voidnullnil

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by voidnullnil 5y ago
False. 1. Anti-user mechanisms (SafetyNet) annoy users. 2. Even though SafetyNet may not be as annoying as something like UAC, it still has deep reaching effects[1] since now the standards are proprietary and nobody can make an actual good
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
False. You just want to meta-complain. c0l0 has pointed out how Google(R) MoronNet(TM) in practice usually negates any benefit gained from how virtuous their kernel maintenance process is.
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
>people are killing themselves because of instagram Literally every social issue on the web for the last 20 years follows this one simple formula: > X causes Y. Yes it sounds stupid, but read this long winded reasoning or spend the ne
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
This only works for so long until the devs get tired of spoonfeeding. More importantly: There shouldn't be subtle nuances in something like a web routing library which is _supposed_ to be trivial. Just the other day I had the experienc
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
Not without relying on implementation details.
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
It's more like this: C diehards: Pauses are bad, we need manual memory management. Everyone else: Does not have manual memory management.
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
> 1 - mandate disclaimers in front of all videos describing the possible negative effects of porn Why would you think this will work? My parents, school, etc already gave you a million false warnings about porn and yet I looked at it. Di
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
How does this have 2.5K upvotes when every single HN related project needs JS and a quad core CPU (for the browser to open a blank page) to view a paragraph of text?
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
Time for a history lesson: 1. Teens had their stupid magazines and MTV before this smart phone crap. 2. The media hyped potential problems of "negative self image blah blah blah" exactly as much as now. 3. Nothing happened. It was
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
Please tell us a concrete plan on how to "protect children" (a moral appeal) from porn. Name one set of rules that would satisfy your legal appetite.
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
>[porn companies] need regulation No, nothing needs regulation. Stop making the internet fucking worse. Can we go back to 2000 now (not that it was good then either since the internet was fundamentally broken already)? This is like the b
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
To take this one step further: Adding surprise semantics like capturing time (and the dev not being aware of it) will lead to security vulnerabilities (side channels because the code is essentially timestamping when various parts of the cod
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
> No, it isn't. It's a private company determining how and who it conducts business with. Being a 'patrician' of your own property is completely fine and in fact a basic right, and if you don't like Mailchimp&#x2
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
The most annoying thing is that everyone denouncing Apple's action still agree that "CSAM" is a problem that needs action by technology companies (and thus decentralized stuff should be illegal). While "CSAM" is a p
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
Companies change. The sad part is, there is no next company to move to.
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
I am truly sorry for your loss in that your brain is implemented using regex. I meant "white collar big boys", but I did not bother to edit as I'm writing. The guy above is claiming everyone who is against apple's yet-an
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
Am I missing something? Apple says they literally scan stuff locally on your iCrap now and call the police on you if you have $badstuff. Nobody should be having their data scanned in the first place. Is iCloud unencryped? Such a thing exist
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
> You can be against this kind of thing from Apple, but as a result more CSAM will be undetected. You cannot claim to be making "the real reasonable analysis" and write this. So much for "you're all geeks stuck on tec
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
Well, it was succint and other people got it. Some website reporting you to the police for doing something illegal is not the same as your hardware/software being stuffed with snakeoil spyware that slows down the UI all for some made u
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
>Isn't that most of the internet? No, bad analogy.
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
Yaeh, my point was that it is trivial to define a pad function and call it instead of needing some syntax like Erlang. But now I see there is deconstruction too, which is more arguably useful to take the time to add syntax for.
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
Can't you just stake more coins in PoS and receive more income? I though this was how PoS coins worked. How else would you even have a notion of people requried to satisfy the condition "all people get the same amount"? Surel
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
Cryptocurrency: - My money is secured by a private key and nobody can touch it ever unless they get my private key. I can simply be cautious about my private key and I know there is no other way anyone can ever get my money - I can fi
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
> The JVM bytecode for people is English. What are you telling me? That I need to drop English?
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
Most JS programmers are utterly unaware of how their "numbers" work.
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
(As someone strongly against adding new features to languages,) I've never understood where there would be any need for anything more complicated than list concatenation when assembling bits. In some language with list notation, (++ be
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
The author could have been unaware that it's possible to program computers without knowledge of binary arithmetic and bit level operations.
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
They should add a check for comparing an error value to a string [1]. I've seen lots of mission critical software written in Go now that does this. Just today I came across a bunch of if string.Contains(err.Error(), "problem X&quo
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
The entire web does this, not just Google. Alert is pure garbage and should not have made it past the 90s. Also, basic auth popups need to go too. Not sure why browsers would ever make those focus stealing in the first place. There should n
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by voidnullnil 5y ago
That's not how this works. This discussion is about preventing a something like a server from being exploited. How many stack smashes have you seen against a server written in a memory-safe language?

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