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I'm bored, let's try it:

I chose three domains, and for each of them, did a whois query from a local terminal then looked them up on Namecheap. All three are domains I can imagine someone registering (i.e. not just keyboard mashing).

They have these SHA1 hashes (echo -n '$domain $salt', all salts are the same string):

3ded27709bfcbba44ce893262f531c595ee82f72

78eb52058b915fde23df7289250146e4a6622a9e*

e5db7a02eec8ce2b351a5955d84cc6daa561a41f*

These three I did not whois first, and only looked up on Namecheap:

8d59b003b9261bbb7f8268d8f56fbebb1574688f

68a87269d6011110c43ec6bb928ca008de4fcb6e

fa636723fb66d2fb4e93b317f185eb058149e53b*

I will check them again sometime tomorrow and report back (and reveal the domains then).

(I have four domains registered with Namecheap, no other allegiances of any sort. I was not logged in while testing this.)

* Edit: Well, this is embarrassing. I posted this, then closed the Termux session on my phone where I was hashing them... without saving the hashes. Apparently that doesn't write to .bash_history. I recovered three of them from memory by brute forcing words I'd used against a list of TLDs. I'll update again if I remember any of the others.

If this sounds incredibly suspicious to you given the entire point of this comment, I don't blame you. I encourage people to try the same experiment on their own anyway, especially sometime when this isn't in the news.

Archive link of this comment from before I edited it: https://web.archive.org/web/20230329003044/https://news.ycom...

In many cases, you can enter any name. Have fun.

Most Americans have never heard of Reading, PA.

And therefore, "fish" is also silent!

The three of these I have done have communicated with me via SMS or email.

My group has gone through a few systems and we still refer to it as a "D&D" group and just understand that as referring to TTRPGs generally. I wonder how many there are like us.

The limit is per depositor * bank, not per account.

I'd point the burden of proof the other way, tbh. I don't see any reason one would be riskier than the other.

Yep. I have a few of them, that I bought specifically because I fell for it. In fairness, they can be configured that way (as an RTSP streaming host that you can directly connect a client to to watch), but the rest of the cloud bullshit stays on unless you firewall it off manually.

Usually you get somewhat more warning than this, though.

I'm an employee of one of these companies and I joined with the knowledge that it might fail, but with plans to bail quickly if it looked like it was heading that direction. Given the current size of the company I joined, I expected that to be on the scale of weeks to months, not two days.

(I do have the funds to deal with some amount of payroll fuckery, and don't plan to immediately do anything unless this gets much worse next week.)

You swapped your two links, btw.

I take no offense to respectfully asked questions, just as a general principle.

I have no idea, though. I've never considered that before, or even heard of it. It's hard for me to comprehend why anyone would care what race they are, but also holds up the hands of a very obviously white person

I see no reason to not let people do whatever makes them happy, though, even if I don't understand it. That's all I ask of other people for gender, no reason I shouldn't extend that courtesy to other people.

I read Kiev with an /ɛ/ sound, and Kyiv with an /ɪ/ sound.

In my head, at least. I've just realized that I haven't needed to verbally refer to this place since I became aware of the renaming. In fact, I don't know that I've ever said either one out loud.

I've seen people using -@ as a suffix in Spanish to cover both the -a and -o forms of gendered words. I have no idea how it's pronounced, and it's probably comically inconvenient in actual use, but I have to admit it looks mildly clever.

(hi, I'm a trans people)

Your understanding is largely right, though I'd expand "look like one gender" to "be perceived and treated as one gender". I regularly confuse the hell out of people with my obviously feminine name and appearance and very deep voice.

> Would gender dysphoria be less of an issue in a society that would not have such gender-assigned roles? Open question for me.

Depends on the person, I think. Many trans people still would. I probably would've just shaved a bunch of body hair off and started wearing skirts and been done with it.

