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Uberphallus··on Byte Magazine Volume 07 Number 08 – Logo (1982)
Of which more than half (of what I've skimmed through, at least) are ads. Makes FB at 1/4 ad content seem even reasonable.
Uberphallus··on Python GUIs for Humans – Transforms UI into People-Friendly Pythonic Interfaces
This actually has a web backend.
Uberphallus··on La Palma Volcano Live [video]
This one[0] is (or was) much closer, but it stopped streaming in the last few hours. Sharing just in case it comes back.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVIusxgOIg4

Edit: seems like it came back but now it's panning around the area.

Uberphallus··on Zerotier – multiple vulnerabilities lead to private network access
> So it's entirely feasible if you have access to any cloud vendor then.

At around $0.50 per hour, and assuming "many many years" means 10 years, then the attack needs to be worth those $43800.

Uberphallus··on Bitcoin's growing e-waste problem
Already available in GridCoin
Uberphallus··on The Perils of an .xyz Domain
Same here. My DKIM headers are signed by a well known and respected email provider. I assume if you self host the results are gonna be wildly different.

Sometimes I send reminders from my xyz domain to my corporate email accounts (which tend to have a rather aggressive filtering) and everything seems to work fine.

Uberphallus··on Scikit-Learn Version 1.0
Really, for any other ML library the best documentation is how-tos spread through the web, but scikit-learn leaves very little room for that kind of content.
Uberphallus··on Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute
Moderation has been proven not to scale with AI, seems like payments is the same.
Uberphallus··on The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)
I find this pretty funny.

In the 00s and early 10s, the Linux desktop was criticized because of the inconsistency in the look and feel, e.g. using Firefox (GTK) in KDE (Qt) plus random apps in Motif, TK, or straight up Swing. The consistency of Windows and OS X desktops was desired and looked for: people migrated themes across toolkits, synchronized font settings, etc.

Now every Electron app does their own thing and people don't seem to care one bit, but when I need to use one of them I feel like I'm using a different CSS-enhanced, antialias-enabled 90s Winamp skin for each app.

Uberphallus··on WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you talk to reports them
A screenshot can be forged, meanwhile Facebook has reasonable certainty about the authenticity of the message. This third end is within the WhatsApp platform, so we're not really comparing the same thing.

It's essentially a forward to the party that supposedly can't see your messages, breaking what people understand by E2E.

Today this behavior is triggered when it's reported, tomorrow it'll be when the government, or worse, some AI, flags a user. You share a groupchat with the wrong person, or they have you in their contact list, boom, eavesdropped.

But some people will still claim it's only 2 ends just because it's not forwarded 100% of the time. I guess it's matter of semantics.

Uberphallus··on WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you talk to reports them
> There are two ends, but if one of the ends decides to forward the content to WhatsApp, then WhatsApp can read it.

Translation: there are two ends, but one of the ends can send it to yet another end. That sounds like there are more than two ends.

Uberphallus··on WhatsApp moderators can read your messages if someone you talk to reports them
TL;DR: WhatsApp is E2E encrypted, but that doesn't mean there are only 2 ends.
Uberphallus··on New Ways to Be Told That Your Python Code Is Bad
I love Python but my personal hate goes for this when used in list comprehensions.

    a = [1,2,3]
    # list comprehension with if
    [ x for x in a if x > 1]
    [2, 3]
    # list comprehension with if/else
    [ x if x > 1 else x*2 for x in a]
    [2, 2, 3]
When it's just "if" it goes after the "for", when it's "if/else" it goes, all of it, before. I still don't understand why it's this way, it doesn't even make sense even reading it in natural language. I much prefer the mathematical-like syntax present in Scala for this.

Edit: Thanks for the responses, they are are insightful, never thought of this that way.

Still in my head the lack of "else" clause implies filtering no matter where, while its presence implies transformation no matter where. The first element of the list is always transformed (though in this example it's identity).

I think it's a case of Python trying to do too much with too little. Personally for anything relatively complicated I still prefer to use filter() and map() as list comprehensions can get unwieldly quick.

Uberphallus··on Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month
Parody/satire is generally fair use.
Uberphallus··on Design a Camera with Python and PyRayT: Part One – Fotonix and Gizmos
PyRayT is focused on simulation/analysis of optical systems rather than 3D rendering.

By all means it can be used to render stuff, albeit more slowly than traditional tracers, but it's not the project's focus.

Uberphallus··on Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human immune system (2018)
I had this happen to me. For most of my life, barely ever got bitten by mosquitos, and when they did, they usually died while feeding, on my skin.

