eterps

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eterpson New branding, same scanning: Upload moderation undermines end-to-end encryption [pdf]

I'm wondering if this proposal is enforced, and you opt out, how would it be known whether you're sending someone a URL? How would a URL even be distinguished from other text when you have opted out?

I suppose you could detect some patterns, and it definitely wouldn't be clickable. But is the text google.com considered a URL for example? I guess it isn't?

(yeah I know, it's a stupid law anyway, but just wondering)

eterpson Introduction to the Odin Programming Language

In my opinion, Odin is the most Pascal-like language with C-like syntax.

eterpson Code Finder – The ultimate search engine for GitHub repositories

This could be really useful if it searched other code forges as well.

It would increase visibility for projects that don't want to use GitHub as a host for their code.

Most open source projects are completely dependent on Microsoft for their visibility.

eterpson Demystifying NPUs: Questions and Answers

I'm also wondering if such an NPU can be targeted (in a way that can be understood) from the assembly/machine language level. Or that it needs an opaque kitchen sink of libraries, blobs and other abstractions.

eterpson Show HN: OpenRecall FOSS alternative to Microsoft's new Recall feature

    > I see strong potential in this feature

Can you elaborate on what potential you're seeing? As a typical HN user (in my case a software engineer), I have difficulty imagining in which ways it could be useful (especially on a platform like Linux for example).

This is an honest question, not criticism.

eterpson OpenRecall

I can imagine a lot of developers are living mostly in the terminal and browser. Wouldn't it be much more efficient to integrate on that level instead of taking screenshots?

eterpson OpenRecall

Regardless whether you'd want to use something like this, in which cases could it be useful?

eterpson Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party Lose EU Parliament Seats

> people still think they are single issue

Changing the name of the party would help a great deal IMO

eterpson Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

> they just can't provide an automated means to do that for you

What I'm wondering is whether two separate applications can be set up to communicate automatically, with one handling messaging and the other being responsible for encrypting and decrypting the data.

What would be against the law in that case? The messaging app? The encryption app? Or the interaction you are doing in that moment?

eterpson After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL

    > Data fetching and the N+1 problem
    > [...] if a field resolver hits an external data source such as a DB or HTTP API, and
    > it is nested in a list containing N items, it will do those calls N times

Why is this considered a problem regardless of the situation at hand?

F.e. using REST, if the nested list contains on average N-2 items that can be efficiently cached, wouldn't that be better than having the cache constantly invalidated on the aggregation of the parent and its items?

eterpson Writing a Unix clone in about a month

For example, in the past Amiga computers had a 'GPU' (although much less powerful than todays GPUs) with a stable interface. It was a first class citizen in its OS. It also was incredibly easy to target in Assembly language.

eterpson Writing a Unix clone in about a month

That wouldn't be too hard if GPU's would have a stable interface. Try programming a GPU in Assembly language and see how that goes. The experience sucks, but that's the level that needs to be targeted in case of an OS.

eterpson Writing a Unix clone in about a month

Would love to read a blog post about that.

eterpson Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years

I also think it's bewildering when people say things like that. Are they thinking that humans are incapable of causing climate change no matter what they do? Or that we are currently not in trouble and fine for decades/centuries to come?

eterpson Rust for Fsharpers and F# for Rustaceans

This is also useful: https://v4.chriskrycho.com/exploring-four-languages.html

eterpson Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes

I use the Markor app from F-Droid. The notes are plain text or markdown files in a folder that is synced to my desktops using Syncthing. It felt incredibly liberating once I got this setup working.

eterpson Zooming User Interface (ZUI)

The Oberon version in Wirth's book doesn't have a zooming interface. But the variant of Oberon called 'Bluebottle' does.

eterpson Infant microbes and metabolites point to childhood neurodevelopmental disorders

> and other environmental toxins (PFAS and other endocrine disruptors [1]) matter – but they can be detoxified over time via some fairly safe and non-invasive techniques.

What techniques are you referring to?

eterpson The floppy disk music scene

This would probably work well with LoFi black metal.

eterpson How Programming Languages Got Their Names

Erlang, also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agner_Krarup_Erlang

eterpson The EU Wants Its Own DNS Resolver That Can Block 'Unlawful' Traffic,TorrentFreak

The most used third-party options include Google, Cloudflare, OpenDNS and Norton, which are all US-based. This large foreign footprint has the EU worried.

This is understandable but the integration of government, DNS, and particularly blocking is a controversial intersection of concepts.

eterpson Permutation City (1994)

> Egan's short stories are great [...] I've never been huge fan of his long form novels

Same here, I love his short stories!

IMO short form works better for him because there's so much to think about, even after having finished reading a story.

If someone needs a pointer on where to start I can recommend this thread: https://redlib.freedit.eu/r/printSF/comments/x1i4bj/greg_ega...

I especially enjoyed:

  - The Safe-Deposit Box
  - Into Darkness

eterpson How Programming Languages Got Their Names

The information provided in the literature on Oberon contradicts this claim. Furthermore, the moon is depicted on the covers of some books about it.

eterpson How Programming Languages Got Their Names

Pascal: named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

Oberon: named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(moon)

Ada: named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

Eiffel: named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Eiffel

Sather: named afer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sather_Tower

Nim: named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod

Erlang (Ericsson language): named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson

eterpson Command line interface guidelines (2021)

The most comprehensive CLI guidelines in the past have been in this book by Eric Raymond:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/104745.The_Art_of_UNIX_P...

https://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/

It has been a while since I read that book, but after skimming through clig.dev I gather opinions have changed over time quite a bit.

eterpson Juice – Oberon JIT browser plugin (1996)

I remember that difference as well. It's a shame it didn't take off.

eterpson Juice – Oberon JIT browser plugin (1996)

There's nothing preventing you to use a Result type in Oberon. Just not as a fancy algebraic data type, but rather as a regular record/struct type.

eterpson Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim

Ah, I didn't know that. Thanks, I'll check it out.

eterpson Neovide – A simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim

I am not too impressed by its features. The most useful thing to have would be mouse hover support (f.i. for showing LSP based info).

eterpson Getting fitter can reduce prostate cancer risk by 35%, study finds

So, 45 minutes per day?