floatingatoll

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by floatingatoll 3mo ago
Years and years ago, I took a photo set of the Santa Cruz boardwalk and all of its beautifully painted buildings and rides, in the middle of January when it was completely and utterly devoid of people. I think I encountered one person the e
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by floatingatoll 3y ago
Thank you for doing so; it led me to see this post, and I appreciate that. I’ll vouch next time if I see it go back to [dead].
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Well, I’m glad my question helped you uncover the root cause, in any case.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
If Tesla said “working as designed”, then that would definitively confirm that it’s not a bug. Apple has said “working as designed, not a bug” about the most common feature requests (such as “uBlock support” and all the underlying capabilit
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
It could be considered such, if you file a lawsuit. No one else seems to be, so until it reaches a judge, I don’t know if you’ll see any response.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Bungie, another tech company, has been making this exact request of its community for years now, and their community has for years now found every excuse under the sun to ignore it. Bungie asks “tell us what’s broken, tell us what feels wro
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Have you filed this bug or reported it to the requested Twitter thread? If anything else, a link to your HN comment posted to them would be enough — and then they’d realize there’s bugs here to find.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
In the Safari menu, there may be a Feedback option that lets you report the broken site issue to them directly, without having to use Twitter. I’m not sure if it’s a developer thing or not, but if it’s not there, I imagine it’s present
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
That’s a bug worth reporting to them on Twitter! Which dates, incidentally?
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Those are design decisions that result in missing functionality, not unintentional defects (“bugs”) in shipping functionality.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
I'm not restricting my considerations to "the technology that is implemented and available to Tor users today", given that what's available neither meets the needs of sites, nor the needs of users. If you think that the
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
That would also remove essentially all potential for attacking workers. I like it far better than my idea. Good call.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Reputation is a feature of identity. Tor users are, by definition and intent, unidentifiable. Opting out of identification naturally opts one out of reputation, as is the case in reality as well — for example, Anonymous using Guy Fawkes mas
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
That’s all plausible sounding, but no one’s connected the dots and done it yet. We’re still at “step 2: ???”.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Not out of spite, but to protect the workers as they remove the trucks, which the article cited as a specific concern. It will have obvious ramifications in decreased value of the truck, but that’s an expected side effect of deploying it as
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
archive.is requires captchas for iCloud Relay users as well as blocking Cloudflare DNS users, so I wouldn’t consider them to be a Tor-specific example.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Would a plasma cutter be able to permanently destroy the engines in each truck rapidly beyond repairability, so that they’re “disarmed” and can be relocated safely without malicious driver interference? I assume these are going to be taken
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Not deanonymise, no. Come up with a way for siteops to block someone and all their sockpuppet accounts, without knowing the underlying identity, and you’ll become a billionaire. Without that, the only option we have today is deanonymizati
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
There’s many debit card “send to friend” apps that fill this space, including Apple Cash and Square Cash and etc. but your most likely compatibility app is Venmo. I’ve had zero issues with any of the Cash apps I’ve used to date, though.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Tor provides anonymity without accountability; having some doors closed to all Tor users is the price paid for that anonymity. If that price isn’t acceptable, either modify Tor to allow more granular accountability in some privacy-protectin
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
You can download a prerelease binary early from FTP, but until they release it, there’s no guarantee you’ll get the same code that’s released.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
In what way are any of these jerking the regulators’ chain? You list four facts, and you claim that these four facts are insufficient to regulators. Please provide the remainder of your viewpoint, so that we who don’t understand you yet can
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Correct, in the 5K case the entire display is rendered at 5K, and ditto 2K etc. (I believe the internal canvas caps at 32K, but I don’t have the tools to find out for sure.) Whatever-sized display viewports are just crop windows into it,
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Good to know the threshold to stay under. Thanks for the heads up.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
In macOS, the entire display is rendered at 4K no matter what you pick from the resolution box. Most apps have learned to provide 2x-3x “retina” icons so that their bitmap resources look crisp alongside the system UI resources at user-selec
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
On the topic of color mixing in realtime, we talked about pigments previously this week: Rebelle: Experimental online paint software https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30191520 (3 days ago, 22 comments)
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Only the new Magic Keyboard with the roundrect corners and the Globe key have the new, dust-resilient key switches from the new laptops (which preceded it). The prior model of Magic Keyboards with the Fn key use older defective dust-vulnera
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Writing a Mac application in GTK is, again, not conducive to the goal of learning to program a new platform. Wrappers such as GTK around native objC, Cocoa, and Swift are a distraction from the main purpose of learning those things.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
If Safari didn’t aggressively cache favicons, websites trying to overcome Apple’s objection would immediately start trying to use window.reload() and server-side dynamically generating favicon paths, for random “I made this up before coffee
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
That would allow websites to override Apple's objection, and therefore they can't allow it, even if it will cause occasional problems for websites that think they can do a total branding pivot including favicon overnight.

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