botanical76

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by botanical76 9mo ago
Does this actually work? I would think it will be out of date by at least weeks, and I'd be surprised if their crawlers actually iterate through every issue page.
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by botanical76 9mo ago
I don't agree with your conclusion, but just wanted to say the segment on "roast nothing" was hilarious and absolutely true. Quite right that many cuisines depend on meat to be worth eating. I'm just happy that the food
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by botanical76 9mo ago
This is my experience as well. If you want it to write good tests, you have to take a much more involved approach of first making it establish what needs testing in each module, writing each test one at a time, and making it prove that it c
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by botanical76 10mo ago
I understand your concern, though your suspicion is a little shortsighted. It can be personally dangerous to volunteer for projects that directly circumvent the control of the establishment.
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by botanical76 10mo ago
I mean, I talk like this as well. It's not really intentional. My interests influence the language that I use. Why is the rationalist movement asinine? I don't know much about it but it seems interesting.
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by botanical76 11mo ago
Can you explain the subtext here?
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by botanical76 11mo ago
Many Android devices are unlockable, you can run your own software, and yet we still have a problem. This problem exists irrespective of what you can technically do with the hardware due to the vote by corporations to favour device "se
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by botanical76 11mo ago
AI coding is in many ways antithetical to great software engineering. It is the current spear-edge of the investor pressure to ship products faster, and monetize users more aggressively, all at the cost of quality, reliability, ethics, secu
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by botanical76 11mo ago
Yes, with major tradeoffs. Asahi Linux is an amazing project, but they have not yet figured out how to get anywhere close to a Mac's power efficiency when it is running MacOS. For example, you will lose a lot of battery life[0][1] with
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by botanical76 11mo ago
Note, GrapheneOS seems to have been able to secure partner access to Android early security releases, but this comes with the cost that the source used to make these special "01" builds is private until general availability. This
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by botanical76 1y ago
I imagine so. I understand that Opera GX, for example, provides a specialized version to Russian IPs that locks down the search engines that can be used.
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by botanical76 1y ago
Can you provide more context on this?
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by botanical76 1y ago
As I understand it, it's just a nostr client, so it uses nostr's decentralized network of relays.
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by botanical76 1y ago
When trying to login via GitHub, I was redirected to " https://wakana.io/login?error=An+unexpected+error+occurred+w... ", without an error message being displayed.
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by botanical76 1y ago
Well, rewriting entire features without tact can be a little toxic in collaborative environments. There may be good reasons for the design that does already exist, and those reasons may not be backed by the test suite, and you may only find
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by botanical76 2y ago
> Seriously. Stop using LLMs to "help" you do stuff you already know how to do. Why?
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by botanical76 2y ago
It's also understandable why services opt to use a Cloudflare proxy, what with the growing threat that is DDoS attacks from large botnets. I feel we should build an extension to HTTPS to allow Cloudflare / other reverse proxy serv
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by botanical76 2y ago
Why bother? They can just visit Cloudflare HQ, who already proxy 19.3%[1] of the internet. AFAICT, all https traffic proxied by them is accessible to them in plaintext. Of course, Cloudflare are disallowed by law from letting us know if the
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by botanical76 2y ago
Isn't it self evident that this person has principles if they have left their job over it? Does Visa Insights save lives?
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by botanical76 2y ago
I would implore that you just write a blog post or two (or three) instead, but it is your choice of course.
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by botanical76 2y ago
I can't even find the price anywhere. Do you have to install the software to see it?
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by botanical76 2y ago
How do we actually beat this narrative? I've been proposing a E2EE-based chat application to my friend, and they asked me a similar question: won't it just be rife with pedophiles? How can you make a platform that will be used to
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by botanical76 2y ago
If Signal can do it, then why doesn't Apple make a stand?
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by botanical76 2y ago
Have you tried the AI intellisense models like Copilot? I don't understand the notion that it is faster to generate repetitive code with keyboard macros. I use Vim-mode exclusively, and while I'm not a Vim master, I don't thi
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by botanical76 2y ago
Well, I notice there is a lot of pressure in organizations for individual developers to start making use of these tools. I was already using AI extensively before my company picked up on it, so it doesn't really affect me negatively, b
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by botanical76 2y ago
Android has very good reason to have such strict process isolation. For example, that third party calculator app I downloaded shouldn't be able to interface with my bank app. That said, I do feel it (Google) has used security as an exc
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by botanical76 2y ago
My interpretation is that it is an argument against trust in authority in privacy discussions. A: Privacy matters! B: Why should you care if you have nothing to hide? A: If you have nothing to hide, then give me the password to your Faceboo
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by botanical76 2y ago
This is so disheartening. I thought we were making progress in the anti-surveillance privacy narrative, but this says otherwise. As a UK citizen, is there anything I can do to dissuade this? edit: typo
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by botanical76 2y ago
I do think there's value in manual formatting some code sections. For example, very large arrays, or alignment of semantic parts of a group of mathematical expressions. Ultimately, I think the only thing that matters is that the code i
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by botanical76 2y ago
Do you not buy that a user's IP location needs to be protected? There is a reason applications go to so much effort to proxy requests to resources such as images. It's not free to do this.

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