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bombolo··on Google AMP – The Newest of Evasive Phishing Tactic
read mode in firefox :)
bombolo··on Google’s Plan to DRM the Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For
Let's not forget maps, where they arbitrarily decide to show you a shop/hotel/restaurant 5km away when there is one 200m away.
bombolo··on Reflex – Web apps in pure Python
They can, but are they?

If a test is not working/outdated, remove or fix the test. It's not what the badge is showing anyway.

bombolo··on Reflex – Web apps in pure Python
They serve no purpose, other than make life hard for disabled people.

I expect tests to always be passing before merging anything.

pypi metadata has the list of supported python versions, in text format

A link to your documentation? Ok but why can't it be a regular link?

I use forums or IRC, so the online users on whatever aren't super meaningful to me personally.

bombolo··on Reflex – Web apps in pure Python
They even have that long bunch of meaningless badges to say that tests are passing or whatever!
bombolo··on An open-source, free circuit simulator
GPL ≠ LGPL
bombolo··on Adjust Your Office Chair
I always remove armrests. They are usually too high for me.
bombolo··on GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot
Is this another comment from someone who tried linux for 20 minutes ~30 years ago and since then keeps parroting reddit comments?
bombolo··on Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal
Again? When else?

Also, we were talking about deep blue. Perhaps trying to not go OT would be beneficial to a productive discussion.

bombolo··on Damaging results of mandated return to the office: it’s worse than we thought
A different job that lets me remote, for the same pay, costs me much less… if they want me to come in, they can offer me to expense transportation and consider travel time as work.
bombolo··on Why This AI Moment May Be the Real Deal
When you have to manually input the scores for the various board positions, feels much less exciting.
bombolo··on Free and open source software projects are in transition
And they have no dependencies? Despite being known for being hellish to install due to how badly they handle dependencies…
bombolo··on Can you simply brainwash an LLM?
But fb is full of bots
bombolo··on Can you simply brainwash an LLM?
> And the dissenting opinion will be able to do the same.

if they have the money

> Twelve year old kids

pfft

bombolo··on Ask HN: Is anyone using PyPy for real work?
It works completely fine in my experience.
bombolo··on GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot
> Apple builds the automatic car by removing the gear shift

Which, btw, means that you can never overtake anyone while going up, unless your engine is 2x of the power it'd need with gears.

bombolo··on GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot
My macbook had severe cooling problems, which became worse when the fan broke.

Apple are designed to look cool, not to BE cool.

bombolo··on GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot
and yet people love apple
bombolo··on GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot
To non-americans, all the companies in the linux foundation are as questionable as huawei.
bombolo··on Threads users down by more than a half
In science we don't go by authority. Just because you won a nobel prize, it doesn't mean that your theories should not be tested.

A random university degree is a much lower barrier, and just FYI it isn't required to be a journalist.

bombolo··on Threads users down by more than a half
They bring credibility to stuff they just read on twitter.
bombolo··on Threads users down by more than a half
journalists use twitter and love to pretend that everybody else does too, and pass a few tweets as "the people have spoken" all the time.
bombolo··on No one wants to talk to your chatbot
my company is experimenting with a chatbot for support.

Of course if you ask it to do something impossible with our product, the answer is a very long thing telling you where to click, which will never work.

It just won't ever say "can't be done".

When asking things that can in fact be done, it seems to get right the general direction, but the details are wrong. Of course a user without in depth knowledge will not know that.

Our CEO loves it.

bombolo··on I claim Rich Hickey is wrong about non-null arguments to functions (2020)
If it's not a try it's an if... you still need to handle the case where the key wasn't present and figure something out.
bombolo··on I claim Rich Hickey is wrong about non-null arguments to functions (2020)
Well no, just handle KeyError :D
bombolo··on Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism
And don't forget to know everything about cryptography and security to actually spot the issues!

All in all with 15yrs of training you can start the task :D

bombolo··on Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism
A normal app is about 20 megabytes minimum. Have fun reading.

It could be very well obfuscated.

bombolo··on Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism
We have no idea if whatsapp really implements it, and if it does but also adds a bunch of side channels for the NSA.
bombolo··on Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism
Because rich conservatives don't want the poor class to have a decent education… too dangerous.

Sex education is just part of the trend.

bombolo··on Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism
I remember, as a young italian studying about risorgimento, asking my mother why did the people in venice and milan not want to be under the austrian empire.

My mum told me "it was an oppressive government". When I asked to elaborate she said "they used to read people's mails so that they knew whom to arrest."

In italy you can end up in jail if you open mails… and yet somehow we are completely ok with the government reading every electronic communication?

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