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fjfbsufhdvfy··on Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust
You can disable the switch animation, which makes it much nicer to use. Just instantly changes the content on all your monitors then. It even works with fullscreen applications on different desktops...
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Expectations of professional software engineers
Knowing how your data is structured in memory is a trivial exercise for anyone working on a game engine like the author of this talk. You don't even need to think about it. The layout of every data structure used by the engine is known and chances are you have implemented a bunch of them yourself.
fjfbsufhdvfy··on From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate
There are a lot of people who have given up on a) and instead spend all their time trying to tear the stuff other people build down because they got bored.
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on
Why would you? Nobody can connect to it without your private key. Or is there something I am not aware of? Genuine question, as I am running wireguard in a few places and thought it was secure by default.
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Cloudflare Hardware Keys (Yubico Partnership)
Awesome!
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Cloudflare Hardware Keys (Yubico Partnership)
Can we buy keys for all users in our companies or just one per Cloudflare account?
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Explained from scratch: private information retrieval and homomorphic encryption
I'm confused, it seems like this will require processing the entire database for every request, which would be unusable in practice. Did I miss the trick?
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Ask HN: Strategies to land remote US job while living in living in EU?
The most effective way is to be active in communities for the thing you want to be doing. Get a reputation as one of the people who know what they're doing. Eventually others will start reaching out to you privately when their companies are looking for new hires. If you get your foot in the door this way, your location becomes mostly irrelevant.

Sounds unusual, but I've previously gotten very well paid jobs in multiple startups through this kind of personal networking - you even get to skip most of the interview process. Meanwhile everything I applied to without any connections has been a wash.

Negotiations are much easier if you can deal with working as a US contractor, dropping most of your employment protection laws for more money.

fjfbsufhdvfy··on We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity
The technology is getting smaller! It's just that at the same time, people still demand orders of magnitude higher performance. There are physical limits to how small a cooler can be, and that takes up like 95% of the space.
fjfbsufhdvfy··on CppCon 2022
It seems like the offense in question happened more than a decade ago. What can this person do to move past it and rehabilitate into society?
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Uber investigating breach of its computer systems
What if that application doesn't support that setup either? So many services online barely manage to let you setup TOTP, nothing like this...
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Uber investigating breach of its computer systems
I'm curious what's the alternative if the script must have those credentials to do its job.
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Uber investigating breach of its computer systems
Seeing these huge companies with practically infinite resources get owned one after another sure makes me wonder if we even have any chance at all to do this correctly in our small business.

Perhaps they just don't care about security?

fjfbsufhdvfy··on Uber investigating breach of its computer systems
That's the fun part, you don't!
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Cloudflare lobbied FTC to stifle security researchers
Using this for significant amounts of non-html content will get your account disabled. They only allow it for R2.
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Cloudflare lobbied FTC to stifle security researchers
Hope the guy who down voted me enjoys paying 100-1000 times more to Amazon's egress racket!
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Cloudflare lobbied FTC to stifle security researchers
A lot of their services, such as R2 storage, have literally no competition.
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Ask HN: Working as a software engineer for 5 years, I've forgotten all CS stuff
I've never seen someone even mention the word normalization when working with databases, but the knowledge is useful to intuitively design more sensible tables. Perhaps many people don't realize they are doing it?
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Animating Prompts with Stable Diffusion
Try Lambda Labs or Core Weave for affordable GPU servers. I'm sure there are more, but I've had good experiences with these in the past.
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Ask HN: Why is the printer industry so scammy?
Thanks! I'll take a look.
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Ask HN: For those using Stable Diffusion locally, how do you filter fishy repos?
Someone taking advantage of all this excitement to get people to download malware sounds like a very reasonable fear, especially if the software is not coming from a known and reputable person/business.

No one's saying you can't release closed source software - but of course other people are free to be afraid of running it as well.

fjfbsufhdvfy··on Ask HN: Why is the printer industry so scammy?
Bit off topic, but what printer would people recommend for someone who needs one every now and then, that is capable of color prints and scanning, that won't stop working when unused for several months?

I'm getting the impression ink jet is not the way to go due to the long pauses, but the color lasers are all seem very expensive for such occasional use.

fjfbsufhdvfy··on Ask HN: For those using Stable Diffusion locally, how do you filter fishy repos?
It's not deprecated. He uses it for development and then copies the files across to the main repo. I don't really understand what benefits this setup has over making a dev branch in the main repo, but to each their own!
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Ask HN: For those using Stable Diffusion locally, how do you filter fishy repos?
So far actually, none in the ones I used. It seems everyone is just excited about the tech :)

For now, most of these tools are rather small wrappers around the original stable diffusion repo which is considered trustworthy, so there isn't that much to review.

Things I generally look out for are setup scripts that install unusual packages, any file or network io activity, code that's been obfuscated, instructions that have you download checkpoints from unofficial sources, etc.

Of course I can't know if I missed something...

fjfbsufhdvfy··on Ask HN: For those using Stable Diffusion locally, how do you filter fishy repos?
It's now enough to use the main repo only, because he's regularly copying over any changes. So don't need to manually copy those files across anymore.
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Ask HN: For those using Stable Diffusion locally, how do you filter fishy repos?
Currently there is so much activity that for every closed source tool chances are there is an open source one that does the same. I simply use those instead, after skimming over the code for any obviously malicious activity.
fjfbsufhdvfy··on Sending spammers to password purgatory
It really depends on the scale of the punishment doesn't it?

Got sent to the gulag - well now you have a major problem. Can't post meme on reddit - oh no!

Websites generally aren't obligated to accept all users, precisely because we as a society decided that it's not really a big deal if you can't.

fjfbsufhdvfy··on CNIL makes Google Analytics almost illegal in France
I don't think any offer exists that competes with R2 currently, if you want to deliver large amounts of data. That's why I consider access to this service critical for business.

The closest you can get is renting servers with unmetered 1-10gbit connections and serving it yourself, but because you don't have the economy of scale that Cloudflare does, it will still be much more expensive than R2. You can't balance out your costs against those of hundreds of other customers that don't serve as much data, or against customers serving data at different times where your unmetered bandwidth would be wasted.

Starting up a service with pricing like R2 is only really possible at Cloudflare scale too, so it's not like it's possible for someone like us to see this gap in the market and... fix it?

fjfbsufhdvfy··on Sending spammers to password purgatory
They are indeed set up to waste people's time.

Blocking people leads to them searching for ways around your block really quickly. Making them waste time not realizing they have been blocked, such as endless retries or shadow bans, is much more effective at making them stop bothering you for a while longer. Time spent doing this is time they can't spend being malicious on your platform.

It's unfortunate when a non-malicious user gets caught in one of these traps...

fjfbsufhdvfy··on CNIL makes Google Analytics almost illegal in France
Let's compare some costs then. As a random example, but not an unreasonable one, we have 100 1GB files stored for one year, and we want to deliver each of them 10000 times.

With Cloudflare R2, this will cost roughly $16. With upcloud, this will cost roughly $10,000.

You see how this can easily be the difference between a business being viable and... not?

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