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asojfdowghon Mastodon: A Social Media Platform Dominated by Pedophiles and Child Porn

To explain why the content seemingly evades the law: the article is consistently referring to drawn / computer generated content.

The legality of which can be gleaned from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn...

I find that the seemingly intentional foot-noting of the class of content they are talking about, to be really dishonest.

asojfdowghon Ask HN: Does a role-based file manager exist?

Samba?

asojfdowghon Why is this HN discussion a single word with 1112 points?

I'm guessing its a poll item

asojfdowghon Deno vs. Bun performance is rigged

But what does an upstream target do for a Vue developer? a Svelte developer? a Preact developer? etc etc.

Its not so much of a useful thing to just focus so much on what you use to benchmark.

Reminds of:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/28/nvidia_tpc_benchmark/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/futuremark-reverses-nvidia-did...

Like, you wouldn't be impressed if it was react bun vs preact deno, right?

asojfdowghon Deno vs. Bun performance is rigged

And the original benchmarks of bun vs deno had bun using a native-code http server against a deno using a js-code http server, afaik.

And the bun-specific-fork-of-react vs deno + normal react, was suspect too.

asojfdowghon Musk’s SpaceX says it can no longer pay for satellite services in Ukraine

Sounds more of a case of not realizing that spacex was supposed to negotiate with internet providers instead of taking the first value they offered.

Reminds me of ISPs harassing netflix to pay extra in addition to the prices they charged their consumers

https://www.theverge.com/2014/3/24/5541916/netflix-deal-with...

Assumably something similar is happening to SpaceX's offering

asojfdowghon IKEA’s Crimes Against Cartography

setting showrooms aside as they feel useless,

you start off in the impulse buy areas, and leave through the bleak self-service areas. This doesn't jibe with the "ikea intentionally makes you tired to make you impulse buy" narrative

asojfdowghon Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)

IMO this is good. Blocking users from RCS, [while obviously no where near as good as signal, is still far better than SMS] has been a flaw in how signal has handled things

asojfdowghon Amazon “suicide kits” have led to teen deaths, according to new lawsuit

Amazon is making suicide trendy? or, Parents looking for a scapegoat for their way-too-late emotions?

> She placed the order within weeks of experiencing suicidal thoughts.

weeks doesn't seem long, unless you consider the mindset of the suicidal person: every day, hour, minute, filled with overwhelming mental burden.

I still remember the few weeks at my lowest as probably the longest memories, longer than all my school memories stuck together.

asojfdowghon [dead]

From that screenshot, I would hope that you'd be blocked, no part of the privacy policy says "we'll disclose private user information to breck"

https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

asojfdowghon Does syntax highlighting help programming novices? (2018)

I always felt weird about the fact that Scratch et al exist, and that typing things manually exists, but you can't type code and get a visual result that is scratch-like

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To clarify, I don't mean generating a visual version, but to instead highlight structure (e.g. background color for a for-loop and its indent), not keywords

asojfdowghon Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories

"breaking the chain of public transactions" sounds remarkably similar to "concealment of the origins of" for some reason.

asojfdowghon Republishing a fork of the sanctioned Tornado Cash repositories

Does one really need to teach zero knowledge proofs in the context of money laundering?

asojfdowghon Tell HN: Google Cloud suspended our production projects at 1am on Saturday

or just cluster over several other providers and make sure to test failover

the main problem with azure/aws/gcp is that their parent companies will track everything you and others do, and then close every related thing because they have enough market share to not give a fuck about you.

There are more than enough blog posts of enterprise customers running into random issues with the big thing, buying "big three, promise edition" isn't much of an assurance.

