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thefox··on Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
Rust Alternatives https://blog.fox21.at/2025/03/09/rust-alternatives.html
thefox··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
A decentralized, peer-to-peer, encrypted chat written in Python: https://github.com/FluxChat/fluxchat-py

Also want to write a client in Zig.

thefox··on Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
It's not 22 years but 21 years ago.
thefox··on Tell HN: We should start to add “ai.txt” as we do for “robots.txt”
Good point.

Also Killer Robots are Robots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K6XJuH6P_w

thefox··on Microsoft buys corp.com so bad guys can’t
But why did Microsoft use a domain in its products which they do not own?
thefox··on Human intelligence is overrated (2012)
> Ask a human to raise 3425 to the power of 542 and watch them sit there for hours trying to work it out.

You can't compare the speed of a computer to the speed of a human. Only because a human is slow doesn't mean that the human is stupid, nor computer are smarter. The electric current in a integrated circuit acts near the speed of light. Light itself is also very fast but not very intelligent.

> [...] the world Chess champion has been a computer.

Again, this is a matter of speed. If you give a human being the same amount of time in relation what a computer had taken to calculate the same steps of a chess game it would be a more true comparsion of intelligence.

> Humans have almost no memory

That's because the human brain isn't trained and not used. We use almost 10% of our brain. So this comparsion also hinks.

> The face recognition software that Facebook uses can tell the faces of millions of people apart.

And again, this is only a matter of training and not a matter of intelligence.

thefox··on Show HN: FAQT – A lightweight, personal knowledge base
What warrant us that Faqt.co is still alive next week? Nothing. Every service on the Internet can be shut down. Google services are as long online as Google profit from them.
thefox··on Google hurting page rank for 'small font size'
Yes, I got the same issue for one of my domains.
thefox··on Canned Emails – a minimal site with prewritten emails
It would be better if you set the body for each email with JavaScript and the new lines with "%0A" instead of the indented HTML code. Or don't use indented HTML code for the body blocks. The indented HTML code has also effect of the style of the email: the first line is normal, the second line and all following lines are indented with 25 spaces. This looks strange.

However, I like the idea of this website.

thefox··on Canned Emails – a minimal site with prewritten emails
You should never ask to ask for a question. And you shouldn't announce your question.

Just ask.

thefox··on Ken Thompson on GitHub
But only one Tweet isn't really a proof.
thefox··on Ken Thompson on GitHub
Where is the proof that this is really Ken Thompson?
thefox··on [dead]
freenode.net #startups

Also see the old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85191

thefox··on Show HN: pkgname, choosing good package names
What's the algorithm? If I use "abc" or "aaa" it prints "is not a shit pkg name".
thefox··on The Heartbleed Bug
Some Facebook servers are vulnerable for the Heartbleed bug: http://pastebin.com/dmYYpx2y
thefox··on Test your server for the Heartbleed bug
Found some Facebook servers that are vulnerable for the bug: http://pastebin.com/dmYYpx2y
thefox··on Github For Everything
This idea is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

Are your internal wiki, recruitment process, Day-to-day operations, etc. on a private repository? Do you have only one repository or do you have multiple repositories for your internal work?

thefox··on Web server in one line of bash
On Debian 7.0 (Wheezy) argument "-l 8080" without "-p" causes netcat (v1.10-40) to listen on a random port. I must run "nc -l -p 8080" to listen at 8080.
thefox··on Browserver: a node.js HTTP server, in your browser
Yes, still down.
thefox··on Lying with pictures: Smartphone manufacturer share by OS
404. http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/ also returns a 404 side.
thefox··on Tweet anonymously
I fixed this. Now you can't send SMS commands.
thefox··on Poll: Which text editor do you use daily?
Espresso. http://macrabbit.com/espresso/
thefox··on Apple iPhone Safari Crasher (iPhone 4 & 4S, iOS 5.0.1)
100mb combined with "data:text/html;".
thefox··on Apple iPhone Safari Crasher (iPhone 4 & 4S, iOS 5.0.1)
Nope. It's the "data:text/html;" in <a> link. If I don't use this, Safari on iPhone don't crash.
thefox··on Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" on Google Japan
Google Japan? Not only Japan. The whole Google servers shows Freddy.
thefox··on Lulzsec releases passwords for porn site users and admins
Login on Facebook with email addresses and passwords from pron.com: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2646862
thefox··on Lulzsec releases passwords for porn site users and admins
Send mails with the Gmail accounts: https://github.com/TheFox/pronz-gmail
thefox··on Skype down. Again.
I prefer IRC instead of Skype.
thefox··on A blog system written in Go - with a telnet frontend
Very nice! Just like the Packet radio of yesteryear.
thefox··on Are You a Hacker?
No, that's not my question. It's only the title of this text. ;)
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