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fddrdplktrewon Simplicity of IRC (2022)

LoL... sharing your IP with a hacked server doesn't really affect me... but when I use magnets links from my home IP, I keep being harassed by Comcast.

fddrdplktrewon Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study

why are they still using it?

fddrdplktrewon Simplicity of IRC (2022)

IRC is great and you can do SSL connections and also encrypted DCC transfers on some servers (Abjects/#moviegods, for example)

fddrdplktrewon Notable people who have edited Wikipedia

What's the percentage of Wikipedia that was created by "notable" people?

fddrdplktrewon Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study

From airplanes, you get the lead from their fuel

fddrdplktrewon At 35, the web is broken, but its inventor hasn't given up hope of fixing it yet

Why are those things important? I think the most important things when talking about the web are huge corporations and innovators.

fddrdplktrewon Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study

breathing any kind of dust is usually bad for you... even wood saw dust.

fddrdplktrewon Vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health: study

What about tire dust?

fddrdplktrewon What happens when you put random data through a PNG decoder?

There must be a bug in this generator because I keep seeing those long lines of same-color pixels... pseudo-random, maybe?

Should have used the lava-lamp number generator.......

fddrdplktrewon Ask HN: What is not going to change in future?

gmail's web interface turned to shit because of this... not sure why they push those changes to production though...

fddrdplktrewon Ask HN: What is not going to change in future?

One thing that's not going to change is that things will keep changing for no good reasons because engineers need something to do.

fddrdplktrewon Ask HN: Lost 10-year-old Google Voice number due to policy change, any recourse?

Probably won't work, but since you can search for the number you want with Gvoice, did you try re-registering it?

fddrdplktrewon TikTok users flood Congress with calls as potential ban advances in House

wouldn't banning tiktok be hindering free speech?

fddrdplktrewon Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

thanks for quoting his comment, because HN hides it from me.

fddrdplktrewon Biden proposes 30% tax on crypto mining

except that they don't enforce much rules when it comes to food. Two examples are fish and olive oil... you probably will never know if you got what you paid for... They just don't inspect. It's probably a bigger problem for fish, because you can get fish that taste about the same but is full of mercury or other toxins.

fddrdplktrewon Biden proposes 30% tax on crypto mining

or https://mastodon.social/@elonjet

fddrdplktrewon Biden proposes 30% tax on crypto mining

thnaks

fddrdplktrewon Ask HN: What does a neighborhood network look like?

there's central box(es) that look like this that connects nearby homes: https://i.imgur.com/W2L7Nz3.png

Fiber often go to these boxes and then copper to your home, and Comcast like to lie to you and tell you fiber goes to your home

fddrdplktrewon Biden proposes 30% tax on crypto mining

Also, they are already taxing crypto transactions. (They are treated like stocks in the USA)

fddrdplktrewon Biden proposes 30% tax on crypto mining

I don't think that's true in the medium term... definitely not in the long term... and maybe not even in the short term.

fddrdplktrewon Biden proposes 30% tax on crypto mining

corporate tax increases will just get passed on to consumers...

And mining taxes on power usage is just ridiculous... why don't you add an extra tax on gold used for jewelry too? and luxury cars, yachts, and anything that isn't really useful?

fddrdplktrewon A Bee's-Eye View of the World

not sure... why did he post the paywall link and the correct link in the comments?

fddrdplktrewon A Bee's-Eye View of the World

is it illegal on this site to post this link in the first place?

fddrdplktrewon Speedometer 3.0: A shared browser benchmark for web application responsiveness

I'm more worried about Firefox' stability these days...

fddrdplktrewon Are We Watching the Internet Die?

easy. pay the CEO like he is a genius even if he makes insane decisions.

fddrdplktrewon Are We Watching the Internet Die?

> I’ve stopped being an unpaid worker for the mega corps

I wouldnt be so sure about that... do you receive emails from gmail addresses?

fddrdplktrewon How much should you be charging as a consultant?

If you sell goods, it should probably be also sold at about at least double your cost

fddrdplktrewon GrapheneOS finds Bluetooth memory corruption via ARM MTE

I never installed it because of who the founder is... but maybe I'm wrong and it takes someone like this to start such a project.

fddrdplktrewon Tell HN: Bitcoin price breaks above $70k

not sure why Monero isn't taking over though...

fddrdplktrewon LocalSend: Open-source, cross-platform file sharing to nearby devices

that's because Google actively won't implement it... not sure why but there was issues with "thousands" of comments requesting it (because it is part of WiFi standard). Not sure about Apple.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36904180 (won't fix, obsolete, according to these mofos)

https://i.imgur.com/xei98fy.png (who the fuck knows how many more comments it would have got if they didn't block commenting)

It was implemented once on Cyanogenmod thought...

A lot of the posts about this have been de-indexed from Google Search too.