bennythomsson

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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Kudoa for this, but it feels like there should be a more direct way? I mean, he first invented basically a general-purpose execution platform. That in itself is cool, but the fact that it then can execute a chess program is not actually th
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
It goes on. > the new standard that companies like Samsung and Google would clone the same way they cloned the hardware and software design of the iPhone. That's misrepresenting history in ways it's not even funny. Stopped read
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
As the videos show, there are still a few usability issues. Full-screen switching somewhere else just to enter a name for example doesn't get you very far. But there is not much missing and I like the POC!
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
I'm aware what I can do. I was wondering how they did it.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
How did they generate these? If I try with ChatGPT then it refuses, citing a possible violation of their content policy. Even when I tell it that this is for me personally, it knows who I am, and that it's just for a test -- which obvi
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
To which everybody will click yes. They have been conditioned by too much half-baked crap out there that requires it and the need to go on with their lives instead of having tp start investigating things they anyway don't have a clue a
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
To both of you, wireguard is the way to go. So, parent poster: yes, you are doing it right. Grandparent: Use a VPN, close everything else.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
What kind of "hosting service" are you referring to? Just run wireguard on the home server, or your router, and that's it. No more infra required.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
If you make a product that is so locked down by default that folks need to jump through 10 hoops before anything works then your support forums will be full of people whining that it doesn't work and everybody goes to the competition t
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Most computing people habe at home is some locked down cloud crap which neither you nor an attacker can do anything with. It's not hackable though in the original sense of the word, so not interesting the crowd at HN. Docker is, for ev
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
It is widely known not to expose anything to the public internet unless it's hardened an/or sandboxed. A random service you use for playing around definitely does not meet this description and most people do know that, just like
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
> None of the database guides I followed had warned me about the dangers of exposing a docker containerized database to the internet. Um that's pretty ... naïve? Closing even your VPN port goes a little far. Wireguard for example do
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
I personally don't actually mind and don't infer the rest of the page to be garbage. Maybe because I don't consider the image garbage either.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
I understand much of your rambling, but the wax that's sprayed on apples isn't an issue. To the contrary, it increases the shelf life of them, reducing waste. And it's not dangerous either, so pouncing on that particular deta
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
If your country can do it, then the US also can!
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Irony is, syringes can be reused well after sterilizing with heat. But I agree that extremism usually just drives people the opposite way. Especially in the medical field plastic will stay, but in lots of other areas it can be reduced.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
But it won't invisibly accumulate in your food chain.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Propaganda will always be a problem. But progress is possible. Nobody will really miss single apples wrapped in plastic in the store.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
There are lots of wasteful uses for sure. Too much crap out there being produced essentially for the land fill. This can all go away. But there are many areas where plastics are quite literally life savers and it will be hard to replace the
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
100% this. Also, keep in mind that the article is from his university's PR dept. It's not independent work by a journalist.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
You a seem to be misunderstanding if not misrepresenting my point. I applaud the FOSS community for these licenses. I use them myself. And I don't expect any payment. And it's fine that if anybody invests a lot of expertise and ti
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
That's not what I'm thinking. Where exactly should those $25 go? If there is such an easy place, fine, go ahead. I personally don't see one, since there are many giants on whose shoulders he is standing on. There are other op
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Isn't the whole approach wrong? All that stuff should be in another thread. That's it. Re-inventing a bad version of cooperative multitasking, in 2025, really? It's surely a nice exercise, but I really hope this is not produc
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Building a road is usually very similar to building another road. Building ffmpeg is very different from an SSL lib. They need different tradeoffs, design strategies, domain knowledge, etc. And doing them properly is really really hard. A l
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Of course they provide value! They car dealer selling you that new Toyota also provides value. Without him you couldn't buy that car, certainly not so easily. Doesn't mean he manufactured it, or invented it, or conceived of the ve
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
Sorry, not the most diplomatic expression. Fixed. Though acting legally and acting ethically/responsibly are still different things. You did read the rest of my post right?
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
I have the same view on my own FOSS work (also expressed in its license) and generally also don't think that FOSS authors should feel that their users are obligated to give them anything (beyond the conditions of the license). Though w
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
The explanation is that this will be abandonware pretty soon after he moved on and made enough $$$ off this project. Just read his webpage, it's quite obvious.
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
He actually himself writes that he doesn't want to spend too much time on his apps: > now i have lession that i shouldnt build apps that consumes so much time. Sounds like somebody really devoted to the perfect UI experience. Look,
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by bennythomsson 2y ago
And you might be underestimating the work that went into those libraries. We are talking decades of work, dealing with platform issues, performance, loads of security considerations and then there is the whole licensing+patent topic. Sure U

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