3 was a cacophony of pops and whistles all the way through. It was annoying and hard to concentrate on. I'd take the Opus one every time.

I will say the music part was interesting. I could mostly make out the song on the MP3. On Opus, I could barely tell there was music there. A lot of it was just missing.

Lowkeylokion Show HN: Fist – Persistent Full Text Search and Indexing Server Written in C

I look forward to the day I can stop googling and start fisting.

Lowkeylokion Things We Lost in the Flood: A Massively Multiplayer Loneliness Simulator

Something like that has been done a few times. I think the most popular one was called Broken Picture Telephone.

Lowkeylokion Scaleway's data centre in the catacombs, 26 metres under Paris

If you like this sort of thing, I'll gladly dig a hole and put a Raspberry Pi in it.

Lowkeylokion Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building nuclear bunker tunnels

Yeah, there are a lot of variables there, such as where you live and whether your million is in liquid assets or just your net worth. But a person with money who owns land still commands more influence than one without who doesn't. I wouldn't expect a single person to avert doomsday, millionaire or pauper. I just think it's a shitty mentality to not even try to avert a disaster one believes is imminent and to just work on shielding oneself.

Lowkeylokion Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building nuclear bunker tunnels

At least you understood what I was implying. Most other commentors seemed to think I believed a single person with a million dollars could affect the change needed to avert the apocalypse. Or that I was implying said apocalypse was real in the first place.