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samb1729··on Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone
CPP?
samb1729··on Building an e-ink picture frame that displays an iCloud photo album
> passively charged off your WiFi

I had no idea this is possible. Is there a name for power-over-wifi?

samb1729··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
I've noticed the frontend hammering the backend quite often in the past few weeks. It would not surprise me at all to learn that the "influx of scraping" was mostly Twitter's fault.
samb1729··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
I noticed the frontend hammering the backend for the past few weeks, so I suspect that these new rate limits are a response to that, even if Musk wouldn't publicly admit it.

I don't doubt that Twitter saw a massive increase in traffic recently, but I feel at least somewhat confident that it's mostly self-inflicted on Twitter's part.

samb1729··on US SEC sues Coinbase, one day after suing Binance
If everyone is supposed to have made money, where did that money come from?
samb1729··on Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls
My approach is to use Firefox Nightly and restart it whenever it prompts me to do so. Keeps me at a low tab count :)
samb1729··on Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub
What unfair advantage is gained by using GitHub to store the code? A privately hosted Gitea instance would have accomplished exactly the same thing without technically breaking a rule.

I would understand this point if they were leveraging Actions or something, but that isn’t mentioned so I’ll assume that is not the case. Their usage of GitHub does not appear to have been anything more than a convenient repository host.

samb1729··on Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub
The students were neither ignorant nor arrogant for interpreting the rules as they did. The person who graded their submission is at fault here, and the students deserve to be told this if they’re reading these comments.

Someone who doesn’t know the difference between hosting a git repo and generating a static site with GitHub is unqualified to judge this project. The real lesson for these students is that there are people in this field who don’t really know what they are doing.

samb1729··on TreeTalk London – Tree Map
Which forms do I need to fill out to axe my sibling?
samb1729··on Twitter starts limiting how many tweets you can post per day
This website is the real status page for me
samb1729··on Twitter starts limiting how many tweets you can post per day
Likewise! I thought I had been randomly banned before finding this post.
samb1729··on Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain
I'm instantly reminded of Eminem when reading your comment. Perhaps his subject material isn't to your tastes, but if you like interesting rhyme schemes I'd argue that his works are top notch!

His 1996 song "Infinite" could please your ear, if you'd care to listen :)

samb1729··on My plane is not trackable without using non-public data
Why is there no footage from any of the multiple cameras on the Tesla that was allegedly attacked? It would be trivial for him to obtain that if it exists.
samb1729··on My plane is not trackable without using non-public data
But no video of the incident actually taking place. Quite surprising that Elon apparently is not aware of the dozen or so cameras on a car made by the company he owns!
samb1729··on On Twitch, you can never log off
Being able to interact in real-time is half the attraction, so pre-recorded streams don't get nearly as many viewers.
samb1729··on Consider Disabling Browser Push Notifications on Family and Friends Devices
I believe you can also allow Messages notifications in Do Not Disturb mode for your favourite contacts, if that's desirable for you
samb1729··on Mozilla, Microsoft yank TrustCor's root certificate authority
> So it seems like the sole basis for this action is TrustCor's mere affiliation with another company that does TLS interception?

The CA representative was presented with the challenge of proving their CA should be trusted, and failed it. This isn't a case of "presumed innocent until proven guilty" as in a criminal trial, so looking at it through that lens isn't very helpful.

I think it is reasonable to conclude from Rachel's communications that TrustCor cannot be clearly identified as a trustworthy root CA, and thus they have been removed.

samb1729··on I/O is no longer the bottleneck
> remember never fill a zpool over 72%

Could you please explain where this number comes from?

samb1729··on How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?
> Microsoft wants people to register online [...] in order to increase the market share of the Windows app store and other Microsoft online services

> So it's not malicious

I would have to firmly disagree there. Microsoft are pushing the notion that an online account with some identity provider is a necessity for home computing by hiding the (perfectly functional) option to create a local account.

samb1729··on CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code
> If no one ever made a billion dollars, so to speak, there would be no money at all.

Could you please elaborate?

samb1729··on Which emoji scissors close (2020)
> It’s neat I guess, but isn’t really a productive pursuit.

Yes, and? No one claimed otherwise. It's just a fun thing someone did, shared with other people who might want to be briefly entertained.

samb1729··on SQLite is not a toy database (2021)
> If preventing data loss is important for your app then this would be more hassle than using a networked db

How so? A networked database requires a persistent connection, while SQLite backups work fine with an intermittent connection. The best case (100% network uptime) and worst case (total network outage) are the same, but in the middle, SQLite-with-backups is more resilient to brief outages.

samb1729··on To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
A blockchain won’t magically fix that
samb1729··on To improve search results on YouTube, use the search prefix “intitle:”
Please disclose the fact that finclout is a product you are invested in when advertising it on here.
samb1729··on Tailscale SSH
Are you asking whether the owners and operators of the Tailscale control plane can theoretically add devices to your network without your authorisation? If so then yes, definitely.

Perhaps a terrible analogy, but to me the question reads like "can the bank just spend my savings?"

How might you expect a fresh node to join your existing Tailnet without Tailscale having a means to add a node?

samb1729··on Tailscale SSH
Considering how simple it is to use Tailscale ACL rules with node auto-tagging, yes I absolutely want it.
samb1729··on International Institute of Not Doing Much
Just make sure you don’t have a moustache and you’ll be fine
samb1729··on Google Will Eat Itself (2005)
They also unfortunately have some shockingly bad issues with securing their services
samb1729··on How to Do a Handstand
I couldn’t agree more. Why the author would want their long-form writing to resemble a concatenated tweet thread is beyond me; do they assume a short attention span in their audience?
samb1729··on The Winamp Skin Museum is powered by a SQLite3 database with 1.2GB of metadata
The existing replies to this comment of yours make it apparent why “/s” is still necessary :)
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