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jonatron··on Em Dash in Reddit Comments, Interactive
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jonatron··on Em Dash in Reddit Comments
Looks like it auto-corrects -- to — https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2017/7/6/dash-dash-it-all from iOS 11
jonatron··on Em Dash in Reddit Comments
Thanks, although it's annoying to access from the UK.
jonatron··on Em Dash in Reddit Comments
Thanks, looks good! You should submit it
jonatron··on Em Dash in Reddit Comments
Hopefully someone else can use the CSV to make a graph that isn't terrible
jonatron··on Django: what’s new in 6.0
I'm of the opinion that django task apps should only support a single backend. For example, django-rq for redis only. There's too many differences in backends to make a good app that can handle multiple. That said, I've only used celery in production before, and I'm willing to change my mind.
jonatron··on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop
I think you missed the last paragraph.
jonatron··on Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today
I was in school and automated some MTurk HITs to make a small amount of money.
jonatron··on I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
This sort of comment is great - it's good to know if the tech situation changes, which you could call Hacker News
jonatron··on I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
In the category of SBC's, it's pretty much the only one that has good software support, not outdated images made with a bunch of kernel patches for a specific kernel version.
jonatron··on Anandtech.com now redirects to its forums
If I look at another tech site that stopped publishing, but where the content going back to year 2000 is still online [1], there's very little human traffic, vast majority is bot traffic.

[1] https://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/132-amd-duron-850/

jonatron··on Figma files for proposed IPO
I wrote a little about it, because it's more complicated than "a trademark": https://jonatron.github.io/randomstuff/trademark/fig.html
jonatron··on Telephone Exchanges in the UK
No, it was just a normal BT exchange in Suffolk
jonatron··on Telephone Exchanges in the UK
I visited an exchange back in 2009, when Local loop unbundling (LLU) on ADSL was big, and fibre was limited to large business and datacentres. The huge generator was probably more interesting than the racks of concentrators. I'm not sure how much battery back-up power time the new PON systems have, I assume less than a generator backed system.
jonatron··on They Were Diagnosed with Autism as Adults. It Has Changed Their Lives
https://archive.is/om2zX
jonatron··on I just want to serve 5 terabytes [video]
Text to speech has improved a lot since then.
jonatron··on It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit
At what sort of scale can you do that? $1M, $10M, $100M, $1B?
jonatron··on Plain – a web framework for building products with Python
Django-tasks seems to be moving very slowly, it doesn't have database indexes yet. If you look at the problems with Celery: https://steve.dignam.xyz/2023/05/20/many-problems-with-celer... and the complicated compatibility matrix https://docs.celeryq.dev/projects/kombu/en/main/introduction... , task queues are still a pain point.
jonatron··on Blasting Past WebP - An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMessage exploit
Thank you, I spent a few minutes failing to google this.
jonatron··on AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites
They were only requesting the HTML, not using a headless browser.
jonatron··on AI crawlers haven't learned to play nice with websites
It didn't seem to matter what response I sent to PerplexityBot, the requests kept coming. I guess it's not surprising that a badly written bot isn't monitored either.
jonatron··on uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users
Faster.
jonatron··on uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users
You may be overestimating the amount of time it takes to switch to uv.
jonatron··on AMD YOLO
Or in Hong Kong.
jonatron··on What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox
Both Radisson and Marriott work for me. I guess my IP address has a better reputation?
jonatron··on What, if anything, should I do about using Mozilla's Firefox
I built Firefox from source recently, it took under 15 mins to compile on a 7800X3D.
jonatron··on Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act
The company no longer exists and it doesn't make any money so it isn't worth anything.
jonatron··on Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act
It already has moderators. But they'd need to know the details about the 17 types of illegal harm too. And someone would have to submit a yearly risk assessment and contact information to the regulator. And there's a children's access assessment. And there'd need to be a complaints procedure. Oh and a children's risk assessment. Plus whatever else is contained within the hundreds or thousands of pages of guidance.
jonatron··on Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act
HEXUS stopped publishing in 2021, and the company no longer exists. The forums were kept because they don't take much work to keep online. Now, there's a lot of work to do, like reading hundreds of pages of documents and submitting risk assessments. There's nobody to do that work now, so the idea was it could go into read only mode. The problem with that was, some users may want their data deleted if it becomes read only. Therefore, the only option is to delete it.
jonatron··on Detecting Noise in Canvas Fingerprinting
The purpose is important, if my fingerprint is used to detect fraud (eg my browser has just tried 100 other credit cards), I'm less bothered than if cloudflare are reading my fingerprint then blocking me viewing a web page for no good reason.
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