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rini17··on Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster")
You might like recent Numberphile videos on youtube about noble polyhedra that were figured out by 17 year old. There's an interview with him too where you can see what is the person like.
rini17··on ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]
So what if few people started to "misperceive themselves" as ADHD? Why it's considered a reason for panic?

The increased awareness genuinely helps to many others. I suspect there's widespread denial do be untangled, too.

rini17··on SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
Hard to get sincerely engaged when the genuine achievement is surrounded by insanity like mars colonization or gigawatt datacenters in orbit, both in a decade. Oh and I even saw spacex touted as anti-DEI success story...
rini17··on Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead
zswap is back in kernel?

Edit: seems I got confused there, only frontswap layer was removed, and zcache

rini17··on Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead
Use zram instead. This from crappy 8G RAM multimedia/browsing minipc I'm on right now. The SSD is quite slow and browser is memory hungry so it was an improvement from on disk swap.

    $ zramctl
    NAME       ALGORITHM DISKSIZE   DATA COMPR TOTAL STREAMS MOUNTPOINT
    /dev/zram0 zstd            3G 482.9M 86.7M 91.8M       4 [SWAP]
rini17··on Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)
The sad irony of "Share this post on..." with neat list of all the services doing exactly what the post warns against. They can and often are already used by police state.
rini17··on Curl: Nobody Wants to Work with Windows
Since curl has minimal non-copyleft license, Microsoft can just use it as is.

However seems they lost capability to properly maintain anything, most obvious problems will be patched with AI crap at best.

rini17··on Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism (2012)
At first glance it can work only by completely disabling the meaning-seeker part of the wearer's personality. Ennui and existential/absurd feelings can't be resolved by indulgence.

Would it make Sisyphus happy without bypassing the implied will of gods that he shall be forever fully conscious in order to suffer? Someone pls give the earring to poor dude.

rini17··on OpenPrinter
Nope. Some even refuse to print black and white when yellow ink tuns off.
rini17··on What Happened to the Fight for the Internet?
I personally burned out. Yes free internet was helpful when I was discovering my gay sexuality. Now it hypercharges the cult of youth and beauty, making it impossible to date.

Yes, I was great advocate of self hosting, till due to combination of ADHD and other stuff my domain expired and was taken by squatter. And the incessant DDoSing.

And the tone-deaf arguments completely ignoring that there are bad people on the internet too. Talking about online anonymity when google has most of your email even if you don't use it. And Cloudflare has most of your traffic, unencrypted.

rini17··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
Repercussions happen all the time. That nothing happened in this one case does not prove or disprove anything.
rini17··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
You don't have the right to say anything NOW already. Please wake up.
rini17··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
Yep, pretending we have anonymity online is a nonsense.
rini17··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
By painting everything so black and white you're doing propaganda too, are you aware?
rini17··on Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
Freedom of expression is not absolute and never was.

Should everyone just shrug off anonymous hoaxes and hate speech?

rini17··on Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression
What do you think the actual bandwidth speed on the voyager or new horizons is. You are spending lot of time sending the data anyway.
rini17··on Seawater batteries for energy storage, desalination and carbon sequestration
Does it solve the brine problem? Usually the seawater must be heavily treated first before desalination and the resulting brine causes ecological problems when discharged.
rini17··on British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
If you don't understand what the library is doing, and blindly put in local time without any consideration, you will get bitten someday. And all libraries use the same timezone database/logic anyway and run into same issues the author describes.
rini17··on British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
Humans would often fail such appointments too.
rini17··on We're All One Crisis Away from Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides
This is incredibly bad summary. If it were about prescription meds, they can be bought on gray market, problem solved.
rini17··on Could IPv6 have an edge over IPv4?
It would make blacklisting compromised networks easier at least.
rini17··on Could IPv6 have an edge over IPv4?
It would have an edge if it had inbuilt protection against spoofing. However now that there are big actors that profit off DDoS mitigation....

Or any other feature genuinely lacking from IPv4. Merely having unique address for every grain of sand on the planet isn't enough.

rini17··on The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means
> And before you go on objecting that a physical true RNG remains better than a could-theoretically-be-broken CSPRNG, understand that your random output often must have no detectable bias to be secure. That means a distribution so uniform you can’t detect a bias even after analysing 2^64 samples.

Why not, actually? I would think simple and trivially auditable HW RNG with, say, only 0.9 bits of entropy per output bit (raw! no whitening) is preferable to "perfect" but fragile algorithm.

Anything that requires the randomness in practice has enough overhead so that the 90% good entropy is not a problem. Failures caused by wrong assumptions and complications are.

rini17··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
being wrong and insisting on being wrong is
rini17··on The Fulda Gap: A Cavalry Scout's Account of the End of the World That Never Came
They should at least call the army right, as "Warsaw Pact army". Specifically the Fulda gap breach was not planned to be sparheaded by Soviet army but they would send Czechoslovaks first into the meat grinder IIRC.
rini17··on Blocking DDoS from scraper bots the easy way via HTTP-401 Basic Auth
Many bots open new TCP connection for every request, which is incredibly wasteful but leads to easy filtering via ipt_hashlimit firewall rules. Browsers and other well behaved clients work fine with limit as low as 3 connections per minute per IP. It avoids the SSL handshake overhead too. YMMV of course, but worth trying out.
rini17··on Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?
no it was reply to "i just dont want cloudflare ai-scanning my blog, seeing the word "DDoS" because i am in networking, and proactively removing my site from the internet."
rini17··on Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?
Your account can get terminated for any other random nonsense though. Happens all the time, with cloudflare, google, github, everywhere. Everyone just pretends that "this can't happen to me". You want cyberspace free from any "evil" state jurisdiction, nor "coddling" so this is what you get.
rini17··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
The former cyber-libertarians are running the tech unicorns now. Ofc they would prefer you see them as John Galts lol. But they aren't that and they will defend freedom of cyberspace only as far as it aligns with their power and profit.
rini17··on The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism
Since monopolies make stuff scarce and expensive, you basically want free market for violence, it should be be cheap and abundant?

And all the DDoS and crytocurrency extortions and scams should extend to meatspace too, and you would be okay with it because it's supposedly still better than what govts do?

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