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slipknotfan··on Creepy Crawlies
> Fork Anubis. Slightly modify the hash function it computes. Deploy. Do not try to make your fork widely adopted. Do not even publish it.

A more robust solution would be to keep a few patches handy with different versions of the algorithm, and rotate which one is in use. This would keep the crawlers on their toes if they wise up to the changed algorithm. One could even imagine automatically rotating witch algorithm to use on a weekly basis.

slipknotfan··on Why would someone want to learn code when AI does it better and faster?
We have problems; We use code to solve them; We have a good time.

If you do not feel the drive to code for the fun of the game, then don't do it. I once met a guy who had been doing programming for at least 7 years of his life, 5 as an intern and 2 as a job. He quit because he was in it for the money not for love of the game. He found more fulfillment teaching.

There is not enough time on this earth to waste years on things that we do not enjoy.

slipknotfan··on Why would someone want to learn code when AI does it better and faster?
do what you enjoy and ride out the bubble, remember, ai is only regurgitating and could never make another hubble, you learn by working at the problems through struggle, after enough work, you will no longer be a computing muggle.
slipknotfan··on Ask HN: Releasing code under AGPLv3, but want to block LLM reconstruction?
https://sr.ht/robots.txt is a robots.txt
slipknotfan··on Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs
The publishing-houses print history books. The rich own the publishing-houses. Q.E.D. The rich control the history books.
slipknotfan··on Ask HN: Hey, you, tech worker–how are you feeling?
slipknot
slipknotfan··on Changing how we develop Ladybird
>This is an obvious recipe for disaster (a rugpull), and I'm forced to wonder if this is just by mistake or if some of the Ladybird sponsors are playing a mean game of Secret Hitler. I guess only time will tell.

When I first read this I checked the license and saw that a rugpull would be permitted. However, if someone wants to continue the project after the rugpull they could do something thing like the redis rename to redict.[0]

[0] https://andrewkelley.me/post/redis-renamed-to-redict.html

slipknotfan··on Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux"
A cool thing would be to put a progress bar for something on the lid screen so you can see how long is left and open up the laptop when it is finished.
slipknotfan··on Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?
lobste.rs has some stuff
slipknotfan··on Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
because you have enough ram for steam because you don't have copilot?
slipknotfan··on Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
I prefer arch btw
slipknotfan··on Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
you can solve the google problem: cd C: && find -type f | grep google | sudo xargs rm

and also the win11 problem:

format C:

slipknotfan··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
pop the bubble already
slipknotfan··on The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build
Very good. If the author helicopter-parents like that, the son will never learn the consequences of not studying. This doesn't even consider the possibility that the son may not need to study, already having known the material. It fails the account for the growing independence that children need. This would continue a tradition of using technology to enforce parents' will when the parents are not even present. This is harmful to the child.[0] It would be better for the parent to not do anything UNTIL the son does not due well on the test. This lets the son decide how much extra preparation he needs.

[0] https://blog.avas.space/surveillance-children/

slipknotfan··on Hey, it's Earth Day today
How about no LLMs?
slipknotfan··on Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?
Use your AI to flood comments

/s

slipknotfan··on Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust
Commonly used crates should be blessed and go into an extended stdlib.
slipknotfan··on George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
You have to defend your freedom from all angles of attack.
slipknotfan··on George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four
"While sloppy writing does not invariably mean sloppy thinking, we've generally found the correlation to be strong — and we have no use for sloppy thinkers."

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

slipknotfan··on Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git
Or use a better operating system

https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/winstupid/1