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_ahxg··on Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40%
Moreover, i imagine a lot of these bots are built on top of an SDK instead of directly working with API calls, so would be just a matter of changing the SDK internals.
_ahxg··on Avoid Async Rust at All Cost
interesting. I hope it's not too late to ask: could you expand a little bit, in particular, what do you mean by "over very general dataflow graphs"?
_ahxg··on Semantic fuzzing of the Rust compiler and interpreter [pdf]
> The source of this bug is LLVM [2] which Rust relies on for optimisations and machine code generation.

So basically rustc_codegen_gcc and cranelift can compile code that don't with LLVM and then introduce (or solve) new bugs?

_ahxg··on Admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was banned in 2015
What's NPA?
_ahxg··on F*** Paywalls
But I wonder if it's not always intentional as maybe ad blockers kill some of paywalls some times?
_ahxg··on F*** Paywalls
The irony is that someone paid for a 3 letters domain + infrastructure to keep this running for free.
_ahxg··on NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android
Amazing app, I hope it will last for a long time.
_ahxg··on Bevy 0.12
Very cool!! On the last update 0.10 -> 0.11, I had to make quite a few changes on my app, but this time it compiled out of the box!
_ahxg··on F*** Paywalls
12ft.io is actually down for me now:

This Deployment has been disabled.

Your connection is working correctly.

Vercel is working correctly.

402: PAYMENT_REQUIRED Code: DEPLOYMENT_DISABLED

_ahxg··on Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy
Vet is probably a very good example of economies of scale. I remember a vet in my town in Brazil complaining how hard it is if he get ill (or take vacations i presume), that he will lose his customers and how much he regretted not becoming a state employee.
_ahxg··on π in Other Universes
A good example of that is how the Axiom of choice impacts the measure/probability theory.

It imply the existence of some sets that cannot be Lebesgue measured (which is an generalization of width, volume, etc for arbitrary sets, also generalization of probability for arbitrary sets)... but it's not possible to present a single example of those non measurable sets, only prove that they exist.

And it's possible to construct an alternative theory with the axiom of determinacy, then any subset of R is measurable.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_determinacy * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue_measure

_ahxg··on Exploiting DNS response parsing on the Wii U
oh, I have missed this and right at the top of the article, thanks!
_ahxg··on Exploiting DNS response parsing on the Wii U
> At this point I was interested and decided to take a look if the Wii U implementation suffers from the same issue. To my surprise the Wii U implementation looks something like this instead

So, how does the author got hold of Wii's code, is it publicly available or was it some kind of reverse engineering?

_ahxg··on After 28 years, SSLv2 is still not gone from the internet
If I understood it correctly, it can actually be worse than fallback to plain text, because if a malicious actor can stability a connection using legacy SSLv2, then this connection can be used to decrypt the session for users running the latest TLS version.

While plain text connections would affected only users using the plain text connection.

See comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38047633

_ahxg··on Onion Futures Act
I swear I thought it was about banning trading futures on Onion Tor hidden services. Then on second read I thought it was about banning trading in layers, like onions, whatever that meant.
_ahxg··on Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages
Any plans to integrate this with Poetry?
_ahxg··on Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
same for me. That and vertical tabs are quite convenient. IPFS integration is also quite cool, would be nice to see that in all mainstream browsers.
_ahxg··on Slack is retiring its status account on X
Finally, well deserved. Now just waiting for Wile E. Coyote and Tom.
_ahxg··on Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations
I use Facebook translation from Ukrainian to English quite often, and frankly it's much lower quality than Google Translate.

Quite often I saw quite similarly absurd stuff coming out of those translations, so I'm not at all surprised at this.

_ahxg··on Why Async Rust?
> I can't risk losing days to some tangle of an async runtime compatibility snafu.

At this point in time, if you use Tokio, won't basically everything mainstream work? At least that has been my experience so far.

_ahxg··on Why Async Rust?
Do you know an example of such case in the Rust ecosystem?
_ahxg··on Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder
And here we have the tyranny of the marginal user as posted here a while ago =/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509507
_ahxg··on Ask HN: Is it just me or is mobile web browsing awful?
> the relentless nagging by some sites to install the mobile apps needs to die.

It seems all about the hope that you can keep the user engaged long terms. I don't blame them, competition for user attention is brutal in the age of the SEO content farms, oligopoly of social networks and the "Tyranny of the Marginal User" as posted here a few days ago.

But probably way less effective now that most users seem overwhelmed by so many push notifications and instinctively learned to mass ignore or dismiss them (myself included, just randomly noticed that background habit a while ago). And then we end-up with piles of installed unused apps just like lost websites in the browser history.

_ahxg··on Why I eat old cheese (2020)
pity, i was expecting an article in defense of delicious aged Parmesan cheese, which, so I heard, is quite good for cardiovascular disease prevention, e.g.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9318947/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1471-0307.1... Well, at least if stays not so popular it may avoid the mass creation of fakes like they do with Manuka honey.
_ahxg··on Making Rust supply chain attacks harder with Cackle
Quite interesting. That doesn't seems like a complete falling apart but rather a (unintentional?) attempt of best of worlds since once set your dependencies on your binary, they will be pinned until you manually run a cargo update.

Granted that the supply chain attack defense would fall on the hands of the users of the library. Unless the library writer aggressively pins of dependencies on the Cargo.toml (not the default semver action), problematic, but at least Cargo allows multiple versions of dependencies on a program, on Python for instance this is much complicated scenario (but still the smallest of the dependencies problems there).

_ahxg··on Protecting customers with generative AI indemnification
> I'm pretty sure now that the debate of AI ownership is a foregone conclusion - nobody owns AI outputs.

but at the same time, they put ToS that you may not train a new LLM using the output of their LLM...

_ahxg··on The HTTP/2 Zero-Day Vulnerability, and Israel-Gaza Internet Patterns
Nice podcast. So how bad was the impact of the attacks on Google, Amazon, Cloud Flare and the likes with this vulnerability? I recall a thread here about Google managing to defeat the worst attack ever too, so in the end nothing so bad really happened with the big players?
_ahxg··on It’s time to allow researchers to submit manuscripts to multiple journals
Then the publishers get thousands of dollars from taxpayer money for each article published under the open access route, while still billing universities for many thousands to give access to the non open access ones.
_ahxg··on Ask HN: Any alternatives to Duolingo without gamification?
I recommend Lingq. Support to many languages, you can add your own texts, simple and clean interface and nice for begginers and advanced users. The owner is quite a nice person too.
_ahxg··on Google was founded 25 years ago today
I don't think that will be enough to stop ads there, given that $2k+ smart TVs are blotted with permanent factory ads now.
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