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anothermoron··on Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
Sadly they forced anybody with an older nvidia gpu to use some AUR package some months back.
anothermoron··on Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers
Therefore...

4. I don't need this app.

anothermoron··on Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the filter
In early 2000 I was playing a stand alone mod for Unreal Tournament 99 called Tactical Ops. UT99 provided an IRC client right in the game and people used it to coordinate matches, when somebody from nato-ladder (North American Tactical Ops Ladder) discovered that spamming a specific character to a player in private message (or even in public channel where the player was) caused the game to crash with nothing to show in the logs.

They used it intelligently during tournament, not overusing it, just making a particular player drop at the right moment and probably abused it for sometime before it became publicly known.

I don't remember if this was an issue also present in UT99 or just TO.

anothermoron··on The Tetris Effect
I get this on other genres as well, mainly SHMUPS and Rhythm games!
anothermoron··on AOL pulls Nullsoft file-sharing software WASTE (2003)
I love how they literally use the XKCD comics in their about page.

https://toffeeshare.com/about

anothermoron··on Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge
Yea It took some time before I had it available in the PlayStore here in Canada after the release, but the app from this article had updated their description saying they are not related to META Threads.
anothermoron··on Bank transfers as a payment method (2021)
Wow, as a Canadian I always thought that Interact was international.
anothermoron··on The Essential Philip K. Dick
I love that line:

“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”

anothermoron··on Why 23.976 and not 24 FPS? (2016)
Is that true ? 24fps is even specified in the Netflix requirements for content...

https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360...

anothermoron··on Part of my code makes Copilot crash
The answer was selected by Dave Cheney from Github https://github.com/davecheney.

You can see it in the original link to the discussion: Answer selected by davecheney

anothermoron··on Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?
Yea that was an amazing time, there is a website that list a lot of those https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/category/Design%20&%...

I used to go on k10k and deskmod all the time back then!

anothermoron··on AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
Github got rid of her pretty quickly. And guess what ? She accused them of being sexist for doing so.
anothermoron··on Basic Intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography (2019)
I don't know much about Cryptography but this article made me want to ask this:

In his example with facebook and trump, the original handshake to get facebook's public key isn't encrypted, isn't that a problem ?

I may be totally not understanding this at all, but lets say when somebody connect to Tor if the original connection isn't encrypted and everybody know that I just connected to Tor isn't that bad even though they can't tell what I'm doing afterward ?

anothermoron··on Nyancat on the touchbar
You seem to have a strange definition for "usefulness".
anothermoron··on How Millennials Get News
They get their "diverse" opinions from an echo chamber. They really believe they get diversw opinions but they are actually from people with the same agenda.
anothermoron··on John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”
> I second this. Its something we can all take a lesson from. Unfortunately I see too FAR many programmers who model their persona's after Kanye West.

Most indie dev. are like that, they don't have anything to show but act like they know everything and that everything they say is pure gold.