Parodper

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by Parodper 10d ago
> EU anti-AI laws God I wish.
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by Parodper 19d ago
Doing engineering ≠ being an engineer. Am I a doctor because I took my temperature and found I had a fever? Am I a lawyer if I represent myself in court? At least where I'm from, you need to be licensed to practice engineering.
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by Parodper 20d ago
> please tell me ONE app for Android other than Google Messages I can use to send and receive RCS, it surely won't be problem since it's international standard same as SMS, so there must be plenty apps available... Nice red her
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by Parodper 20d ago
The EU has their own Mastodon instance, but unless you want to have responses (even if the official instance doesn't show them), it's cheaper to run a static news aggregator. It would be nice, but it seems most people don't c
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by Parodper 20d ago
He isn't. He has a bachelor in economics and physics.
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by Parodper 20d ago
We're just reinventing moderated Usenet newsgroups.
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by Parodper 20d ago
People seemed to like it being stuck in the 1980s.
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by Parodper 20d ago
RCS is an international standard. Google only adds their client (and running the service if your mobile provider doesn't). Don't know what EU apps are you talking about, but yes, mobile apps need Google services. Web interfaces do
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by Parodper 21d ago
GNU/Linux[1] seems to support it. Windows probably does too. [1] Tested on KDE Wayland and Xfce X11.
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by Parodper 21d ago
SMS made you pay by character. RCS is the current free alternative.
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by Parodper 21d ago
Funny, it has already happened: https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/developer-portal/me...
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by Parodper 21d ago
Ctrl/Shift+Insert are the actual standard, from IBM's CUA.
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by Parodper 2mo ago
Very interesting, thanks. I like they even admit their own bias, that the main reason was that they didn't want another's protocol; except for the word alignment, all the other issues are solvable.
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by Parodper 2mo ago
> Doing this brings you close to OSI, which famously failed by being overcomplicated. We're slowly reinventing OSI, one step at a time: OSI had multiple sessions per transport connection (QUIC), 20 byte addresses (IPv6) and a direct
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by Parodper 3mo ago
Apparently it's from 1901 (Murray code) or 1932 (ITA2). The fact that both Apple's and CP/M codes came out roughly at the same time, both on microcomputers, shows that it was probably just a design decision.
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by Parodper 3mo ago
The thread talked about sum types, which apparently appeared on ALGOL; although I don't know how much memory did an ALGOL compiler need.
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by Parodper 3mo ago
> That's famously a single-pass compiler. Rust is famously unable to compile in a single pass. I probably should have replied under the other comment. I was also referring to your > No, I didn't - I asked how sum types were
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by Parodper 3mo ago
You could start the encoding with two bytes, so that if the most significant bit of the first byte is 0, the length is that byte plus another. That gives you 32KiB strings with just a byte more. Short strings might suffer, but I think the o
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by Parodper 3mo ago
Borland's PASCAL did it on the IBM PC. And which modern C compiler fits into 64KB? Even TCC needs 100KB. But that's beside the point. No machine of the last 36 (I'll push my chances, 40) years needs to fit a compiler in 64KB.
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by Parodper 3mo ago
You could do 0xffff as a special case, and put another length+string/pointer to after the 255th byte.
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by Parodper 3mo ago
Yes, if you're talking to a terminal. But an in-disk file doesn't have a carriage to return.
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by Parodper 3mo ago
LF makes the most sense, but they're all fine for text files. The issue is that CSV isn't text. Last time I had to handle CSV files in bash, I converted them internally to RS and FS.
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by Parodper 3mo ago
UNIX's LF precedes them by at least half a decade, probably more.
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by Parodper 3mo ago
I also started going down this rabbit hole when I wanted my homelab to just work in any device, and for advanced use cases Let's Encrypt isn't enough. I tried long and hard to get a sub-CA certificate, but apparently that's i
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by Parodper 3mo ago
Unfortunately the CA/B Forum has high requirements for constrained subordinate CA certificates[1], which to me sounds a lot like regulatory capture. [1] https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/sub-ca-with-wildcard-cer.
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by Parodper 3mo ago
Try to read less tabloids.
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by Parodper 3mo ago
And if they don't, DNS is already a database. You could just query domains to check their certificates. People running recursive DNS servers could double-check certificates.
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by Parodper 3mo ago
I'm the first to admit ICANN has issues, but US government control doesn't seem to be one of them.
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by Parodper 3mo ago
Pretty well, in my experience.
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by Parodper 3mo ago
What other choices are there? An international body might work, or just move the issue one step back.

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