bitofhope

One step away from only being able to choose among chatbot-generated posts, two steps from a social network consisting only of bots replying to each other.

Reminds me of a Žižek bit where he describes his ideal date. He brings his ~~Stamina Training Unit~~ motorized ~~onahole~~ pocket pussy and she brings her vibrator dildo. While the machines perform the mechanically perfect and virtually tireless deed of ideal techno-sex, he and his partner can indulge in the intellectual stimulation of conversation with thair date without the performance anxieties involved in the deed.

'OK, we've accepted "True" to refer to an arbitrary entity denoted as "#t" and "False" to refer to an arbitrary entity denoted as "()" which is the result when evaluating "'()" as defined by the earlier clauses. Let the record state in the form of a comment that the judge would like to appeal to the supreme compiler that the concept of precedent/dependency be reinstated in the judiciary process so that every law not be recompiled by hand during every single trial.'

Complimentary joke keyword for sneerful programmers: lex

It also sounds like katala, which means "wicked" or "devious" in Finnish.

Well IRC doesn't support rich text at all. Even I can admit some text formatting can be a nice feature sometimes. The "disguised link" issue applies to any medium that allows posting formatted hyperlinks like this: https://example.com/

Allowing this kind of formatting for the link cards seems like an odd choice, and seems to stem from reusing the component for other media embeds. Ultimately it's just an extension of the same principle. With sufficient formatting, you can obfuscate or spoof your hyperlinks. You could argue that the link preview card feature itself is superfluous and not having it at all would help mitigate the issue. The latter part is true, but you need to consider that some people seem to actually want link previews. It's a staple feature for IRC bots, too.

It's true that these oversights make it easier to sneak malicious content in your posts and that presents a legitimate security issue. But I think it's also true that posting a disguised malicious link is trivial in any social media platform. It's an issue inherent to the way the web is structured. I would consider these pretty minor as far as security flaws are considered.

My other feelings about Bluesky as a project aside, I'm sympathetic to them on this one. The presented issues straddle the line between a bug and a feature and at least they're promising mitigations. A noncommittal reply four days later is better than what many companies would give. I'm not commending them for handling this especially well, but I don't think it's TechTakes level bad.

Same here. I've tried to learn OpenGL multiple times, but keep getting distracted by the boilerplate and my distaste for C++isms.

The nice thing about stuff like 8-bit Game Boy programming or TempleOS is a sense of immediacy. You can put pixels on the screen with just a few lines of code in a way that keeps you motivated to try more, at least relatively speaking.

Reminds me of one of my all-time favorites: Snorpung's Oh! (Video, Another on real hardware)^1^

Of course, the Atari 2600 (née VCS) makes even the venerable DMG look like a spaceship^2^. The sound chip can't even reproduce a full 12-tone equal temperament scale without complicated tricks and the base box has 128 bytes of RAM available. One eighth of a kibibyte. I probably know people who can hold more than that in their head while doing mental math.

Compare the Bad Apple port on the 2600's close relative, the 800 series 8-bit micro to see what fully tricked-out $1000 box from 1979 can do compared to the humble VCS, a $190 box from 1977.

Kind of considering posting a Bad Apple demo megathread. That's a fun rabbit hole to dive into, but I'm not sure if there's audience here that's interested yet doesn't already know all about it.

1: I love all Snorpung's Game Boy demos, but this old one is the one that made me fall in love with the DMG.

2: Indeed, the DMG features a 4 MHz CPU and 8K working RAM, roughly double the Apollo guidance computer's 2 MHz 15-bit CPU and two Kwords of RAM.

If they have a full room to themselves, a DC might let them fuck around without supervision. There's no way I would let them into the structural/electrical bits without seeing his signature under the mother of all responsibility waivers, though.

After that, if this was just a regular asshole I'd hope their fuckaround trip goes without a major incident both to save myself from a lot of trouble and out of common decency towards a fellow human. This particular asshole would really be testing the limits of the latter.

YC has become an educational brand as powerful as some top schools

Sure, no school will prepare you for the amount of hype and grift the tech industry has to offer quite like reading Hacker News does.

As an educational institution I'd rate them somewhere between Prager U and UnIversity of Phoenix.

OK, I can steelman this. Back in the day you could fill the Colosseum with water and have simulated naval battles in it. That's pretty badass and I would actually watch some gunboats (maybe without the cannons for safety and fairness) duke it out in a pool.

Even so, we have combat sports in this day and age. Gladiators were professional athletes and the fights were arranged to seem deadly while making sure a gladiator could expect to see retirement age. Kinda like MMA with impractical anime weapons. Executions by blood sport were a separate matter, but I doubt most of the people on the receiving end felt much of a rush of the righteous warfare.

In any case I can disconfirm. Am a man, don't wanna fight. It's dangerous, traumatic and painful and I'm a short out of shape nerd. I've had more training than most people on how to maximize my K/D ratio in the woods lugging around an assault rifle, but I think just training was nightmarish enough. There are very few if any things worth being in a war for.

Shouldn't paint brick walls. Traps moisture.

Isn't he from Fighting Baseball?

SerenityOS and Ladybird are extremely impressive. Andreas comes across as very likeable and the community he's built seems cool.

There's a pervasive idea in the programmer community that it's impossible to make a modern web browser unless you're a top 10 tech corporation. I love that they're challenging that and showing that all it takes is a handful of volunteers with good programming chops and a bunch of elbow grease.

A worrying number of people in engineering don't seem to think software is worthwhile unless you can expect to compete for majority market share with the incumbents. If "hacker" is to be taken as a title of honour, I think it belongs to the ones who make things without expecting to take over the world.

And the project has seemingly helped Andreas stay sober, which is pretty heartwarming.

EDIT: 2 years later, we regret to inform you the milkshake duck is…