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New comment by _ahxg in "Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40%"

_ahxg — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:55:16 +0000

Moreover, i imagine a lot of these bots are built on top of an SDK instead of directly working with API calls, so would be just a matter of changing the SDK internals.

New comment by _ahxg in "Avoid Async Rust at All Cost"

_ahxg — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 21:37:18 +0000

interesting. I hope it's not too late to ask: could you expand a little bit, in particular, what do you mean by "over very general dataflow graphs"?

New comment by _ahxg in "Semantic fuzzing of the Rust compiler and interpreter [pdf]"

_ahxg — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 15:00:56 +0000

> The source of this bug is LLVM [2] which Rust relies on for optimisations and machine code generation.

So basically rustc_codegen_gcc and cranelift can compile code that don't with LLVM and then introduce (or solve) new bugs?

New comment by _ahxg in "Admin unmasks self as sockpuppet of other admin who was banned in 2015"

_ahxg — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:00:13 +0000

What's NPA?

New comment by _ahxg in "F*** Paywalls"

_ahxg — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 20:41:10 +0000

But I wonder if it's not always intentional as maybe ad blockers kill some of paywalls some times?

New comment by _ahxg in "F*** Paywalls"

_ahxg — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 20:38:37 +0000

The irony is that someone paid for a 3 letters domain + infrastructure to keep this running for free.

New comment by _ahxg in "NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android"

_ahxg — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 20:30:43 +0000

Amazing app, I hope it will last for a long time.

New comment by _ahxg in "Bevy 0.12"

_ahxg — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 20:20:44 +0000

Very cool!! On the last update 0.10 -> 0.11, I had to make quite a few changes on my app, but this time it compiled out of the box!

New comment by _ahxg in "F*** Paywalls"

_ahxg — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 17:19:27 +0000

12ft.io is actually down for me now:

This Deployment has been disabled.

Your connection is working correctly.

Vercel is working correctly.

402: PAYMENT_REQUIRED Code: DEPLOYMENT_DISABLED

New comment by _ahxg in "Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy"

_ahxg — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:12:34 +0000

Vet is probably a very good example of economies of scale. I remember a vet in my town in Brazil complaining how hard it is if he get ill (or take vacations i presume), that he will lose his customers and how much he regretted not becoming a state employee.

New comment by _ahxg in "π in Other Universes"

_ahxg — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:15:10 +0000

A good example of that is how the Axiom of choice impacts the measure/probability theory.

It imply the existence of some sets that cannot be Lebesgue measured (which is an generalization of width, volume, etc for arbitrary sets, also generalization of probability for arbitrary sets)... but it's not possible to present a single example of those non measurable sets, only prove that they exist.

And it's possible to construct an alternative theory with the axiom of determinacy, then any subset of R is measurable.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_determinacy * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebesgue_measure

New comment by _ahxg in "Exploiting DNS response parsing on the Wii U"

_ahxg — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 13:02:32 +0000

oh, I have missed this and right at the top of the article, thanks!

New comment by _ahxg in "Exploiting DNS response parsing on the Wii U"

_ahxg — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 12:01:48 +0000

> At this point I was interested and decided to take a look if the Wii U implementation suffers from the same issue. To my surprise the Wii U implementation looks something like this instead

So, how does the author got hold of Wii's code, is it publicly available or was it some kind of reverse engineering?

New comment by _ahxg in "After 28 years, SSLv2 is still not gone from the internet"

_ahxg — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 09:17:31 +0000

If I understood it correctly, it can actually be worse than fallback to plain text, because if a malicious actor can stability a connection using legacy SSLv2, then this connection can be used to decrypt the session for users running the latest TLS version.

While plain text connections would affected only users using the plain text connection.

See comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38047633

New comment by _ahxg in "Onion Futures Act"

_ahxg — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 20:24:01 +0000

I swear I thought it was about banning trading futures on Onion Tor hidden services. Then on second read I thought it was about banning trading in layers, like onions, whatever that meant.

New comment by _ahxg in "Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages"

_ahxg — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:37:40 +0000

Any plans to integrate this with Poetry?

New comment by _ahxg in "Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better"

_ahxg — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:36:36 +0000

same for me. That and vertical tabs are quite convenient. IPFS integration is also quite cool, would be nice to see that in all mainstream browsers.

New comment by _ahxg in "Slack is retiring its status account on X"

_ahxg — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:23:18 +0000

Finally, well deserved. Now just waiting for Wile E. Coyote and Tom.

New comment by _ahxg in "Instagram apologizes for inserting 'terrorist' into Palestinian bio translations"

_ahxg — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 20:41:24 +0000

I use Facebook translation from Ukrainian to English quite often, and frankly it's much lower quality than Google Translate.

Quite often I saw quite similarly absurd stuff coming out of those translations, so I'm not at all surprised at this.

New comment by _ahxg in "Why Async Rust?"

_ahxg — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 19:52:04 +0000

> I can't risk losing days to some tangle of an async runtime compatibility snafu.

At this point in time, if you use Tokio, won't basically everything mainstream work? At least that has been my experience so far.