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replooda··on Reddit will require "fishy" accounts to verify they are run by a human
Pretty sure they couldn't care less whether or not those buying into the IPO are human as long as the money is good.
replooda··on [dead]
beharkabashi, you've made us yearn for an article – nay, /the/ article — about the C programming language. Please write it. It doesn't matter how long it takes, as long as you make it worth the wait.
replooda··on Set Your Watches: Elizabeth Holmes Is Leaving Prison in December 2028
"Prosecutors ... argued Holmes is a reoffending risk, pointing out that she has been advising a biotech startup run by her husband Billy Evans from inside prison."
replooda··on The only sane way to use Linux
I really liked your design; not only were the colors to my taste, but, along with the contrast, they were gentle on my eyes; the pixelated font was a nice touch for the code samples as well. On the other hand, while still on accessory matters, I think "Nix: The only sane way to use Linux" would serve you better as a title.

Which brings me to: why Nix, specifically? Wouldn't Guix provide the same benefits — a declarative, reproducible, pinnable system – along with a potentially more pleasant language to code in, namely Scheme?

replooda··on Tar: A slop-free alternative to rsync
You find it ridiculous, you find it ridiculous. But saying it's "extreme" to avoid software and seek alternatives is just absurd.
replooda··on LLM-Tainted Free Software and Alternatives
"Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.

"The intention of this list is to raise awareness of AI/LLM usage in popular open-source software. Provided below is an informed set of AI-free alternatives for users and developers to consider should their ethical boundaries be crossed or tolerance for risk be exceeded. This list is not a resource to be used for the harassment of other open-source developers. If you wish to advocate for the cessation of use and/or removal of AI-generated code from another project, we ask that it be done respectfully and constructively."

replooda··on Tar: A slop-free alternative to rsync
The repo it links to presents their reasons for tracking and potentially avoiding LLM-supported projects; are all of those ridiculous? Is the technology's track record so amazing as to make the conclusion ridiculous? Or did you mean tar as a replacement to rsync, specifically?

[0] https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

replooda··on How do you get your first real users for a trust-based product?
Could you please elaborate? Maybe because I can't shake a tree on HN without some "I've vibe coded a doomsday device" post dropping, the crypto escrow post didn't immediately scream "forever unemployable" at me.
replooda··on No Terms. No Conditions
> 4. Nothing here is guaranteed, including availability, correctness, continuity, or fitness for any purpose.

There you go.

replooda··on Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)
If you ever do, please reply to this with why.
replooda··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'I think we've achieved AGI'
The full title is: "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’. He then seemed to slightly walk back the claim." The very first paragraph says the claim was made, not in some press conference or package, but in the Lex Friedman podcast. So, no, unless we are talking Onion, that's not newsworthy, that's just another wolf crying boy yet again. That's an insult to the intelligence.

As to disconnect and self-serving claims, the latter does go without saying, in that, at this point, it should be clear to everyone that those "warning" about AGI-on-the-next-corner or the LLM-powered doomsday happen to be the ones who profit by the technology's being taken as such; as to the former, anyone outside the "circles" such nincompoops belong to would be fired, if not arrested, for doing about 10% of what they seemingly can't blink without doing.

replooda··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says 'I think we've achieved AGI'
I think he should try surviving on a small-pay job, such as unloading trucks, for a few months, then go back and reavaliate. And mainstream media should stop cosplaying as The Onion whenever one of the clowns says yet another stupidity meant to inflate their stocks.
replooda··on Bangkok rentals extracted from Facebook Groups
Thank you. I hope bangkokprop.com will replace it.
replooda··on As of today, Brazil requires identity verification to use social media
Hasn't it?
replooda··on The Em Dash Conununundrum
> Personally, I use the en dash. It's shorter

But not a replacement. It's meant to represent ranges.

replooda··on Bangkok rentals extracted from Facebook Groups
Is Facebook the go-to place to look for rentals over there? Or generally, elsewhere?
replooda··on Tell HN: YouTube - the "Jewel of the Internet" has faded
And every book has the same cover image — — while many have a cryptic, almost (?) random string for the title — latest ThePrimetime's "XQC_algorithims_v7-final.mp4," after a short stint as "Don't click unless your XQC."
replooda··on Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
I was addressing the concept of developers taking it upon themselves to rewrite the menu (in whatever; React is beside the point) in order not to seem redundant and to pad their résumés.
replooda··on Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI
Come on. Are you an employed developer? If so, even if you have that much power over the flagship product of the company, that you can use it to pad your résumé, do you think the same happens at Microsoft? By all means, the bugs may speak of skill issues (or may not: there's also crunching, mandated AI... Who knows), but the Cloud-first, push-ads, force-account etc. enshittification is the implementation of a vision I doubt was collectively composed by devs, let alone a single dev.
replooda··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
Microsoft Google.
replooda··on First quantum battery developed and tested by Australian researchers
Ohhh, I assumed a paywall. Thank you! What a thoroughly interesting reading that was! Poor Einstein would find all of it preposterous.
replooda··on Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence
Useful. Which saddens my heart.
replooda··on First quantum battery developed and tested by Australian researchers
It doesn't delve into what quantum battery are, unfortunately, other than saying they "leverage properties of quantum mechanics” and "charge faster as they get large" — I'm curious about the practical implications of the latter, should the technology become ubiquitous. Still, quite interesting.
replooda··on Users hate it, but age-check tech is coming
What really hurts is that, ultimately, the initiative derives from and serves the interests of the Island Man Class.
replooda··on Have a fucking website
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=9jtiw721RAg
replooda··on As of today, Brazil requires identity verification to use social media
Honestly, it's Brazil. Anything goes. Minister gets mad at Musk? Twitter is blocked, daily USD 10k fine for users circumventing the block. So, despite what you've just read, Canonical was included in their list of companies which need to comply. [0] In short, who knows. I'd say they might have a less dishonest case against Mastodon instances than Ubuntu, though.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387548

replooda··on As of today, Brazil requires identity verification to use social media
And I've translated its definition of "likely access" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338260
replooda··on Kagi Translate
Related: Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47408703

replooda··on Have a fucking website
"Millenniales delendi sunt." Now, write it out a hundred times. If it's not done by sunrise...
replooda··on Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
We don't need to contribute to word inflation. There's "really hard," there's "nearly impossible," there's even "impossible – as far as we know." I don't think it shows a lack of pragmatism to assume a technological claim, made by a technology company, should't be taken at face value. On the contrary, I'd advise more pragmatism to anyone failing to disregard an "unhackable" claim made by Microsoft specially even after fixnum years without known exploits.
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