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sure, not denying that. my writing style is fairly different now in my 40s than it was in my late teens/early twenties.

but, those changes are usually pretty gradual and relatively small. thats why when attempting to identify someone via writing, you look at several aspects of the writing and not just word choice (grammar, use of specific slang, sentence length, paragraph structure, punctuation, etc.). it is highly unlikely that all aspects of someones writing changes at the same time. simply removing "ha" is inconsequential to identification if not much else changed.

additionally, this data is typically combined with other data/patterns (posting times, username (themes, length, etc.), writing that displays certain types of expertise, and more) to increase the confidence level of correct identification.

this is a well-studied field (stylometry). when combining writing styles, vocabulary, posting times, etc. you absolutely can narrow it down to specific people.

even when people deliberately try to feign some aspects (e.g. switching writing styles for different pseudonyms), they will almost always slip up and revert to their most comfortable style over time. which is great, because if they aren't also regularly changing pseudonyms (which are also subject to limited stylometry, so pseudonym creation should be somewhat randomized in name, location, etc.), you only need to catch them slipping once to get the whole history of that pseudonym (and potentially others, once that one is confirmed).

only because it isnt enforced.

if fines were levied and actually collected, itd be a pretty robust regulation for privacy. theres other issues with it, but nothing that requires gdpr to be wiped out -- just modified (and clarified) a bit.

>you just need to know at least a little more than the companies you are consulting for.

sometimes (i'd argue often, actually), you don't even need that. simply having an outside/fresh perspective and the fact that you aren't part of any of the existing groups/silos is valuable.

well, what happens is netflix gives blender real cash. and thats the entirety of the translation

this is a very common pattern in tptacek's comments, but it's not worth calling out as he absolutely refuses to recognize it, always falling back to a similar response you see here.

with a quick google of "3des broken" and reading the first paragraph of wikipedia on 3des, i was able to guess (correctly!) what they original commenter was referring to.

if i were to guess, they are referring to CVE-2016-2183, which lead to deprecation of 3DES by NIST in 2019 (announced in 2017) and disallowing all uses in 2023. openssl also stopped including it in default builds starting in 2016 because it is considered weak.

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"language server" is probably not particularly obscure (or random) to the audience of people who know what "mecrisp-stellaris" is (i.e. the audience of the post).

i actually doubt "language server" is obscure to pretty much anyone who has done any programming recently.

heres the second paragraph in full:

"Here, amidst the repurposed neoclassical columns and wooden pews of a building constructed to worship a different kind of permanence, lies the physical manifestation of the "virtual" world. We tend to think of the internet as an ethereal cloud, a place without geography or mass. But in this building, the internet has weight. It has heat. It requires electricity, maintenance, and a constant battle against the second law of thermodynamics. As of late 2025, this machine—collectively known as the Wayback Machine—has archived over one trillion web pages.1 It holds 99 petabytes of unique data, a number that expands to over 212 petabytes when accounting for backups and redundancy.3"

can you help my small brain by pointing out where in this paragraph they talk about deduplication?

>10 hours of outage in a year affecting a team of 10 would cost north of $70k

10 hours x 10 developers x $70 per hour = $7000, not $70000.

but you can be smug when theres a github incident, and thats hard to put a price on

>vMix is Windows-only, so I'd imagine the people it targets don't think about licensing much.

they probably think about money, though. and whether there's a significant difference in features or not.

if i thought it alone was proof enough, i wouldnt have also included the bit about how i was actively using azure.

its one signal, among others. and in any case, i wasn't trying to prove the parent commenter wrong. i was offering my own signal to the crowd.

like most rap videos do with cars/jets/mansions, just rent the ram sticks for a few hours!

having no issues on azure here, seeing no azure incidents on the status page or any of my admin panels

what features does vMix have, which OBS doesnt, that would be worth switching to a proprietary and paid program instead of a free, open source one?

vpn, piracy sites, government-level blocking, etc. is all pretty damn on-topic for hacker news.

the "wrong" types of political content, for this site, are the ones that have nothing to do with technology of any kind, and spark no curiosity otherwise.

The fine was issued in the Netherlands, by a Netherlands government body, regarding kids from the Netherlands.

The predominately spoken language in the Netherlands is not English.

valuing style over substance is folly.

The group of traits often described by "toxic masculinity" are overwhelmingly displayed only by males, so... it makes sense?

If you aren't someone who displays that specific bundle of traits/behaviors, I would suggest being stoic about it and not taking the term personally.