As for pronouns, "he" is just another sound people use to refer to other people. It has no inherent meaning beyond what we ascribe to it. I don't use it because society does ascribe a lot of meaning to it that doesn't apply to me - the same sort of feeling a man would get from being called "she". If genders weren't so much of a thing in society, I can't imagine myself caring nearly as much, though maybe in that world we'd all use the same pronoun anyway.

But there's a whole spectrum of trans people - in the same way you don't really grok dysphoria, I don't really grok e.g. genital dysphoria, so I can't and don't intend to speak for anyone else here.

> At least my [...] Windows licenses are still working—but could the school revoke that access too?

This, at least, is a thing I have never even had to consider as a remote possibility on Linux.

I am the one emacs user who uses it as a text editor and nothing else.

Someone proposed adding telemetry to the compiler. People reacted to this as they usually do to telemetry. Google reacted to this as they usually do to criticism.

From the linked tweet:

> we use bespoke items to ascertain that it didn't see them before

To me, what matters most about the media I consume is my personal emotional response to it. Whether a sentence is generated by an AI or a human, it has an equivalent impact on my feelings.

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For me, at least, the important part of media I consume is how I feel about it. If an AI writes a sentence and a human later writes the same sentence, they have the same effect on me.

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To me, what matters most about the media I consume is how it makes me feel. Whether a sentence is written by an AI or a human, it has the same impact on my emotions.

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I wrote one of these. The other two are ChatGPT's rewording of the same idea, and a second rewording with "try to sound as human as possible". They are in an arbitrary order. Does one of them make you feel different than the other?

That's actually a great example of why I agree with that person.

It is totally reasonable to say "you may use AI tools in this class", or by comparison, "you must do research in this class, here are some ways you can do research, it is not cheating to use Google".

It is a very different thing to require the use of AI tools by someone who can competently write an essay on their own, or to require the use of Google by someone who happens to have a bunch of relevant sources bookmarked. That's moving from "can you do this" to "can you use this specific tool", and away from the actual point of the class.

Another example of this I can remember was requiring specific IDEs for some courses, which invariably led to a quarter of the class time being wasted explaining buttons in a now long-outdated version of Eclipse in excruciating detail, instead of any actual programming concepts or even Java-specific concepts.

> file tabs going somewhere

I'm going to guess this is the "preview" misfeature, where if you open a file in certain ways (e.g. by jumping into it with one of the go-to-something commands) it gets opened in a weird transient state and converted to a normal tab on edit or closed on navigating away. You can turn that off.

Conspiracy theory: their front-running bot also scrapes news sites and automatically stops for a few days if it sees a major story about them, specifically to produce this effect.

(I do not actually believe this.)

Interesting. It's like a piece table[0] but for audio.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_table

Well, you see, I think it's valuable informational content, and therefore anyone who disagrees is objectively wrong.

> as long as they don't depend on the Google services

A surprising and hilarious number of things, including some of Google's own apps, show "X won't work unless you enable Google Play Services" popups and then continue working just fine. (I'm guessing they link against some client library that shows that on all function calls, but then doesn't throw an exception.)

I do not understand how teams work without source control. I don't mean that (only) in the "WTF are you doing, I don't understand why you would do that" colloquial sense. I literally cannot conceive how they work.

Do people just... change files and then email the whole file to the other developers and hope nobody else was working on that file? Do they at least have patches?

If essentially everyone uses it to mean one thing, that's what it means now. That's how definitions work.

This sounds... not actually that much better, just bad in different ways?

Healthcare should be a thing everyone just has by default, not a thing you have to (in practice) get by joining a group that comes with tradeoffs for other parts of your life[0]. I should be able to replace a bad doctor immediately without switching insurance companies or waiting for the rest of my insurance company to vote on it.

[0] Which, yes, is approximately the employer-provided system we have today. This is absolutely not intended as a defense of that disaster.

I've been waiting for a good time to ask this oddly specific question: why does everyone number VLANs 10, 20, 30, etc. instead of 1, 2, 3?