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It was a reference to this: https://xkcd.com/369/
"died in a blogging accident"
Bitcoin does use encryption for messaging, but I don't know if this is what Musk was referencing: https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/v2-p2p-transport/
Didn't all the major browsers alter their timing APIs to make this impossible/difficult?
Re:API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @11:21AM (#40512917)
It would block requests to OCSP responders, for one.
Re:New way to have complex discussions on Monday May 06, 2024 @05:09PM (#40279558)
The 4chanx extension (userscript, run it in violentmonkey or equivalent) lets you nest comments in a chain to make following threads easy while maintaining the overall chronological state of the threads. You can also hide a reply, and it will automatically hide the entire chain of replies to that reply.
I _think_ iMazing can do what you want: https://imazing.com/configurator

Disclaimer: I've never used this feature. I only use it for backups and copying files to my iPhone.

Re:The dangers of single line regular expressions on Monday April 22, 2024 @04:36PM (#40119959)
Note that Ruby also has \z which is what you generally want instead of \Z.

(\Z allows a trailing newline, \z does not)

Re:FFmpeg 7.0 Released on Friday April 05, 2024 @12:47PM (#39944542)
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack!
Re:The Reddits on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:55PM (#39783594)
Hah, I saw this:

    Steve was not a big fan of authority, so he also liked the idea of a site without editors.
and remembered him getting prod database access to censor comments criticizing him. I guess it's true what they say about power corrupting you.
Re:U.S. students will take the SAT online on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @08:14PM (#39623940)
Imagine you did all of that, received and accepted an offer, and then they made you work on snap. Grim.
Re:Stress Reduction Techniques for High Stress Operations on Sunday February 25, 2024 @09:38PM (#39507088)
Magnesium glycinate!
Re:Cloudflare Thanksgiving 2023 Security Incident on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:16AM (#39286317)
Fair enough.
Re: on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @09:44PM (#39283838)
Same here. "Learnings" sounds ESL to me.
Re:Cloudflare Thanksgiving 2023 Security Incident on Thursday February 01, 2024 @07:51PM (#39223575)
There's a huge difference between using your personal Spotify account at work and using your personal Github account at work.
Re:Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards on Sunday January 28, 2024 @08:11PM (#39171707)
Sivers is an OG. Definitely not a bot. I've looked at sivers.org/multiply at least once per year for the last 15 years.
Re:Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks on Sunday January 21, 2024 @09:09PM (#39085250)
Mine is just a cool-looking paperweight now.
Re:The Case for Rust in the base system on Sunday January 21, 2024 @02:26PM (#39081973)
Microsoft, Google, and other companies have all determined that about 70% of CVEs are memory-related. Here's the US government's take: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/urgent-need-memory-saf...

These memory-related exploits disappear with Rust aside from in "unsafe" blocks (possibly the worst named keyword in any language... it should have been called "trusted"), and that means you have a smaller and more easily auditable attack surface for these types of memory-related exploits. Some code (e.g., FFI) can't be verified as memory-safe by the Rust compiler at compilation time so "unsafe" is there as an escape hatch. I've written a bunch of Rust since 2014 building things like webservers, realtime futures processing algorithms, MEV bots, etc., and I've only had to use "unsafe" a few times.

I've also worked in security on products at Fortune 100 companies, and C is a constant nightmare for CVEs. I think I have PTSD from having to update libcurl. The more software we have written in memory safe languages, the better off we all are.

Re:Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s on Sunday January 21, 2024 @02:31AM (#39076445)
Hey, thanks for the response! There have been a lot of across the board improvements in the kernel in the last four years so I'm surprised there's not a noticeable performance improvements in 6.2 (although I also consider 6.2 old at this point).
Re:Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s on Saturday January 20, 2024 @12:12AM (#39064902)
I'm curious what the performance difference would be on a modern kernel.
Re:Tachiyomi – It's Joever on Sunday January 14, 2024 @12:17AM (#38987722)
Well, the inverse is "we're so Barack".
Re:Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet on Saturday January 13, 2024 @06:44PM (#38985906)
This is the second reference to BotLS I've seen today on HN. The other was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38938981

I've read the four BotNS books. Is BotLS worth it if I had mixed feelings about those?

Re:How to Be More Agentic on Saturday January 13, 2024 @01:56PM (#38983241)
What I got out of it was "determination eventually beats natural skill over time".
What was it about?
What are the better products that are available?
Re:Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT on Sunday December 31, 2023 @03:24PM (#38827213)
The addon you linked (on the Firefox version) only requests permissions on google.* sites so I don't think it will work for DDG. Is there a separate extension, or am I misunderstanding something?
Re:Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT on Sunday December 31, 2023 @11:21AM (#38825099)
Does this exist for DDG?
And Spotify.
Re:KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland by Default on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:22AM (#38231635)
>Wayland doesn't fractionally scale chrome, chromium, chromium, chromium, chromium, and other appimage and non-native applications.

The absolute state of desktop applications in 2023. Everything is a web browser. God help us all.

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