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EfficientDude

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EfficientDude··on Show HN: Robyn – “Batman Inspired” Python Web Framework Built with Rust
Ugh we already have BATMAN and ROBIN as meshnet. Can't you go with... sea man or some other thing that's not taken?
EfficientDude··on German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
If only the right combination of educational materials could be concocted to destroy illiberal thought...
EfficientDude··on Vinyl carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home
It's not 'rude to say,' it's simply the truth. With good quality metal tapes, and Dolby C, a cassette is going to perform as well as any room you care to listen in. I find most people who complain about cassettes being lo-fi had shit decks.
EfficientDude··on German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
So it seems obvious that she had posted with her friend about working without a visa in the US, CBP found this, and she was rightfully deported. Note neither women featured in this little writeup actually denied it. These days they do check your social media for little secret plans.
EfficientDude··on Danish grocery chain to distinguish European from US goods
1951 Defense Of Greenland Agreement, they already agreed to sell Greenland to us. I wonder if the Danes will pretend not to have heard of it when Trump brings it up?
EfficientDude··on GSA Eliminates 18F
Not a problem - they can learn to mine coal.
EfficientDude··on Vinyl carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home
Good quality cassettes sound great, as good as CDs. You probably just had a shitty deck and shitty tapes.
EfficientDude··on Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th
Is that profit? Income isn't profit.
EfficientDude··on Detecting Noise in Canvas Fingerprinting
Wow I didn't realize that Canvas Fingerprinting was exclusively used to detect fraudsters! Especially the wily ones who figured out how to delete their cookies! That's really cool - like how they scan everybody's files now to detect pedophiles (exclusively!).
EfficientDude··on Suckless.org: software that sucks less
This is never ever a problem unless a developer insists on always using the most cutting edge version of a library. There's no law that says you have to use the bleeding edge of every library when you make a program. Another issue these days, is that library maintainers often add new features or delete old features without incrementing the major version number. In the olden days it was assumed that minor versions were for bug fixes that don't break compatibility, and when you wanted to change how the library works in a major way, you increment the major number.

Now a lot of stuff is contnuously buggified so there is no concept of stable and in-progress.

EfficientDude··on Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th
Speedrunning is mostly cheaters using combinations of emulation, save states, etc. I don't think speedrunners actually speedrun on unmodified consoles in one go at all these days. Of course back in the day anything other than playing on a console attached to a TV would have been considered cheating and gotten you thrown out of the community.
EfficientDude··on Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting April 19th
Just to be clear - no video streaming site or service has been profitable in the long run, not yet anyway.
EfficientDude··on 1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected
Nobody will care what Notion or Figma are in the future. I don't know what they are, nor do I care to find out. Saas simply doesn't exist for many people, it's not a software model that all people are comfortable with.
EfficientDude··on 1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected
Why the leading zero in the year dates but no leading zero for the RFC numbers, word length, or bits?

EDIT: I checked your web site and you DON'T use leading zeros in front of dates there. Just trying something out? Enlighten me please...

EfficientDude··on Postmortem: The singular design of Namco's Katamari Damacy (2004)
An amazing game series, truly a standout for 'different' even until today. Big studios don't take risks, it's up to today's indie scene to give us something different.
EfficientDude··on Apple software update “bug” enables Apple Intelligence
MS also uses this trick all the time. Very dishonest practice, I don't think anybody can call it a bug in good faith.
EfficientDude··on Grafana: Why observability needs FinOps, and vice versa
What's Grafana? I see it mentioned here a lot, nowhere else though. Is it a YC property?
EfficientDude··on Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a bedroom in Sydney
>The Guardian lol

MapQuest actually changed the way we get around. It all began in 1967 in Chicago.

EfficientDude··on Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
All by design. The idea is to keep older devices, ones with perhaps no government backdoors, and unauthorized software, off the Internet completely. Same reason there's a big push to kill X11 - it runs great on computers from before hardware backdoors were common. With the Trumpenreich looming, these devices will become very useful. IF they are allowed on the Internet.
EfficientDude··on What does it mean that MP3 is free?
MP3 is still the standard lossy audio format. Plays on everything, patent-free. OK sound quality (some stuff falls apart even at 320 if you have golden ears).