From age 30 onwards, I suffer them as much as the next guy, not sure what could have changed since.

Uberphallus··on The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
We're better than normal. My employer already decided to allow up to 60% time remote, no questions asked, forever. You can still come 100% of the time to the office if you want. Some restrictions are still in place, but the future seems brighter for the workplace.
Uberphallus··on On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking
Yeah, we're talking Europe in this thread though. Nobody ever gets shot while jogging, even less so by another civilian. Gun homicide and killed by cop deaths are orders of magnitude lower.

But yeah I should have gauged my comment towards a mostly US-centric readership.

Uberphallus··on On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking
Where's the irony? The bias is there whether you like it or not.

Never have I ever been harassed while wearing sports or hiking clothing, including accidental trespassing in countries where I barely spoke the language. Can't say the same about the outfit I mentioned, while doing nothing wrong.

The fact that the Adidas tracksuit and the tiny bag are the closest thing to the official uniform of a drug dealer in much of Western Europe became apparent really quick.

Uberphallus··on On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking
It shouldn't have to be this way, but try wearing sport clothing and make it a light jog for extra health points.

And by that I mean actual sports clothing, not the archetypical tight Adidas tracksuit that the average European troublemaker wears.

Uberphallus··on Have problems with PostgreSQL? Try using Hive (2015)
From major technologies around Hadoop we use Hive, Oozie, Spark... it's easier to say the ones we don't use: HBase.
Uberphallus··on Have problems with PostgreSQL? Try using Hive (2015)
Hi, working for major telco here.

I think the realisation is that most data workloads aren't really big data, which people already knew back in 2015, but the same people will overengineer things just to learn stuff. The fad moved onto something else, I agree.

But my department is a giant, just-ETL, everything-requires-a-cluster kind of department. More than half of our business runs on Hadoop, for a reason.

The Hadoop ecosystem is a bit like K8s. If it feels too complicated for your purpose, it probably is. But with all its warts, when your data is big enough, either you use the Hadoop ecosystem or you reinvent significant parts of the wheel.

Uberphallus··on OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
The card cartel doesn't care as long as they don't lose money in the process.

In general merchants don't deal with client cards directly but through payment processors. The chargeback process is usually manual (meaning it requires non-negligible resources) plus it impacts the fees the card cartel collects (if the chargeback is accepted).

High risk payment processors generally agree to pay card cartels for the fee lost if chargebacks are accepted, and sometimes even perform refunds to stay within a threshold of chargebacks. This, plus extra fraud monitoring/protection makes their service more expensive.

You don't need a processor in Monaco, CCBill or PaymentCloud are US based and offer that. Now, they shave a significant chunk of the transaction in flat+percentage fees, it can be anywhere from 4 to 15% depending on your profile.

Uberphallus··on OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
This is exactly it. Notably betting sites accept higher fees without issue. Obviously the margins take a hit but they're still profitable.

The main difference is that a gambler will keep throwing money (and encouraged to do so via dark patterns to keep the margins), whereas post-nut clarity is the main barrier to maintain the margins in porn.

Uberphallus··on OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
I thought the same, but it makes sense, if you go past the strange grammar structure and pompous words.

My liberal translation:

It's crazy that companies try to scale workforce like you scale compute units in the cloud. This wouldn't be the same if the workforce organized itself in unions, both against the platform and the moral police.

If arguing that everyone on these platforms would be judged in front of everyone else, maybe a legal framework dictating what people can and cannot do is the way to go (I think it sarcastically implies that the "everything which is not forbidden is allowed" principle would be violated).

Edit: it's very complex to describe what unacceptable content is. This will cause many cases of indecency accusations, which will turn the public against them, leaving no freedom of media per se.

Uberphallus··on OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
My understanding is that you get the porn after subscribing to a certain creator, but I haven't really even been to the site, so my view might be completely off.
Uberphallus··on Moderna Is About to Begin Trials for HIV Vaccine
Some vaccines are effective after infection; it's called post-exposure prophylaxis. Some examples are tetanus and rabies.
Uberphallus··on How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says
Yeah, obesity isn't contagious nor causes immediate and simultaneous need of health services, but nice try.
Uberphallus··on How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says
> Somebody choosing to be at higher risk does not increase the risk to other other than clogging up hospital resources

So it doesn't have an impact except for when it does?

Uberphallus··on Ask HN: What do you think about type coverage in Python?
Yeah, but in practice you rarely (if ever) call foo() with a literal. In normal code you'll use variables or return values, and if they're annotated, mypy will catch mismatching types.

What you propose will certainly solve the issue when dealing with unannotated code, though.

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