HiPhish

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by HiPhish 19d ago
> I'd say enshitification is a good enough word. Enshittification is when the perpetrator intentionally does make a product worse, like locking previously free features behind a paywall with a firmware update, or covers components o
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by HiPhish 1mo ago
> The reality for most people - even expert programmers - has been that the freedom is more about being able to lean on other people to do that. Most people can't justify the time commitment needed to read and then modify the code f
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by HiPhish 2mo ago
> kid The man is 24 years old.
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by HiPhish 2mo ago
Isn't Wero just another proprietary app that requires a Google or Apple smartphone? Can I use it from my web browser like I can with PayPal?
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by HiPhish 2mo ago
> I guess that most companies just chuck it up there as a default so they dont have to read the law, or maybe they are all actually harvesting and selling personal data and therefore require cookies? That has been my guess as well. If yo
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by HiPhish 2mo ago
All living being want to literally eat you in one way or another. You can respect the earth, but first you have to subdue it and have dominion, otherwise it will kill you.
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by HiPhish 2mo ago
> I have to ask…why do people want a Turing complete language to configure stuff? What's the alternative? Petition the maintainer to add every little feature any random user might want? Or just do it yourself in a few lines of code?
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by HiPhish 2mo ago
> Python setup.py -> pyproject.toml? That's because setup.py was objectively a mistake. In order to know how to run the package you need to know its dependencies, which requires evaluating setup.py, but you cannot evaluate setup.
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by HiPhish 2mo ago
> But it’s not the biblical story. At Babel, the loss of common language stops construction whereas in AI-assisted engineering, construction can continue after shared understanding has already collapsed. The lack of an immediate failure
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by HiPhish 2mo ago
Chesterton's Fence, even if there is actual inefficiency there might be a reason for that. It might not be a good reason mind you, but even a bad reason is still a reason. You cannot cut inefficiency without understanding the reason fi
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by HiPhish 2mo ago
> LLMs will listen to you and follow your instructions and restrictions most of the time, which seems to be enough for people to believe that they will every time. It's called automation bias. If something works 90% of the time the
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by HiPhish 2mo ago
Unfortunately ownership on console has been down the drain for a long time. Even if you have the disc you still have mandatory downloads, patches, one-time download codes that tie the content to your account and of course DLC. What is even
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by HiPhish 3mo ago
What pisses me off about all this is that the there is the underlying assumption that the working class is with the lazy working class. No, the problem is efficiency and incompetence at the top levels, not at the bottom. Running faster in t
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by HiPhish 3mo ago
I had a migraine attack recently; I was able to call my doctor and have him write a sick note for a day over the phone and have it transmitted digitally to my employer. What the fuck would be the point of tormenting myself for half an hour
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by HiPhish 3mo ago
> I know it'll never happen with the people we have in government these days, and the anti-consumer organizations, like the ESA, that are out there now claiming things like running private servers for Minecraft is illegal and piracy
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by HiPhish 3mo ago
> I've just added some new lessons before the first lesson to explain assembly syntax! Thanks, I just read them and they are well-done.
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by HiPhish 3mo ago
> I wanted to match the colour theme of the GameCube Ouch, now I feel like a real asshole; I was reminded off all those purple gradient slop websites. Yeah, your reasoning makes perfect sense. I completely forgot about Nintendo's we
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by HiPhish 3mo ago
I love how the images are an AI-generated fever dream. Normally I hate those things, but in this case it's a perfect match for the AI clown world.
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by HiPhish 3mo ago
Love the idea! Assembly has been on my forever-list to eventually learn. I have worked through the warmup exercises, but I doubt I'll have the time to continue much past that. A few points of note: - Not a fan of the purple theme, it s
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by HiPhish 3mo ago
For anyone wondering: the library uses the GPLv3 (good) while the Android keyboard uses the Futo License (shit). - https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/swipe-library/-/blob/master... - https://git
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by HiPhish 3mo ago
What's wrong with two-factor authentication? TOTP work without any network connection and only requires synchronized clocks to work. You could even do TOTP with pend and paper if you wanted (and were fast enough), no computer needed at
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by HiPhish 3mo ago
> My impression is that people who can work on stuff like that are the kind who just take the stuff in the world for granted. "This is how the world is, we need digital restrictions so now we need to implement them." "I do
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by HiPhish 3mo ago
I guess they think "someone is going to do it anyway, so it might as well be me so I can be the one who gets paid for it". But yeah, I'm sure there is also a good chunk of tech workers who are indeed useful idiots who think t
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by HiPhish 3mo ago
The implementation might change, but the pattern of absolute control is old as time.
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by HiPhish 4mo ago
> I am now generating this website with Clojure As everyone knows, you are not a true lisper until you have written your own static site generator. It gave me such a great high with how easy it was to add my own "templating engine&q
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by HiPhish 4mo ago
I really miss the ability to swap out KWin for a tiling window manager. I'm currently using Krohnkite and it's OK, much better than nothing, but after having used a real tiling window manager the difference is just too jarring. I
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by HiPhish 4mo ago
Great for the people who like Twilight Princess, I guess. Personally, I have very mixed feelings about Twilight Princess. I remember the years long hype since its first announcement, I remember the hype around the Wii launch. This was the f
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by HiPhish 4mo ago
Are you sure that's a fossil and not just a rook that happens to look kinda like a snail's shell?
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by HiPhish 4mo ago
Even with components I prefer what Astro is doing: the component can have a `<style>` tag in which I can add my own CSS. When building the website Astro will know how to transform the CSS so it only applies to that component. This way
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by HiPhish 4mo ago
I just want to point out that you can use Tailwind inside your CSS with the `@apply` directive (not to be confused with the since abandoned CSS `@apply` rule). You write your CSS and mix in Tailwind instructions where it makes sense. Exampl

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