antonios

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by antonios 6mo ago
Let us not forget about Bill Hill, co-inventor of ClearType technology: https://www.geekwire.com/2012/remembering-bill-hill-importan...
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by antonios 7mo ago
Interesting, will take a look. Regarding your questions: - Historically, reputation and web-of-trust models have been tried with mixed results (see PGP/GPG history) - Proof of work for human validation can probably be gamed, useful as
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by antonios 1y ago
As a quick solution before implementing the more sophisticated suggestions in this thread, you can try getting a small cheap VPS from somewhere outside and trafficking all your traffic through it via sshuttle[1]. For example, Vultr (not an
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by antonios 1y ago
Well, since you asked, Arcanum, Colonization, Fallout 1, the original Pirates and, well, Caves of Qud (surprise).
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by antonios 1y ago
Cartography, check. Alpha Centauri game, check. Very cool. On my list, Alpha Centauri easily makes it on top 5 games ever made. Thank you for the trip to memory lane. <goes to GOG to download the game>
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by antonios 2y ago
That's interesting, can you share more information about your tech stack?
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by antonios 2y ago
Regarding Bluesky's decentralization: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ (hint: not that decentralized after all)
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by antonios 2y ago
The immediate answer that came to mind _before_ I read the article, was "keep things simple". A lot of good things emanate from this mentality.
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Old Computer Challenge – TC 2048(0x00.cl)
1 points by antonios 2y ago|0 comments
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ADE_651(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by antonios 2y ago|0 comments
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How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections(support.mozilla.org)
3 points by antonios 2y ago|1 comments
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by antonios 2y ago
> while not even having a web page of security disclosures that happened in the past https://www.openbsd.org/errata75.html
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by antonios 3y ago
Good thing I managed to grab a HiFive Unmatched. OpenBSD works sweetly on this.
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C Primer(enlightenment.org)
4 points by antonios 4y ago|0 comments
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by antonios 4y ago
I'm now wondering how many decades are still being lost because of similar bugs in other OSes that don't get as much scrutiny, like OpenBSD or even FreeBSD.
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by antonios 4y ago
FreeBSD is doing a great job catching up to Linux, yes, (not in the ZFS case though where they were the pioneers) but once you start catching up you have to, well, continue catching up in perpetuity.
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Meditations on Moloch (2014)(slatestarcodexabridged.com)
2 points by antonios 4y ago|0 comments
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Paying for Productivity(simulavr.com)
2 points by antonios 4y ago|0 comments
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by antonios 5y ago
Yes please. ECC support by now should come by default, both in CPU support and in motherboards, RAM chips etc. At least AMD Ryzen supports it, but the fact that one has to spend a lot of time to research through products, specs, forums and
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by antonios 5y ago
FreeBSD has started supporting JSON output for various tools via `libxo` in their base system for quite some time now.
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by antonios 5y ago
> As far as I can tell, hundreds of millions in drugs and contraband are regularly transacted using Bitcoin. Billions in global capital controls and taxes are evaded every day with Bitcoin. The fraction of black market participants who a
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by antonios 6y ago
Cryptocurrency "in general" obviously isn't deflationary, given that one can create a new cryptocurrency with a simple code fork. But Bitcoin is, no?
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by antonios 6y ago
Maybe, if you completely disregard everything else that Bitcoin puts on the table, and how much energy is required to sustain the infrastructure it will make obsolete.
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by antonios 6y ago
Indeed. Unbelievable omission for a project that touts simplicity and usability above else.
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by antonios 6y ago
There's also CMU Typewriter text if you want another serif monospaced font. Looks wonderful in high dpi I believe. I've hacked mine to put slashed zero.
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by antonios 6y ago
I found that one of the most important insights when studying how computers work on a fundamental level, is that deep down data and code don't make much difference. This realization can open the gates of looking at higher programming l
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by antonios 6y ago
There's already a privacy-focused coin that isn't a total mess. And no premines. And no mixing hoops to go through. So, why use Ethereum?
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by antonios 6y ago
Sometime I also get in a pessimistic mood. I really would like to convince myself that X11 is not going away in the next decades.
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by antonios 6y ago
The only cryptocurrency that has achieved the "one CPU one vote" goal is Monero. RandomX is an impressive feat; I encourage you to look at the technical specifications and the security audits it has been through from notable firms
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by antonios 6y ago
Alternatively, all that attempts to control chaos and decrease entropy actually results in faster entropy increase overall on a systemic level. I remember reading about a (Russian?) physicist that believed that life simply happens as a re

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