Hacker News: bb010g

New comment by bb010g in "Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable"

bb010g — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:41:54 +0000

Could you link the source of your crawler library?

New comment by bb010g in "Itch.io Taken Down by Funko"

bb010g — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:36:46 +0000

I've had great experiences with NameSilo.

New comment by bb010g in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"

bb010g — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:20:16 +0000

I'd expect a move from Rust to Julia over a move to Python.

New comment by bb010g in "Lobsters"

bb010g — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 07:25:12 +0000

> When the Lobsters algorithm said his account was too new to post a link, I thought I was vouching for and reviewing his project link by posting it myself.

I'm pretty sure this would be considered a normal vouching & introduction of a member to the site, if those members did not then repeatedly follow up your introduction with repeated self-promotion (including bonus violation of the spirit of the unseen domain policy). As someone inviting others to Lobsters, you were trusted with a small duty to introduce them to the site properly. For most of those you invited, you were both the person initially posting the invitee's relevant unseen domain and the inviter for that invitee. It's respectful there to warn new users of site policy that you don't expect them to know.

When I invited a friend to Lobsters a few months ago so they could post their cool new project there, I made sure to educate them about the self-promotion policy so that both they could continue to use the site and so that I didn't become a problem for the site.

New comment by bb010g in "Lobsters"

bb010g — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 19:02:37 +0000

As a Lobsters user, I think you could have avoided those spam flags with a less click-baity title and opening line of the body. “MIT CSG Memo 137 was the first CS publication to use the term "object-oriented"” would have been a better title, since you posted after the result was discovered.

Also, Hillel Wayne already politely explained this to you! https://lobste.rs/s/ebztmj/now_we_know_which_cs_publication_...

New comment by bb010g in "Tesla sues Swedish state agency over number plate blockage"

bb010g — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 05:44:42 +0000

Companies ultimately exist for the benefit of the public.

New comment by bb010g in "A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends"

bb010g — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 07:48:24 +0000

You can remix it for commercial uses going forward. Provide your source code when requested, as required by `AGPL-3.0`, or pay for a commercial license.

New comment by bb010g in "A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends"

bb010g — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 07:34:31 +0000

`Apache-2.0` allows Element the same power right now. No organization is maintaining meaningful community forks of Synapse and/or Dendrite with their own proprietary modifications on top. Element hasn't used their power to take the vast majority of their modifications private so far.

If Element decides to go proprietary, which they could already decide to do, then the community is now left to fork an `AGPL-3.0` project instead of an `Apache-2.0` project. Oh no, we'll be protected from this happening again in the future, wailing and gnashing of teeth.

New comment by bb010g in "What if OpenDocument used SQLite? (2014)"

bb010g — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:25:35 +0000

You can still use <https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql>. <https://jlongster.com/future-sql-web>

New comment by bb010g in "So let’s talk about this Wayland thing"

bb010g — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 06:30:48 +0000

The actual solutions here are XDG Desktop Portals or Wayland protocols, the former of which are commonly used (<https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/>) and the latter of which are unstable proposals (<https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlr-protocols/-/blob/...>). Wayland clients don't do compositor detection like you're describing, to my knowledge.

New comment by bb010g in "So let’s talk about this Wayland thing"

bb010g — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 06:24:31 +0000

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/ is a great replacement for X remoting.

New comment by bb010g in "Hyprland Is a Toxic Community"

bb010g — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:22:37 +0000

As someone who interacted with Drew back in his calculator days, he has greatly improved since then.

New comment by bb010g in "deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android"

bb010g — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 23:48:28 +0000

How far away do you expect a Wayland-powered display to be? You're currently using VNC, but I'd imagine that <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/> would also work while being smoother.

New comment by bb010g in "Twitter now requires an account to view tweets"

bb010g — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 11:17:12 +0000

Keep an eye on Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI). https://keri.one/

Current spec drafts at <https://github.com/WebOfTrust/keri>.

New comment by bb010g in "Blink 1.0"

bb010g — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:56:19 +0000

It's an unprivileged VM, so unless you're the type to do binary analysis before running things this is just as safe as any other binary.

New comment by bb010g in "Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers"

bb010g — Thu, 25 May 2023 20:52:22 +0000

> In the coming weeks, we will be developing the Layered Store features, releasing a Nix Community RFC, and working to upstream it into Nix.

Doesn't look like specs or implementations are public yet.

New comment by bb010g in "The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit"

bb010g — Wed, 10 May 2023 05:13:18 +0000

What are your thoughts on KERI? Some of Phillip's slide decks are weird to go through, but I really like its security & usability goals (key rotation needs to be realistic!) and the fact that it's going through the IETF RFC process. (Also, it avoids cryptocurrency-related blockchain baggage. It's disappointing how much blockchains have infested decentralized identity efforts.)

<https://github.com/WebOfTrust/keri>

New comment by bb010g in "'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco"

bb010g — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:03:07 +0000

False & racist. Please see https://youtu.be/UBc7qBS1Ujo for an extended explanation of why this is a horrible position. We don't even have strong scientific evidence that Spearman's g factor is more than a statistical convenience.

New comment by bb010g in "Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum has died"

bb010g — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:15:22 +0000

This is the same article, rehosted under a different author name.

New comment by bb010g in "Each visit to the page deteriorates the main image"

bb010g — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 08:57:21 +0000

This reminds me of a classic zach gage piece, Temporary.cc: http://www.stfj.net/index2.php?year=2009&project=art/2009/te...