I'd suspect most of those customers have rapid migration plans written up. For a reason.

asojfdowghon Let's Try Gnome Boxes

I'd like a "Configure in VMM" button in boxes if it detects VMM installed, since they are just different front-ends for the same backend.

asojfdowghon Let's Try Gnome Boxes

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro... same market that microsoft has been targeting since half way through windows 10

asojfdowghon ShaderGlass – Overlay applying retro shaders on top of Windows desktop

released videos were made to be more resistant to interference

recordable VHSes for home use needed to be editable without mastering equipment, so they are more subject to deterioration

asojfdowghon Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (2014)

> Test POSIX scripts with `bash --posix`. Definitely use Shellcheck.

Except that doesn't disable all bashisms so you end up leaving in bashisms as a result, which is what caused all the issues for debian trying to migrate to dash

asojfdowghon “Nothing Is More Impotent Than an Unread Library”

Easy way to tell which side of the topic is the "correct" side:

You want to gift a book, do you gift it to the person who will read it, or to the person who won't?

asojfdowghon The Big Bang didn't happen

https://twitter.com/AkAstronomy/status/1552350497729904640

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02056-5

la it happened, just things after that happened differently than expected

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The Big Bang Hypothesis - which states the universe has been expanding since it began 14 billion years ago in a hot and dense state - is contradicted by the new James Webb Space Telescope images, writes [A person who has been making dosh being contrarian since 1991]

https://www.amazon.com.au/Bang-Never-Happened-Eric-Lerner/dp...

asojfdowghon Electron is preferred in USA, but native wins in China

doesn't really do any practical comparison outside of "electron/notelectron", which isn't very useful

anyone in enterprise knows that slowness doesn't needfully depend on the UI toolkit

asojfdowghon A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment

considering it amounts to 1.2% over a period, I wouldn't say "obvious improvement"

local maximizing presumably already deals with the effects from upstream turbines, global (also presumably) only adds consideration for downstream turbines

asojfdowghon Ask HN: Do you think Elon's Twitter is better in any way?

There is no "Elon's Twitter" unless you mean specifically his twitter profile or something like that.

asojfdowghon Stop charging your phone overnigh

> decided to do some experimenting to find out.

Proceeds to do zero experimenting.

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If one is so obsessed, just use a 5W charger, it'll practically (with the overhead of the phone running) take the full 8 hours to charge, with all heat being dissipated before it can cause any damage

asojfdowghon Why aren't smart people happier?

They didn't miss that line: they never read the article.

asojfdowghon I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2

Don't want them either, but, please blame the specs? not needfully the writers?

https://ogp.me/#metadata opengraph requires an image, for example

asojfdowghon Most “Fact-Checking” Organizations Facebook Uses in Ukraine Funded by Washington

> In a 2017 TV segment about the Aidar, Dnipro-1 and Azov Battalions

which, as far as I could see, none were mentioned in said segment, so, no.

asojfdowghon Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones

randomly grabbing the first thing on tapas: https://tapas.io/episode/1123711

I don't think any book could give the feeling of transitions as the webtoon format can, yes, its only a panel (or less!) at a time, but the artist can give a halting thought-by-thought feel of a man on his deathbed, or roll out an entire red carpet of flourishes to introduce a character of nobility

You can't go super transition-heavy in print, because well, printing and pages cost. and people need to move their big hands to flick the pages, there is an expected consumption rate for that effort put in, so even if cost wasn't an issue, people would get fed up with the transitions anyhow.

so yeah, 1 panel at a time, is a bit of a downside, but IMO its also an upside in that one can give each panel its own treatment and such. an infinite vertical strip as one's canvas

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of course, getting all the bits into the right places with the right breathing rooms and the right flow is a true skill in of itself, but, I dunno, is it better to read 1 super good comic, or 100 entertaining enough ones? the bar is lowered by all of this, yes, but is that a bad thing?

asojfdowghon Part of my code makes Copilot crash

its only a PR nightmare because its a closed service and not an open tool

asojfdowghon ISO Warning Signs

118 CHF (123 USD) to have warning signs...

I'm glad that the UN didn't go with these, since interoperability of safety symbology should not be restricted to everyone but poor people

I just wish the UN's efforts went further than just chemicals