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Re:A down detector for down detector's down detector on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @03:57AM (#45977304)
its down detectors all the way down
Re:From XML to JSON to CBOR on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @09:19AM (#44733838)
why was CBOR used for WebAuthn and was that a good idea?
Re:Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today on Thursday September 26, 2024 @02:04AM (#41655017)
Its worth looking at the alt text of the xkcd itself: In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it.
Re:Braid: Synchronization for HTTP on Sunday May 26, 2024 @06:02AM (#40480959)
many proprietary protocols iterate themself out of existence, just because some of them survive does not mean its the better model. Look at the video codec space, proprietary codes have long lost and have gone the way of Real Media, Windows Media Video and many others. While H.26X which is the result of design by committee are used everywhere.
is the video available somewhere?
Re:Bluesky signups are now open to the public on Thursday February 08, 2024 @08:28AM (#39301658)
do you have an example of a platform that does not require a phone number for sms verification and is filled with bots? we have many that use sms verification and are infested with abusive content and bots.
How? Coal accounted for 33.3% of electricity production in 2022. Nuclear power accounted for 13.3% of German electricity supply in 2021.
Re:Canonical LXD forked by former project leader stgraber on Thursday August 03, 2023 @10:51AM (#36986763)
https://github.com/cyphar/incus/issues has a nice list of planned cleanups the fork will have compared to lxd
on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2196105 a comment suggests that it might only be possible if you have "unprivileged user namespaces" enabled
Re:Show HN: ChatGPT Inline Bot on Telegram on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:39AM (#35054648)
Some sites say your company was closed down in 2021, whats up with that? Etablissement fermé le 01-07-2021
Re:Kubernetes for Developers Who Know How to Develop on Sunday July 24, 2022 @04:18PM (#32217276)
What part makes this for developers and what are developers that don't know how to develop?
Re:40% of Google users now connect via IPv6 on Sunday July 03, 2022 @01:05PM (#31969177)
Its mostly impossible to run servers only with IPv6 since for some reason Canonical/Ubuntu decided to require IPv4 for snap, after years of not having any issues with IPv6 only deb mirrors.

Go is also basically bound to IPv4 since it depends on github to pull packages

its time to make hall of shame for software that does not allow developers to build IPv6 only going forward.

Its more like they fucked it up with some AI driven A/B testing and think they are doing the right thing but actually its just all broken now.

They used to have /ncr (no country redirect) - open that in incognito mode and you have to accept some TOS in a language based on some idea of where the IP is.

Re:The IPv6 Mess (2002) on Saturday January 01, 2022 @07:44AM (#29757852)
Strange time to give up on IPv6. Global availability is ~36% now and many countries it crossed 50% in 2021. If anything its time to ditch IPv4 once and for all.
What are the pros and cons compared to openmaptiles?
Re:Degoogling My Life on Monday January 18, 2021 @12:47PM (#25824352)
The official count has only 15.66% of the votes counted so far.
Re:Linux Sucks 2020 [video] on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:27AM (#23516551)
Re:Firefox 77 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @11:43AM (#23392249)
Why remove config options and force some UI that clearly people are not happy with? I can not type in a url without showing the most visited sites? At least let me press ctrl-l or click in the url bar and start typing before showing me helpful information, trying to enter a new URL, I really do not want to see the most common sites again and again and again and again!

Is Firefox trying to kill the long tail of the internet and get everyone to just visit the top 5 sites?

Re:Why is Kubernetes getting so popular? on Friday May 29, 2020 @09:57PM (#23357795)
but how do you setup k8s?
AMP really has to go away, its a MITM attack on the internet. Google discontinues so many services, why is AMP not one of them yet?
Your git repo contains the dist folder even though its in .gitignore, might be good to remove that. No need to checking generated artifacts.
Why did you choose to ship the list of RSS feeds as an SQL database? This makes it hard to keep it up to date and submit pull requests with additional sources. Would it not be better to keep that info in a json file or a dict / list in a python module?
Nobody asked for spaced repetition nagging, and no way to turn it off. its so condescending and stupid of them. If you don't give users a choice, the only choice left to them is to stop using your app.
So will they pay reparations for there atrocities? I.e. pay back the "Windows tax" they forced on OEM for all those years now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows

Re:Beaker 1.0 Beta – a peer-to-peer Web browser on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:42PM (#23184369)
Has anyone build a forum on top of dat? Thinking of posting text but also images... or something like hn
Re:Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:21PM (#23184125)
filed hyperdrive-daemon #47 problem with hyperdrive-daemon/node_modules/fuse-native/prebuilds/linux-x64/node.napi.node
Re:Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:07PM (#23183948)
v12 seams to work, v14 crashed. Would be nice to have that info in the README.
Re:Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:43PM (#23183610)
what version of node.js does it require? i get this with v10.19.0 from Ubuntu 20.04:

    node_modules/hyperdrive-daemon/node_modules/hyperdrive-daemon-client/bin/commands/create.js:8        
      static usage = 'create [path]'                                                                                    
               ^                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                    
    SyntaxError: Unexpected token =

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