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solanav

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solanav··on Solarpunk
Interpersonal or community conflicts could work for example
solanav··on Solarpunk
Solarpunk being an anarchist adjacent genre/aesthetic makes it very distant from an authoritarian regime that suppresses freedom of speech such as Singapore…
solanav··on Cloudflare takes legal action over LaLiga's "disproportionate blocking efforts"
Honestly, I hate both parties here so much. I just wanted to say that Cloudflare is the biggest problem I have at work when trying to detect and take-down phishing websites. They do not collaborate with official entities and keep protecting malicious actors. I could not care less about someone giving them problems.
solanav··on Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz
The problem is not new TLDs, the real problem with phishings in 2024 is that the free Cloudflare layer allows phishers to be protected from automatic phishing detection tools like the ones I develop at my current job.

They also don't offer any programs for trusted third parties so we have to spend a lot of time bypassing and paying for services that skip Cloudflare instead of taking down phishing sites.

solanav··on Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200
Calling a person "computer/internet/phone native" is perhaps the worst thing ever said. I think "addicted computers/the internet/phones" would be a more apt phrasing.

Sure thing grandpa!

solanav··on What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
Is it me or is the introduction written in a very chatgpt-esque style?
solanav··on Tonsky: Don't go crazy with Clojure unless it makes you happy
This is why I started to learn Common Lisp a year ago. This is the kind of power I miss when I have to go back to Python…
solanav··on Programming Beyond Paradigms
Check out Julia (https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-julia-and-lisp/25119)
solanav··on Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)
Cool! I use selenium to do phishing detection at my company and I use javascript declared variables as a source of data to analyse. It’s specially useful for links that are obfuscated by concatenating two variables into another one.
solanav··on Lisp in Space
Do share them please!
solanav··on Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it
is it better than something like shadowsocks?
solanav··on Ryujinx: Experimental Nintendo Switch Emulator written in C#
Yeah, we should restrict the creation of emulation software to authorized parties only. /s
solanav··on Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook
I mean, they are now the default. Whether we like it or not.
solanav··on Shein Is Even Worse Than You Thought
I wish Europe would just block companies that are known to have this kind of conditions from selling inside its borders
solanav··on Exploring Mastodon
How is "I just message username#uid" different from "I just message username@instance"?
solanav··on Data Science at Spotify Camp Nou
How data powers ticketing at FC Barcelona’s iconic stadium.
solanav··on Ask HN: Advice that changed your life?
I've heard a similar story about a young man that wanting to become a monk, went to the monastery and one of the old monks there told him: "Go get a doctorate, then come back and choose if you really want to give up everything to meditate." or something along those lines.
solanav··on EU Open Web Search project kicked off
It is very precisely defined, you not understanding what they are building does not mean it is not worth the effort.
solanav··on Arti – An implementation of Tor in Rust
I'm so happy we are finally getting an easy to use library to use Tor. I've wanted to use Tor in some of my projects but I didn't like having to install it or expecting the user to have it installed already. Time to re-learn rust...
solanav··on Hole punching in libp2p – Overcoming Firewalls
This was a very interesting read. Very easy to understand too. I hope this solves some of the problems I had when trying to connect with peers in IPFS
solanav··on Starbucks workers in New York are organizing to form first US union
And if your leverage isn't that great you should unionize.
solanav··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
I can understand this from the perspective of a manager or company owner. "Happiness comes from shipping products" or "Choose boring technology" make a lot of sense if you are maximizing profit and don't need to work with the tech yourself.

If you are an engineer and you want to try a new technology, go for it. Even if it doesn't make sense. Learn new things, don't stick with the boring tech. Maximize your own happiness and your own knowledge, not the profit of your higher-ups.

solanav··on Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform
In-home physical cache... Such an smart observation! Love it!
solanav··on IPFS Support in Brave
Just like with HTTP yeah. You can download a webpage and publish it with Apache or NGINX too. Are you implying this is bad?
solanav··on Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?
I absolutely agree, Rust and Elixir are an amazing couple of languages! I recommend reading https://blog.discordapp.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-1...