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terminalbraidon IRCv3

This, which is not uniform across servers, and has more work if you want to do certificate-based auth. Additionally getting a nick cloak is good opsec and also extremely not uniform.

terminalbraidon IRCv3

> A focussed effort to get Matrix working

At what point do we say matrix isn't going to work? It's been like this for years. It's so overengineered on an immutable chat history on a blockchain it has crossed the line into "way too expensive to run and maintain for streams of cat pictures and memes". Worse is better.

terminalbraidon IRCv3

You might be surprised to learn there are dedicated ftp clients.

terminalbraidon IRCv3

Yeah, but the major upgrades for things like telnet and ftp were adding appropriate encryption layers and improved authentication to include things like certificates. IRC shoehorned those into the connections awkwardly but it's still not often mandatory and registration is painful.

Also usenet is still very popular but mostly used for file sharing.

terminalbraidon Bitwarden Dual License Model

keepassxc works across any major platform, mobile platforms have keepass2android and KeePassium. You don't have to run your own server, but you do need some type of file sharing system to keep them synced. I personally run a webdav share on a vps with some sync scripts to keep a backup on devices otherwise. OneDrive, google drive, dropbox, and others work.

Also protonpass.

terminalbraidon Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

Neutrinos are not an analog to sound in the point you are trying to make. They are many orders of magnitude more weakly interacting and much, much difficult to measure.

terminalbraidon Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen

Why? They gave that out already.

terminalbraidon Apple and a hacker's future

> Because people will shoot themselves in the foot if you give them a shotgun.

Correct. This is why gun safety is taught. Try and bring up banning shotguns in the US and see what happens.

terminalbraidon Apple and a Hacker's Future

The author themselves say "I am admittedly being pedantic here" to that point.

terminalbraidon Apple and a hacker's future

Why does Apple need to protect anyone from themselves? This is the problem with commercial vendors creeping in computing freedom. It is exactly this mentality that people shouldn't be the ones responsible for the hardware and software they own and operate which erodes that freedom.

terminalbraidon Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

Roku-being-sued-for-illegally-collecting-and-selling-children's-data Roku?

terminalbraidon Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

You might be shocked to learn how "society" has been forged over history.

terminalbraidon OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'

Of course. Say something bad about Elon and see what happens.

terminalbraidon I said no and Apple said yes

> and have enough Linux know how to fix the occasional hick up

> but it can sometimes "just work" for a long time without any issues

These are defining qualities of something that does not "just work"

terminalbraidon I don't like passkeys

Google gives you no guarantee of service for your account. They could arbitrarily decide to lock you out for any reason and you have literally no recourse.

terminalbraidon I don't like passkeys

Email and SMS are not reasonable and both have an extraordinary number of flaws.

terminalbraidon Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

I quit OpenAI anything early when when their "do not train on my data" option was broken for several weeks. They are my one and only chargeback when I tried to quit and oops somehow I still got billed.

They are a deeply unethical company by any measure of observation.

terminalbraidon Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

That doesn't rule out "dark matter having other interactions which do not interfere with our detectors" Dark sector theories which include other dark particles or new particle interactions are not controversial amongst cosmologists in this space. For example there's a whole area of study around "dark photons" which would mix with our photons and interact with dark matter.

terminalbraidon It's Not the End of Programming

I can't tell if this is ironic or not.

terminalbraidon We never use AI. For anything

> If someone offered a whole team of devs in India for an unknown number of months basically for free, one would be a fool to turn that down even knowing it wouldn't last forever. Claude etc feels like the same kinda deal.

I've made a lot of money fixing software where people paid for those offshore teams and they would have been better off having not done that and writing maintainable software from the start. They were fools paying for it and they still would have been fools if it had been free.

terminalbraidon A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been

What is it you think "nepotism" means?

terminalbraidon Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle

The paper claims directly "the rate of degradation over time remains unsatisfactorily unpredictable" but you are claiming the authors do not understand or are unaware of the point you are making?

terminalbraidon Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code

> The GPL doesn’t require them to provide the sources to the world;

I don't see how this is relevant. The people making the request are within those boundaries. The rest is moot. The spirit of the GPL is that graphene is entitled to the GPLd source in some way and google must reasonably comply.

terminalbraidon What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?

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terminalbraidon People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more

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terminalbraidon Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

Chromium being open source is not a mistake. Letting google be the sole driver and not forking it has been. People who want control over their browsers have options. It's a fight because most people don't care about these things.

terminalbraidon Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

They have control over what they distribute. Chromium and Firefox are both open source and people can (and should) use derivatives they find acceptable.

terminalbraidon Atomic Clocks

> Yeah but more deeply time is a property of the universe that the clock including atomic clocks are tracking.

I'll quote Einstein who said "time is what the clock says".

terminalbraidon Atomic Clocks

First, that claim is patently false. Two objects with size accelerating directly towards each other (i.e. zero orbital angular momentum hence zero "orbit") will produce waves. A moving object will produce detectable changes in gravity so arguing about "waves" in the context of atomic clocks detecting gravity is irrelevant.