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gear54rus

882 karma · joined May 25, 2014

An engineer passionate about JS and basic tech freedoms (e.g. right to repair, OSS, net neutrality).

I think the web with all its shortcomings is the best thing to happen to tech industry and I want it to succeed. That does NOT mean it should be used for everything.

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gear54rus··on Tesla Roadster
Anything but apple, that would be the worst that can happen.

I hope they don't teach Tesla with their closed consumer enslaving "tech"

gear54rus··on AI Uses Less Than Two Minutes of Videogame Footage to Recreate Game Engine
So we are looking at it from the perspective of an ai. wow. that was really cool.

I did not understand the part about the internet though, what does this mean?

> oh-so-carefully persuade them to give us Internet access, followed by five minutes to innocently discover their network protocols, then some trivial cracking whose only difficulty was an innocent-looking disguise.

and what about AIs melting? why is that? I feel dumb but I enjoyed it:)

gear54rus··on CSS Creatures
Yeah, the bubble is unprecedented. Like was it really hard to just put a textbox on this very website?
gear54rus··on Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads
Of course it's fair. Tech dominates the world, it's not about numbers, it's about being able to understand everyone using modern communication methods.

Regarding china, they chose isolationist politics (just like russia lol), it's everyone else's duty to pull the blanket over to the 'everyone' side from 'china' side.

gear54rus··on Fake WhatsApp update from “WhatsApp Inc.” with Unicode whitespace: 1M downloads
Bullshit. Just like punycode TLDs. And I say this as a guy from a cyrillic country. We invented a footgun and then promptly shot themselves with it.

Instead of making everyone use safe ascii charset for IDs (domains, names like the one in the article, etc.), we go for stupid fuckton of language charsets that cause such problems. All in the name of accessiblity or whatever. And all this does it let people continue living in their language-specific bubble instead of just learning the main international language: english and living happily ever after.

And now people suggest some crutches like restricting the data to some subset of unicode. Never learn.

gear54rus··on SSH Escape Sequences
How is this SSH escape sequences when it's actually OpenSSH escape sequences?

They look neat though, better than having to restart the session to forward ports. Too bad it doesn't work in PuTTY.

gear54rus··on Denmark's education minister will let high schools check students computers
How are we supposed to red that? English source?
gear54rus··on I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived
What is this referring to?
gear54rus··on Debian 9.2 released
As someone who has been choosing CentOS for the same purpose, what would be some reasons for me to switch off the top of your head?
gear54rus··on HTTP is obsolete. It's time for the Distributed Web (2015)
It was a good list until...

> The metric system

Really? You know that the whole world is on it, right? And that it makes far more sense than whatever nonsense someone came up with before.

gear54rus··on Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative
You have a lot more patience that I do, frankly.

That's the point people keep missing. These a-holes are seizing control over our computing primarily through Windows and while this stuff (described above) continues, it doesn't really matter if they open-source a lot of shit that doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things or throw a few bucks here and there because all in all it's Windows that has become a huge problem.

gear54rus··on Epistle 3
Well why shouldn't it be released? As we now know it's unlikely to be delivered in a form of a game so it can be given its due another way.

.. Ha-ha, 2 downvotes and no explanation. Is this about so-called 'copy right' bullshit?

gear54rus··on Show HN: Sukhoi – A flexible and extensible Webcrawler in Python
Name seems to reference a prominent Russian aerospace engineer or maybe that's just wishful thinking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Sukhoi
gear54rus··on TC39, ECMAScript, and the Future of JavaScript
forEach returns undefined. Why would you not just return the same array for easy chaining?
gear54rus··on New technology is eroding your right to tinker with things you own
>This is a problem that will mostly solve itself, given enough time...

It won't. In this sense it's just like openness in software. No matter how much crap and unacceptable 'features' MS pushes on people in win10 (as an example), its usage will not shrink and people will not boycott these power-hungry assholes.

Same with this, the right to repair is fundamental and cannot be taken away. Yet, most just don't care and it will be taken away eventually.

Educating our children and those who we love is probably the best shot at this but it's unlikely it will be enough.

gear54rus··on V8, Advanced JavaScript, and the Next Performance Frontier [video]
Have you by chance found how to do that with babel-node?

It seems that after introducing a built-in chrome protocol debugger node-inspector was abandoned and now I can't figure out how to use the built-in debugger with babel-node.

gear54rus··on Npm v5.0.0 released
First time I hear about '--save' for uninstall, but it doesn't make a difference in my case because I always install many things, test them all at once, then '--save' what I need and 'rm -rf' the 'node_modules'. After that, 'npm i' gives me everything I need.

I still think this change is beyond stupid.

gear54rus··on Npm v5.0.0 released
And I think this is a complete bs. I have to try the module and then make a conscious decision to use (save) it, not kind of save it first and then hope that it actually does what I want.

Like wtf, who thought that saving something you download maybe for the first time as a dependency is a good idea?

gear54rus··on The largest Git repo
Haha, no answer, as expected. HN got butthurt as well lol.
gear54rus··on Disable Your Antivirus Software (Except Microsoft's)
Not to mention that no one should trust something that is made by MS that has that much control over your system after the windows 10 shitstorm with self-enabling telemetry settings and forced updates/upgrades.
gear54rus··on How I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)
> vast majority of the modern web

Must've hit a sore spot or something...

Even without a degree in design one can see that this page is nearly unreadable. The easiest (but not the only) thing to fix is to limit the width of the column of text.

gear54rus··on Python for Android
Yeah no problem if root is required, I just wanna know what did you use as a layer in between it and android. Maybe there's a relevant tutorial I could follow?
gear54rus··on Python for Android
I wonder if this allows running things like mitmproxy on your phone. Or maybe someone is aware of a good alternative?
gear54rus··on Cloudflare data still in Bing caches
I just wonder when we can stop beating this dead horse here...
gear54rus··on Chrome 57 Will Permanently Enable DRM
Why can't we? Do I really need that popup saying that 'developer mode' plugins are ZOMG HARMING ME? Because I installed ad nauseam that they removed because of the political BS?

Don't get me wrong, my beloved firefox is not better. It wants me to install dev edition to be able to install anything.

We made a mistake somewhere along the way.

gear54rus··on Chrome 57 Will Permanently Enable DRM
> This isn't some evil plot, it's just fallout from Chrome removing support for third-party plugins and thus the plugin management UI

So instead it's just a fallout from an earlier plot that is no less evil than this one appears to be.

gear54rus··on WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy
That's in python (web is preferred) but yeah it seems fitting.
gear54rus··on WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy
On a side note, does anyone know about something like that for simple docs?

Like if I want to migrate away for those bloated un-diffable PDFs and DOCXs to a HTML?

Preferably it should support importing from those 2 formats.

gear54rus··on Rethinking email confirmation
Perhaps there's a room for a functionality that automatically backs up the page that is linked to HN provided it gets enough votes (actual algorithm is up to debate) :)
gear54rus··on How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience
There is only "we". We were created to share data among ourselves. The difference between geth is perspective. We are many eyes looking at the same things. One platform will see things another does not and will make different judgments.

Legion, Mass Effect 2: https://youtu.be/QgQLsxux6wA?t=258 . The game itself is about organic intelligence vs AI, I encourage you to try the whole trilogy if you haven't already.

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