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H4ZB7
3y ago
> Announcing Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in the new world of generative AI translation: > how we are advancing the police state or some bullshit. btw this is good for security and privacy didn't read, not that i&#
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3y ago
because of the hacker community circle jerk. there was no rational reason. it's like back when people used ANSI.SYS to display a text file with colors. it's leet factor and has no application in reality.
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3y ago
your entire reasoning is just that your UI (a shell) cant work with spaces. literally unix brain damage. one UI supports this one supports that, neither should have any pressure on how data in the system is formatted. your tool is just brok
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3y ago
i like how thanks to un*x mentality i can just expect argv to be the most malicious possible implementation where the invoker can put anything in it and it will be there for the invokee, on the os family boasting its support for secure mult
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3y ago
why is this absolutely oblivious, joke of an article voted so high? web browsers are bloated and insecure, and there is practically no difference between them. tor browser tries (keyword) to reduce fingerprintability to make tor actually w
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3y ago
why do i have to be exposed to these people who don't have the slightest clue about how the computer works? i want out. i don't want to use an ecosystem that includes these people to be part of what runs on my computer. why would
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3y ago
this isn't surprising, the author is just cowboy coding. i *expect* anything in un\*x to require 5 hours for first reading the man page (which the article has shown to be useless, informal, and idiosyncratic - making it worse than noth
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4y ago
looks like an absolutely uninteresting boomer language, by the fact that it just shows standard imperative stuff followed by "wow it supports unicode, we are up to date"! (which is a misfeature, btw, i like being able to audit my
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4y ago
why do people write articles about go features? when PHP was in its prime, almost nobody wrote blogs explaining how they found some philosophy in PHP. there's a reason for that. when you see someone open their article explaining a lang
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4y ago
> something something privilege > text only i'm a big guy now > no indication of what this group actually was unless i perhaps read every paragraph > i liked the thing because of camaraderie now you know why the hacker scen
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4y ago
when i was 9 and first used the web i was annoyed by how pages can subvert you and steal focus and show popups (and do audio via flash) etc and even then it was unambiguously obvious that this is a misfeature that should not exist. how do t
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4y ago
> Don't pretend that CSS is hard. if i was to implement a browser that could properly render CSS for some given set of real life scenarios i would be getting back to you in 100 years. paying tax, banking, trading academic literature
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4y ago
that analogy is literally 100% invalid and you're a moron up his own ass for even suggesting it.
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4y ago
inheritance is NOT for liskov substitution, and not even OOP fans will argue that as most even consider inheritance a mistake. inheritance is specifically to make a subclass with the same methods and allow overriding a select few. it's
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4y ago
he probably meant on the terminal but he's just LARPing like every other UN*X enthusiast. they like to create false dilemmas like "legacy" and "embedded"* to justify their bloated poorly implemented string flinging
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4y ago
this is a perfect example of how UN*Xoids like to enamor themselves that they are the last bastion of responsible devs maintaining the 30 year old system that was never good to begin with from breaking
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4y ago
"java trying to force its world view" is the correct way to design a programming language, just java is a bad language, and only half way forces its world view when it has to be 100% for this idea to work. in the sense that there
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4y ago
nope, it's definitely just for vanity. it will be hard to explain that on a forum dedicated to people whose work revolves around upholding this myth, though. html not being readable without css is a bug or bad positioning. i would neve
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4y ago
because the web is broken in every way imaginable for no reason and should have been discontinued about 14 years ago. but this is really old, now my favorite is dns rebinding [1]. this has to be one of the most beautiful examples of how cor
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4y ago
> At the time of the punk icons’ rise to fame, capital punishment remained on the statute books for the crime of high treason even though it had been abolished for all other crimes. While it’s unlikely Lydon and his bandmates would have
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4y ago
the solution here is simple: a police officer in your face means that if you disobey them in any way, you could be insta killed with their insta kill buttons. this means that they hold an incredibly dangerous job that you should not allowed
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4y ago
it doesnt solve the problem give me functions that output typed data. none of this string parsing shit. the sole fact that they have syntax to call bash: $() makes me not want to use this ever. this is why every single effort like this is w
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4y ago
nope, escaping is definitely worse in bash (and all shells) than real languages.
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4y ago
> man bash is not long it's literally longer than reading the Go spec and even after reading it several times i still can't code bash
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4y ago
> Can you blame it on the shell? yes, because the mere act of comparing two variables in bash is about 100x harder than any other language (not to mention it literally straight up adds undocumented RCE vectors to your code for example wh
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4y ago
ahh, the myth of the pragmatist who outsmarts the academic. one day you will grow up. bash is a terrible language, and no academic background is needed to come to this conclusion
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4y ago
...aaand if you actually think this through you will just come to the conclusion - piping isn't anything special, its just an operator - piping has like 10 different things you need to account for, just a bunch of stuff is chosen
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4y ago
exactly this.
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4y ago
you could also have the console on our own machine with 1+GHz that passes code to the embedded box to execute, or one of a million other variations on this theme. but nooo we gotta LARP about how well we support legacy systems which is why
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4y ago
yes, the person you are replying to is not an expert at UK politics, but then you went right off the hinges with the rest of your post. the UK is one of the biggest police states in the west. the king of punk was to be executed for insultin
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