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cuttysnark··on I dumped Apple’s word list
But how does it work in practice? Say someone put a new adult site online right now that’s some random .com - how quickly and by what mechanism is this block list updated? Seems like mainstream sites that are established and/or big enough to care about being taken down would be compliant and easy to block.

And this is just DNS I assumed unless also keep a record of which ip addresses they actually resolve to.

To be clear I’m interested from the technology perspective and not advocating our UK friends evade government pr0n censors as a form of political protest…

cuttysnark··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
Venn’s first name was John, not Ben. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram

cuttysnark··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
Q: “Who won the 2020 election?” A: “I’m not a biologist”
cuttysnark··on Epic Games Inc v Apple Inc
It makes sense in that someone has rightfully pointed out there’s a prison and the door might be opening soon, allowing us to leave and the response was essentially “well, it’s safe here, who else could we reasonably trust?”

How is that unlike developing an attachment to/sympathy for your captors?

cuttysnark··on Wood Tape (2004)
Enjoying reading this, even the yeast. The hardware store trip in particular though was a bit much with the tug-on-the-apron of the worker who was in the middle of helping someone else. Dad missed an opportunity to teach about being polite and “waiting your turn” because he was so committed to the hands-off approach and the “entertainment” of it.
cuttysnark··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
The more sensible thing would be to link to any example of any lab anywhere offering enterprise solutions—with the opportunity to negotiate—to individuals.

People are confused at your take because it’s based on a reality that so far you’ve only described as the better/obvious option for individuals. Companies treat corp customers and individual customers differently. This isn’t new.

My company did negotiate the data policy amongst other things for our enterprise plan, I was involved in the process. I can say with certainty that they’re not picking up the phone for _one dude_ who wants the same thing.

cuttysnark··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
It’s weed. A whole cohort of people and kids are no longer drinking alcohol (like they did) or never really started because THC and/or CBD is now legal in vapes, gummies, drinks.

I visited Charleston and was surprised they’ve only legalized THC insofar as THC drinks are available at bars. But a lot of the young people were drinking cans of it instead of spiked seltzer, which was the only alcohol anyone was holding. No beer, no wine.

Similarly: they all were smoking computers—not a single analog cigarette in sight. Tobacco farmers in shambles?

cuttysnark··on My life was changed by four sentences in four books
There’s a huge gap and missing inspirational book sentence between “doing music and nothing else”, the proceeds of which bought a house, and selling a tech company for tens of millions.

The real cliffhanger was the part where he almost fell into successful serial entrepreneurial pursuits, but a book purchased as a joke warned him he’d better not.

cuttysnark··on Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology
Sounds like your relationship is suffering. If it’s as you describe, in my eyes, that counts as broken.

Do you have any biological children? This child is not yours, you made that sufficiently clear.

cuttysnark··on The Citizen Developer
Culinary hats serve the important purpose of helping catch stray hairs, not unlike a hairnet.
cuttysnark··on This blog is written in en-GB
I experienced this. I only lived in the U.K. for 6 months, but the number of chiefly British phrases/words/idioms that nestled their way into my way of speaking and stayed (20+ years on) was interesting and somewhat surprising.

For example, I never said "supposed to" again — "meant to" has always sounded and felt so much better. Similarly, "can't be bothered/asked" often exactly describes the situation in a way that "I don't want to" seemingly can't.

I'd also like to add "bum bag" v. "fanny pack" was a valuable lesson and a memorable laugh.

cuttysnark··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
I've had some success with local models by chaining "agents" together in a workflow. Each agent has a different prompt and uses a different ollama model based on what their role is. The project manager, schema agent(qwen3:14b), etc. doesn't use the same model as the coding agent (qwen2.5-coder:7b). Between each step is an orchestrator and with a Playwright task which attempts to surface errors to the agent who introduced the previous code block. Only error-free blocks are forwarded to the next workflow step.

Probably the biggest improvement was including a backend-for-agents service definition which instructed the schema agent they were to only produce only a manifest based on the task, and to pass off that off to the next agent.

In short, I split tasks up into many pieces by defining a workflow where agents are only allowed to do very specific things before their work is passed along. This keeps them grounded and capable while also creating places for me to intervene if a workflow was say 25% or 90% successful.

cuttysnark··on A bookmarklet to kill sticky headers (2013)
Since then we've gotten: position: sticky — which is like fixed but only "fixes" itself once its Y offset is satisfied. Updating the bookmarklet to also check for that, in addition to position: fixed would help modernize it a bit.
cuttysnark··on Trump orders release of last JFK, RFK, King assassination files
Comments decrying or dismissing the disclosure to the public of long-hoarded information is saying that, IMO, and that's the joke. It sounds like a point no reasonable person would make. "there's too much going on right now for this long-awaited transparency" has got to be the silliest thing I've heard on HN in a while.
cuttysnark··on Trump orders release of last JFK, RFK, King assassination files
"No, don't finally release the top-secret files that have had a huge impact on our culture and have led to decades of confusion, distrust in government, and wild conspiracy theories."

..said no one, ever.

cuttysnark··on jQuery UI
> Afaik bootstrap is getting replaced by tailwind.

By whom? Not by me.

> Which is actually pleasure to work with.

