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foul··on I deleted my social media accounts
Make them include the full post in feed.
foul··on Obvious things C should do
Not again, not another D thread noooooooooooooooooo (i'm joking)
foul··on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS
There has to be a ChromeOS good enough for the US military complex (and only available for AWS, GAE, Tencent) to see Microsoft worried. All they're doing is showering MS with cash working with Microsoft sanctioned APIs.
foul··on Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise
It's justified when the committee is large enough and regulated enough?
foul··on Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State
Every character in this story used mostly internal tools plus I don't know the rules in NCSU, but the reactions around his issues look like weirdly huge. "Retired" at 63?
foul··on Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State
> Which people? The Europeans were occupied or liberated under effectively caretaker governments.

They were occupied but they weren't entirely busy: while "low" people were happy to kill ex-Nazi collaborators themselves, it's the post-war governments (all of them, USA's included) who needed, with those trials, to manifest a re-establishment of the rule of law once again. 80 years later we can see it's been a hypocrite farce in every part of it, but it saved lives, those that were worth of living, although spared Nazis, fascists and sometimes communists too.

foul··on A “meta-optics” camera that is the size of a grain of salt
How would someone detect sensors so small?

How would someone excrete an array of these cameras if ingested?

foul··on Show HN: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table
A query on very ugly tables will count 26 thousands occurrences of the apostrophe, I love it
foul··on Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux
https://github.com/eudev-project/eudev

https://github.com/elogind/elogind

foul··on Why systemd is a problem for embedded Linux
Meh, we are not in 2021 or 2018 anymore.

Eudev and elogind ARE mantained and used in voidlinux and gentoo, and anyways being that embedded it doesn't seem clear to me where would the "hard dependency of a very essential software on some systemd-thingd" happen.

foul··on Marketing the Odin programming language is weird
> import os;proc main = (let file = paramstr(1);(for line in file.lines:(echo line; if line == "": return)))

Yeah, bliss-style, you know in docs it isn't made clear that that works but i sensed that would.

> Random thought: it shouldn't be too hard to write a formatting tool that translates braces to indentation and vice versa. But I have yet to see a project like this for Nim.

It's a hour-long "project" if you don't care about how to treat pragma annotations. I did just that.

foul··on Marketing the Odin programming language is weird
I love everything Nim but that. Spaces-only indentation forces you to write with an at least mediocre code editor and that's a gripe, for the rest it's just me that i'm C-brain-damaged, i even wrote an awk preprocessor for writing multi-line blocks with curly braces delimitation. I don't recommend my habits as the right way, they are probably the wrongest of ways.
foul··on Marketing the Odin programming language is weird
>And before people say: “Odin’s ‘killer feature’ is that it has none”, how the heck do you market that? That seems like an anti-marketing feature.

Correct me if i'm wrong but it seems to me that there are Zig, Nim, Dart, Carbon, C3, ooc, (maybe Eiffel?) too in this space, and that only counting C/C++ replacements that you can compile in a way or another.

foul··on Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users
Not my fault if the whole world bought the "openness" bullshit and then built cable-TV-with-mouse.

If that guy makes money with that and has an issue with the Great Firewall Of America, there's a (bad) solution.

foul··on SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027
Also we assume no MITM when updating the ca-cert thing on OSes.
foul··on SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027
The only difference between them is liability.
foul··on SSL certificate lifetimes are going down. Dates proposed. 45 days by 2027
The networked environment of today is rapidly phasing-out anything not passing through big bulky systems (most of the time these are for-profit firms). While we wait for the moment one of them (like Let's Encrypt or Sectigo or some BS from FAANGs) will become a SPoF and mess up services anywhere, you can always roll a private CA, use SSH tunnels or SOCKS proxies.
foul··on The Static Site Paradox
It's a good starting point. Quite late at the game after strattic, cache plugins and offloading queries on sqlite, let's see when and how will they play out with unavoidable interaction parts like contact forms.
foul··on The Static Site Paradox
> Weird as it might be, it's not a great mystery why that is: it's easier to spin up a Wordpress blog than it is to figure out by yourself all the intermediate steps

Or you could just use publii, an office suite of your choice, or type bad html and css by hand, then pass raw files on very cheap hosting providers, enjoying a clunky, and sometimes ugly, "website".

The industry for this use-case works on looks and discoverability: the dichotomy of the WP big bloated piece of crap vs static clown generators stands upon having a pretty website which is also functional for Google. Any other alternative (like the builders or the directories) works the same but they also forfeit property of the site from client. It's just because these solutions are pretty for cheap, it's fast fashion.

foul··on Experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing
>Yes, it's sometimes good to know how you ended up somewhere, but I think what's most valuable about "research" is the synthesis part — grabbing parts of larger wholes, rearranging, recombining, thinking with the material. A small step in this direction could be persisting scroll position or maybe selection, and making the history editable — allowing users to remove dead ends, add notes, etc.

I need to know how this guy will escape the curse of reimplementing a less-VR version of XanaduSpace over HTTPS. Will search his RSS.

foul··on Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd
>But what is the excuse to start from scratch?

Red Hat FOSS system software is imposing foss-ified client work to the general public. The cloud industry benefited greatly from their work, the other users are involved in a multi-decade flamewar.

foul··on Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd
In json, with their baked in schema, I think that someone may encode a DEC64[1] number as... string, array, or whatever.

[1] https://www.crockford.com/dec64.html

foul··on Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd
Being simplistic is a leitmotiv of the project, at least someone in the post-GNOME cabal stopped reinventing the wheel.
foul··on Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd
It's probably the first time in 14 years of systemd I appreciate a technical choice coming from the systemd team.

It's a small format, it has limited pitfalls, it's fast to marshal and unmarshal (and with simd gets even more fast), it's deflate-friendly, would performance be an issue they can pack that through CBOR or msgpack or what-have-you.

foul··on Italian Music Through the Lens of Complex Networks
In the context OP evokes when he says "Maroccolo" (90s and 00s) I would have said Bubola in place of Maroccolo!
foul··on Italian Music Through the Lens of Complex Networks
Wow it's the first time that I don't know part of what i'm talking about and i'm still right...

MySpace is mostly erased (prominent Italian musicians for some music waves of the 00s and 10s were there), some sites are erased, what pertains to radio and television is mostly not indexed on the public internet and there's significant digital divide between genres. In the Italian context, you'd end with a weird pantheon of rock, rap and popstars and not much else left, in conclusion you would... expunge significant artists and whole genres from results.

foul··on Italian Music Through the Lens of Complex Networks
You can't have a correct vision of Italian music (staying only on that subsubsubcategory) of the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s like that, at very best you'd end up ignoring significant artists and whole genres.
foul··on Reader-LM: Small Language Models for Cleaning and Converting HTML to Markdown
When does this SML perform better than hxdelete (or xmlstarlet or whatever) + rdrview + pandoc?
foul··on Htmx, Raku and Pico CSS
That's for sure, for example any blog software (a few SSGs included) is a failure for WWW and for itself (most of the interaction between author and reader must be mediated with third-party or big cloud to avoid spam and scam).
foul··on Htmx, Raku and Pico CSS
Commercial-grade applications need some grade of offline operativity that classic HATEOAS can't provide, often target users who won't learn or can't really use a web browser (tabs, back button, extensions, bookmarks besides whatever they can fit in the bar, etc), often want to give a UX which abuses and deforms a web browser by design. Yeah, FE engineers may all look like dumbasses with macbooks (i don't think this of them!), but they have real problems to solve.
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