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by 256_ 4mo ago
You've misunderstood. The blog post is not talking about running random binaries. It's talking about opening links and files using different programmes, like PDF viewers, video players, etc. There's a video of a talk that the
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by 256_ 4mo ago
Hacker News is obviously a very corporate-centred website, so most of the posts in this thread are about profitability and economic value. If that's the lens through which you see things, forking the web seems like a waste of time. It&
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by 256_ 4mo ago
> So... I think scripting is actually really important -- otherwise not only are you stuck with the lowest common denominator of all browsers, but the browsers need to implement a billion bug-prone views -- that map view link mentioned?
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by 256_ 4mo ago
Because the paragraphs are short, and the post is straight-forward and to the point. Also, there are no em dashes.
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by 256_ 4mo ago
I agree with the general sentiment. I treat anything running arbitrary machine code as if it has full access to a machine. I don't know where you get "run your services as root" from that, though. The principle of least privi
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Show HN: The 323, a 32-bit computer in Conway's Game of Life(256-32.com)
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by 256_ 7mo ago
I didn't even notice it until you pointed it out, but I checked that account's comment history and it uses em dashes. Also, "the database history itself is the active distribution vector" Is just semantic nonsense. I sti
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by 256_ 7mo ago
Maybe somewhat unrelated, but I'm reminded of the fact that people have deleted the main page on a few occasions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_delete_the_m...
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by 256_ 7mo ago
I'm half-tempted to try and claim it myself for fun and profit, but I think I'll leave it for someone else. What should we put there, anyway?
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by 256_ 7mo ago
As someone on the Wikipediocracy forums pointed out, basemetrika.ru does not exist. I get an NXDomain response trying to resolve it. The plot thickens.
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by 256_ 7mo ago
Here before someone says that it's because MediaWiki is written in PHP.
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by 256_ 9mo ago
That's definitely an interesting argument I haven't seen before. I suppose it depends on how effective these types of measures actually are, and also on how many adults refuse to identify themselves. I would assume governments are
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by 256_ 9mo ago
I don't know about Australia, but there's a page here detailing some of the sites that got shut down because of the OSA in the UK: https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/
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by 256_ 9mo ago
You've basically just confirmed what I said at the end, that democracies have no immunity to mass surveillance. 24/7 surveillance may have been an exaggeration but not by much, really. Age verification, as it exists now, inevitabl
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by 256_ 9mo ago
A lot of the arguments I see in this thread are about whether modern mainstream social media are bad for young people. When the debate becomes about that, it's very easy to defend these types of Orwellian laws. It becomes "This is
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by 256_ 9mo ago
I think this reflects one of the biggest fallacies behind LLM adoption; the idea that reducing costs for producers improves the state of affairs for consumers too. I've seen someone compare it to the steam engine. With the steam engine
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by 256_ 10mo ago
"This year, the UK also passed a mandate for age verification—the Online Safety Act—" No we didn't. That was 2023, and it went into effect in multiple phases, the last of which I believe was July 25th this year. Also, I can&#
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by 256_ 11mo ago
I do something similar, although there's an added peculiarity when I do it. I lie down for 5 minutes and wake up 9 hours later.
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by 256_ 1y ago
I was incredibly surprised to find that this actually is a computer. Normally when you hear about a "computer" constructed in an unusual medium, it turns out to just be a binary adder or an analogue computer. I've learned to
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by 256_ 1y ago
I don't think the author is wrong for saying that certain kinds of code should be written carefully. I object to the implication that other code shouldn't. From TFA: "Write your auto-updater code very carefully. Actually, wri
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by 256_ 1y ago
It was probably written by the type of programmers who criticise programmers like me for using "unsafe" languages.
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by 256_ 1y ago
Logic in Doom is particularly interesting to me. Apparently you can fit ~64k logic gates in a map (using the method described). From [1]: "As the DOOM engine was not designed to be an interpreter, there are some constraints on our prog
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by 256_ 1y ago
This is addressed in the second paragraph of TFA: "Stuff which is somehow limited (stack overflows, arbitrary configuration, etc) is still considered Turing complete, since all "physical" Turing machines are resource limited.
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by 256_ 1y ago
You basically just described the XPM format.
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by 256_ 2y ago
Welcome to Hacker News.
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by 256_ 2y ago
I see a bunch of people saying that Firefox "needs to make money" or something to that effect, like they've never heard of free software. When Flash was killed, enthusiasts re-implemented it entirely from scratch. I'm su
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by 256_ 2y ago
I feel like there should a law about this, but I'm not sure how it would work. Maybe companies should have to at least give a warning before they do it, so Archive Team (or the likes of them) can go into panic mode and archive everythi
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by 256_ 2y ago
I think that's their point. I read it as explaining why the rule doesn't work, rather than defending it.
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by 256_ 2y ago
2025 will be the year in which a certain operating system is used on desktop machines.
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by 256_ 2y ago
My prediction is that the year will be a square number.

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