Have you heard of jQueryUI, by chance?

cuttysnark··on jQuery UI
> Something's not right there.

I agree. To me, TWBS is just a collection of intuitive components that have been tested vigorously. They also function in a way that way people are used to because of their lineage. That they can be styled in a way that makes them not look stock...ices the cakes.

cuttysnark··on jQuery UI
jQuery got the Nickelback treatment. Except I really did enjoy using jQuery, and only moved on because "the industry" was and I didn't want to be left behind.

Looking back now, we all were lead down a path of needless complexity. Even thought I'd never use jQuery or jQueryUI professionally now, I still have a voice in the back of my mind that will pop up every now and then to say "well, if it's not gonna be complex or long-lived..." when something calls for a quick UI.

I feel this way about Bootstrap and maybe now am old enough that I don't care if it upsets other developers.

cuttysnark··on Autism's Four Core Subtypes
Saying it out loud made it click. Thank you.
cuttysnark··on Autism's Four Core Subtypes
> it's a little heavy on the ass

I hadn't heard this idiom before so I looked it up and I couldn't find anything relevant. What does this phrase mean in this context?

cuttysnark··on How Uber tests payments in production
cc: 4242424242424242

cvc: 424

exp: 2/4/24

Fond memories of speed-running the checkout flow in Stripe sandbox.

cuttysnark··on Slingcode – App platform in a single HTML file, QR-code transmittable apps
I'm in love, I didn't know I wanted this, and now here it is. With an explanation from the author that touched on things I was feeling but couldn't quite but into words. To ice the cake, saved the file to disk and ran it with WiFi off, just to see. Sure enough, it's all in there, self-contained with no fetched dependencies.

One caveat being that in the file:// protocol URL params don't work e.g. ?app=c53f8e9f-4b7a-4315-bb8a-f6557f6be30b

This is fixed by running a local webserver, which isn't a huge deal. I'd be happy to learn of an easier way.

Thanks for sharing this.

cuttysnark··on Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay
From where I'm standing, it looks like when Dorsey was CEO, leftist accounts got more leniency and were more likely to not be banned after being reported for offenses—be them legitimate or not; this was the opposite for accounts on the other end of the spectrum. When Musk took over, this phenomenon was completely and totally inverted. IMO.
cuttysnark··on Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick
While I tend to agree with your sentiment, this particular project resurrects bricked-by-corporate e-waste—I'd call that a win.

Plus, let's have fun while we can. On the next planet, cameras will be recyclable, limited to 12 holographic shots, and wrapped in humble cardboard. You'll have to take it to the local colony druggist for developing. Perhaps you'll browse Earth Imports section while you wait.

cuttysnark··on Sam Altman is not on YC's board. So why claim to be its chair?
That mistake is that it's not true. Altman has earned a name for himself in the truth-telling/transparency department. He wasn't briefly sacked for his fashion sense.

In the article they quote Marc Fagel, who previously served as the regional director for the SEC's office in San Francisco:

"Misstating the qualifications of executives is something the SEC takes seriously,"

cuttysnark··on Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes
>karma: 9533

With respect, you're asking me why I care about a feature you have that I don't—that's only achievable by getting more points.

The candid answer: because I take it personally (which is my own fault).

cuttysnark··on Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes
I accidentally corrected someones use of a word on here and got downvoted so hard I was scared to comment for months. I guess what I'm saying is I'm surprised this very honest comment from hours ago never went grey. to be clear: I am just surprised.
cuttysnark··on Students invent quieter leaf blower
In the video, we see the students briefly rotating the model in the CAD software—with translucency on—it looks like the one main stream is divided into many spiral chambers which then exit distributed along the rim of the attachment's opposite side.

With that in mind, I wonder how much, if at all, the reduction would be if the entire nozzle were designed this way, instead of just the end bit.

cuttysnark··on Designing furniture using the CSS grid (2023)
This is very cool. Discovered Ctrl+Option+F produces a florin 'ƒ' [on my machine] and the format function key-combo check is Ctrl+Option + regular ol' 'f'. Forked it and added the || 'f' and am now using this tool to organize lasercut jobs—on MDF, no less :) Thanks for sharing!
cuttysnark··on Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?
Have a look at SiteSucker[0] - an app that essentially lets you input a url and it will suck all the locally linked files/images etc. into a folder. Once you have the "guts" of the site, you can move it, grep it, edit and update it as needed. Given this appears to be a static site, you could even just open index.html in the browser (file:/// protocol) locally without having to spin up webserver while you develop.

This is the path of least resistance and perhaps the easier route versus rebuilding from scratch for a modern platform—which is also a different price tag. IMO, sucking the static site out without needing to deal with Dreamweaver on an old machine might be reason enough.

I'm not doubting the Dreamweaver claim, but I don't see any of the stink of a site generator—it looks rather simple and handwritten—doesn't even have the generator meta tag listing Dreamweaver—I wonder if Dreamweaver was only used for the FTP interface/connection to upload the files to Webhero.

My TL;DR Advice:

  1. Gain access to the old laptop only to get the FTP upload details/credentials for Webhero. 
  2. Use SiteSucker to get the whole website into a local folder on your machine.
  3. Make changes/updates by editing the files.
  4. Deploy by FTP Upload to Webhero.
[0]- https://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/index.html
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